Mr. Parra is truly talented - he entertained our friends during my husband's and daughter's…read morebirthday party. He pre-draws a heading for the picture that reflects the event. Everyone enjoyed going away with this personalized part favor. Would definitely hire him again!

We hired Steve for our company Christmas party. He was both professional and personable from the…read moreonset of signing the contract to the end of the party. Everyone enjoyed his caricatures and thought it was one of the highlights of the party. He asked each person/couple what their likes were so that he could incorporate it into the pictures (mine had my husband and me with our dog at the beach), which made them even more special. Because the drawings were so popular, Steve stayed 2 hours longer than we originally contracted for and did so gladly! I highly recommend Steve for any of your party plans.

Their web presence is no better than their delivery service. I just wasted 10 minutes of my life…read morethat I'll never get back trying to load their web page. The main page came up fine, but the links to the stories were either broken or took so long to load that I finally gave up. I tried on Explorer, Chrome, and Firefox. Explorer got me a little farther than the other two, but the pages still stopped loading after the headline appeared. I'm on a T1 line, and everything else on the web is lightening fast, so it's not my computer or connection. And this is a fairly regular problem for me. Heck, most of the time I feel like I could walk to their offices on E Street and pick up a paper off the presses faster than I could load their web page.

Since going pretty much all digital, I think the newspaper is much better than it was before…read more But!!! I just received an email telling me the annual subscription price for the E edition was going to more than double. I am currently paying $2.50 per month and the new rate is 5.08 per month That is a pretty insane increase! I will probably end up paying it, because I can. But many many many people will drop the service. Kind of dumb!

I have been reading the Community Alliance since it first came out in 1996. It provides news on…read moretopics not covered in the Fresno Bee or GV wire with a viewpoint that does not accept hypocrisy. It addresses the important issues of the day such as the climate crisis, racism, voting rights, homelessness, elections, gun violence, immigration and LGBTQ+ discrimination. The Community Alliance presents a progressive and honest perspective without bending to corporate greed or the right-wing, Christian nationalist, white supremacy philosophy found in some areas of Fresno politics.

I have no doubts about the integrity of the Fresno Community Alliance, and their reporting. I know…read moretheir editor well (he is now a board member) and the F.C.A. is a paper both respected and feared by Fresno's errant and often arrogant establishment. I don't put an ounce of weight in whatever Eric H. says. I would bet my bottom dollar he never contacted the L.C.A. with a concern about Any Article he has read. The Community Alliance paper is about as far from the "main stream" (sic) media as one could possibly be. I question not only the legitimacy of Eric H.'s complaint, but also strongly wonder why he has a pixelated picture. I've been in Fresno for 51 years, there's no reason to hide who you are IMHO. Patrick Young retired school teacher and army veteran

Horrible to work with Ed. He doesn't call back. The only way that you get to talk to him is if…read moreyou use a different phone number each time! The sad thing is, if he had done the job properly the first time, it wouldn't require all of the phone calls! We simply needed the signs that we purchased to be set up properly as that is what we paid for...in advance! If you use him, don't pay all of the money in advance!

BUYER BEWARE. They don't even have a working phone number. They solicited us by mail to get an…read moreupdate of a book for our law library. We accepted, they sent us an invoice, and then, funny, they never sent a book. Now, we have no way of reaching them, short of driving to the listed address, which looks like a mail-box-plus kind of address... i smell mail fraud.

The Valley Yellow Pages is a product that appears to not place its investment into the quality of…read morethe product. The companies that choose to advertise with them do so at their own despair. We actually open these bad boys up just for a good laugh because of their poor placement of companies compared to their category. For example, read on: The JUNK REMOVAL section has Find the Children and Breast Cancer Foundation. They were at least lukewarm with the Martinez Landscape entry, but this is so sad. We even found Sears Roebuck in here and decided to give them a call. No pickup. We noticed another store that left Fresno YEARS ago, Wavelengths. Truly unfortunate how little Valley YP cares about what value they think they're providing their customers. Please do this environment a favor and stop printing. Your company is a perfect example of providing a product that is an environmental market inefficiency. It provides almost nothing to a market that almost doesn't exist and it uses resources that are better directed towards school supplies.

If I could give zero stars I would. I signed up for web advertising through these people over 5…read moreyears ago. During that time the lady that took care of it retired and I was never told. She was my only point of contact with this place. I shutdown my business years ago and cannot get a hold of these people. They have been charging me for years for a business that doesn't exist. Now it's gone to a debt collector and they are still charging me!! No one answers their phone, no one responds to emails or anything. It's ridiculous and a terrible way to do business. DO NOT USE THEM! THEY WILL RIP YOU OFF.