[{"id":48931,"date":"2026-07-29T07:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=48931"},"modified":"2026-07-28T17:53:37","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:53:37","slug":"madera-volunteers-turn-community-pride-into-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/madera-volunteers-turn-community-pride-into-action\/","title":{"rendered":"Madera volunteers turn community pride into action"},"content":{"rendered":"On a Saturday morning in July, nearly 30 people traded sleeping in for trash bags and gloves. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
By the time they finished, they\u2019d hauled away nearly 25 bags of litter from Sunrise Rotary Sports Complex and the surrounding Rancho San Miguel Shopping Center.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The July 18 event was the second cleanup of the summer organized by the City of Madera Parks and Community Services Department, following a first outing on June 6. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Organizers say turnout has grown steadily as the word spreads. Mayor Cece Gallegos joined volunteers on the ground, pitching in alongside residents and City staff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cPicking up trash isn\u2019t glamorous work,\u201d said Gabriela Salazar, event organizer with the Parks and Community Services Department. \u201cBut every single person who shows up on a Saturday morning is telling the rest of the city that Madera is worth taking care of.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The cleanups are the visible piece of a larger effort. Madera\u2019s \u201cKeep Our City Clean\u201d initiative is backed by a $300,000 Community Cleanup and Employment Pathway Grant from Caltrans, part of $315,000 in combined grant and local funding for the project. Statewide, Caltrans distributed $25 million across 90 local projects this year, aimed at litter and graffiti removal, community engagement, and employment pathways for people facing barriers to work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Madera has committed to 12 cleanup events total, along with beautification projects and outreach meant to build lasting habits of civic care, not just one-off cleanups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The grant covers supplies and operations, but the results scale with the volunteers. More people means more ground covered and more gets done \u2014 and in cities where that kind of turnout becomes routine, cleanups tend to grow into civic traditions rather than one-off events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Madera\u2019s early numbers suggest that same shift is already underway.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhen residents take pride in Madera, it shows,\u201d Gallegos said. \u201cThese volunteers didn\u2019t wait for someone else to step up. They did it themselves. I hope their example inspires more families, businesses, and organizations into what comes next.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The next cleanup is set for August 15 around the Country Club Village shopping centers, with meeting location and registration details to follow. Individuals, families, businesses, and service clubs are all encouraged to take part. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whether you\u2019re a first-timer or a returning volunteer, organizers say there\u2019s a place for you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It doesn\u2019t take much to get started: a pair of gloves, a few hours, and a willingness to work beside someone else who cares about the same place. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The volunteers of June 6 and July 18 left Madera a little cleaner. They also left a reminder that community pride isn\u2019t just something people feel about a place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s something they do.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On a Saturday morning in July, nearly 30 people traded sleeping in for trash bags and gloves. By the time they finished, they\u2019d hauled away nearly 25 bags of litter from Sunrise Rotary Sports Complex and the surrounding Rancho San Miguel Shopping Center. The July 18 event was the second cleanup of the summer organized […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":48913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,19],"tags":[29,36,46],"class_list":["post-48931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above-the-fold","category-news","tag-community","tag-environment","tag-organizations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48931"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48931\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48932,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48931\/revisions\/48932"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":48929,"date":"2026-07-29T07:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=48929"},"modified":"2026-07-28T17:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:52:09","slug":"madera-police-officers-acting-proactively","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/madera-police-officers-acting-proactively\/","title":{"rendered":"Madera Police officers acting proactively"},"content":{"rendered":"
Madera Police Department weekend day shift officers have been hard at work throughout the city.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Officer Pineda conducted a traffic stop, and observed the driver throw methamphetamine from the vehicle before pulling over. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The driver, identified as Buddy Cortez, was found to be on felony probation for prior drug-related offenses. Cortez was arrested, and booked into the Madera County Jail on new drug-related charges and a probation violation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Later in the shift, Officer Ruben Rodriguez conducted a traffic stop, and contacted Gregory Zubia who was also on probation for weapons-related offenses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
A search of his vehicle led to the discovery of multiple individually packaged bags of methamphetamine, along with additional evidence consistent with drug sales. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Zubia was arrested, and booked into the Madera County Jail on drug-related charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, Officer Matthew Diaz was proactively patrolling the business district along West Cleveland Avenue when he contacted Constantino Sanchez, who was found to have an active felony warrant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sanchez was taken into custody and booked into the Madera County Jail.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cOur officers remain committed to proactive policing and holding offenders accountable,\u201d said the Madera PD in a statement. \u201cThrough traffic enforcement, proactive patrols, and everyday police work, we continue working to keep illegal drugs and wanted criminals off the streets of Madera.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Madera Police Department weekend day shift officers have been hard at work throughout the city. Officer Pineda conducted a traffic stop, and observed the driver throw methamphetamine from the vehicle before pulling over. The driver, identified as Buddy Cortez, was found to be on felony probation for prior drug-related offenses. Cortez was arrested, and booked […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-48929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-law"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48930,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48929\/revisions\/48930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":48927,"date":"2026-07-29T07:04:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=48927"},"modified":"2026-07-28T17:40:02","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:40:02","slug":"traffic-stop-yields-ghost-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/traffic-stop-yields-ghost-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"Traffic stop yields ghost guns"},"content":{"rendered":"
