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Letters to the Editor – September 2013

Should We Destroy the Fulton Mall to Save Downtown Fresno? Your recent editorial on the Fulton Mall raises several important questions regarding the city’s planned course of action for the mall. The [...] Continue Reading

Hot Water for City Council

By Lloyd G. Carter In what promises to be a contentious event, the Fresno City Council has scheduled an Aug. 15 public hearing (in the City Council Chamber at 5 p.m.) on a proposal to double [...] Continue Reading

Letters to the Editor – August 2013

Addressing Increase in Water Bills Doubling water bills in one of America’s poorest regions? Shame! Shame on the Fresno City Council if they should dare to double home water bills after years of [...] Continue Reading

Update on the Carmelita Mine Proposal

By Chip Ashley If Gerawan Farming gets its way, the Carmelita Mine will extract river rock—10–50 pound chunks of round loaf-shaped rocks to be crushed into aggregate—from the alluvium along the east [...] Continue Reading

The Fungus Among Us

By Maria Telesco At the time of this writing, a serious medical crisis is looming in two California prisons. Valley fever, which is caused by the sometimes-lethal aspergillus fungus, may be [...] Continue Reading