By Patsy Mejia Recently, I had the distinct privilege to participate in a pilot program initiated by the Mexican consulate aimed at reconnecting university students with parents or grandparents of [...] Continue Reading
Opinion & Analysis
From the Editor — August 2019
Dear Reader, Thanks in large part to your consistent and tremendous support to keeping free speech alive, the Community Alliance has survived and is back on the road to thriving. In this edition [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor — August 2019 — Musick Creek Confluence Property
Musick Creek Confluence is purchasing 134 acres of forest land near Shaver Lake (we are in six-month escrow, with five months to go!). The price is small, the value is great. We have been caring for [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor — July 2019 — Would Fresno’s Homeless Want a Safe and Legal Place to Live?
By Brian Bobbitt Recently, I spoke with a homeless man about the homeless campground plans for the city of Fresno. Brett Horgan is homeless. His “area” is the Blackstone/Barstow intersection, [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor — July 2019
By Elsa Mejía Dear Reader, The annual Community Alliance fund-raiser on June 15 drew about 100 longtime and new supporters of our newspaper to the Unitarian Universalist Church in Fresno. For [...] Continue Reading
Cruel and Unusual—Life and Death in Fresno County Jail
By Bob McCloskey “The degree of civilization in a society is revealed by entering its prisons.”—Fyodor Dostoyevsky On April 28, 2019, the Fresno Bee published a front-page article about the [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor — May 2019
Elsa Mejía Dear Reader, On May Day, we commemorate the struggles and gains made by workers and the labor movement. And living in a time when even a livable wage is a topic for fierce debate, [...] Continue Reading
Enough Already!
By Ruth Gadebusch Ladies, you’ve made your point. It is time to lighten up. This is a different era with different attitudes. Time to change with it. Not every man who stands near you, looks at you [...] Continue Reading
Enough Already!
By Ruth Gadebusch Ladies, you’ve made your point. It is time to lighten up. This is a different era with different attitudes. Time to change with it. Not every man who stands near you, looks at you [...] Continue Reading
The Math Just Isn’t There
By Ruth Gadebusch Albeit it late, the president has presented his new budget. The figures do not add up. No matter how you manipulate it, you cannot cut taxes, increase spending and reduce the [...] Continue Reading
The Math Just Isn’t There
By Ruth Gadebusch Albeit it late, the president has presented his new budget. The figures do not add up. No matter how you manipulate it, you cannot cut taxes, increase spending and reduce the [...] Continue Reading
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR — April 2019
The Conscience of “Hate Radio”? We’ve met self-styled “hate radio” personalities on mainstream news. These are the people who sometimes call themselves actors. They don’t shy away from the term [...] Continue Reading