Columnist's challenge is met with Urban DareLast November I put down a challenge to Fresno leaders: develop a fun event that would draw visitors and make cash registers ring.
Let kids make call at school if adults can'tThere's a new magnet program at Fresno's Tioga Middle School. It's called MicroSociety, and the aim is to excite students about education by giving them real-life skills.
Justice has its Genesis in statusJust about everyone in Fresno is suffering from Genesis Fatigue Syndrome by now, so I apologize for bringing this up. But there's no escaping a bitter lesson from the sentencing this week of two sisters accused of stealing from the nonprofit they founded.
Cuts put dreams of new lives at riskHe tried alcohol and marijuana in grade school and was dealing cocaine for the Mexican Mafia at age 19.
Swearengin arrives for a FAX ride preparedAshley Swearengin showed up a couple of minutes early at the Manchester FAX station and handed me a copy of her plan to improve mass transit in Fresno.
Wildfires show need to thin forestsThe great treasures of the West are burning, and we're still tangled in decades-old arguments about thinning, logging and managing our forests.
Let's put teachers union talk into actionSince his election this spring as president of the Fresno Teachers Association, Greg Gadams repeatedly has said that his members deserve a bigger voice in campus safety and student programming.
You've gotta love cage fights in Valley
Take the train, leave the hassle behind
Feds, state won't pull Valley out of poverty
Sanger principal will follow a dream to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro
Can $605k finally satisfy Wright?

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