Have you ever heard of Lanare? If you have not, you are not alone. Most people ignore that Lanare is a small unincorporated community 24 miles southwest of the city of Fresno. Despite its small [...] Continue Reading
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Central Valley Groundwater Sinking Faster Than Ever
Aquifers in the Central Valley are being depleted at an ever-increasing rate according to a study recently published online by the prestigious Nature magazine. The research looked at two decades of [...] Continue Reading
2023: Opportunities for Disadvantaged Communities
It is hard to believe that the first month of 2023 has already ended, but what has not ended are the needs and challenges faced by disadvantaged communities. Which are these communities and why are [...] Continue Reading
Identity Politics Trump Climate Crisis
It’s 2023. Do you know where your climate solutions are? Between the climate change doomer camp of all-is-lost fatalism and the boomer tribe’s false promise of win-win solutions lies a path to [...] Continue Reading
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Can leaders learn from losses?
Voters rejected four local sales tax measures last month. Millions of dollars later—much of it in public funds—they have perhaps taught local leaders some valuable lessons, at least those who have [...] Continue Reading
How This Valley City Plans on Surviving Historic Drought
(Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Fresnoland (https://fresnoland.org/2022/11/14/another-dust-bowl-how-this-california-farmworker-city-plans-on-surviving-historic-drought/), a [...] Continue Reading
Our “Right to Know” When Pesticides Are Applied
On Nov. 10, the small town of Orosi in northern Tulare County was the setting as more than a hundred residents from various counties across the San Joaquin Valley (Kern, Fresno, Madera, Stanislaus, [...] Continue Reading
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Climate Quest Begins Anew
“I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”—Bilbo Baggins As American democracy slips further into a darkness that [...] Continue Reading