By Bethany Woolman December 13, 2016: According to a lawsuit filed today by civil rights groups, the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) is violating the constitutional rights of [...] Continue Reading
Science & Health
FOOD CRISIS: FEEDING HOPEFUL REVOLUTIONS | part 1
By Gustavo Esteva and Brian Jay Snyder Small farmers, mainly women, feed 70 percent of the people on Earth. 70 percent! That means that big agribusiness, which owns or occupies more than half [...] Continue Reading
Science Lessons for the Next President
By George B. Kauffman Before our recent election, several science journalists wrote a detailed article titled “Science Lessons for the Next President,” Science October 21, 2016, [...] Continue Reading
Ooooby & Food Commons Fresno Focus on Sustainability
By Camille Russell Beets from Belgium. Strawberries from Chile. Apples from New Zealand. Crazy! Madness! We live in the richest, most productive agricultural region in the world. Yet, many of the [...] Continue Reading
Review of the film No Màs Bebés
By Kathy Ayala Director: Renee Tajima-Pena Producer: Virginia Espino A film screening for No Màs Bebés premiered at Fresno State on October 13, 2016, shedding light on a heinous period of time in [...] Continue Reading
Cuba Medical Solidarity
By Leni Reeves CUBA SHARES THE LITTLE IT HAS, CARING FOR PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD When Lucius Walker said, "I don't need a license to love my neighbor," some people said "You have lots of [...] Continue Reading
Medi-Cal expansion prompting closer look at hurdles to rural health care
By Hannah Esqueda While Medi-Cal expansion has helped provide first-time health insurance to residents throughout the Central San Joaquin Valley, patients living in rural communities still face [...] Continue Reading
First Muslim Nobel Laureate in Chemistry Ahmed H. Zewail Dies at 70
By George B. Kauffman Professor Ahmed Hassan Zewail of Caltech died unexpectedly on Tuesday, August 7 in Pasadena, California at the age of 70. He had recently recovered from a cancerous tumor [...] Continue Reading
Health care coverage still not reality for some Fresnans
By Hannah Esqueda More than two years after the Affordable Care Act theoretically opened the door for universal health care, members of Fresno’s traditionally underserved communities still [...] Continue Reading
City Council Award to Floyd D. Harris’ Freedom School
On June 23, 2016, Rev. Dr. Floyd D. Harris Jr. received an award from the Fresno City Council for his Freedom School summer program that began last year. Councilmen Oliver Baines III gave Harris the [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation
By Tom Frantz Recent visitors to the Sierra Mountains above the San Joaquin Valley are shocked to see the dead and dying trees of these once magnificent forests. This devastation is spreading from [...] Continue Reading
Dispatches from the War Zone: Homelessness in Fresno (2002–2015)
By Mike Rhodes Did the City of Fresno really use federal money intended to help the poor and bulldoze homeless shelters with it? Why was it necessary for a federal judge to order the city to stop [...] Continue Reading