By Halima Aquino The road to the city of San Joaquin from Tranquillity High School was 105 degrees or hotter on black pavement on Sept. 6 at 12:30 p.m. Beside the fields of nuts and fruit, there is [...] Continue Reading
Local & State
Westlands Water District Votes No on Delta Tunnels Project
By Dan Bacher Editor’s note: This article was originally published at Daily Kos and is republished under their terms and conditions: [...] Continue Reading
Freedom School Celebrates Summer Harvest Festival
By Floyd D. Harris School’s back in session and the end of summer is here. In preparation to plant their winter crops, student participants from the Fresno Freedom School of Agriculture and Cultural [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – October 2017
By Hannah Brandt It is easy for this political moment to feel like the movie Groundhog Day, where you keep waking up expecting it to be a new day only to find it is the same unbearable day every [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Ozone Implosion
By Tom Frantz As the dust-reddened sun rose over the city, residents reluctantly crawled out of bed shaking off headaches from oxygen deprivation due to a night of breathing dirty air. Talking heads [...] Continue Reading
Fresno’s Link to Chemistry Week
By George B. Kauffman In his official proclamation, Fresno Mayor Lee Brand cited the following reasons for declaring October 22–28 National Chemistry Week (NCW) in the City of Fresno: Chemistry [...] Continue Reading
Veteran and Antiwar Activist Col. Ann Wright Comes to Fresno
By Joshua Shurley Colonel Ann Wright (retired) will speak on Oct. 14 at 2 p.m. at the Community United Church of Christ (5550 N. Fresno St.). Colonel Wright spent 29 years in the U.S. Army and Army [...] Continue Reading
Whistleblowers Uncover Illegal Federal Payments to Valley Water Contractors
By Vic Bedoian Four of the state’s water districts secretly received more than $100 million in federal funds to pay for their share of the environmental review of the Bay Delta tunnels project. The [...] Continue Reading
Fresno’s GOP Testing California’s New Sanctuary Statehood
By Art Rodriguez It was April 4 of this year when a group of us, 10 young adults, attended the Tulare City Council meeting in support of Council Member Jose Sigala’s motion for a resolution in [...] Continue Reading
A Response to Brooke Ashjian Regarding the Armenian and LGBT Communities
By Hanna B. Smith Editor’s note: This article was originally published by LGBT Fresno and is republished with [...] Continue Reading
All in for Huron
By Michael D. Evans Huron is a peaceful town, far from anything urban. It sits in southwest Fresno County about 15 miles from Coalinga—about an hour’s drive from Fresno. As of the 2010 Census, Huron [...] Continue Reading
The Story of the Muslim Community in the Central Valley
By Wasan Abu-Baker Muslims are well known for their warm hospitality. Our prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him) said that whoever believes in God and the Day of Judgment, let him honor his neighbor, [...] Continue Reading