By Kevin Hall The year 2020 tied 2016 as the hottest in human history. Other new records were set for Arctic heat and wildfires, tropical storms in the Atlantic, and locally, the Creek Fire, the [...] Continue Reading
Politics
Hope for Clovis
By Michael D. Evans Educator Noha Elbaz, a Democrat, is seeking election to the City Council in Clovis. That’s not a typo. Elbaz is a Democrat running because the Clovis City Council “needs new and [...] Continue Reading
Will the Real State Sponsors of Terrorism Please Stand Up?
By Leni Villagomez Reeves Cuba State Sponsor of Terrorism but not Saudi Arabia? The Trump regime placed Cuba on the U.S. State Sponsor of Terrorism list on Jan. 11, just five days after inciting [...] Continue Reading
Covfefe Affects City Leader Cognition
By Kevin Hall Key terms: COVID19—acronym for COronaVIrus Disease of 2019; covidiots—people who ignore COVID19 safeguards; Covfefe—a gathering of two or more covidiots. A local election night [...] Continue Reading
Voters of Color Restored Democracy in America
By Sunita Sohrabji and Pilar Marrero In a country that is polarized and hurt by Covid-19 and divisive leadership, a massive turnout of voters resulted in a close election where Democrat Joe Biden [...] Continue Reading
Georgia, HBCUs and the Fate of Humanity
By Kevin Hall “I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of [...] Continue Reading
Election 2020: Revival and Tentative Enthusiasm
By Michael D. Evans National The Biden-Harris team not only defeated Donald Trump, charitably the worst President ever, but also staved off the demise of democracy at least for another election [...] Continue Reading
2020 Elections Results: Biden Wins, California Remains Blue
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
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