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
Local & State
YOU ARE INVITED
Xavier Becerra, the Attorney General for the State of California, will be the guest speaker at the next CVPPAC meeting. Following the presentation by Mr. Becerra will be a Q&A. This meeting will [...] 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
Clearing the Air: California Dairies Are Unsustainable
By Tom Frantz The factory dairies of the San Joaquin Valley contribute more to our air pollution and global warming than any other sector. Their onsite ammonia and VOC emissions plus the thousands of [...] Continue Reading
Engage in January
MLK Weekend Activities “Everybody can be great, because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need [...] Continue Reading
Community Giveback Project
All of Us or None is a grassroots civil and human rights organization fighting for the rights of formerly and currently incarcerated people and our families. The group fights against the [...] Continue Reading
My Dreams Don’t Have Borders
A faith vigil was held at Rep. Devin Nunes’ office in Clovis on Dec. 20 to support a clean DREAM Act. All photos by Peter Maiden. [...] Continue Reading
A Call to Action: Enough Snowflakes Make an Avalanche
By Daniel O’Connell, Ph.D. A simple test of any strategy is that it directly names its objective. For progressives in the San Joaquin Valley, the goal before us is to transform our region from one of [...] Continue Reading
Straight Outta Fresno
By Peter Maiden Poppin’, a hip-hop dance related to the Robot, originated in Fresno and traveled up and down the Valley to the Bay Area and Los Angeles in the 1980s. Hmong B-Boys and B-Girls were [...] Continue Reading
Trans Rights Rally and Day of Remembrance
By Hannah Brandt “Your attendance is your support,” says Zoyer Zyndel, Trans-E-motion chair and emcee at the Trans Day of Remembrance (TDOR) at Fresno State on Nov. 20. Trans-E-motion is a local [...] Continue Reading