Opinion: The eclipse, and the ancient gods of our weekdays
Last Monday, many people put on their special glasses to watch the total eclipse of the sun. It struck me as being significant that the...
Jim Glynn
Letters: Division in this country
I have to say that as a Conservative American, I am literally stunned by the content of the letter submitted to the Tribune by Chuck...
For The Madera Tribune
Book Talk: Sandra Brown, ‘Play Dirty’
I’ve read only a fraction of the 70 novels that Sandra Brown has written since she started her successful career in 1981, and I’ve never...
Jim Glynn
Letters: We need a measure that does real stuff
Can not believe this stuff. Avenue 12, Road 36. South side. New bus stop. Open field. Perhaps a shopping center is going in. Who knows?...
For The Madera Tribune
Opinion: Don’t worry, be happy
At the beginning of this century, Earl Babbie, then Professor of Sociology at Chapman University and an expert on opinion research, wrote...
Jim Glynn
Letters: America is not ‘Bizarro World, or AmeriKa’
As I drifted through stages of restless sleep during an eleven-hour trans-Atlantic flight last year, I dreamt of Bizarro World, a DC...
For The Madera Tribune
Book Talk: Paul Levine, ‘Habeas Porpoise’
First, let me say that I think that Paul Levine is one of this country’s fine writers. Second, I’ve enjoyed all of the books in his Jake...
Jim Glynn
Opinion: Happy Easter
I am still looking for a nice place to live. I have until April 27 to move. I prefer a three-bedroom, two-bathroom home in a gated...
Tami Jo Nix