By Sarah Sharpe What Happened? On Jan. 30, after a long and contentious public hearing, in the wee hours of the morning just after midnight, the Fresno City Council voted to halt progress on the Bus [...] Continue Reading
Local & State
Letters to the Editor – March 2014
Letter Read at Rhodes Farewell Dinner I am sorry that I could not be at this event (see above) to honor Mike Rhodes, but I did want to send a few words about him and what he has meant for journalism. [...] Continue Reading
The Crockford Files: Access to Government Information Revisited
By John Crockford A letter (www.fresnobee.com/2014/01/13/3712545/online-access-to-fresno-courts.html) from the media coordinator of the Fresno Superior Court to the editor of the Fresno Bee on Jan. [...] Continue Reading
Forum Sets New Course for Local Politics
By Michael D. Evans The Fresno Partnership shook up the local political world on Jan. 25 with a Candidate Forum for candidates in Fresno City Council Districts 1 and 7. The forum was unprecedented [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – Feb. 2014
Community Alliance Newspaper Has Legs I am in an Arcata motel in Humboldt County tonight. I’m with my daughter touring northern California looking at colleges. I came upon a free newspaper called the [...] Continue Reading
California Can’t Tunnel Its Way Out of Drought Conditions
By Restore the Delta SACRAMENTO—Restore the Delta (RTD) and opponents of Gov. Jerry Brown’s rush to build peripheral tunnels that would drain the Delta and doom salmon and other Pacific fisheries [...] Continue Reading
The Elected: In Conversation with City Council Member Sal Quintero
By Richard Stone Sal Quintero walks me back to his office, and immediately it’s clear it is not like those of the Fresno City Council members I’ve previously interviewed. More a den than an office, [...] Continue Reading
Occupy Fresno: “Viva Liberté, Viva America!”
By Chip Ashley Mike Rhodes was walking by Courthouse Park on Dec. 12 and noticed Occupy Fresno was no longer there. On closer inspection he saw a notice taped to one of the columns of the “gazebo,” [...] Continue Reading
Implementation of the Fresno County General Plan: Death by Design
By Radley Reep A real eye-opener is a rarely viewed film entitled Death by Design. This film describes the mechanism by which our bodies replace cells at a rate of about 5,000,000 cells per [...] Continue Reading
The Much Maligned Public Defender
By Michael Weinberg (Editor’s note: A different version of this article was published previously in the Fresno Bee.) Everywhere public defenders go, they are called names. Their clients feel they [...] Continue Reading
New Feature Starting in February
Starting with the February edition, the Community Alliance newspaper will have a new monthly series called “Five Heads Are Better Than One” edited by Richard Stone. A topic will have been proposed in [...] Continue Reading
Another Case of Police Misconduct
By Kevin G. Little On Nov. 27, 2013, after two hours of deliberation, a nine-person federal jury awarded Isaac Miller of Lemoore $500,000 against Hanford police officer Steven Schmitz, finding that [...] Continue Reading