(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
Science & Health
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
Crisis de Atención al Paciente
El 25 de mayo un mar púrpura envolvió el capitolio. Más de 600 trabajadores de la salud, asistentes médicos, cuidadores domiciliarios, trabajadores de clínicas, médicos residentes y pacientes que [...] Continue Reading
Diagnosing Dementia Early Can Help Slow Progression
(Editor’s note: This article is reprinted courtesy of California State University–San Francisco.) Diagnosing dementia is often difficult. The brain itself is complicated, so someone suffering from [...] Continue Reading
Maderans Receive Insight to Hospital Closure
By Johanna Torres The Madera Community Hospital (MCH) announced its closure less than a week before officially closing last year, leaving Maderans with many questions and concerns. As the MCH [...] Continue Reading
Court Orders Reconsideration of Cancer-Causing Pesticide Regulation
In early March, the Alameda County Superior Court ruled that a proposed regulation fails to protect farmworkers who labor near fumigated fields from harmful levels of exposure to the cancer-causing [...] Continue Reading
Making Sense of Mental Illness
There are so many ways we are confused about mental illness. What is going on in the minds of people whose words and behavior don’t make sense? Where can a family turn for help when a loved one shows [...] Continue Reading