By Richard Stone Oliver Baines is the Fresno City Council Member for District 3, which encompasses some of the Tower District, downtown and West Fresno. Meeting him in his City Hall office, I was [...] Continue Reading
Politics
To Vote or Not to Vote?*
By Michael D. Evans Most of us belong to one or more listservs. And it is not uncommon to get somewhat annoyed by the arguments, misinformation and sometimes sheer nonsense that seems to populate [...] Continue Reading
Public Defense in Peril
By Vic Bedoian In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been [...] Continue Reading
Fulton Mall Targeted by City Hall: Should We Just Give Up on Pedestrian Malls and Accept That Fresno Is a Car Culture?
By Robert Turner (Editor’s note: This series of articles was first published in the October–December Tehipite Topics, the local newsletter of the Sierra Club.) On Sept. 5, the day the City of Fresno [...] Continue Reading
The Fulton Green Project: Introducing a Broader Vision for the Future of Fresno
By Robert Turner The future of Fresno’s historic Fulton Mall hangs in the balance. Whether it remains as a car-free corridor, a welcoming place to pedestrians, strollers, and bicycles, or is returned [...] Continue Reading
Down and Out in Fresno
By Robert Navarro In George Orwell’s classic Down and Out in Paris and London, he memorialized his journalistic venture into the world of poverty during the depths of the global Depression. With [...] Continue Reading
Fulton Mall as a Scapegoat for Past City Planning Policy Failures
By Harold Tokmakian After World War II, most cities in the United States felt an urgent need for increased housing in response to population growth and to make up for the halt in construction during [...] Continue Reading
Letters to the Editor – November 2013
Save the Fulton Mall I keep hearing as an excuse for tearing up the mall “Fresno is a car culture.” Well maybe we need to start weaning off this particular culture and grow up, like other cities in [...] Continue Reading
We the People, Not We the Corporations
By Linda G. Traynor On Jan. 21, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission that corporations are “persons” and their money constitutes “free speech.” With [...] Continue Reading
Public Sentiment Largely Rejects Traffic on the Fulton Mall
By Ray McKnight Three years ago, the Fulton Corridor Specific Plan (FCSP) process was set in motion. Its announced goal was to revitalize downtown Fresno, and deciding what to do about the Fulton [...] Continue Reading
Government Shutdown: Don’t Get Angry, Go Green!
By Richard Gomez Like Emperor Nero who fiddled while Rome burned, the major political parties play the game until a deal that will appease Corporate America with big wet kisses from our Congress, [...] Continue Reading
Valley, Nation Rally to Quiet the Drumbeat of War
By Mike Bridges As of this writing, we have not yet fired on Syria. Not directly anyway. But for some time now, we’ve already been at war-by-proxy with Syria by giving direct and indirect support to [...] Continue Reading