Madera PD Traffic Officer Alvaro Sanchez conducted a vehicle stop near the 400 block of W. Yosemite Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Thursday stop resulted in the arrest of two individuals, and the recovery of two illegally possessed \u201cghost guns.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the stop, the driver, 19-year-old Eric Calzada, and his passenger, 18-year-old Alexander Pimentel, were detained. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
While officers were conducting their investigation, Pimentel fled on foot. Officer Joshua Gibbs quickly apprehended Pimentel approximately one block from the original stop. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
During the arrest, Pimentel was found to be in possession of a ghost gun. A subsequent search of the vehicle led to the discovery of a second ghost gun. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both Calzada and Pimentel were arrested and booked into the Madera County Jail on weapons charges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cTraffic enforcement is about much more than enforcing the rules of the road,\u201d said the Madera PD in a statement. \u201cProactive traffic stops help identify impaired drivers, recover illegal firearms, apprehend wanted individuals, and prevent crime before it occurs. Thank you, Officer Sanchez, for your commitment to making our roadways safer and for enduring the inclement weather while working to remove illegal firearms from our community\u2019s streets. We also thank Officer Gibbs for his quick response and assistance in safely apprehending the fleeing suspect.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Madera PD Traffic Officer Alvaro Sanchez conducted a vehicle stop near the 400 block of W. Yosemite Street. The Thursday stop resulted in the arrest of two individuals, and the recovery of two illegally possessed \u201cghost guns.\u201d During the stop, the driver, 19-year-old Eric Calzada, and his passenger, 18-year-old Alexander Pimentel, were detained. While officers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[43],"class_list":["post-48927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-law"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48928,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48927\/revisions\/48928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":48925,"date":"2026-07-29T07:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=48925"},"modified":"2026-07-28T17:38:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:38:21","slug":"torres-xc-and-track-star-headed-to-southern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/torres-xc-and-track-star-headed-to-southern-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Torres XC and track star headed to Southern California"},"content":{"rendered":"
Hunter Hannah was one of the leaders of the Matilda Torres Toros cross country and track teams, and will now head to UC Riverside to continue his athletic journey. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hannah was one of four Torres cross country and track athletes to sign a National Letter of Intent, and this was a process six years in the making. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI knew I was going to be a college athlete between my freshman and sophomore year,\u201d he said. \u201cI was competing in these biggest races in the state going against these older kids and some of the fastest runners, and I was only a sophomore racing against seniors. That\u2019s when I knew I could make it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Coming out of middle school, Hannah, Benjamin Fernandez and the rest of that class dominated, and looked to do the same at the high school level. Five Central Section rings later (four in cross country and one in track) kind of tells the story of success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cMy freshman year, I was injured the first couple of months,\u201d Hannah said. \u201cAs the year went on, we got better. As the career went on, we just kept getting better and better. My junior year, I wish I could have done a little better, but I was injured. I think that hurt my performances that year. I did everything I could to be where I needed to be my senior year. I felt like my high school career was great the way it came out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s crazy we got to do it four years in a row. We weren\u2019t just good at Valley, but good at State, too. It\u2019s going to be hard to repeat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hannah will run cross country and the middle distance races in track. He graduated from Torres with a 3.96 grade point average. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI was one class short of getting a 4.0. I was five percent away in one class,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He plans to major in environmental engineering. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hannah chose UC Riverside over the University of Pacific in Stockton, Sacramento State and UC Merced. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI really liked the people over there. I fit in there,\u201d Hannah said. \u201cThe coach is a really good coach, and welcomed me with open arms. He gave me more scholarship money so I could be able to attend. I felt like it was the right fit for me. They contacted me through Instagram after my race in Arcadia. I talked to him there, and met him at another college race we were watching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cRiverside is the furthest away. I wanted to get out of California and explore the other states. Riverside was closer than where I wanted to be, but it is still four hours away. It\u2019 still far away from my parents so I can live on my own.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hannah admits that UC Riverside was his No. 2 choice behind UC Merced, but Riverside pushed its way to No. 1. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWhen I started talking to him (UC Riverside coach) more and got to know him, they moved up really fast. I liked the environment there. I love the campus and the place where it\u2019s at. I think it\u2019s going to be a great thing for me to go there and show what I can do at the college level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Project Run Madera founder, and Madera track supporter Alisha Brown also attended UC Riverside, as well as a number of other athletes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of people from Madera that have gone to Riverside. I talked to Alisha about the campus and find out things behind the scenes,\u201d Hannah said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
