By Peter MaidenPhotos by Peter Maiden Less than 40 miles from Fresno on the way to Sequoia National Park, at an elevation of 3,000 feet, there is a turnoff from Highway 180 to a place called Cat [...] Continue Reading
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Cuba and the United States in a Time of Pandemic
By Leni Villagomez Reeves Cuba has had to confront the pandemic at home. People must manage a contagious illness in a setting where physical contact and social closeness are culturally [...] Continue Reading
Primary Election: The Struggle for Justice Continues
By Mike Rhodes With Tyler Maxwell elected to the Fresno City Council District 4, there is now a majority of Democrats who could set a new direction for this community. They could establish more [...] Continue Reading
When You Disrupt the Power, the Power Strikes Back
By Saraí Ramos Gonzalez What do we do when the power strikes back—and puts you in the hospital? That is the question 15-year-old Cristelle Sanchez and her mother have after Sanchez was physically [...] Continue Reading
Where have they all gone?
By Daren Miller The year is 1970. The location is Lincoln Elementary School, located at the corners of California Avenue and B Street, in the Golden Westside of Fresno. It’s the first day of school [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Police Officers Assaulted Homeless Man
By Mike Rhodes Recently, Dez Martinez, with the advocacy group Homeless in Fresno, contacted the Community Alliance and said the Fresno Police Department (FPD) Homeless Task Force (HTF) and other [...] Continue Reading
A Mother Who Didn’t Let Bullying Destroy Her Family
Sukhvir Kaur, an immigrant from India living in Visalia, knew something was wrong when her oldest son, Anmol, asked, “Mom, do I look different?” He avoided elaborating for a while, but later he [...] Continue Reading
The Condemned: Transferring Out of San Quentin
By Donald Ray Young So now we can get off the row, but the death sentence remains? The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has taken the first steps in removing the death [...] Continue Reading
People of Cuba, Living under U.S. Siege
By Leni Villagomez Reeves For 60 years, Cubans have been suffering as the price for being independent. The United States offers lip service to freedom but doesn’t tolerate it for a second anywhere [...] Continue Reading
Chilean Injustice
By Juan Trujillo Limones “We had to resign ourselves to the fact that the person who was there in the coffin sealed with a paper from the Legal Medical Service (LMS) was my brother,” explains [...] Continue Reading
Slow Train Wreck of California’s Online Community College
By David Bacon It might have taken more than two years, but the Calbright online community college has apparently lost any support it might have enjoyed in the state legislature when the California [...] Continue Reading
Federal Trade Commission Lists Biggest Scams
By Mark Hedin A veteran lawyer for the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) briefed ethnic media reporters on 2019’s biggest frauds, what the agency is doing about them and some things everyone should [...] Continue Reading