“The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.” —Martin Luther King Jr. Photos splashed across the Internet of smiling [...] Continue Reading
Politics
Can We Prevent a Frightening Prospect?
It has long been said that all great empires come to an end. Is that to be our fate? Yes, we are an empire even though we seldom apply that word to the American Dream. I fear that we are about to get [...] Continue Reading
Central Valley Progressive PAC Sponsored Page
February 2024 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
Trump: una Amenaza Real Para los Migrantes y la Democracia
(Nota del Editor: este artículo se reproduce con la autorización de HispanicLA.com) Dicen que “Año Nuevo, Vida Nueva”. Pero ese no es el caso para los miles de migrantes que siguen llegando a la [...] Continue Reading
La Mesa Redonda de Líderes del Valle respalda al Republicano Duarte
El 9 de diciembre de 2023, la Mesa Redonda de Liderazgo del Valle Central se reunió en Firebaugh para entrevistar a los candidatos para el 13º Distrito Congresional de California, que incluye partes [...] Continue Reading
Cruz Challenges Controversial Supervisor Magsig
Jennifer “Jen” Cruz, of Clovis announced her candidacy for the Fresno County Board of Supervisors (BOS) District 5 seat on Jan. 4. She has more than 20 years of experience managing businesses and [...] Continue Reading
Letter to the Editor
Planned Destruction? Democracy is in peril. Whether from Donald Trump, the Tea Party/MAGA/Republican Party, ambivalent independents or complacent (or willfully ignorant) Democrats, the future of [...] Continue Reading
Supervisors’ Political Appointees to Censor Books
On Nov. 28, the Fresno County Board of Supervisors (BOS) voted to establish a censorship panel for the Fresno County Library system. An 11-member panel, with two members appointed by each supervisor [...] Continue Reading
Yokuts Valley: Respect or Racism?
The Fresno County Board of Supervisors are making a last-ditch attempt to hold on to S— Valley and erase the town’s new name, Yokuts Valley. The supervisors voted 3-2 for a charter amendment that [...] Continue Reading
Getting to Know a School Board Candidate
(Author’s note: Dan Bordona has announced his candidacy for a school board seat in the November 2024 election. The author worked as a teacher at Edison High School when Bordona was also there—first as [...] Continue Reading
Another Fresno Opportunity
A believer in a “downtown,” a heart of any city, I was overjoyed with the new dreams and plans for Chinatown. Then I remembered what happened to Fresno’s Fulton Mall. It was exciting, unique and [...] Continue Reading