Our country is in political turmoil and at least some economic distress. Tentacles from the war with Iran are reaching out and touching families, many of which are struggling to make their paychecks stretch. Probably some people are also dealing with a moral crisis, wondering if the lives lost in the war are worth some hypothetical gain. Two years ago, I consulted the World Happiness Report, published annually by the World Population Review. Data for the report is gathered on

For The Madera Tribune Howard 4-H members create toiletry bags to donate to the Madera Rescue Mission during its April monthly meeting. The Howard 4-H Club met on April 6 for their monthly business meeting. The meeting was called to order by President Tori Herd, and the business portion of the meeting commenced. The club was reminded that 4-H Camp fees are due and any check should be made payable to Howard 4-H. The Hawkins family volunteered to organize the club’s end of th

Tension was in the air in Madera in 1947. The long-standing exclusion of African-Americans from the City’s swimming pool was being challenged, and the integration attempts weren’t setting well with some of the town’s power brokers, especially the publisher of the Madera Tribune. Howard Clark, whose father had founded the paper in 1892, took umbrage at what he was calling outside interference that sought to upset the “natural tendency toward segregation” of the races, especial