With three of his teammates headed in different directions, Hannah hopes to enjoy the time he has with his \u201cbrothers\u201d this summer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s awesome for us. We have three runners going to a Div. I and Azarel (Barrios-Meza) at a Div. II. It\u2019s cool to see how we developed into these positions,\u201d Hannah said. \u201cIt\u2019s going to be weird going in different directions with my teammates. I\u2019ve run with them for six years. We are all going our different ways. We were all talking to the Riverside guy, at one point. Alfonso (Del Toro), before he got the offer to Portland, that as his. No. 1 choice. It just happened we went our different ways.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For six years, Hannah had a friendly competition with Benjamin Fernandez, who will be going to Utah Tech. The duo took their turns leading the team in the right direction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe both want to beat each other and want to be on top,\u201d Hannah said. \u201cWe\u2019ve done it for so long. We keep a record of who beats who most. Most of the time, Ben won. We wanted to make sure our teammates did everything they could. We woke them up in the morning to make sure they went to practice. We made them do the extra things to get to this place. We made sure Alfonso did everything he could to get back to where he is now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Although Hannah looked to sign his NLI at the school\u2019s signing day, he didn\u2019t officially sign his letter until just before graduation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI was already committed to the school. I just didn\u2019t have the paperwork,\u201d he said. \u201cI committed in May. I was still entertaining some offers. I was also getting new offers. As the track season wore on, I was getting better. The faster times I hit, the more offers I got. The colleges were waiting for my decision.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Another adjustment Hannah will have to make is not having his father as a coach. His father was his middle school head coach, and then assisted for four seasons at the highs school level. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to be different. He\u2019s been with me for so long. He\u2019s my lifeline,\u201d Hannah said. \u201cMy parents were fine with Riverside. They liked where I was and knew the coach would take care of me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now that Hannah and his fellow seniors have laid down a legacy, he knows it will be tough to beat. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt\u2019s going to take some big shoes to fill for what we did the past four years,\u201d he said. \u201cFrom winning four years, and me and Alfonso breaking nine minutes in the two-mile it\u2019s going to be crazy for the upcoming kids. It\u2019s going to show everyone Torres cross country and track is legit. It\u2019s going to take someone special to break my 3,200 record. It took my last race to do it.\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hunter Hannah was one of the leaders of the Matilda Torres Toros cross country and track teams, and will now head to UC Riverside to continue his athletic journey. Hannah was one of four Torres cross country and track athletes to sign a National Letter of Intent, and this was a process six years in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":48912,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,23],"tags":[50],"class_list":["post-48925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above-the-fold","category-sports","tag-schools"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48926,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48925\/revisions\/48926"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":48923,"date":"2026-07-29T07:02:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=48923"},"modified":"2026-07-28T17:35:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:35:50","slug":"letters-welcome-back-jim-crow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/letters-welcome-back-jim-crow\/","title":{"rendered":"Letters: Welcome back, Jim Crow"},"content":{"rendered":"
Our republic was born on July 4, 1776. But in the opinion of Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Jon Meacham, our democracy was born on Aug. 6, 1965, when President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). For the first time, all Americans had the right to vote, the racist segregation of Jim Crow was curtailed, and the promise of equality for all was kept. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The formal name of the VRA is \u201can Act to Enforce the Fifteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution.\u201d The 15th Amendment prohibits the federal government or any state from denying or abridging a citizen\u2019s right to vote on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The U.S. Department of Justice has described the VRA as the most effective civil rights legislation of all time. The Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) found the Act and\/or parts of it to be constitutional six times. Until the John Roberts court came along. That court has gutted the VRA with the patience and effectiveness of the GOP 50-year campaign against Roe v. Wade.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Roberts, as a Ronald Reagan administration lawyer in 1982, wrote that the VRA was \u201cthe most intrusive interference imaginable by federal courts into state and local processes.\u201d However, during his successful 2006 confirmation hearing for Chief Justice of the SCOTUS, Roberts testified under oath that as to the constitutionality of the VRA being upheld, \u201cI don\u2019t have any issue with that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The VRA was updated unanimously in the U.S. Senate and overwhelmingly in the House (393-33) in 2006. Five Republican jurists disagreed and gutted the VRA in 2013 in Shelby County v. Holder. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Roberts 5-4 Shelby ruling said that while the Act was immensely successful \u201cat redressing racial discrimination and integrating the voting process,\u201d Congress should have realized that racial discrimination in 2006 was not as bad as it was in 1965 (white people in black robes know best) and that continuing to impose federal law on historically racist local voter registrars was \u201cunfair\u201d because it destroyed the equal balance of laws between the federal government and the states.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The federal constitution, however, originally and continuously, mandates that federal election law trumps state law. There is no equal balance between the laws. Preventing lynchings and \u201cWhites Only\u201d primaries does not, in and of itself, prevent racial discrimination. It only provides opportunity for clever racists to do their harm in other insidious ways, such as lying under oath. And the Constitution gives Congress the authority to determine the facts on which it bases its laws, not the courts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Roberts\u2019 court criticism of insufficient facts is insultingly hypocritical. That court is infamous for ignoring facts in rushing to judgment through its GOP-supporting \u201crocket docket.\u201d In one of those premature decisions, Louisiana v. Callais, SCOTUS ruled this year that creating a majority Black voting district based on race was unconstitutional racial gerrymandering. It also confirmed it\u2019s prior holding that gerrymandering through reliance on political party registration is legal. Red states are now carving up predominately Black cities using political party registration, dumping slivers of Black voters from a predominately Black Democratic district into several rural white districts, diluting the Black Democratic vote. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
