Fresno’s Community Regional Medical Center in central California is rushing 50 beds into a building near the hospital and bringing in medical staff from outside the state to help staff the makeshift ward beginning Friday. Dr. Rais Vohra, Fresno County’s interim public health officer, said alte...
Anne Cheng, The Melancholy of Race: Psychoanalysis, Assimilation and Hidden Grief (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), Jack Halberstam, The Queer Art of Failure (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2011), José Muñoz, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (New York: ...
Mark Martinez, a political scientist at California State University of Bakersfield, emphasized the county's profound class and racial segregation. As he described, agribusiness and oil executives, government lobbyists and lawyers live in the same gated communities, “belong to the same rotaries” and...
Tulare County was established from parts of Mariposa County in the Central Valley. It is home to Sequoia National Park and Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park. The county is named for Tulare Lake, which was the largest freshwater lake west of the Great Lakes until it was drained for agricu...