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
Opinion: American Dream, part II — who’s catching it
Last week, I wrote about how difficult it is for young people in today’s society to obtain the promise of the “American Dream.” At one...
Jim Glynn
Aug 9, 2025
The effects of hunger
Most of us take for granted where our next meal will come from. Safe in that knowledge, we perform our daily tasks, take our meal breaks,...
For The Madera Tribune
Aug 6, 2025



