Congress faces critical decisions on the federal deficit, immigration, the future of Medicare and Social Security, and many other issues. San Joaquin Valley voters must send lawmakers to Washington who will represent their interests, as well as work toget

From the time big retailers began fleeing Fresno’s downtown more than 40 years ago, community leaders have chased just about every easy fix that’s been dangled in front of them to make downtown vibrant again. Instead of methodically building downtown as a destination for residents, they’ve fallen in love with out-of-town consultants, and the solutions they push to desperate cities.

The newly elected French Socialist president, Francois Hollande, is warning Germany that Mediterranean ideas of "growth," not Germanic "austerity," should be the new European creed. No surprise there -- reckless debtors often blame the

My friend is dying. He has a disease and his body will not sustain itself. No one knows how much longer he will live, first it was months, fortunately it now may be longer, perhaps years.

WASHINGTON -- Novelist John Grisham could hardly spin a more provocative fiction: The president and his surrogates mount an aggressive campaign to intimidate the chief justice of the United States, implying ruin and ridicule should he fail to vote in a pi

By Mark J. Perry

Watching the evening news the other night, I was struck by the irony of the gates at Fresno High School, a gift of the class of 1968, being destroyed in the latest remodel of our venerated campus.