{"id":6180,"date":"2018-03-03T22:06:28","date_gmt":"2018-03-03T22:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=6180"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:31:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:31:25","slug":"maderans-question-government-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/maderans-question-government-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Maderans question government decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Madera Tribune received the following comments online about articles in the paper and local happenings.<\/em><\/p>

Council hires Manfredi<\/strong><\/p>

The Madera City Council voted Feb. 21 to hire Ron Manfredi of Madera to consult with interim City Administrator Steve Frazier and the council about a review of the enterprise fund, a management compensation study and recruitment for a permanent city administrator.<\/em><\/p>

In response to a previous comment made by \u201cMichelle Garcia,\u201d \u201cRenee Benoit\u201d<\/strong> asked, \u201cWhy are you sure? I would love it if people would state reasons why they think what they think. To not do so is irresponsible IMHO.\u201d<\/p>

\u201cMichelle Garcia\u201d<\/strong> replied, \u201cRenee Benoit, because many spoke up against having Mr. Manfredi or any other Maderan. We wanted to see a true independent come in. That would be the responsible thing to do. This council is supposed to work for the people, not their own agenda.\u201d<\/p>

Rail project gets \u2018personal\u2019<\/strong><\/p>

The California High-Speed Rail Authority released an editorial from Joe Matthews, associate editor at Zocalo Public Square and a contributing writer at the Los Angeles Times, in favor of bringing the rail project to fruition.<\/em><\/p>

\u201cMichael Gaynor\u201d<\/strong> wrote, \u201cThey need to stop this insanity now and build a dam or two for California. How do we stop this?\u201d<\/p>

\u201cCindy Chidlaw Diaz\u201d<\/strong> replied, \u201cYou are so right we need water storage not a train to nowhere.\u201d<\/p>

Rants and raves<\/strong><\/p>

Raves<\/strong> \u2014 The Madera County Sheriff\u2019s Department shared a photo honoring Madera County Sheriff\u2019s Deputies for their work to the public with a statement of, \u201cWe love our Madera County Deputies.\u201d \u201cCindy Chidlaw Diaz\u201d wrote, \u201cYes we do!!!\u201d<\/p>

\u201cLigia Pacheco\u201d wrote, \u201cYes we do.\u201d<\/p>

Rant<\/strong> \u2014 Dick\u2019s Sporting Goods recently released news its store brands would effectively discontinue sales of semi assault-style rifles, among other changes to company policies. \u201cNora Paolinelli\u201d wrote, \u201cSlowly boiling the frog, wake up people!!!\u201d<\/p>

Rave<\/strong> \u2014 Madera County Food Bank reported board member Susan Whitaker passed away Sunday (Feb. 25). \u201cMadera County Food Bank\u201d wrote, \u201cThank you for sharing this.\u201d<\/p>

Rant<\/strong> \u2014 In response to a photo, released by Yosemite National Park, of an overturned SUV on a snowy roadway \u2014 and a notice from \u201cBecky Amick\u201d \u2014 \u201cCourtney Alberta-Forte\u201d wrote, \u201cYou better go get some chains lady.\u201d<\/p>

\u2022 \u2022 \u2022<\/p>

To chime in online, visit our website (maderatribune.com\/) or find us on Twitter (@MadTrib) or Facebook (www.facebook.com\/maderatribune). Ben Falcon is moderator of this online feature.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\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 Madera Tribune received the following comments online about articles in the paper and local happenings. Council hires Manfredi The Madera City Council voted Feb. 21 to hire Ron Manfredi of Madera to consult with interim City Administrator Steve Frazier and the council about a review of the enterprise fund, a management compensation study and […]<\/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":[26,32,33,36,39],"class_list":["post-6180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-business","tag-culture","tag-death","tag-environment","tag-government"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6180","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=6180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}