Aunque el número de californianos que viven con Alzheimer casi se duplicará hasta alcanzar los 1.1 millones durante los próximos veinte años, aquellas personas que viven en zonas rurales y remotas se [...] Continue Reading
Science & Health
Nu’u Yavi: Festival de Comida Oaxaqueña
POR EDUARDO STANLEY En los últimos 20 años aproximadamente, la presencia cultural de Oaxaca en el Valle de San Joaquín se ha vuelto cada vez más evidente, particularmente en Madera y Arvin (condado [...] Continue Reading
Proporcionando Atención Médica a Inmigrantes en “La Última Frontera” de California
POR PETER SCHURMANN (Nota del Editor: la siguiente nota se reproduce con el permiso de Ethnic Media Services, https://ethnicmediaservices.org) Alvaro Urrea Olivares tiene una voz suave y [...] Continue Reading
COP28 Outcomes
The United Nations hosts an international conference called the Conference of the Parties (COP) to debate the steps that must be taken to combat climate change. Government representatives from all [...] Continue Reading
Stop the Age Bashing
In the interest of full disclosure, I admit nine decades of age plus being well into the 10th influencing the following. Growing up in the era of experience gained in age being honored and [...] Continue Reading
Investigation of Valley Children’s Hospital CEO Payday
(Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Fresnoland, a nonprofit news organization. We reprint it with their permission.) Two Fresno City Council members are calling on state leaders [...] Continue Reading
Black Women at Highest Risk for Pregnancy Deaths
BY VIVIENNE AGUILAR (Editor’s note: The following article is printed with permission of the Central Valley Journalism Collaborative.) Khadija Fox screamed in pain when the doctor forcefully [...] Continue Reading
Security Implications of Climate Change
After the open discussion on climate change and security at the UN Security Council in July 2011 during the German Council Presidency, and considering further developments, governments and [...] Continue Reading
Justice in Honduras?
Berta Cáceres was killed on March 3, 2016, one day before what would have been her 45th birthday. Cáceres was an Indigenous Lenca woman in Honduras who co-founded the COPINH—Consejo Cívico de [...] 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
Social Services Workers Protest Poor Working Conditions
More than 120 Fresno County Department of Social Service (DSS) workers formed an informational picket line on their lunch break on Sept. 13 to protest poor working conditions that result in poor [...] Continue Reading
Kill the Poor
The well-known punk rock band, the Dead Kennedys, released a song in 1980 about the neutron bomb called “Kill the Poor.” Here’s some of the lyrics. Now that we have the neutron bomb It’s nice [...] Continue Reading