By Mike Rhodes Conservatives and Republican politicians do a lot of talking about deregulation, being supportive of small businesses and cutting down on government bureaucracy. Why then did [...] Continue Reading
Local & State
Clearing the Air: Wheezing and Choking in Malaga
By Tom Frantz A trip down South Chestnut Ave, in Fresno, will take you past Malaga a half mile north of Highway 99. A little over 200 homes, a school, and a park make up this small, [...] Continue Reading
Ashley Swearengin’s Eight Years of Inequity and Neglect: Part 1
By Kevin Hall The central San Joaquin Valley with its economic base of industrial agriculture has been likened to a modern-day plantation system. As such, north Fresno is one of its antebellum [...] Continue Reading
10 Years Later: Fresno Politicians Still Toying with Black History and Nobody Cares!
By Rev. Floyd D. Harris Jr. (Editor’s Note: The first part of this article was written in December 2006, the latter part written in January 2017. It has been edited for clarity.) December 19, 2006: [...] Continue Reading
All They Will Call You: A Look at the Lost History of Deportation and a Tragic 1948 Flight
By Rubén Casas Editor’s Note: This essay was originally published at Tropics of Meta as part of Fresno State's Valley Public History Initiative All They Will Call You (The University of Arizona [...] Continue Reading
Police Violence Is Brutal Repression
By King David “The public execution has a juridical-political function. Its aim is not so much to reestablish a balance of justice as to bring into play, as its extreme point, the dissymmetry between [...] Continue Reading
Understanding the Political Landscape of the City
- The content in this section is paid for by the Central Valley Progressive PAC - By Mike Rhodes Looking at the changing demographics of Fresno and voter registration numbers favoring the [...] Continue Reading
Community Members Denounce City Council Refusal to Vote on Anti-Slumlord Ordinance in 2016
By Hannah Brandt It is December 8, 2016. A woman says she has been living without heat for weeks, harassed by a landlord who is evicting her even though she pays her rent. Leticia Valencia, a Fresno [...] Continue Reading
Civil Rights Groups Sue Caltrans to Stop Illegal Raids Against California’s Homeless
By Bethany Woolman December 13, 2016: According to a lawsuit filed today by civil rights groups, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is violating the constitutional rights of [...] Continue Reading
The Hidden War Revisited, part 3
By Richard Stone "The Hidden War" is the U.S.'s intensive campaign waged in Laos and Cambodia during the Viet Nam War era that was never sanctioned by Congress or acknowledged by the Johnson [...] Continue Reading
Transparency & Accountability In Policing: Strengthening Trust between Fresno PD & the Public
By Laura Garcia, Michael Ballin, Carlene Merino, and Matthew Fosberg Recent National Attention on Police-Community Relations Highly publicized events in 2014 exposed significant fractures in the [...] Continue Reading
Proposed Newsstand Ordinance a Concern for Independent Print News
By Editor-in-Chief If you listen to the Community Alliance version of Stir it Up on KFCF 88.1 every month, you may have heard me talk a few weeks ago about the proposed newsstand ordinance for the [...] Continue Reading