And while racial gerrymandering is still illegal, SCOTUS says that racial animus cannot be proven solely with indirect or circumstantial evidence (witness testimony, videos, expert reports) in these civil cases. The fact that Blacks overwhelmingly vote for Democrats isn\u2019t enough. Instead, apparently, Republicans must be caught publicly telling the truth about their illegal racist intentions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s like preventing a murder conviction without the defendant\u2019s confession. Criminal prosecutors use circumstantial evidence to convict people of intentionally killing others, including in death penalty cases. Does it make sense that circumstantial evidence can be used to prove a man\u2019s motivation to deny another his right to life, the ultimate act of discrimination, but not his motivation to deny another person\u2019s right to vote? <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Welcome back, Jim Crow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2014 Chuck Wieland,<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\nMadera<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Our republic was born on July 4, 1776. But in the opinion of Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Jon Meacham, our democracy was born on Aug. 6, 1965, when President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA). For the first time, all Americans had the right to vote, the racist segregation […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[39,43],"class_list":["post-48923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-government","tag-law"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48923"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48923\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48924,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48923\/revisions\/48924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":48921,"date":"2026-07-29T07:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=48921"},"modified":"2026-07-28T17:31:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:31:48","slug":"book-talk-lisa-scottoline-final-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/book-talk-lisa-scottoline-final-appeal\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Talk: Lisa Scottoline, \u2018Final Appeal\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
I\u2019m always surprised when I discover an older work by one of my favorite authors. I believed that I\u2019d read all of Lisa Scottoline\u2019s stand-alone novels when I came across Final Appeal (1994, 322 pages in paperback format). Perhaps I didn\u2019t read my first Scottoline book until we were into the 21st century. But I\u2019m always delighted to find any overlooked books by authors whose work I admire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Final Appeal opens with an introduction to Grace Rossi. Grace was a trial lawyer but is now a divorced mom with a part-time job clerking for Judge Armen Gregorian, whom she describes as \u201cterribly handsome.\u201d Although she\u2019s got a six-year-old at home, she\u2019s busy meliorating a spat between her fellow, though much younger, clerks Ben Sager and Artie Weiss. But their \u201cDid so-Did not\u201d squabble is overshadowed by a ticking noise that comes from the back of the courtroom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As the legal team discovers, the sound is not made by a bomb, but rather by Shake n\u2019 Bake, a homeless schizophrenic who was clicking off the seconds between the asking of a question and the witness\u2019 delay in responding. This information would be insignificant if (a) the street bum didn\u2019t turn out to be a much different man, and (b) he didn\u2019t come to play a very important role later in the story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meanwhile, Grace is \u201chead over heels\u201d infatuated with Judge Gregorian. One night while they\u2019re working late together, it becomes obvious that the attraction is mutual, and Grace and the Judge wind up on the judge\u2019s desk. \u2018Nuff said. The next morning, the entire office is shocked by Judge Gregorian\u2019s suicide. But Grace finds a love note that Gregorian has slipped into her coat pocket. The tone of the note leads Grace to suspect that the judge\u2019s death was homicide, and she decides to conduct her own investigation. She\u2019s also adopted his huge dog, Bernice, who frightens her daughter to death. But Bernice is really a very gentle dog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As Grace begins to uncover clues that lead her to the truth, her own life is threatened. Fortunately, she has someone watching over her, and it\u2019s none other than Shake n\u2019 Bake, who is not really mentally ill. And, if it weren\u2019t for the death threats and the roadblocks that are thrown up in an attempt to stop her investigation, she might have been dissuaded from continuing when offshore bank accounts and other secrets are revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I appreciated the fact that Scottoline did not linger on the theme of another single mom struggling through life with her attention split between caring for her child and solving a crime. Grace is a strong, competent, and compassionate character who appeals to most readers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As always \u2014 well, almost always \u2014 Ms. Scottoline injects enough humor to produce an occasional chuckle. Otherwise, her writing is crisp and the story is engaging. Plus, we get an inside peek at how an appellate court operates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2022 \u2022 \u2022<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Puede contactar a Jim Glynn en j_glynn@att.net.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I\u2019m always surprised when I discover an older work by one of my favorite authors. I believed that I\u2019d read all of Lisa Scottoline\u2019s stand-alone novels when I came across Final Appeal (1994, 322 pages in paperback format). Perhaps I didn\u2019t read my first Scottoline book until we were into the 21st century. But I\u2019m […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[44],"class_list":["post-48921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-literature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48922,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48921\/revisions\/48922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":48916,"date":"2026-07-29T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=48916"},"modified":"2026-07-28T17:30:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:30:30","slug":"bread-as-a-dessert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/bread-as-a-dessert\/","title":{"rendered":"Bread as a dessert"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The reason I am writing about bread pudding for this column is kind of a funny story.<\/p>\n\n
I have been going through many of my hundreds of cookbooks and food magazines, hand-me-down recipes, etc., looking to change up my usual menu a bit. I spotted a delicious-looking glossy photograph in either a book or a magazine, for bread pudding. Instantly, I became obsessed with trying it out.<\/p>\n\n
I only do my big shopping about once every three or four weeks, so I keep a legal pad to jot down ingredients I need. On the back of the list, I write down a menu plan, usually for dinners and desserts. On that menu plan were the words \u201cbread pudding,\u201d and in the ingredients side of the list were all the essential items I needed to purchase in order to make it. So, off to the market I went. I loaded up my cart.<\/p>\n\n
I came home, and, a day or two later, decided it was time to make that bread pudding. Hmmm\u2026 where had I seen that recipe? I had neglected to jot down a side note about exactly which book or magazine I had seen it in. And to make matters worse, I had cleaned up my coffee table, which had been piled high with magazines and cookbooks.<\/p>\n\n
That\u2019s right, I spent three days doing almost nothing but looking for that recipe as if my life depended on it. Every time I thought, \u201cAha! I finally found it,\u201d it turned out not to be the case. So, now I will have to search for a similar recipe that calls for the same ingredients.<\/p>\n\n
