In the wake of the June 2 vote by the Fullerton City Council to suspend funding of the Fullerton Museum Center, a small group of residents started a grass roots movement to […]
Friends of the Fullerton Museum Center Take Action
The Kelly Thomas Files Part 1: Notices to the Officers Who Were Fired and Disciplined
In compliance with California Senate Bill 1421 requiring police departments to release documents related to deaths of citizens and other incidents, this May the city of Fullerton released over 3200 pages of […]
‘Spicy Green Book’ Highlights Black-Owned Restaurants
Inspired by the historic Green Book, a travel guidebook for African-American motorists during the Jim Crow era, Fullerton resident Danilo Batson created a website called Spicy Green Book, a nonprofit directory listing […]
Muck Artist-in-Residence Creates Community Poetry Project
The Muckenthaler Cultural Center’s 2020 Artist-in-Residence poet, Katharine Zaun, is inviting the public to discover the poetry around them this summer as part of a community Found Poetry Project. Submissions are open […]
The California Native American Genocide
“The land we occupy today is the very same ground on which these terrible crimes took place. We Californians are the beneficiaries of genocide. I suspect few Californians today contextualize their homes […]
Tune in to Fullerton’s Virtual Citizens Academy
For the past several weeks, the City of Fullerton has been hosting a weekly virtual “Citizens Academy” on its web site and Facebook page, to give residents a window into the City’s […]
It’s Time for a Civilian Police Oversight Commission
My first thought when I viewed the horrific George Floyd video was revulsion, followed by anger. At the same time, as a Fullerton resident, the video and reaction it created also includes […]
BLM Protests Lead to Virtual Town Halls with Police Chief
The Fullerton Police Department and members of the City Council are responding to calls for defunding and/or rethinking policing across the country with virtual town halls featuring members of the Council and […]
Why I Protested
The bright New Mexico sun illuminates a dusty dirt road that is as old and traditional as the Pueblo village that the road weaves and intersects through. Gusty winds from the southwest […]
Film Review: The King of Staten Island Gets a Hit and a Miss
Director Judd Apatow (“The Forty year old Virgin,” “Trainwreck”) has made his fame by directing some very amusing films and has helped launch the careers of several Hollywood actors, such as Steve […]
