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
Opinion & Analysis
Infrastructure Key to Turning Around U.S. Economy
By John Hernandez As I travel around the United States, it is painfully obvious that our nation needs a facelift. We have roads, bridges, buildings and other infrastructure in need of repair, [...] 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
In Honor of the 87th Birthday Celebration of Cesar E. Chavez: Gandhi of the Grapes
By Dr. Sudarshan Kapoor Cesar Chavez, a legendary figure of our time, is a hero to millions who have felt inspired and empowered as a result of his exemplary life, his charismatic leadership and the [...] 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