California Prison Officials Retaliate against Inmates Who File Staff Complaints As I’m sure you all know, filing a grievance against correctional officers under the eyes of the law is a form of [...] Continue Reading
Education
What’s So Deadly about Dust?
By Hannah Brandt With the surge in Valley Fever cases over the past few years, are we amid a new Dust Bowl? If you live outside California or the Southwest, you may never have heard of Valley Fever, [...] Continue Reading
Brown at Brown: A Chicana’s Story from the Barrio to the Ivies
By Maria Ortega For many of us, obtaining a higher education has become synonymous with great sacrifice. My mom, Patricia, traveled the path thousands prior had paved in order to give her two [...] Continue Reading
A Student Movement for Student Voice
By Saa’un P. Bell On May 8, about 50 student leaders across California assembled to urge the State Board of Education for greater student participation in the state’s new school funding law, known [...] Continue Reading
A Student’s Voice Heard
By Cheyann Wakefield As a senior at Fresno High, I look forward to what my future holds and I reflect on my experience as a Fresno Unified School District (FUSD) student. I think about what I’ve been [...] Continue Reading
The Best Kept Secret
By Ruth Gadebusch Almost the first time I ever heard of Fresno it was said with disdain. Yes, that was from San Francisco Bay Area citizens inclined to look down on most places as having less value [...] Continue Reading
Fresno State Student Coalition Debates ASI Regarding “Students of Color”
By Lizbeth De La Cruz The Chicano Youth Conference (CYC) has been held for 40 years at Fresno State. The original purpose was to improve enrollment of Latino youths in the university, which was [...] Continue Reading
Crockford Files: Put a Fresh Face on Your PC or Laptop with Linux
By Stan Perkins Microsoft is discontinuing support for Windows XP effective mid-April 2014. This announcement caused many in the business world great alarm. Corporate users have grown dependent on [...] Continue Reading
Internet Essentials Learning Zones in Fresno
By Community Alliance Staff Comcast is providing a $100,000 grant to nonprofit community organizations to create Internet Essentials Learning Zones in Fresno. Internet Essentials is a comprehensive [...] Continue Reading
The Crockford Files: Access to Government Information Revisited
By John Crockford A letter (www.fresnobee.com/2014/01/13/3712545/online-access-to-fresno-courts.html) from the media coordinator of the Fresno Superior Court to the editor of the Fresno Bee on Jan. [...] Continue Reading
The Crockford Files: A Tech Collective for the Fresno Progressive Community?
By John Crockford Though there seems to be a sufficient pool of tech people working and living in this area, I’ve recently learned that a handful of local progressive organizations have had some [...] Continue Reading
No Simple Answers
By Ruth Gadebusch Once again, the idea of dividing the Fresno Unified School District is in the air as the answer to all the woes. Alas, it is not as simple as that. We don’t need any more [...] Continue Reading