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MIKE RHODES: Fresno's Measure G result points to mayoral-council power shift
The labor and community alliance that defeated the Measure G trash-privatization proposal represents a tipping point in the balance of mayoral-City Council power in Fresno.
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JAMES GRANT: Senate Intelligence Committee should release the CIA report on torture
I join with people of faith who have come together through the National Religious Campaign Against Torture in calling for the Senate Intelligence Committee (chaired by Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California) to release the CIA report about torture to the American people and the world.
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SEVAG TATEOSIAN: This is why I fight for Armenian genocide recognition
Each year Fresnan Sevag Tateosian joins Fresno's Armenian-American community at City Hall to hold events dedicated to remembering the 1.5 million Armenians who perished and the countless others who were kidnapped and tortured by raising both the U.S. and Armenians flags.
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TONY HOLT: Dad's love, Billy Squier and me
A selfless act by a Fresno father in 1983 is recalled on Father's Day.
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LEA MUNOZ-STEELE: When I needed a boost, 'Coach' was always there
Track coach Ken Israel was an important person in my teens, and much of his advice still sticks with me today.
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ASHLEY SWEARENGIN: We must unite to elevate Fresno
In an extremely close and low-turnout election, 13.6% of voters decided the direction on Measure G. In the aftermath, we must face several challenges and continue to focus on improving our economy and our community.
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PAT DODDS: A strange name now sounds pretty good VALLEY VOICES
It's been almost seven years now since the Chukchansi Gold Resort & Casino started paying $1 million a year for the naming rights to Grizzlies Stadium in downtown Fresno.
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WILLIAM TWEED: View of Valley from train shows 'progress' brings blight, sprawl
For a few short days Amtrak's Coast Starlight detoured from its usual route and passed southward instead through the San Joaquin Valley. The rerouted train would roll through the Valley on Union Pacific Railroad tracks the original surveyed line from the 1870s.
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TRACY CORREA: College in the Valley shouldn't be an accident
With graduation season upon us, I find myself reflecting on my own childhood and high school education growing up a poor child from southeast Fresno.
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JOANNE LIPPERT: Ignore those labels, just eat it
I love to have my grown children visit me for a few days or just stop by. But there is one thing that is beginning to annoy me more and more as time goes by. They all know it annoys me and perhaps they give it a little more effort just to accomplish my ir


