By Kevin Hall “The lower we go, the stronger our negotiating position becomes.” — Mayor Lee Brand, April 4, 2018 With the latest in a string of negative declarations of environmental impacts [...] Continue Reading
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20 Years of Documented Diesel Damage to Fresno Children Ignored by City
By Kevin Hall Our kids are the canaries in Fresno’s coal-mine-like atmosphere of microscopic pieces of soot and gases. The more deleterious impacts to their sensitive, developing systems play out [...] Continue Reading
Madera County Part of Pilot Voter Program
By Marilyn Deleija With many people disenfranchised in the 2016 election process, California sought out ways to make voting easier and more accessible. Senate Bill 450 addresses such citizen concerns [...] Continue Reading
Human Dignity, Hate Speech and Barbara Bush Tweets
By Tina Fernandes Botts The case of the Fresno State professor who was recently under fire for making negative statements about Barbara Bush through her personal Twitter account (the “Jarrar matter”) [...] Continue Reading
National Lawyers’ Guild Supports Freedom of Speech
Editor’s note: This article was submitted by the Central Valley chapter of the National Lawyers’ Guild. On April 17, Fresno State Professor Randa Jarrar posted a series of tweets condemning the late [...] Continue Reading
ARE YOU A CITIZEN?
By Ben Monterroso Among the responsibilities and tasks of a modern state is the collecting and keeping of specific data about the population to be governed. It is important to appropriately implement [...] Continue Reading
TPS and Forced Migration
By Stan Santos A History of Forced Migration The history of immigration to the United States from the south is one of forced migration. Waves of immigrants flee their homes to escape violence and [...] Continue Reading
Art by Prisoners Exhibited in Downtown Fresno
By Peter Maiden One would think that art created by inmates in a facility such as Avenal State Prison would hang, at best, on a wall near the chow line. However, Doug Snell, a lieutenant in the [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Valley Fever
By Tom Frantz The last three years have seen rapidly increasing cases of Valley Fever in the San Joaquin Valley (SJV). Recent growth in the Valley is 150%, whereas Southern California saw a 75% [...] Continue Reading
Disagree versus Disagreeable
By Ruth Gadebusch What a sad state it is when so many seem to think they must be disagreeable when disagreeing. At this time, the focus is on the Fresno State professor who chose to make [...] Continue Reading
Awakening the Greatness Within You
By Veena Kapoor “To survive and thrive in this turbulent world, we need peace and power, that comes from deep inner contentment. The foundation of inner peace and inner power is spiritual awareness [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Anti-Camping Ordinance
By Paul Thomas Jackson Editor’s note: This is the first article of a four-part series on Fresno’s anti-camping ordinance. Mike Rhodes, despite initial reluctance on the part of the City of Fresno to [...] Continue Reading