Brianna Cisneros is the youngest of four siblings. On this cool December evening, she’s sitting at a table in her backyard with her two sisters, her brother and her father. A dog barks nearby, there’s music playing from a neighbor’s house down the street. Signs of normalcy in a not …
Read More »Retro Report Explores The History Of Evictions In Fresno
The nonprofit news organization Retro Report is working on a documentary project looking at the high eviction rates of three cities in the U.S., including Fresno. According to Retro Report Field Producer Daniel Casarez, the roots of Fresno’s eviction rates go all the way back to the Spanish Flu pandemic …
Read More »Fresno ICU Nurse Reflects On Nine Months Of Treating COVID Patients
Amy Arlund, a registered nurse who works in the ICU at Kaiser Fresno Medical Center, spoke with Valley Edition Host Kathleen Schock in May about the loss of one of her colleagues to COVID-19. With ICU capacities in the Valley now at the breaking point, Schock checked back in with …
Read More »Hmong Community Grieves Cancellation Of Its Fresno New Year Celebration, Largest In Country
Vietnam War veteran, Chongge Vang, 80, has been confined to his Sanger home during the pandemic, keeping busy with chores on his two-and-a-half acre property. “I have nothing to do, so I have to walk around and then clean up, water all the trees, all the fruit, you know. That’s …
Read More »Paramedics In Emergency Rooms, Long Hospital Transfers – How Ambulances Are Meeting COVID-19 Surge
With the latest COVID-19 surge, we know that hospitals are in crisis : Patients are being cared for in hallways and conference rooms, nurses and doctors are being forced to take care of larger patient loads than usual, and field hospitals are being opened to take care of those who …
Read More »First Vaccines Arrive As COVID-19 Ravages Valley – Virus Update For Dec. 18
The first batches of the COVID-19 vaccine arrived in the Valley this week , and for many of us, the milestone represents a light at the end of a very long and traumatic tunnel. Healthcare workers with high patient exposure will be the first to receive this initial delivery of …
Read More »With Fresno’s African American COVID-19 Coalition, Leaders Aim To Curb Virus And Build Trust
It’s a Tuesday afternoon in downtown Fresno, and a line of cars has wrapped around the block from the Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission to Chukchansi Stadium. A petite karaoke singer belts out George Harrison on the sidewalk, while the drivers, masked and corralled into reserved parking spots, wait for Testing …
Read More »UC Merced Acquires Photo Collection Documenting Farmworkers In The 1960s
Images captured by photographer Ernest Lowe tell the story of Central Valley farmworkers and the activists who fought for improved conditions in the 1960s. Last year UC Merced hosted an exhibition of some of those photographs, and now has acquired the complete collection – which the university has made available …
Read More »COVID-19 Vaccines Arrive in Madera And Fresno, Expected Soon In Other Valley Counties
As the first 327,000 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine begin arriving in California, most San Joaquin Valley hospitals expect their initial shipments within the next few days. Some hospitals, however, have already begun receiving them. In a video posted to Twitter, employees of Valley Children’s Hospital applauded next to a …
Read More »What The End Of CARES Act Funding Means For Fresno Nonprofits Providing COVID Assistance
The clock is ticking for CARES Act grants, which are set to run out at the end of the month. In Fresno, these funds helped to finance the COVID-19 Equity Project, a network of community based organizations providing COVID assistance to vulnerable communities. To find out what will happen to …
Read More »Weekend Protests Aim To Draw Attention To Explosive Spread Of COVID-19 In Valley’s Prisons
As COVID-19 infections continue to rise throughout the San Joaquin Valley, they’re also ravaging the Valley’s prisons. That’s why two advocacy groups have planned protests this weekend outside prisons in Kings, Fresno and Kern Counties . At Pleasant Valley State Prison in Coalinga, where more than 1,600 incarcerated men have …
Read More »Fresno Educator Remembers ‘Momma Miller,’ His Mother And West Fresno Advocate Who Died Of COVID-19
In early October, complications from diabetes forced Bessie Miller into the operating room. The former state employee and well-known advocate for West Fresno had needed round-the-clock oxygen for years, and because of poor blood circulation, calf injuries that wouldn’t heal eventually left her legs in need of amputation. The operation …
Read More »Health Officials Warn Of Dwindling ICU Beds, Overcrowded Hospitals: COVID-19 Update For Dec. 11
Five days into a regional stay-at-home order, COVID-19 infections in the San Joaquin Valley are soaring and hospitals are scrambling to make space on floors already crowded with flu patients. On Thursday of this week, the California Department of Public Health estimated that intensive care units in the San Joaquin …
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