Opinion: Have a baby, get $5,000 — a good deal?
U.S. President Donald Trump has offered to give $5,000 to every woman who has a baby. If you’re poor, especially abjectly poor, this...
Jim Glynn
May 17


Tributes to Tami Jo Nix
For The Madera Tribune From left, Tami Jo Nix, Ellen Beach, Farin Martinez, Wendy Alexander and Tyler Takeda gather for lunch at Black...
For The Madera Tribune
May 14
Book Talk: Thomas Perry, ‘Forty Thieves’
Thomas Perry is a Southern California septuagenarian who has been writing best-selling novels since his award-winning “The Butcher’s Boy”...
Jim Glynn
May 14
Tami Jo’s first ‘Gravy by the Slice’
Originally published Sept. 30, 2006. • • • As you read this, Brother Cal Tatum, who used to columnize in this space, is well on his way...
Tami Jo Nix
May 10
Opinion: Dying traditions; is it Gen X’s fault?
I think that I became conscious of traditions while I attended college in Mountain View/Los Altos Hills on the San Francisco Peninsula....
Jim Glynn
May 10
Letters: Appreciation for our educators
The California Retired Teachers Association (CalRTA) joins Californians statewide to celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week May 5-9 and Day...
For The Madera Tribune
May 7
Book Talk: David Baldacci, ‘Simply Lies’
“Mickey Gibson wiped the spit-up off Darby’s face, and then gave her two-year-old daughter a plastic squeaky ball, hoping that would hold...
Jim Glynn
May 7
Monte Pistoresi, one of a kind
On Wednesday, April 23, 2025, Madera lost one of its great leaders, a man of almost infinite compassion, and an over-the-top sense of...
Jim Glynn
May 3









