I've just finished reading the article, "Down Prison Road," by David Bacon in the Community Alliance. What an engaging, informative, well-researched and thought-out piece. I like the way he introduces [...] Continue Reading
Opinion & Analysis
Opinion and Analysis from the Grassroots
This Is How We Decide? By Ruth Gadebusch The air is alive with sound, and every bare spot is filled with signs. Of course, I refer to all the political advertisements with which we are inundated. [...] Continue Reading
June Website Poll: Comments
Our online poll question for June is: “Do you support the death penalty?" The Community Alliance invites your comments on this issue. [...] Continue Reading
Opinion and Analysis From the Grassroots
Planet Earth Volunteers By George Madrid Well my friends of the Keep it Green World, how was your April Volunteer and Flower Walk month? The flowers on the foothills and places like Carrizo Plain, [...] Continue Reading
Grassroots Profile
By: Richard Stone Kamal Abu-Shamsieh is the current (and first) director of the Islamic Cultural Center of Fresno (ICC). With no precedents to draw on, he has been given the opportunity/challenge to [...] Continue Reading
Vouchers, Charter Schools and Public Education
By: Ruth Gadebusch Charter Schools are the latest panacea for the "failing public schools," or so the self-anointed critics of public education would have us believe. Fresno Unified School District [...] Continue Reading
Opinion and Analysis from the Grassroots
New Nukes in Fresno Would Endanger Public Health Joseph Mangano The recent agreement between the Fresno Nuclear Energy Group and the French company Areva SA is a step towards building new nuclear [...] Continue Reading
Opinion and Analysis from the Grassroots
Bottom Line By Javier Aguirre In Fresno, the war on the homeless has escalated. Aggressive efforts to eliminate homeless encampments seem to have been approved (and encouraged) at the highest [...] Continue Reading
Fresno State Should Support Academic Freedom—Not Hate Radio
By: Richard Gomez Among the “big boys” in our city, Fresno State ranks right up there as an influential giant. The decisions it makes and the values it demonstrates are visible and important. Often [...] Continue Reading
Common Sense, Not Excuses
Never is there any lack of opinion about public education: how well it is, or is not, serving us. Nor is there ever a lack of opinion as to how to fix any problems it may have. After all, we all went [...] Continue Reading
From the Greenhouse: ‘Feed-in Tariff’
By: Franz Wienschenk If you live in the Central Valley and plan to buy a solar system, on average, the array that will be on your roof will pay for approximately 80% of your monthly electric bill. [...] Continue Reading
Aid to Haiti: Where Does Our Money Go?
By: Patrick Young With over 200,000 dead and a collapsed city, Haiti is desperate for help. The pervasive poverty Haitians have been living with for years is now past the breaking point. With few [...] Continue Reading