By Richard Stone (Author’s note: Below is one of a series of excerpts from a book that will be running for the next few months. Let us know if you’d like to see more.) The book’s introduction [...] Continue Reading
Opinion & Analysis
Letters to the Editor – December 2014
Blight in Fresno Is a Major Problem Blight in Fresno is a major problem that many Fresno residents have long had to withstand. Currently, Fresno has more than 250 documented blighted properties in [...] Continue Reading
Frustrated and Angry
By Ruth Gadebusch Our worst fears came true in this election when so many couldn’t bother to vote. What could they be thinking? Or was thinking ever a part of it? Granted, there is no guarantee that [...] Continue Reading
Election 2014 Progressive Strategy Autopsy
By Yezdyar S. Kaoosji “The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them”—Albert Einstein We all remember when we were pumped up having [...] Continue Reading
Beyond the Chicano Status Quo
By Jonathan Luevano Felix What is Chicano? What does it mean to be a Mexican-American person in Central California? Once we realize the existential condition, then the social-political cultural [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – November 2014
California Prison Officials Retaliate against Inmates Who File Staff Complaints As I’m sure you all know, filing a grievance against correctional officers under the eyes of the law is a form of [...] Continue Reading
Thanks to My Father, It Was Better
By Leonard Adame My father, the former professional pugilist, taught me and my brother and sisters how to defend ourselves against anyone. Jabs, left hooks, feints, proper footwork and an [...] Continue Reading
Thoughts from an Arrest Virgin
By Beverly Fitzpatrick Bringing attention to the U.S. military’s use of drone warfare and the suffering of drone “pilots” is, in my opinion, a good reason to be arrested, lose my virgin status and [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – October 2014
Clarification My letter in the August edition responding to our editor’s July editorial seems to have been open to misinterpretation. I’ve been asked if my partial disagreement with his commentary [...] Continue Reading
Obama Goes to War, Again
By Richard Gomez So when is it OK to decide to take arms against the sea of trouble? While we have for a long time sown the seeds that have currently flowered from ally into adversary thus blossoming [...] Continue Reading
It’s Election Time
By Ruth Gadebusch It’s election time, as if you didn’t know! Our phone lines are busy. Our e-mail is jammed full. We are invited to fund-raisers. We are begged to join phone banks. We get pleas to [...] Continue Reading
No Understanding
By Leonard Adame For whatever things were written before were written for our learning, that we through the patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have hope. —Romans 15:4 Now these things became [...] Continue Reading