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Yesterday, the president of California State University, Fresno took questions before a panel of students in the Peace Garden. (more...)

On Sunday, three local Presbyterian churches completed a split from the nation’s largest Presbyterian denomination. (more...)

The pathetic cycle of national “news” last week centered on two subjects. (more...)

You should know about it by now, and if you don’t then they just might be talking about you. (more...)

If you aren’t aware that certain forms of traditional mass media are being threatened by the internet, then you must be one of the goons we in the field are worried will become oblivious to all local news at the expense of nationalized, marginalized, partisan sources. “What?” In other words, you aren’t paying attention. The fingers and rapid-fire thoughts that lead us to Web sites tend to lead us to obvious ones. CNN.com for news, ESPN.com for sports, YouTube for stupid videos, MSNBC.com and Foxnews.com for partisan BS. (more...)

The oppressive summer heat broke mercifully last Tuesday, yielding to the cool fall air we’ve been waiting for since May. Weather. Weather is one of the precious reminders that, despite talk of humans “saving the planet” and all the gawking over modern technology, we are still small on the earth. Humans are no more able to change the seasons now than we were when the proverbial caveman walked the earth. It’s a humbling token of our mortality. F. Scott Fitzgerald (or maybe it was Somerset Maugham) once wrote a tremendous passage about the emotions associated with changing seasons. Here’s my take. (more...)