By Mike Rhodes In May of this year, a Community Alliance newsstand went missing on the corner of Kern and N streets, just outside a Starbucks. Peter Maiden, the newspaper’s distribution manager, [...] Continue Reading
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Keep Free Speech Alive
By Mike Rhodes Thanks to the generous support we have received from our wonderful readers, we have been able to print the May 2019 issue of the Community Alliance newspaper. If you appreciate this [...] Continue Reading
Keep Free Speech Alive
By Mike Rhodes Thanks to the generous support we have received from our wonderful readers, we have been able to print the May 2019 issue of the Community Alliance newspaper. If you appreciate this [...] Continue Reading
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR — April 2019
The Conscience of “Hate Radio”? We’ve met self-styled “hate radio” personalities on mainstream news. These are the people who sometimes call themselves actors. They don’t shy away from the term [...] Continue Reading
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR — April 2019
The Conscience of “Hate Radio”? We’ve met self-styled “hate radio” personalities on mainstream news. These are the people who sometimes call themselves actors. They don’t shy away from the term [...] Continue Reading
Newspapers Shrink as Online Journalism Struggles to Fill the Gap
By Vic Bedoian A voluntary buyout offer to 450 employees of the McClatchy newspaper chain was announced recently. Almost half of them took that offer. Not all were journalists or editors, but many [...] Continue Reading
Newspapers Shrink as Online Journalism Struggles to Fill the Gap
By Vic Bedoian A voluntary buyout offer to 450 employees of the McClatchy newspaper chain was announced recently. Almost half of them took that offer. Not all were journalists or editors, but many [...] Continue Reading
Human Dignity, Hate Speech and Barbara Bush Tweets
By Tina Fernandes Botts The case of the Fresno State professor who was recently under fire for making negative statements about Barbara Bush through her personal Twitter account (the “Jarrar matter”) [...] Continue Reading
National Lawyers’ Guild Supports Freedom of Speech
Editor’s note: This article was submitted by the Central Valley chapter of the National Lawyers’ Guild. On April 17, Fresno State Professor Randa Jarrar posted a series of tweets condemning the late [...] Continue Reading
MARCH 16, 1968: U.S. Troops Massacre 500 Civilians
By Camille Russell Fifty years ago, at the height of the American war in Vietnam, an event known as the My Lai Massacre took place in a small village in Vietnam. U.S. troops killed unarmed women, [...] Continue Reading
Renowned Performing Arts Festival Returns
The Rogue Festival, Fresno’s completely uncensored theater and performing arts festival, returns to the Tower District March 1–10. The 17th annual Rogue Festival will present more than 200 separate [...] Continue Reading
What Was Net Neutrality?
By Osiris Godwin Net neutrality seems to be one of those buzzwords that whizzes past us every day. We don’t notice it or pay it much attention; much like a fern in an office, we just assume that it [...] Continue Reading