Opinion: Virus becomes a major force for inequality
Across America, protests and rallies crying “Black Lives Matter” have featured thousands of demonstrators wearing no masks, taking no...
Tom Elias
Opinion: Local news: A victim of financial giants?
Are “local” U.S. newspapers going the way of the dodo? The dodo was a flightless bird, native to the island of Mauritius, last seen in...
Jim Glynn


MUSD riding out the storm
Wendy Alexander/Madera Tribune File Photo Madera Unified School District board members gather for a meeting in March. MUSD Chief...
Bill Coate
Letter: Taxpayers taking it in the shorts again
I am sure you have heard of our Gov. Nuisance’s great idea of bailing out California’s illegal aliens with our tax money and right now we...
For The Madera Tribune


First city council barely survived
Madera County Historical Society The First National Bank in Madera shows Dr. J.L. Butin on the far right. In 1907, he was elected to...
Bill Coate


Lumber company wanted no part of Madera
Madera County Historical Society The Madera Sugar Pine Lumber Company was a powerful force with whom the town had to reckon in the early...
Bill Coate
Opinion: Could an Arnold-Style bond save the state?
If there’s one word that properly describes the massive budget cuts proposed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in May, it is “slapdash.” Until the...
Tom Elias
Letter: Amazing things in the new high school
I was surprised to read of the amazing things included in the city’s new Torres high school. However what really caught my eye was the...
For The Madera Tribune