The Olympic Games and Rudyard Kipling
“East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet …” — Rudyard Kipling, The Ballad of East and West So goes the familiar...
For The Madera Tribune
Feb 24, 2018
What some will do to save on gas
I don’t know about you, but I have been hearing a lot about the market lately (the stock market, not the super market), about how the...
Chuck Doud
Feb 21, 2018
Immigration answers are above my pay grade
Our fellow citizens in Hawaii got the surprise of their lives on Saturday. The Hawaii Emergency Management Agency activated its warning...
Tami Jo Nix
Jan 19, 2018
Raindrops falling on my head…
The rain this week has been glorious. Lawns that were turning brown, owned by frugal water users, are getting a good long drink. Everyone...
Tami Jo Nix
Jan 12, 2018
California’s ‘second gold rush’
It’s been 170 years since the beginning of the California Gold Rush. On Jan. 24, 1848, James Marshall found gold at Sutter’s Mill in...
Jim Glynn
Jan 6, 2018
Bringing in 2018
Welcome to 2018. There were many explosions at midnight on Sunday. I’m hoping they were illegal bottle rockets and not gunshots. It is...
Tami Jo Nix
Jan 5, 2018
Z Is for $Zillions: Sue Grafton, 1940-2017
“My name is Kinsey Milhone. I’m a private investigator, licensed by the state of California. I’m thirty-two years old, twice divorced, no...
Jim Glynn
Jan 3, 2018
Famed author dies
Sue Grafton, the bestselling writer behind the “Alphabet Series” of mystery novels, each named after a letter of the alphabet and...
The Madera Tribune
Jan 3, 2018









