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
Science & Health
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
Fresno Groups Support Drug Law Reform
By Pam Whalen After a hard-fought battle in the State Assembly, SB 649, authored by Sen. Mark Leno (D–San Francisco) is now headed for the Governor’s desk. SB 649 will, if signed by Gov. Jerry [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air: The Great False Air Alert of 2013
By Tom Frantz Central Valley ozone sometimes reaches extreme health-endangering levels in late summer when school starts. These spikes in one-hour ozone levels have been part of the reason that [...] Continue Reading
Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
By Dan Yaseen What Is Obamacare? The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare and the Affordable Care Act (ACA), was signed into law by President Barack Obama on March 23, [...] Continue Reading
City of Fresno Destroys Downtown Homeless Encampments
By Mike Rhodes The City of Fresno followed through on their threats to destroy homeless encampments in the downtown area last month by bringing in bulldozers, garbage trucks and sanitation workers [...] Continue Reading
It’s Complicated: Unintended Consequences
By George B. Kauffman “You have to think about the unintended consequences of either the decisions you make or the ones you do not.”—Madeleine K. Albright In the social sciences, unintended [...] Continue Reading
The City of Fresno Declares War on the Poor
By Jessie Speer Imagine a young woman. Close your eyes and see her in front of you—her hopeful gaze, her restless hands. Now imagine one morning she can’t get out of bed. The doctor says it’s brain [...] Continue Reading
From the Editor – September 2013
The culture of death and destruction at City Hall is threatening this community’s most vulnerable residents with a policy that they hope will be the “final solution” to homelessness in Fresno. I was [...] Continue Reading