By Richard Gomez Yes, the Green Party has candidates for the 2016 Presidential election. Although all the talk on radio and television is about Bernie Sanders’ activities, Hillary Clinton’s [...] Continue Reading
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Clearing the Air: The Grand Deception | Drought and Air Quality
By Tom Frantz The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (air district), and the local Air Board that controls it, has a problem. The No. 1 air quality issue in the San Joaquin Valley is [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Police Introduce New Surveillance Technology
By Vic Bedoian On July 7, the Fresno Police Department unveiled a high-technology information center that incorporates video surveillance and intelligence-gathering software to help officers better [...] Continue Reading
To Serve and Protect
By Hannah Brandt On Feb. 23, 2014, 18-year-old Joseph Ma was running with a couple of his buddies. One of them might have had a gun. The former special education student from West Fresno Middle [...] Continue Reading
ACLU Sues Over Failing Public Defense System in Fresno County
Tens of Thousands Go Without the Legal Representation the Constitution Guarantees The American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, the ACLU’s Criminal Law Reform Project, and the law firm [...] Continue Reading
Which Side Are You On My People?
By Luis Ojeda On July 9, the Fresno County Sheriff’s Department announced that it had launched a “unique program at [the] Fresno County Jail” that would provide two ICE (Immigration and Customs [...] Continue Reading
Donald’s “Trumped Up” Accusations
By the Community Alliance (Editor’s note: During a speech at the launching of his bid for the U.S. presidency, Donald Trump made derogatory statements toward the Mexican migrant community. “When [...] Continue Reading
Open the Doors to the Debate
By Richard Gomez The Commission on Presidential Debates is a private firm began in 1987 by the Democratic and Republican parties leaders to establish the way that presidential election debates are [...] Continue Reading
BERNIE SANDERS | The Only Progressive Candidate for President
By Yezdyar S. Kaoosji Bernie Sanders, the son of a Polish immigrant, was born in Brooklyn, educated in Chicago and settled in Vermont. As a student, he marched with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and [...] Continue Reading
Why Progressives Will Vote for Hillary and Why They Don’t Know it Yet.
By Patricia Brown If I told you that one woman and 18 men were running for President of the United States, would you vote for her? If I told you that the most qualified candidate for president of the [...] Continue Reading
The Importance of Building a Labor/Community Alliance
By Mike Rhodes If progressives want to win political power in Fresno and beyond, we must build a coalition that includes both organized labor and grassroots community groups. A big leap forward in [...] Continue Reading
A Chemistry Department | Academic and Progressive
By Alex Vavoulis Nobel Laureate George Seferis said “that learning is one of the noblest exercises of man and to be learned is one of its highest desires. Education is the governing factor of [...] Continue Reading