Just because someone has been in the prison system for an exorbitant amount of time does not mean he or she has "seen it all." The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) [...] Continue Reading
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The Living Room to Close
Longtime Fresno HIV/AIDS provider The Living Room will close on June 30 unless a miracle happens. However, director Toni Harrison isn't waiting for that miracle to materialize. She hit the bricks at [...] Continue Reading
Homeless Queer Kids-They Are Here
They don't all leave Fresno for San Francisco or Los Angeles. Among the "unaccompanied youth" and older teens wandering Fresno's streets with nowhere to call home is an undetermined number of gay, [...] Continue Reading
Enriching the Fresno Poetry Legacy
Organizers of the three poetry events in the Fresno Poets' Summer Reading Series 2010, have two motives for their efforts: to support the publication of local poets through the Ash Tree Poetry Series [...] Continue Reading
The American Civil Liberties Union – at Your Service
It was just three years ago, in July 2007, that the new Greater Fresno Area Chapter of the ACLU-NC (Northern California) got sufficiently organized to hold its first full agenda Board meeting. Because [...] Continue Reading
Peace Community Dinner
This June, after 104 months of combat, Afghanistan passed Vietnam as America's longest war! For those of us who seek a just foreign policy and a world in which every child and every person can [...] Continue Reading
Primary Election Review
(Editor's note: The data reflected in this article was current as of June 16. The Registrar of Voters had not certified the election at that time, and votes were still being counted. The outcome of at [...] Continue Reading
Opinion and Analysis from the Grassroots
Beyond Mortgaging the Future: Bankruptcy By Ruth Gadebusch "Eat, drink and be merry for tomorrow you may die" appears to be the prevailing attitude. Except, there isn't much merriment for ordinary [...] Continue Reading
Special Section – How to End Homelessness in Fresno
Below are five articles about homelessness in Fresno. Each of these articles illustrate a different approach to ending homelessness. It is our hope that these articles will stimulate a discussion [...] Continue Reading
July Poll: Is the City of Fresno doing enough to end homelessness?
Please leave your thoughts and views about the City of Fresno's efforts to end homelessness in 'Comments' below. [...] Continue Reading
Down Prison Road
High in the mountains overlooking Bakersfield and the south end of the San Joaquin Valley is a piece of California's past, the California Correctional Institution, or as inmates know it, [...] Continue Reading
My Political Education in the United Kingdom
Editor's note: Gerry Bill spent two weeks in the United Kingdom just before the May 6 election campaigning on behalf of some Labour candidates. These are his observations on some of the differences [...] Continue Reading