By Richard Stone This is the first of a series in which I will be asking for interviews with each sitting member of the Fresno City Council. We began this month with Blong Xiong, who unhesitatingly [...] Continue Reading
Politics
An August Vacation
By Simone Whalen-Rhodes Congress has just taken a five-week recess in August and only has two bills to vote on the whole month of September. Their continued gridlock and dysfunction has caused many [...] Continue Reading
Documenting the Data Wars: Fresno Filmworks Presents WikiLeaks Documentary
By Andrew Veihmeyer In a digital world where exposing sensitive details is often commonplace and instant, what happens when decades worth of data is revealed in one of the largest breaches of [...] Continue Reading
Hot Water for City Council
By Lloyd G. Carter In what promises to be a contentious event, the Fresno City Council has scheduled an Aug. 15 public hearing (in the City Council Chamber at 5 p.m.) on a proposal to double [...] Continue Reading
Defend Rural America Surfaces
By Chip Ashley As citizens interested in the Carmelita Mine Project cleared the Fresno County Board of Supervisors (BOS) meeting chamber on July 9, they were replaced by another, somewhat more [...] Continue Reading
Update on the Carmelita Mine Proposal
By Chip Ashley If Gerawan Farming gets its way, the Carmelita Mine will extract river rock—10–50 pound chunks of round loaf-shaped rocks to be crushed into aggregate—from the alluvium along the east [...] Continue Reading
Fresno’s Deteriorating Core Neighborhoods: A Product of Developer-Planned Suburban Sprawl?
Will Fresno’s 2035 General Plan Update Survive the Usual Developer Rewrites? By Bob Merrill Are Fresno’s mayor and City Council serious about making Fresno’s downtown more viable, or is it merely [...] Continue Reading
Poison Gas and Arabian Tales: Dispatches from the Edge
By Conn Hallinan “It is not unlike Sherlock Holmes and the dog that didn’t bark. It’s not just that we can’t prove a sarin attack, it is that we are not seeing what we would expect to see from a [...] Continue Reading
The Way to Town
By Cecile Lusby In 1952, we moved to our grandfather’s ranch on South Fruit Avenue outside Fresno. Will Main and his wife had taken the train from Cheyenne, Wyo., where they saw fruit box labels [...] Continue Reading
Measure G Results Reveal Pathway to Future Opportunities
By Michael D. Evans “Ours was a unique coalition—Republicans, Democrats, business and labor—all working for a better Fresno. We hope to keep that spirit alive.”—Randy Ghan The City of Fresno’s [...] Continue Reading
Let’s Take Back Calwa Park: A Story of Corruption and Gross Mismanagement
By Sandra Celedon In May, the Trust for Public Land released its annual ParkScore index, which analyzes how well the 50 largest cities across the nation are meeting the need for parks. To no one’s [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – July 2013
After decades of mismanagement of the city budget by a series of Republican mayors, Ashley Swearengin planned to balance the budget by throwing our award-winning sanitation workers under the bus. The [...] Continue Reading