By Dixie Salazar, Gerry Bill and Nancy Waidtlow The Eco Village project began as the brainchild of celebrated local architect Arthur Dyson. Dyson’s original idea was to create green, sustainable [...] Continue Reading
Science & Health
Human Rights Commemoration in Fresno
By Sudarshan Kapoor “We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind. This declaration may well become the international Magna Carta [...] Continue Reading
Air Board Publicity Stunt: Clearing the Air – December 2013
By Tom Frantz The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District Board (Air Board) has recently submitted a request to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for a determination of compliance [...] Continue Reading
Fresno Peace Corp Volunteer in Peru
By Ingrid Carmean Surrounded by rich agricultural lands, Cerro Candela is probably the poorest community with whom the Peace Corps Peru environmental group works. Of the three communities I work [...] Continue Reading
The Shameful Wrong: Nobel Prize for MRI Imaging
By George B. Kauffman According to the late Ulf Lagerkvist, a member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences who participated in judging nominations for the Chemistry Prize, “It is in the nature of the [...] Continue Reading
Violence in the Homeless Encampments
By Paul T. Jackson Peace is a basic human need; peace of mind is a mark of good health. Peace flows from within each individual out to other members of the community to which the individual belongs. [...] Continue Reading
Grain Silo
By Chris Breedlove On Oct. 23, the City of Fresno had all contingencies methodically calculated out for its systematic destruction of the Silo Grain homeless community. Homeless advocates were also [...] Continue Reading
Turkey, Grandkids, Mariachis, Da Mean Mayor and Our Duty
By Leonard Adame November, usually a little gray, colder than the turkey in the fridge, the sun losing out to the grim overcast. Doesn’t matter. Soon the turkey will be in a warmer climate. Soon [...] Continue Reading
Down and Out in Fresno
By Robert Navarro In George Orwell’s classic Down and Out in Paris and London, he memorialized his journalistic venture into the world of poverty during the depths of the global Depression. With [...] Continue Reading
Clean Air Is an Unreasonable Expectation – Clearing the Air – November 2013
By Tom Frantz Last month, I wrote about the false “Air Alert” declared in August by our Valley Air Board. The alert involved a big media campaign asking people to carpool and not idle their cars so [...] Continue Reading
Historic Legislation Signed in Fresno
By Valeria Pedroza Last month, on Oct. 3, California Governor Jerry Brown came to the Central Valley and signed AB 60 into law at Fresno City College. This bill, which will not take effect until Jan. [...] Continue Reading
Seniors Love Medicare
By Dan Yaseen Across all political, social and economic strata, Medicare is one of the most popular government programs in the United States. Almost 90% people on Medicare are very satisfied with the [...] Continue Reading