By Dan Bacher Editor’s note: This article was originally published in the Daily Kos and is republished under its terms and [...] Continue Reading
Science & Health
When Your Tap Water Is Toxic
By Kena Cador Editor's Note: This article was originally published by the ACLU of Northern California and is republished with permission. https://www.aclunc.org/blog/when-your-tap-water-toxic “On [...] Continue Reading
No, California Did Not Legalize Child Prostitution
By Danyeal Escobar (Editor’s note: This article was originally published by The kNOw Youth Media: https://theknowfresno.org/02/10/2017/no-california-not-legalize-child-prostitution/.) On Dec. 9, [...] Continue Reading
An Open Letter to the California Air Resources Board
By Cherylyn Smith (Author’s note: The following letter was submitted to the CARB and posted on its Scoping Plan Comments page on April 10.) Although it is customary to opt for mitigations, offsets [...] Continue Reading
Earth Day and the March for Science
By Hannah Brandt On Saturday, April 22 Earth Day 2017 was held at Radio Park in downtown Fresno. The theme was "Environmental & Climate Literacy" The organizers described the focus of the [...] Continue Reading
Trumpcare scare leads to single payer bill in California
By Emily Cameron On February 17, state senators Ricardo Lara and Toni Atkins introduced SB-562, the Californians for A Healthy California Act, into the California state legislature. The bill is yet [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – April 2017
By Hannah Brandt The last few weeks many have been focused on healthcare. In a whirlwind of brutality and incompetence, the GOP health plan/Trumpcare imploded before our eyes. It had some of the [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Public be Damned!
By Tom Frantz The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (air district) recently released their annual report to the community. It is a collection of misleading information describing the [...] Continue Reading
Trump’s Push for More Oil Extraction on Public Lands Hits Central California
By Vic Bedoian Oil and gas drilling has been halted on federal lands in California during the past four years due to a successful legal action taken by the Center for Biological Diversity. Now the [...] Continue Reading
TRUMP: 10 Questions on Science
By George B. Kauffman, Ph.D. Will Trump shape 2027 spending? He must decide whether to weigh in as Congress divides up $1.1 trillion in discretionary spending for the fiscal year that began last [...] Continue Reading
Health and Justice in Water Board’s Hands with Pesticide Byproduct
By Asha Kreiling Twenty-five years ago, the drinking water contaminant 1,2,3-TCP was added to the state of California's list of chemicals known to the state to cause cancer. Water contaminated by this [...] Continue Reading
Disabled by Consumer Culture & Dignified Paths to our Fullest Potential
By Brian Jay Snyder I sit with great sadness upon a tree stump beside my home in the mountains of Central California. I see hundreds of tree stumps and multiple log-decks with hundreds of dead trees [...] Continue Reading