Community Alliance Staff On Nov. 7, 2020, the news arrived early in the morning: America has a new president: Joe Biden. The announcement came right after Biden was declared the winner in [...] Continue Reading
Politics
Observing the Observers Preserves Democracy
By Kevin Hall In hyped-up times like these, the two-week lag between deadline and publication stretches out like an eternity of gaslit news cycles. Daily newscasts can barely keep up. So here’s a [...] Continue Reading
Punch a Nazi, Vote Biden
By Kevin Hall People need hope. They need help. Desperately. And while it’s been that way for many years, now it’s growing exponentially. Five long years ago when that golden, gelded steer of [...] Continue Reading
Trump’s End, Fresno County’s New Era
By Kevin Hall “There is simply not enough time to wait for us to grow up and become the ones in charge.”—Greta Thuneberg, age 16, 2018 We’re nearing the end of the most disastrous presidential [...] Continue Reading
Can Kamala Harris Bring in the Much-Needed Minority Votes?
By Eduardo Stanley With the Aug. 11 selection of Kamala Harris as his running mate, Joe Biden, the Democratic 2020 Presidential candidate, obviously hopes to attract more minority votes, [...] Continue Reading
This “Common Ground” Is too Polluted
By Kevin Hall “The popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives us a 50% chance of staying below 1.5 degrees [Celsius] and the risk of setting off irreversible chain [...] Continue Reading
The Dangers of a Dyer-Run Fresno
By Devorah Levy-Pearlman On March 3, Super Tuesday, the city of Fresno held its local election. The high-profile mayoral race to replace Lee Brand—who announced last May he would not seek [...] Continue Reading
One Fresno…Really?
By Daren Miller The coronavirus pandemic and rapid spread of the Covid-19 virus has forced all of us to rethink our daily lives. Schools are closed, restaurants and eateries are providing limited [...] Continue Reading
Fresno May 1 Actions for Essential Immigrant Workers
By Stan Santos On May 1, members of the Fresno community celebrated the International Day of Workers’ and Immigrants’ Rights in a new and innovative way. It would be a significant milestone in the [...] Continue Reading
A Progressive Analysis of the March 2020 Fresno Mayoral Race
By Mike Rhodes Progressives in Fresno did not want to see Jerry Dyer elected mayor. They see Dyer as a mini-Trump and did everything they could to stop him from being elected. Dyer’s nefarious [...] Continue Reading
Fresno’s Angry Right Very Wrong
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer;Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and [...] Continue Reading
“Hold that door!” Political Elevators Closing Fast
By Kevin Hall Beneath the panic of the Trump pandemic, local politics continue. They must, of course, now more than ever. From dealing with the immediate coronavirus-induced health and economic [...] Continue Reading