By John Bruce Only seven months after electing their first female president, the Fresno County Young Democrats (FCYD) held a panel centering on women in Central Valley politics. Four women spoke [...] Continue Reading
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New Direction for California Democrats
By Michael D. Evans On June 1, Rusty Hicks was elected the new chair of the California Democratic Party. In a special election to replace Eric Bauman, who resigned before his term ended, Hicks won [...] Continue Reading
A New Mayor for Fresno
By James Mendez Candidates for the 2020 mayor’s race have said this is a pivotal race that will decide the course of Fresno’s social-economic development for many years to come. As of July 15, five [...] Continue Reading
Action Needed Now on Family Shelters
By Kayla Moon A homeless mother is mourning the loss of her three-month-old daughter who died in a Fresno motel. According to the Fresno County Coroner’s report, the cause of death is believed to [...] Continue Reading
Veteran Legislator Costa Challenged by a Young Latina
By Eduardo Stanley It looks as if Rep. Jim Costa (D–Fresno) is getting seriously challenged from within his own political party. Fresno City Council Member Esmeralda Soria announced recently that [...] Continue Reading
Purple People and Non-Voters
By James Williams We hear the pundits, experts and others who follow politics talking about “the middle.” You can’t go too far to the left or the right as you will run off the moderates and [...] Continue Reading
Fresnans Weigh In on the Trump Presidency
By Michael D. Evans Interested Fresnans gathered in mid-June at the Democratic Party HQ in downtown Fresno for what was billed as a Mueller Report Town Hall. Following an analysis of the report, [...] Continue Reading
In Crisis: Fresno County Long-Range Planning
By Radley Reep Fresno County 2000–2020 General Plan In the 1990s, dissatisfied with escalating urban sprawl and chronic poverty in the Central Valley, a cadre of concerned citizens—including [...] Continue Reading
America’s Own Death Camps
By Robert Navarro On social media and elsewhere, there is much resort to memes and breathless discussion that compares the complex of camps along the U.S. southern border and prior “camps” as in [...] Continue Reading
Developer Dollars, Democratic Duplicity
By Kevin Hall Few were downtown at the Fresno City Hall on a cold morning in late January to witness the new City Council fail its first real test of character. The one that matters most in city [...] Continue Reading