

Opinion: Welcome to the Metaverse, I guess
Jim Glynn/The Madera Tribune Ragged Inn Resort as seen from the nature trail. Today marks the beginning of a new year, and perhaps we...
Jim Glynn
Jan 1, 2022
Opinion: Best inventions of the year
Time’s current magazine issue features a 30-page spread on “The Best 100 Inventions of 2021.” The entire article, by seven staff writers...
Jim Glynn
Nov 27, 2021
Opinion: The pre-Christmas jitters
In just four days, the Seasonal Terrorist will sneak into many American homes. This is a relatively new panic-provoking phenomenon. It...
Jim Glynn
Nov 20, 2021


The mail had to go through
Courtesy of the Madera County Historical Society In this photograph taken on May 19, 1938, Madera postmaster E.V. Murphy hands a sack of...
Bill Coate
Nov 13, 2021
Opinion: U.S. global reputation
In a report issued this month, the Pew Research Center has found that the global reputation of the United States has changed dramatically...
Jim Glynn
Nov 13, 2021
Opinion: When ideology collides with reality
There can be few better examples of ideologically convinced politicians running head-on into reality than a new California law known in...
Tom Elias
Nov 10, 2021
Opinion: The future of work, part II
When I was a kid growing up in New York, my grandfather and I would get on the subway in Brooklyn and get off at the 34th Street station...
Jim Glynn
Aug 28, 2021
Opinion: Speed limit — gallop to Autobahn
Remember driving along the highway, making good time, enjoying a road that was pretty much free of cars and trucks. Remember looking in...
Jim Glynn
Jul 24, 2021










