Letters: They don’t want two sides to get along
First of all, I would to thank and commend John Bowers for his great letter in a recent edition of The Madera Tribune about Charlie Kirk. It was a very sharp contrast to a letter previously published, which tried to take an opportunity to demean the accomplishments of Charlie and criticize what he was doing. […]
Letters: By definition, fraud — intentional perversion of the truth
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 than obvious that HSR is breathing its last breaths and is on life support. The life support dollars that our Governor has used to continue this fraud are running out […]
Book Talk: Penner, ‘The David Brunelle Series’
In my continuing quest to discover new authors, I came across “Presumption of Innocence” (2012, 226 pages in paperback format), an interesting, mostly courthouse drama by Stephen Penner, an author, artist, and attorney from Seattle. It is the first of the “David Brunelle Legal Thriller” series. His books are all self-published through Amazon.com. When ordering […]
The last hurrah for steamboats on the San Joaquin
As one leaves Madera County, traveling south across the Herndon Bridge at the San Joaquin River, there is little evidence that at one time this site was a busy steamboat landing known as Aliso or Sycamore. Similarly, as one leaves Madera County, traveling toward Kerman on Highway 145, at the Skaggs Bridge crossing, the site […]