Please do not do like I did; write down where you discovered this or that treasured recipe. You will be glad you did.<\/p>\n\n
Bread pudding with caramel vanilla sauce<\/h3>\n\n
If you can\u2019t find challah bread, brioche will do.<\/em><\/p>\n\n1 loaf (1 pound) challah bread, cut into 1-inch cubes<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n1\/2 cup dark or golden raisins, soaked for a few minutes in water and drained<\/strong><\/p>\n\n1\/2 cup unsalted butter, melted<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n4 large eggs<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n1\/2 cup light brown sugar, packed<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n3\/4 cup white granulated sugar<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n2 cups half-and-half<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n2 cups whole milk<\/strong><\/p>\n\n1 tablespoon vanilla extract<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\nCaramel vanilla sauce:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n1\/2 cup unsalted butter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n1 taza de az\u00facar moreno claro, compactado<\/strong><\/p>\n\n1 can (12-oz.) evaporated milk<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n1 tablespoon vanilla extract<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n1\/2 cucharadita de sal<\/strong><\/p>\n\n1. Grease a 9-by-13-inch baking dish with butter. Place the cubed bread into the prepared baking dish. Sprinkle the soaked and drained raisins over the bread cubes and drizzle the melted butter over all. (Do not mix bread cubes yet.) Set aside.<\/p>\n\n
2. In a large mixing bowl, whisk the eggs until evenly beaten. Then whisk in the sugars, half-and-half, whole milk and vanilla extract until evenly combined.<\/p>\n\n
3. Pour the egg mixture over the bread cubes. Gently press the bread down into the custard. Let that rest for at least 1 hour so the bread can soak up the custard.<\/p>\n\n
4. Preheat oven to 350. Bake , uncovered, for 35 minutes. Then carefully cover the baking dish loosely with foil and cook another 10 minutes.<\/p>\n\n
5. While bread pudding is cooking, make the vanilla caramel sauce. Place a medium saucepan over medium heat and add in the butter and brown sugar. Cook, stirring constantly, until completely melted. Whisk in the evaporated milk and bring to a boil, stirring constantly. Remove from the heat and whisk in the vanilla and salt. Set aside.<\/p>\n\n
6. Remove bread pudding from the oven, remove foil, and allow to cool for about 10 minutes before serving. Cut into slices, pour caramel vanilla sauce over the top of each slice, and serve warm. This bread pudding is even better the next day. Makes 12 servings.<\/p>\n\n
Sweet potato and pumpkin bread pudding<\/h3>\n\n
We are not into the fall season yet, but who says we can\u2019t enjoy some of our favorite flavors any time of year? This serves a crowd, so you can cut the recipe in half, if needed.<\/em><\/p>\n\nFor the bread pudding:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n2 large sweet potatoes, roasted and peeled<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n2 loaves day-old French bread (1 pound each, or total of 8 cups)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n8 eggs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n2 tazas de az\u00facar<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n1 can (15-oz.) pumpkin puree (not prepared pie filling)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n2 cups heavy cream<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n2 cups half-and-half<\/strong><\/p>\n\n6 tablespoons butter, melted<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n1 cucharadita de extracto de vainilla<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n1 cucharadita de canela<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n1\/2 teaspoon nutmeg<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n1\/2 teaspoon sea salt<\/strong><\/p>\n\nFor praline sauce:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n1 cup unsalted butter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n2 cups brown sugar (light or dark)<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n1 1\/2 cups whole or chopped pecans<\/strong><\/p>\n\n1 taza de crema para batir<\/strong><\/p>\n\n1. Preheat oven to 425. If you haven\u2019t yet roasted the sweet potatoes, poke a few holes in them and place on bottom rack of oven. Bake for about 45 minutes or until easily pierced with a fork. While the potatoes roast, prep the bread pudding ingredients: tear or cut bread into one-inch pieces and place into a large bowl. Set aside.<\/p>\n\n
2. Remove sweet potatoes and reset oven to 350. Place peeled sweet potatoes into a mixing bowl. Mash them into a paste. You can leave it somewhat lumpy, if you prefer.<\/p>\n\n
3. In a large bowl, whisk together eggs until well blended. Mix in sugar, pumpkin puree, heavy cream, half-and-half, melted butter, vanilla extract, cinnamon, nutmeg and sea salt. Stir in the cooled sweet potatoes.<\/p>\n\n
4. Pour custard mixture into bowl of torn bread pieces and use a spoon or rubber spatula to mix and spread the mixture until all pieces of bread are evenly coated. Transfer to a large, non-stick oblong pan and smooth top of mixture with spoon or spatula until it is relatively flat and even. Place pan in oven to bake for about an hour and thirty minutes.<\/p>\n\n
5. While the bread pudding bakes, melt the butter for the praline sauce in a small saucepan over medium-low heat.<\/p>\n\n
6. Add brown sugar and cream and stir until mixture is uniform. Bring to a boil, then reduce heat to low and simmer for five to 10 minutes in order to allow sauce to thicken. Remove from heat and stir in pecans.<\/p>\n\n
7. When ready to serve, you can either spoon the sauce all over the bread pudding before cutting or ladle it on the individual portions. Both ways work fine but the first is easiest with a large crowd. Makes 20 servings.<\/p>\n\n
Apple bread pudding<\/h3>\n\n
For the bread pudding:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n8 tablespoons (1 stick) salted butter, divided, plus more for greasing the baking dish<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n10 cups 1-inch challah or brioche bread cubes (from a 14-to-16-oz. loaf)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n3 apples, peeled and cut into 1\/2-inch pieces<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n1 cup light brown sugar, divided<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n3 tablespoons whiskey, optional<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\nJuice of 1\/2 lemon<\/strong><\/p>\n\n2 large eggs plus 1 large egg yolk<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n3 cups half-and-half<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n3\/4 cup sugar<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n1 tablespoon vanilla bean paste or extract<\/strong><\/p>\n\n3\/4 teaspoon cinnamon<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n1\/2 teaspoon kosher salt<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\nFor the sauce:<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n4 tablespoons (half a stick) salted butter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n1 cup light brown sugar<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n1\/2 cup half-and-half<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n1 tablespoon vanilla bean paste or extract<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\nPinch of kosher salt<\/strong><\/p>\n\n1. For the bread pudding: Preheat the oven to 325 and butter a 2-quart baking dish, such as a 9-by-9-inch baking dish. Spread the bread cubes on a baking sheet and bake until lightly toasted and dry, about 15 minutes.<\/p>\n\n
