By George B. Kauffman Louise M. Slaughter (D–NY) died on March 16 (1929–2018) at the age of 88, the oldest sitting member of Congress, serving her 16th term in the House of Representatives. She was [...] Continue Reading
Politics
Coalition of Fresno Citizens Rallies for Better Parks
Fresno for Parks Leads Grassroots Effort to Let Voters Decide on a November Ballot Measure By Natasha Biasell Residents are gathering signatures to ensure November’s general election ballot includes a [...] Continue Reading
DEEP FRESNO: Brand Demands, Council Okays Diesel Exhaust for Viking Elementary Students
By Kevin Hall “The lower we go, the stronger our negotiating position becomes.” — Mayor Lee Brand, April 4, 2018 With the latest in a string of negative declarations of environmental impacts [...] Continue Reading
Madera County Part of Pilot Voter Program
By Marilyn Deleija With many people disenfranchised in the 2016 election process, California sought out ways to make voting easier and more accessible. Senate Bill 450 addresses such citizen concerns [...] 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
ARE YOU A CITIZEN?
By Ben Monterroso Among the responsibilities and tasks of a modern state is the collecting and keeping of specific data about the population to be governed. It is important to appropriately implement [...] Continue Reading
TPS and Forced Migration
By Stan Santos A History of Forced Migration The history of immigration to the United States from the south is one of forced migration. Waves of immigrants flee their homes to escape violence and [...] Continue Reading
Disagree versus Disagreeable
By Ruth Gadebusch What a sad state it is when so many seem to think they must be disagreeable when disagreeing. At this time, the focus is on the Fresno State professor who chose to make [...] Continue Reading
Town Hall for Gun Control
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How Cuba Chooses Its Government
By Leni Villagomez Reeves Cuba has a parliamentary system of government: Cuba has worked out a system, no doubt imperfect like all systems, that sets up nominations for delegates to the municipal [...] Continue Reading
TECTONIC FORCES CONVERGE: Walls of Institutional Racism Sway at City Hall
By Kevin Hall A recent unanimous vote by the Fresno City Council threatens to knock the city’s developer-controlled politics right off its old foundations. The legislative temblor struck in late [...] Continue Reading