By Tom Frantz No one living in the San Joaquin Valley is shocked to see a film of dust on their car the day after a wash. In this valley, we have a serious and health damaging dust problem. And this [...] Continue Reading
Local & State
Tapped Out: Whose Reality?
By Michael D. Evans Valley PBS aired a documentary miniseries titled Tapped Out: The History and Battle over Water in California’s San Joaquin Valley during May. The four-part series examined the [...] Continue Reading
An Open Letter to Mayor Lee Brand on Fresno’s Role in Combating Climate Change
Dear Mayor Brand: We are a group of students attending the San Joaquin College of Law (SJCL). Law Students for Community Advancement (LSCA) was created to invigorate a culture of engagement at the [...] Continue Reading
Of Parks and Sprawl
By Rubén Casas Working from the premise that public space—land that is available and accessible to everyone—has a large effect on the overall civic nature of a community, how will the city’s intention [...] Continue Reading
Veterans for Peace Announces Fresno Chapter
By Joshua Shurley, Ph.D. “War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only [...] Continue Reading
Local Peace Groups Unhappy with Recent Fresno State Decision
By Camille Russell and Dan Yaseen On April 26, the Fresno State administration abruptly canceled the university’s months-long search for a faculty member to fill the Edward Said Chair professorship [...] Continue Reading
Ire for Democrat Who Pulled Plug on California’s Single-Payer Bill
By Jon Queally Editor’s note: This article was originally published in Common Dreams at https://www.commondreams.org/news/2017/06/24/ire-democrat-who-pulled-plug-californias-single-payer-bill and is [...] Continue Reading
Opinion: Democrats Challenging Nunes in Danger of Losing Big
By Emily Cameron Rep. Devin Nunes (R–Tulare) will retain control of California’s 22nd Congressional District in 2018 if the Democratic Party on both the national and local levels continue running [...] Continue Reading
Legal Defense Funding: In Defense of Immigrants’ Civil Liberties
By Daniel O’Connell In June 2016, Donald Trump launched his bid to be President of the United States with an extraordinary discriminatory anti-immigrant statement: “When Mexico sends its people, [...] Continue Reading
Review of Us and Them: Racism Under Arrest
By Cherylyn Smith Prepare for the genesis of “reality theater.” Unlike reality TV, this genre is not “dumbed down,” as demonstrated in the original play Us and Them by Deshad Cato. (The play is being [...] Continue Reading
Dump Nunes!
**The content in this section is paid for by the Central Valley Progressive PAC** By Mike Rhodes Valley Congressional Representative Devin Nunes’ role as a lapdog for President Donald Trump does not [...] Continue Reading
