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Letters to the Editor – April 2014

Valley Air Inhumane I drove from Oakland to L.A. through the San Joaquin Valley in late June 2013 and on a recent weekend. I was shocked by the severe air pollution. I remember a trip over 10 years [...] Continue Reading

Rambling Thoughts on Division

By Ruth Gadebusch What does it take for people to realize that we share this community, this world? “Those people over there” someplace are not in some foreign land. One cannot profit at the [...] Continue Reading

The Silos and the Mall

By Leonard Adame When we drove past the big silos on H and Palm streets, I saw mostly old men moving as if they were walking up a rocky hill. They took their time, every so often spitting out a gob [...] Continue Reading

Letters to the Editor – March 2014

Letter Read at Rhodes Farewell Dinner I am sorry that I could not be at this event (see above) to honor Mike Rhodes, but I did want to send a few words about him and what he has meant for journalism. [...] Continue Reading

Enlightened or Same Ol’, Same Ol’?

By Ruth Gadebusch The local daily recently printed an article by Jerry Nickelsburg, an adjunct professor of economics and senior economist at the UCLA Anderson School of Management, on the Valley’s [...] Continue Reading

Letters to the Editor – Feb. 2014

Community Alliance Newspaper Has Legs I am in an Arcata motel in Humboldt County tonight. I’m with my daughter touring northern California looking at colleges. I came upon a free newspaper called the [...] Continue Reading

Darwin Day: A Guest Editorial

By George B. Kauffman, Ph.D. As our nation prepares to celebrate the birthday of Abraham Lincoln, the entire world is preparing to celebrate the birthday of Charles Darwin, who is ranked alongside [...] Continue Reading

Where Is “Downtown”?

By Ruth Gadebusch Our Fulton Mall was the first in the country and was so exciting, but instead of appreciating it we forgot all about zoning and began developing large shopping centers well [...] Continue Reading

Shafter Fracking Tour

By Alan Cheah On Jan. 11, Fresnans Against Fracking, led by local activist Gary Lasky, participated in a caravan to Shafter for a tour of its fracking fields. Many of us know about the ills of [...] Continue Reading

No Longer Invisible

By Leonard Adame All of my life, I’ve seen them. Yet they were invisible. I didn’t see the homes they left, the mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters and other family members they left behind, [...] Continue Reading