Book Talk: Greg Iles, ‘The Quiet Game’
I’ve read a few of Greg Iles’ more recent novels, all stand-alones, and I enjoyed each of them. I decided to do a quick search on the...
Jim Glynn
Aug 27, 2025
Commentary: Strengthening safe, timely anesthesia services for all
Central California feeds the state and the nation. Yet too often, our region does not receive the same investment in health care that we...
For The Madera Tribune
Aug 23, 2025
Opinion: Tina’s tune
West Palm Beach, Florida, 2028. On Monday, three-year-old Tina Morales sat by the screened-in window of her parents’ pole-barn bungalow...
Jim Glynn
Aug 23, 2025
Letters: We can give it back to them
Fresno don’t want it on Herndon. I agree. That area is a growing disaster. If anywhere up there, why not off Veterans Boulevard? Madera...
For The Madera Tribune
Aug 20, 2025
Book Talk: A short story and a confusing plot
The Gift Although I discovered Freida McFadden only within the past year, she inched her way onto my list of favorable authors, replacing...
Jim Glynn
Aug 20, 2025
Opinion: Plastics found in human brains
In February, I wrote a two-part column about PFAS (polyfluoroalkyl substances). These are the substances that are called “forever...
Jim Glynn
Aug 16, 2025
Letters: Redistricting California
It’s a big uproar. Texas Dems can’t stand it. What about Fresno and (Jim) Costa? Every time they tweak it to keep him! I would not be...
For The Madera Tribune
Aug 16, 2025
Book Talk: Baldacci, ‘A Calamity of Souls’
“A Calamity of Souls” (2024, 480 pages in hardback format) is set in southern Virginia in 1968, a time when George Wallace was running...
Jim Glynn
Aug 13, 2025




