By Francisco Duarte Editor’s note: This article was submitted in Spanish and translated into English by Rhea Rehark-Griffith. Mexico, with its 130 million inhabitants, is a country of contradictions, [...] Continue Reading
Economy
Application Period for HUD Grants Open
The opportunity for community organizations and nonprofits to apply for funding from four “entitlement programs” of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) opened in January. The [...] Continue Reading
Nunes Fuels Protest with Support of Tax Scam
By Bob Turner The weekly Tuesday protest in front of the office of Rep. Devin Nunes (R–Tulare) in Clovis was larger than usual on Dec. 12 as passage of the Republican-backed tax reform measure loomed [...] Continue Reading
10-Year Plan to End Homelessness Reaches 10-Year Mark with No End in Sight
By Gerry Bill To no one’s great surprise, Fresno’s 10-Year Plan to End Homelessness has failed miserably in achieving its stated goal— to end chronic homelessness in Fresno. The plan was adopted [...] Continue Reading
Central Valley Residents Design Their Own Public Transit Line
By Mariah Thompson Editor’s note: This article is republished with permission and was originally published at [...] Continue Reading
First Arrest under Homeless No Camping Ordinance
By Mike Rhodes The police made their first arrest of a homeless man under the No Camping ordinance one week after the Standing in Solidarity with the Homeless event. Jerry Mulford was arrested in [...] Continue Reading
How Many Homeless Shelter Beds Are There in Fresno and Why It Matters
By Mike Rhodes Proponents of the recently passed No Camping ordinance in Fresno claim that homeless people who are sleeping on public and private property are doing so by choice. They say that if [...] Continue Reading
House Keys, Not Handcuffs
By Mike Rhodes About 200 people went to Fresno City Hall on Sept. 29 to demand an end to the criminalization of the homeless, following the passing of a No Camping ordinance. The demand for house [...] Continue Reading
Democrats: To Win, Raise Everyone’s Pay
By Philip Erro To win back the House, the Senate and state legislatures, Democrats need to focus on one thing: higher pay for all workers. Millions of people are working for minimum wage at fast-food [...] Continue Reading
Whistleblowers Uncover Illegal Federal Payments to Valley Water Contractors
By Vic Bedoian Four of the state’s water districts secretly received more than $100 million in federal funds to pay for their share of the environmental review of the Bay Delta tunnels project. The [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – September 2017
By Hannah Brandt August was another exhausting and often discouraging month. From the Fresno City Council passing the ban on homeless dwellings in Fresno to the White supremacist attacks in [...] Continue Reading
Update on Fresno Transformative Climate Communities Funding
By Hannah Brandt Many questions and concerns emerged on July 20 from the first public steering committee meeting of the Fresno Transformative Climate Communities Collaborative (FTCCC) at the [...] Continue Reading