By Leonard Adame Conviviality, espressos, shawled women, guys in hoodies and one homeless man asleep in the corner, all of this and more saturates this Starbucks. Monitors glow blue on peoples’ [...] Continue Reading
Science & Health
New Public Trust Lawsuit to Protect Delta Fishery Filed
By Lloyd G. Carter A coalition of fishing and environmental groups has filed a Public Trust suit in Sacramento County Superior Court alleging the State Water Resources Control Board (Water Board) and [...] Continue Reading
Water Fluoridation Controversy Redux
By George B. Kauffman and Kenneth Owen (“K.O”) Crosby Since its inception, water fluoridation has been the subject of controversy. However, with the currently unstable and unfortunate political, [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air
Valley Air Board’s InsensitivityBy Kevin Hall According to the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District, it was an orange flag day on a Thursday afternoon in late September, “unhealthy for [...] Continue Reading
Cuba Prioritizes Health and Education Even in Hard Economic Times
By Gerry Bill Cuba never ceases to amaze me. Here we are in the throes of an international economic crisis affecting every country in the world. Yet, amid that crisis, the Cubans manage to maintain [...] Continue Reading
Region of Abundant Communities
By Community Alliance Staff A Region of Abundant Communities Convention for the San Joaquin Valley will be held on Nov. 16. The convention will focus on rebuilding community connections and competence [...] Continue Reading
The Power of Prisoners: The Pelican Bay Hunger Strike
By Catherine Campbell This summer, prisoners in the Pelican Bay Security Housing Unit (SHU) came together and began a hunger strike that at its peak spread throughout the California prison system to [...] Continue Reading
$54 a Month for Water You Can’t Drink
By David Bacon When Mary Broad moved to Lanare in 1955, there were only four other families still living in this tiny, unincorporated community in the middle of the San Joaquin Valley, halfway [...] Continue Reading
Our Stone-Age Supervisors Out To Save Us Again
By Catherine Campbell The Needle Exchange has been ongoing in Fresno for almost two decades, providing clean needles to drug users to prevent the spread of numerous diseases. Hepatitis C and HIV are [...] Continue Reading
Clearing the Air
By Kevin Hall The No Spin O-Zone Readers of the Fresno Bee were greeted to an amazing front-page headline a few weeks back, one that must have had many thinking they’d awakened in a parallel [...] Continue Reading
A Tour for California Health Care Justice
By Judy Hess With the attacks on healthcare for indigent people in Fresno, on unions and their health benefits everywhere, with the current attempt to savage (and privatize) the U.S. Postal Service [...] Continue Reading
Bottleneck Blues: Food Not Bombs Serving Unhappy Meals at Roeding Park?
By Kelly Borkert It could go unnoticed if you aren’t eating or serving lunch just north of Storyland in Roeding Park Saturdays at 1 p.m. as Food Not Bombs has for nearly 16 years. The people who [...] Continue Reading