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
Opinion & Analysis
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
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
From the Editor — April 2019
Dear Reader, This edition is bittersweet because April marks my one-year anniversary as editor, while I face the disheartening reality that this might be the last printed issue allowing access to [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor — April 2019
Dear Reader, This edition is bittersweet because April marks my one-year anniversary as editor, while I face the disheartening reality that this might be the last printed issue allowing access to [...] Continue Reading
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR — March 2019
“Somebody Cares” Planning to avoid social problems is much less expensive than reactionary solutions that never speak to cause. Example: Well-maintained public parks have been proven to reduce [...] Continue Reading