By Ruth Gadebusch The body of Ruth Bader Gingsburg was still warm when the Republicans began to gloat over their opportunity to make another appointment to the Supreme Court. While hesitating to [...] Continue Reading
Opinion & Analysis
Getting an Invitation to Sit at the Table
By Mike Rhodes I was part of the group of homeless people, activists and attorneys who united and prevailed in a lawsuit against the City of Fresno in 2007. The $2.3 million settlement changed [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Unmasked: Police Reform Reveals Loyalties
By Kevin Hall (Editor’s note: As of our deadline, the Fresno Police Reform Commission was next scheduled to meet on August 10.) Like it or not, Fresno is about to take a deep dive into community [...] Continue Reading
Why Latinos Should Support Kamala Harris as VP
By Gabriel Lerner California Senator Kamala Harris should be the Democratic vice presidential candidate. An energetic and courageous leader, Harris deserves the support of the Latino community at [...] Continue Reading
Whoa! Slow Down! Rethink!
By Ruth Gadebusch To you who would tear down statues, rename places and force others out of jobs due to views expressed decades ago: Whoa! Slow down! Rethink all this laundering of history. Are we [...] Continue Reading
The Dangers of a Dyer-Run Fresno
By Devorah Levy-Pearlman On March 3, Super Tuesday, the city of Fresno held its local election. The high-profile mayoral race to replace Lee Brand—who announced last May he would not seek [...] Continue Reading
Why Oliver Baines Shouldn’t Head Fresno Police Reform
By Kevin Hall Short answer: He’s a cop. Newly engaged Fresno activists young and old are about to get a fundamental lesson in local politics. That’s because their efforts to radically alter the [...] Continue Reading
Finding Good in Horrible
By Ruth Gadebusch In a way that we never foresaw, this nation has been shaken to its bones—to its graveyards—with the convergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and the killing of a Black man. Seemingly [...] Continue Reading
Ambush of Arias Revisited
By Sergio Cortes May 12: Home of Miguel Arias Ben Bergquam and a dozen of his supporters arrived at Fresno City Council Member Miguel Arias’s apartment door. Bergquam runs a Facebook page [...] Continue Reading
Growing Up Black in Fresno
By Annette Breazell-Greathouse Born in March 1967, I was the little girl who had everything any young girl could want and desire. The youngest of three, I was loved and spoiled by my hardworking [...] Continue Reading
Double Jeopardy of Being a DACA Recipient during a Pandemic
By Diego San Luis Ortega The Covid-19 pandemic has changed life as we know it. We all fear for the health of our families and anxiously await new information to help us weather this crisis. But [...] Continue Reading
The Art of José Elías
By José Elías My name is José Jesús Elías and I was born in San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. Painting has always interested me even though I never had an opportunity to study art in my [...] Continue Reading