By Jonathan Luevanos Background On Feb. 10, the State of California’s Public Safety Committee held an informational hearing intended to address the problems of law enforcement and community trust [...] Continue Reading
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SEQUOIA Before and After the Drought
By Hannah Brandt This former history teacher is slow to jump on the “world is going to hell in a handbasket” bandwagon. The historian’s tendency is to reflect upon other periods of collective [...] Continue Reading
WE’VE GOT SPIRIT!
By Jennifer Ellis When I am older and I look back on my high school years, I’ll think about prom, films I created, winning several media awards, the fun I had in leadership, hanging out with my [...] Continue Reading
The Walmart Smartphone Boycott
By Marc Keyser We won the battle for a wage increase for 500,000 workers at Walmart, but that’s only half the war. Now more than ever, we must keep up the fight for healthcare coverage for Walmart [...] Continue Reading
Chapel Hill Shooting: THERE IS HOPE
By Reza Nekumanesh In the Glorious Qur’an, the holy book of Muslims, God tells humans that taking the life of one innocent person is equal to killing off the entirety of humanity in the eyes of God [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
Parks Near Freeways Are Disgusting By Barbara Christl (Editor’s note: This comment is in reference to “More Poison Parks Planned” in the February 2015 issue.) Thank you Kevin Hall for continuing to [...] Continue Reading
Carl Djerassi, Father of the Pill, Dies at 91
By George B. Kauffman and Laurie M. Kauffman All the major medical advances of the last century garnered Nobel Prizes. However, we have never understood why Carl Djerassi, the father of the [...] Continue Reading
Dividing the School District Will Not Solve Anything
By Ruth Gadebusch Once again, a group is advocating dividing the Fresno Unified School District. This time it is an east-west divide, apparently thinking they are so clever in including affluent and [...] Continue Reading
Who Came First, the Chicken or the Prisoner?
By Daniel Tregila The hunger strikes launched here in the Pelican Bay Special Housing Unit (SHU/solitary confinement) in 2011 was based on decades of the use and abuse of solitary confinement against [...] Continue Reading
Fresno County on Cannabis Collision Course
By Michael S. Green As medical cannabis patients and social users turn their attention toward adult-use legalization in 2016, Fresno County continues to preach the gospel of pot prohibition. The [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: The Unborn Child Most Affected by Air Pollution
During 2014, there were 150 days in the San Joaquin Valley when monitors recorded air pollution levels that were either “unhealthy for sensitive groups” or worse. These are the Orange days on the air [...] Continue Reading
Living in a Violent World, Some Principles of Nonviolent Conflict Resolution
By Dr. Sudarshan Kapoor We live in a tempestuous and troubled world torn apart by political divisions, religious intolerance, racial prejudice, violence and conflict almost in every sphere of our [...] Continue Reading