By Hannah Brandt This month marks the start of a new calendar year. As a former teacher who spent twenty years as a student (yes, that means eight years in college), it is always strange for me to [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
From the Editor: December 2015
By Hannah Brandt It is the end of another year, a time when many of us observe Thanksgiving, Christmas, and other holidays with loved ones, taking time to reflect the state of our lives and our world. [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor: November 2015
By Hannah Brandt “Fresno always drags you back in.” Several people have said this to me since I moved back to town a little over a year ago. They were met with my raised eyebrow, since I did not [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor: October 2015
By Hannah Brandt Two months ago, I was sipping a Mexican mocha at Café Corazon when the editor of the newspaper I wrote for tapped me on the shoulder. “Hey, how’s it going? I just quit the paper.” I [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
By Ernesto Saavedra Being the editor has been quite an experience. In the beginning, I had no idea what I was doing. I made mistakes along the way, but I was up for the challenge. Inheriting nearly 20 [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor: August 2015
We are gathered near Edwards Theatre in Fresno’s River Park. Where there is no river and no park, but plenty of things to buy. Everyone is in their Sunday best, looking in our direction. It is as if [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor July 2015
By Ernesto Saavedra During my studies at Fresno State , I read the second edition of a book titled White Racism by sociology professors Joe R. Feagin, Hernán Vera and Pinar Batur. White Racism [...] Continue Reading
Thank You for the Free Newspaper
Each month, the Community Alliance distributes about 10,000 free newspapers to libraries, newsstands, offices, churches and businesses. As a monthly newspaper focusing on local news, events and views, [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – May 2015
By Ernesto Saavedra Oh, how time flies. A year ago, I became editor of the Community Alliance. A chance to venture into new terrain and grow in an area I was not too familiar with. Somehow I have [...] Continue Reading
ERRATA: An Editor’s Correction
Editor’s note: The following section of the article “Cap and Trade + High-Speed Rail = Environmental Disaster,” by Cherylyn Smith (Community Alliance, April 2015) contained some editorial errors. The [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – April
By Ernesto Saavedra “This is a very sad day for the Fresno Police Department, the citizens of Fresno, the law enforcement profession, and for me personally. Our department will continue to serve in a [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
“The media’s the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that’s power. Because they control the minds of the [...] Continue Reading