By Dan Waterhouse On the heels of three people being shot by party crashers at the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house across the street from Fresno State in July, students are taking on the campus area [...] Continue Reading
Economy
Pulling the Plug on Low-Income Health Funding
By Gary Lasky The Fresno County Board of Supervisors voted on September 20 to reject up to $28 million in federal healthcare funding for Fresno County’s low-income residents. Although there were [...] Continue Reading
Progressive Religion…Is Not an Oxymoron: Sound Bites
By David E. Roy Author’s note: The “progressive religion” in this column is more implicit and belongs under the social justice expression of many of the world’s religions. In Christianity, [...] Continue Reading
Death, Dignity, and Fairness
By Mike Starry The Funeral Consumers Alliance of Central California (FCA-CC) will feature keynote speaker Ed Howard of San Diego University’s Center for Public Interest Law at the Annual Meeting of [...] Continue Reading
Community Alliance Helps to Provide Basic Public Services to the Homeless
By Mike Rhodes At the beginning of this year, the Community Alliance started providing some basic public services for the homeless. Portable toilets and a trash bin were set up on F Street, between [...] Continue Reading
Dollars and Cents Sense
By Ruth Gadebusch How did we become a society of dollars for one segment and mere cents for the larger? When did we turn our priorities topsy-turvy? Making it worse, the dollars are going to the [...] Continue Reading
“Governor Supercuts” for President?
By Jim Hightower - Republished with permission GOP-land is all a twitter now that Texas Governor Rick Perry has announced that he’s ready to ascend to the White House. His candidacy was actually [...] Continue Reading
National Move to Amend Spokesperson to Appear in Fresno
The recent U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Citizens United v. FEC opened the floodgates to unlimited corporate spending on elections. David Cobb, an attorney and organizer for the Move to Amend [...] Continue Reading
The Culture of College
By Julius Chatton Another enjoyable summer vacation has come to an end, and college students nationwide are now beginning to settle into the new fall semester. Fresno and Central Valley students [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor
NLRB Judge Overturns Kaiser Election, Calls for New Vote Kaiser workers’ right to a fair election was vindicated by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). In a 34-page ruling, Judge Lana Parke [...] Continue Reading
Jim Hightower to Speak at Progressive Gathering in Fresno
Jim Hightower will be the keynote speaker in Fresno at a forum to be held on Saturday, October 1, addressing the topic of “Strengthening Our Voice: Bringing Valley Progressives Together.” This [...] Continue Reading
Federal Labor Board Orders New Kaiser Election after Finding SEIU Guilty of “Coercive” Conduct that “Interfered with Employees’ Freedom of Choice”
A National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) administrative law judge has recommended throwing out the results of last year’s election between the National Union of Healthcare Workers (NUHW) and the [...] Continue Reading