Try as I might I cannot comprehend the current political world: the state of public opinion, the blame for this direction, the drought of honesty and integrity of one party, the concern re diminished [...] Continue Reading
Politics
Some Questions about Fresno’s Growth Plan
BY MATTHEW ARI JENDIAN, SIMON BIASELL, JIM GRANT AND AKIKO MIYAKE-STONER Been in Fresno long? Ever notice how the city has grown (mostly northward) and what has happened in the wake of that growth [...] Continue Reading
México Elegirá Una Mujer Presidente en 2024
POR TERESA PUENTE (Nota del Editor: el presente artículo se publica por cortesía de Caló News) El próximo año, México hará historia y elegirá por primera vez a una mujer como su [...] Continue Reading
De Política y Cosas Peores
El debate, el intercambio de ideas, el no pensar necesariamente igual que los demás son cosas que personalmente valoro. Pero no la aberración. Eso es lo que ha venido sucediendo en [...] Continue Reading
Neglect and Fatal Defects
The Fresno County Board of Supervisors (BOS) seems incompetent, indifferent and neglectful as they preside over a county care and service crisis. Several examples of the board’s offensive and obdurate [...] Continue Reading
Central Valley Progressive PAC Sponsored Page
November 2023 You can read the print version of the Central Valley Progressive PAC page below. This is a .pdf of the November 2023 Central Valley Progressive PAC Sponsored Page. There are features [...] Continue Reading
Republican Jesus
It’s one of George Bernard Shaw’s better-known quotations: “England and America are two countries separated by the same language.” Given the divisions that have been festering in our own country [...] Continue Reading
Cynicism and Nihilism the Roots of Malaise
Think back to Measure P. The proposal: a tax levied on sales transactions in Fresno to fund millions each year for parks, arts and recreation. A beautiful suggestion for a town seeking more culture [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor
We wish to have nothing but good news for our readers. However, I am afraid that won’t happen in this issue. Or anytime soon. What has happened recently at Fresno City Hall is disturbing: a recent [...] Continue Reading
The Rite of Fresno: Composing a Rezone
Fans of the composer Igor Stravinsky might find his modernist work The Rite of Spring a suitable soundtrack for the story of Peter Stravinski the developer, particularly its “Sacrificial Dance” [...] Continue Reading
Central Valley Progressive PAC Sponsored Page
October 2023 You can read the (.pdf) print version of the Central Valley Progressive PAC sponsored page below. There are features that allow viewers to increase the size of the pages for easier [...] Continue Reading
“First They Came…” Again
We are again in a period of racist ultranationalism and right-wing extremism. It’s not the first one. We can choose to defend those who are under attack now. Or we can wait until the attackers come [...] Continue Reading