Fireworks on multiple fronts
Comedian Rosanne Barr, star of the eponymous hit sit-com, lost her job this week. She sent out a message on Twitter that has been branded...
Tami Jo Nix
Let’s see ... comparing Randa Jarrar and Barbara Bush
A person whose accomplishments have been few and far between showed earlier this month that if her brains were dynamite, she wouldn’t...
Chuck Doud
John Muir Day and Earth Day combine
Today is John Muir Day in both Scotland, where he was born, and the United States. By a happy coincidence, tomorrow is Earth Day 2018....
Jim Glynn
Showing up on time
I have a great character flaw, I am unable to be on time. My countermeasure, however, is that I do early better than anyone you ever met....
Tami Jo Nix


History in the Week of April 15
Madera County Historical Society Richard Curtis Jay, shown here in his band uniform, was Madera’s first mortician and an early county...
Bill Coate
Getting caught and embarrassing the nation
Our president is in a truckload of trouble. According to the national news, he may have had a relationship with a woman, not his wife,...
Tami Jo Nix
Fight of the century: Biden v. Trump
“They asked me if I’d like to debate this gentleman, and I said ‘no.’ I said, ‘If we were in high school, I’d take him behind the gym and...
Jim Glynn
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...
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