2. In a medium saucepan, melt the butter over medium-high heat. Put 3 tablespoons of the melted butter in a medium bowl or large liquid measuring cup and set aside. Add the apples to the pan and cook until they start to soften, 3 to 4 minutes. Turn off the heat and stir in 2\/3 cup of the brown sugar, the whiskey (if using), and the lemon juice. Return to medium-high heat, bring to a simmer, and cook until the apples are soft and the liquid is starting to reduce, 3 to 4 minutes. Remove from the heat and let cool.<\/p>\n\n
3. To the bowl of reserved melted butter, add the eggs, egg yolk, half-and-half, granulated sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, salt, and remaining 1\/3 cup brown sugar and whisk until smooth; set aside.<\/p>\n\n
4. Arrange half of the bread cubes in the prepared baking dish, then spoon 1 1\/2 cups of the apple filling over the top. Arrange the remaining bread cubes over the apples, and scatter the remaining apples over the top. Pour the egg mixture over the top to cover. Let sit a few minutes so the bread cubes can soak up the liquid. Bake in preheated oven until golden brown with a slight jiggle, 55 to 60 minutes. Let rest for 30 minutes.<\/p>\n\n
5. For the sauce: Meanwhile, combine the butter, brown sugar, half-and half, vanilla and a pinch of salt in a medium saucepan over medium-low heat. Bring to a simmer and cook, whisking, until thick and no longer grainy, about 5 minutes. Serve the sauce drizzled over the bread pudding. Entire recipe makes 9 servings.<\/p>\n\n
Double raisin bread pudding<\/h3>\n\n
I have had a hand-written recipe for this pudding for so many years, I forgot where I got it. But given that the recipe calls for Sun-Maid Cinnamon Swirl Raisin Bread, it\u2019s a pretty safe bet that credit for the recipe comes from Sun-Maid, which is privately owned by hundreds of grower families who farm thousands of acres of raisin grapes in central California.<\/em><\/p>\n\n6 slices raisin bread, cut into 3\/4-inch cubes<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n1\/2 cup raisins<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n2 cups milk<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n2 large eggs<\/strong><\/p>\n\n1\/4 taza de az\u00facar<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n2 cucharaditas de extracto de vainilla<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n1\/4 cucharadita de sal<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n1\/4 teaspoon cinnamon<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n1\/4 cucharadita de nuez moscada<\/strong><\/p>\n\n1. Heat oven to 350 (325 for a glass dish). Butter a 1-quart baking dish.<\/p>\n\n
2. Combine bread cubes and raisins in baking dish. In a bowl, combine milk, eggs, sugar, vanilla, salt, cinnamon and nutmeg; blend well.<\/p>\n\n
3. Pour over bread and raisins. Let stand for 5 minutes.<\/p>\n\n
4. Bake in preheated oven, uncovered, for 50 minutes or until a knife inserted into center comes out clean. Serve warm or cool, along with cream or ice cream. Or serve with the following sauce. Makes 4 to 6 servings.<\/p>\n\n
Spirited sauce<\/h3>\n\n
1 1\/4 cups confectioners\u2019 sugar<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n6 tablespoons butter<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n1 large egg, beaten<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n1\/4 cup dark rum, brandy or apple juice<\/strong><\/p>\n\n1. In saucepan, combine all sauce ingredients.<\/p>\n\n
2. Cook over low heat, stirring constantly, until thickened, about 3 minutes.<\/p>\n\n
3. Serve warm over warm or cool bread pudding.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The reason I am writing about bread pudding for this column is kind of a funny story. I have been going through many of my hundreds of cookbooks and food magazines, hand-me-down recipes, etc., looking to change up my usual menu a bit. I spotted a delicious-looking glossy photograph in either a book or a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-48916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestyle","tag-food"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48916"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48920,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48916\/revisions\/48920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":48914,"date":"2026-07-29T06:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=48914"},"modified":"2026-07-28T17:02:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T00:02:12","slug":"tragedy-struck-madera-teenagers-on-the-tracks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/tragedy-struck-madera-teenagers-on-the-tracks\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragedy struck Madera teenagers on the tracks"},"content":{"rendered":"
It was the middle of August, and in a few days school would begin again for Burt Hambleton and Jimmie Thurman. The summer of 1902 had been pure elixir for the pair of Madera teenagers. They had done their share of swimming and fishing, and now they were going to try their luck at hunting before returning to the confines of a classroom again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Both boys awoke early that Saturday morning and made ready for their safari, which would take them hunting for doves along the Fresno River. It had all been arranged the day before; Jimmie would walk from his home on North C Street over to the Southern Hotel on B Street where Burt lived. His father, J.M. Hambleton was the proprietor of the new lodging house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When Jimmie reached the hotel, Burt was waiting on the porch with his 12-gauge, double-barreled shotgun ready to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The two young hunters headed north for the riverbed and then followed it west in search of their quarry. They hunted all morning and well into the afternoon before retracing their steps to the Fresno River railroad bridge, which was known to be a place where birds came for water. That is where they were when tragedy struck.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jimmie and Burt climbed up on the tracks, and leaned their guns against the railing. The Hambleton lad had no more released his hold on his gun then it fell against a crosspiece of the bridge railing and discharged. The shot from the right barrel struck Burt in the left side above the hip and proceeded upward, some of it lodging on top of his shoulder just beneath the skin. The boy was only able to utter a quick, \u201cOh,\u201d and he fell dead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Jimmie Thurman, stunned and shaken, called over to a man on the ground for help, but his yell was apparently not heard. Then he jumped off the bridge and ran to a nearby Chinese laundry for help but couldn\u2019t find assistance there either. Finally, the hysterical teenager ran to his own house and told his mother what had happened. She notified a physician and sent word to the Hambletons at the Southern Hotel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Upon hearing the news, Burt\u2019s father hopped on his bicycle and peddled to the railroad bridge. He climbed up to the tracks and there spread out before him was the lifeless body of his 14-year-old son.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hambleton cradled the boy for a moment and then carried him to a nearby carriage. He went immediately to Jay Chapel where the body was prepared for burial and then taken to the hotel to await the funeral.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Practically the entire town turned out to comfort the grieving parents. The news accounts read that Mrs. Hambleton sat dazed with the suddenness of the tragedy and that a \u201cscene of indescribable sadness ensued.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Madera Mercury reporter wrote, \u201cBurt was a favorite child, and the blow coming as unexpectedly as it did, threw the family into the deepest grief. The boy was such a sweet-dispositioned child that all who knew him loved him. The sad accident has cast a gloom over the entire community, and the sympathy of the whole town is with the grief-stricken parents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
