Integrity! What a beautiful word. Not the word. Its meaning. Random House Dictionary: “soundness and adherence to moral principle and character: uprightness: honesty.” I believe without integrity [...] Continue Reading
Opinion & Analysis
On Ukraine, World Majority Sides with Russia over the United States
The year 2014 saw two pivotal events that led to the current conflict in Ukraine. The first, familiar to all, was the coup in Ukraine in which a democratically elected government was overthrown at [...] Continue Reading
The Social Price of Being a “Real Man”
Reflecting on the fact that our society programs us for relationship failure,the author is increasingly convinced that much of human conflict is caused by the cultural suppression of natural human [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
Small Changes Bring Encouragement On Feb. 16, the Fresno City Council passed a resolution that could change the name of Kings Canyon Avenue to Cesar Chavez Avenue. The process could take up to [...] Continue Reading
Opinion and Analysis
Where Hope Prevails While not without its own disappointments and heartbreak, the Olympics have provided us with needed distraction. Watching the clean young faces in dress representing the home [...] Continue Reading
Smoke-Free Fresno
The City of Fresno is leading the way in 2022 in reducing harmful secondhand smoke for its residents living in multifamily housing units. Effective Jan. 1, the Smoke-Free Ordinance prohibits [...] Continue Reading
An Open Letter to President Biden
Dear President Biden: As autocracy is not democracy; “filibuster” is not rule-by-majority. As a 70-year-old White American, I have watched in shame the bigotry of the filibuster acted out by [...] Continue Reading
Talking Points #7: And Now, for Something Completely Different…
This is the seventh contribution in a series of op-ed pieces that can provide talking points to strengthen the information base and action decisions of those who seek to make others more aware. These [...] Continue Reading
Can We Recover?
Can we recover from the discord, the suspicion, the anger, the fear and such now suffocating our society? We must! But how? How can we restore the meaning of democracy? It’s pandemic. It’s a [...] Continue Reading
City and County Have Millions While Unhoused Die in the Streets
On Dec. 14, the Fresno Police Department’s Homeless Assistance Response Team (HART, aka the heartless team) raided a small homeless encampment behind a convenience store during a hard, cold rainstorm. [...] Continue Reading
The Decay Of FUSD
“I’ve never worked for such inept people before.” “When we got back to school in August [2021], it was as if the administration was making it up as they went along.” “[These days] I go to my job [...] Continue Reading
NFL, Jon Gruden and Social Justice: It Was All an Illusion
The most famous director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover, touring and evaluating southern policing in the 1940s, observed, “There are some trigger-happy policemen down here.” We know now that Hoover’s [...] Continue Reading