The government shutdown will start to have a direct impact on Madera County families who receive CalFresh benefits. CalFresh is a federally funded program, also known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP. The November CalFresh benefits distributed monthly to 16,621 households or 33,832 people in Madera County will be delayed. It’s unclear how soon the benefits will be restored to EBT cards once the government reopens. CalFresh benefits are issued through

In a 2016 issue of Forbes magazine, Helen H. Wang wrote, “The new Silk Roads already have momentum.Earlier last year, Beijing announced...

As a critic of High-Speed Rail myself, I really appreciate Jim Glynn’s Opinion pieces; July 12 and August 30 in our Tribune. It is more...

The Silk Road. It was the trade route that ran from China to the West during the days of the Roman Empire. In 2013, President Xi Jinping...

Madera County Treasurer-Tax Collector Tracy Kennedy announced that more than 62,000 secured property tax bills have been mailed to...

Several years ago, I wrote about the Four Tigers of Asia: Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea. They were the countries that...

The Madera County Board of Supervisors received an update from the City of Chowchilla Public Works Department on the Fairmead sewer...

Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune Community Action Partnership of Madera County is at 1225 Gill Ave. Madera’s City Council convened for...