News of the accident spread quickly throughout Madera County, and within hours reached J.M. Hambleton\u2019s three brothers who lived in Eastern Madera County.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Clyde Hambleton, who worked at Sugar Pine got the word first by telephone. He left immediately for Fresno Flats to get his brother Roy, and they in turn drove to Coarsegold where their brother Ernest lived. A few miles out of Coarsegold, however, they had a runaway, and the buggy turned over, forcing the three brothers to walk all night to get to Madera.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Burt Hambleton\u2019s funeral took place in the lobby of the New Southern Hotel, and then he was carried to Arbor Vitae in Jay\u2019s horse drawn hearse. In addition to the heart broken parents, and his uncles, Burt left two younger sisters and a half-brother to mourn his passing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Thus it was that in its infancy, Madera was a veritable playground for its youngsters. No one had to think up things for kids to do; recreation was there for the taking, but in leaving them to find their own fun, there were certain risks. The tragic death of young Burt Hambleton bears a stark witness to this fact.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It was the middle of August, and in a few days school would begin again for Burt Hambleton and Jimmie Thurman. The summer of 1902 had been pure elixir for the pair of Madera teenagers. They had done their share of swimming and fishing, and now they were going to try their luck at hunting […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":48911,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,17],"tags":[33],"class_list":["post-48914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above-the-fold","category-history","tag-death"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48915,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48914\/revisions\/48915"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":48891,"date":"2026-07-25T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=48891"},"modified":"2026-07-24T17:27:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T00:27:55","slug":"rec-department-has-something-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/rec-department-has-something-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Rec department has something for everyone"},"content":{"rendered":"
The individuals at the City of Madera Parks and Community Services Department make sure to stay busy year-round with events encompassing all seasons. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want to have any downtime with the City. We\u2019re always working to provide something as much as our budget allows,\u201d said Parks and Community Services Recreational Coordinator, Adam Romero. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
He also wants to make sure that everyone that joins a program within the recreation department has the best time possible at the lowest price possible. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI tell my staff the kids are paying $75 to play, but I want them to think they are paying $300 for the league,\u201d Romero said. \u201cThey are getting the best for what we can afford and we\u2019re there to provide the best service.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Romero has first-hand knowledge of the recreation departments within the city. He grew up in Madera, and participated in a number of programs, including Little League, where he coached his son with Madera American this past season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe offer something all year round. We may overlap some leagues. We want parents to have an option for their kids,\u201d he said. \u201cOur league is recreation. When you think of Parks and Rec, you are going to play with people you don\u2019t know. There\u2019s not a draft. Coaches don\u2019t get to pick their teams. You join a team, meet some new faces, meet a coach and have a good time. We, at the City, want to make sure we have something to offer that the community is lacking.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The participation numbers are slowly returning, post-COVID. The City recently added Jr. Giants baseball, pickleball for the adults, open gym volleyball and indoor soccer. The open gym volleyball has exploded in attendance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe have 50-60 adults out there at John Wells for volleyball,\u201d Romero said. \u201cIt\u2019s $2 to come in, and they are out there until 10 p.m. They help set things up, and play pick-up games all night. It\u2019s huge. It got so big, one of them set up a court outside so people could also play.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of the sports that is starting to grow in both popularity and participation for Madera is flag football. The City\u2019s flag football program started right after COVID, in 2022, and it only had 14 kids sign up the first year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIt was something to fill the void,\u201d Romero said. \u201cPeople were playing tackle football and kids were getting cut. I thought they still wanted to play football, so what could we (at the City) do? Some parents didn\u2019t want their kids to play tackle because their kids are still getting used to it. I thought about starting flag football.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even though the league didn\u2019t have enough players to start, Romero kept the kids and had, basically, an exhibition season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI told the parents that we couldn\u2019t start a league, but if they wanted to, we could work with the kids. On Saturdays, we will have officials out there and have kids playing against each other. They all had a good time,\u201d Romero said. \u201cWe wanted to get the kids experience if they wanted to play tackle football later. This was before the hype of flag football.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then, the NFL changed its Pro Bowl format to include flag football games in 2023. Kids started seeing players they idolized playing flag football, and interest in Madera\u2019s flag football started to grow. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, the second year, the City had only about 26 kids, so they did the same as the year before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 2024, the City had enough for a full league. There were four teams in two leagues (7-9 year olds and 10-12 year olds) with playoffs and a championship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Last year, the league grew to about 86 kids with five teams in each league and about 8-10 players on each team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe played at Town and Country Park on the fields,\u201d Romero said. \u201cPeople drove by and saw all the flag football. They started asking. They missed the sign ups, but they were ready for the next one. People were calling up to sign up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The teams are coed and play five-on-five. This year\u2019s season is moved from August to start in October to stay away from other leagues. The registration deadline is August 30. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe have evaluations with skills assessment, and I build the teams according to their skill level,\u201d Romero said. \u201cI try to balance everything out. The coaches are helping get two picks, but every one else is spread out on skill level. Our evaluation is done by City staff and volunteer coaches.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Flag football participation is growing within Madera. All three high schools (Madera, Madera South and Matilda Torres) field a full varsity and junior varsity girls team, and are at maximum. All three middle schools have also begun playing flag football. This year, the Central Section will host a flag football playoff for the first time. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
