By Vic Bedoian Oil and gas drilling has been halted on federal lands in California during the past four years due to a successful legal action taken by the Center for Biological Diversity. Now the [...] Continue Reading
Politics
Another Fresno is Possible
***The content in this section is paid for by the Central Valley Progressive PAC*** By Mike Rhodes If I’m right about this, we are about to change Fresno into paradise where those living in other [...] Continue Reading
‘NO BAN, NO WALL: SANCTUARY FOR ALL’
Rallies Throughout the Valley and the Nation Protest Trump’s Immigration Policies Fresno Resistance hosted No Ban, No Wall: Sanctuary for All on February 13, 2017. About 500 people of all ages from [...] Continue Reading
Valley Residents Protest Devin Nunes and Trump Over Immigration Stance
By Vic Bedoian Hundreds of Valley residents gathered at the office of Congressman Devin Nunes in Clovis on Wednesday, February 8 to protest his support of President Trump’s executive order banning [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – March 2017
Status Quo at the DNC By Yezdyar S. Kaoosji The expected has happened! Tom Perez was just elected to chair the Democratic National Committee. The earlier re-election of Nancy Pelosi as House [...] Continue Reading
TRUMP: 10 Questions on Science
By George B. Kauffman, Ph.D. Will Trump shape 2027 spending? He must decide whether to weigh in as Congress divides up $1.1 trillion in discretionary spending for the fiscal year that began last [...] Continue Reading
The State of the Union
(26 days into this new administration at the time of writing/deadline) I’m finding it hard to breathe these days. Everything that I was fearful of on Nov. 9th, the morning after our election, [...] Continue Reading
Education: Hanson is Gone, Time for Change
By Simone Cranston-Rhodes On March 28 at 4 p.m. at The People’s Church (7172 N. Cedar Fresno, CA 93720) the Fresno Teachers Association (FTA) will be hosting An Education Summit on the Future of [...] Continue Reading
I’m Undocumented and I don’t Think Trump is the Problem
By Miguel Bibanco (Editor’s Note: This article was originally published at The Know Youth Media and is republished with permission.) Just a month into Trump’s presidency and the controversies [...] Continue Reading
Housing Code Enforcement: From Protest to Policy
By Daniel O’Connell In the 1930s, union leader A. Philip Randolph came to Franklin Delano Roosevelt to complain that the New Deal was not helping his workers enough and that stronger measures were [...] Continue Reading
Central Valley Progressive PAC: Power to the People!
-The content in this section is paid for by the Central Valley Progressive PAC- Note: This is NOT an advertisement for PG&E By Mike Rhodes If everyone reading this issue of the Community [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – February 2017
By Hannah Brandt January felt like a tornado hit. In the storm, Barack Obama became the former president, Donald Trump became the current president, and the country commemorated the life of Martin [...] Continue Reading