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EATON PLAZA IS UNDER THREAT

By Ray McKnight Should a small cabal in City Hall be allowed to ignore and thwart the wishes of Fresno’s citizens regarding Eaton Plaza? On April 14, 1947, by a yes vote of 71 percent, the citizens [...] Continue Reading

Rainy Days

  By Tiffany A. Potter It’s raining today. And it feels as though this was always the way our journey together was meant to come to a close. Both because the weather appropriately matches my mood [...] Continue Reading

Insecurity

By Tiffany A. Potter in·se·cu·ri·ty ˌinsəˈkyo͝orədē/ noun 1. uncertainty or anxiety about oneself; lack of confidence. There are some days when my insecurities are palpable, a feeling so intense [...] Continue Reading

The State of the Union

  (26 days into this new administration at the time of writing/deadline) I’m finding it hard to breathe these days. Everything that I was fearful of on Nov. 9th, the morning after our election, [...] Continue Reading

From the Editor – February 2017

By Hannah Brandt January felt like a tornado hit. In the storm, Barack Obama became the former president, Donald Trump became the current president, and the country commemorated the life of Martin [...] Continue Reading

From the Editor – January 2017

By Hannah Brandt “We are not fundamentally a different country today than we were a month ago. . . The same country that elected Donald Trump, elected Barack Obama. . . This election is just another [...] Continue Reading

25 Months

By Tiffany A. Potter Well, loves, this month marks our 25th month together. Three Januarys ago was my first column, my very first foray into being a columnist. I had no idea what I was doing, probably [...] Continue Reading

THE TRUMP DISASTER!

  By George B. Kauffman When I wrote my last Guest Editorial, “Science Lessons for the Next President,” https://fresnoalliance.com/science-lessons-for-the-next-president December 5, 2016, based [...] Continue Reading

WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR NATION?

By Ruth Gadebusch This past election produced a nation we thought we had grown beyond. Most of us recognized that the population had not all lived up to the high ideals expressed in that document [...] Continue Reading