With the attention towards girls flag football, Romero has added a middle school league, and hopes to expand to have separate boys and girls flag football leagues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe have 20 kids signed up, already for middle school,\u201d he said. \u201cI\u2019m aiming for just four teams. The competition level is pretty high for that age.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Romero has set a maximum of six teams in each league with four in the middle school league with a maximum of 160 kids. He also thinks by starting in October, he is able to attract players that play in the Madera Youth Soccer League, which begins its season in August. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe had to compete with that,\u201d he said. \u201cKids had to pick and choose. We\u2019re waiting until soccer is over. They could play soccer and play flag football. We\u2019re hoping those kids playing soccer will come play flag football.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The flag football season is eight weeks long with one game each Saturday and a practice during the week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe play six games with playoffs. Then, you get ready for the holidays,\u201d Romero said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
With more interest in flag football because of the girls flag football offered at the high schools, Romero is reaching out to the schools to help with the teams. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThey can come out and help coach,\u201d he said. \u201cI do see the popularity coming in. Parents are more inclined to let their kids play flag football than tackle at a young age. Having it at the high school and middle level is huge for the girls because there\u2019s something for them to do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cWe have great athletes out there. Just having the opportunity to play at a low cost is great. We do have fee assistance for the players if they need help. That comes from donors around Madera. It\u2019s not a huge commitment. It\u2019s in-and-out. It gives the kids an opportunity to try something new or better their skills for later on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
For the time being, Romero doesn\u2019t see a big flag football expansion, and enjoys the Town and Country Park location. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI like where we\u2019re at with the numbers for flag football because it\u2019s easy to maintain as far as budget goes, and volunteers,\u201d he said. \u201cIt takes a lot for these coaches to come out and give their time. I want to keep it at these numbers for some time. It\u2019s easy to manage with the budget we have. We\u2019re looking at 16 teams at the max. I like having flag football at Town and Country because it\u2019s central, and it\u2019s free marketing for us. We play under the lights and people stop by to see what\u2019s going on. The time of year fits because not a lot is going on for flag football.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As a father of a young athlete, and a former player in many of the recreation leagues, Romero knows the benefit of these recreation leagues. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cI see the benefit of having something for these kids to do. I see the benefit that it\u2019s having on the community,\u201d he said.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The individuals at the City of Madera Parks and Community Services Department make sure to stay busy year-round with events encompassing all seasons. \u201cI don\u2019t want to have any downtime with the City. We\u2019re always working to provide something as much as our budget allows,\u201d said Parks and Community Services Recreational Coordinator, Adam Romero. He […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":48867,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,18,19],"tags":[32,46,49],"class_list":["post-48891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above-the-fold","category-lifestyle","category-news","tag-culture","tag-organizations","tag-recreation"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48892,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48891\/revisions\/48892"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}},{"id":48889,"date":"2026-07-25T07:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T14:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=48889"},"modified":"2026-07-24T17:22:36","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T00:22:36","slug":"madera-county-pays-tribute-to-local-war-heroes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/madera-county-pays-tribute-to-local-war-heroes\/","title":{"rendered":"Madera County pays tribute to local war heroes"},"content":{"rendered":"
Their service. Our gratitude. Set in stone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Madera County Department of Social Services will become the new home of the Bricks of Honor Veterans monument to stand as a lasting tribute and reminder, recognizing the sacrifice, courage, and commitment of those who served.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Each engraved brick helps preserve their legacy and invites our community to Honor a Veteran.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This project is dedicated to welcoming and honoring Madera\u2019s war heroes while celebrating the Veterans Service Office as a place of advocacy, respect, and support. Each of the 250 bricks will be personalized with the Veteran\u2019s name, branch of service, rank, and years of service or a meaningful message of honor. The cost is $100, and each contribution helps preserve their legacy and ensures their service is set in stone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Those who are currently on active duty or an honorable discharge are also eligible to receive a brick of honor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Visit maderacounty.com\/departments\/social-services\/bricks-of-honor to honor the legacy of a local war hero.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Their service. Our gratitude. Set in stone. Madera County Department of Social Services will become the new home of the Bricks of Honor Veterans monument to stand as a lasting tribute and reminder, recognizing the sacrifice, courage, and commitment of those who served. Each engraved brick helps preserve their legacy and invites our community to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":48866,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,19],"tags":[28,29,45,46],"class_list":["post-48889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above-the-fold","category-news","tag-charity","tag-community","tag-military","tag-organizations"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48889","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48890,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48889\/revisions\/48890"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}]