Opinion: China’s long game, part I — buying America’s farmland
Several years ago, I wrote about the Four Tigers of Asia: Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korea. They were the countries that...
Jim Glynn
Sep 20, 2025
Opinion: In the post-AI world — what will we do?
“I am a warrior so that my son may be a merchant so that his son may be a poet.” — John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United...
Jim Glynn
Sep 13, 2025
Spammers and scammers
Cleaning out my emails has proven to be a very time-consuming task. If I could just receive emails that are important to me, and not the...
Nancy Simpson
Sep 13, 2025
Opinion: AI in the super market
When I was sixteen and seventeen, I was a carry-out boy for Lucky Stores in Palo Alto. But three months before I turned 18, I graduated...
Jim Glynn
Sep 6, 2025


MadTown Robotics honored at State Senate
For The Madera Tribune Senators Anna Caballero and Maria Elena Durazo stand with members of the MadTown Robotics Team 1323 on the...
For The Madera Tribune
Sep 3, 2025
Opinion: Death of a high-speed dream?
The story, as reported in last Friday’s edition of CALMATTERS, begins with a photograph of huge towers outside the city of Hanford. It is...
Jim Glynn
Aug 30, 2025
Opinion: Plastics found in human brains
In February, I wrote a two-part column about PFAS (polyfluoroalkyl substances). These are the substances that are called “forever...
Jim Glynn
Aug 16, 2025


Hoffrage rebuilding vintage PT-17 Stearman airplane
For The Madera Tribune Piper Hoffrage sits in the deconstructed body of a PT-17 Stearman that her father is working on rebuilding. Mike...
Julian Ornelas
Jul 13, 2025










