For The Madera Tribune
Commentary: Water infrastructure modernization act — safeguarding our Valley’s future
When our rivers and canals are flowing, our farms are green, and our homes and gardens have the clean water they need, our community...
Jim Glynn
Book Talk: Ichaso, ‘Dead Girls Can’t Tell Secrets’
Piper Sullivan is perfect. She takes an AP class at a different high school because the subject is too advanced for Grayling High, where...
Jim Glynn
Book Talk: Lisa Gardner, ‘Say Goodbye’
Before you begin reading this novel by Lisa Gardner, check on the kids. Assuming that everything is okay, get some cinderblocks and...
Tami Jo Nix
Opinion: Life is like a game show
Television game shows are quite popular in America. Jeopardy!, Wheel of Fortune, Let’s Make a Deal and The Price is Right consistently...
Jim Glynn
Opinion: The angst of being a teen girl
As COVID was, angst is. At least that’s true among teenaged girls. Writing for the Associated Press, Lindsey Tanner and Angie Wang state,...
Jim Glynn
Book Talk: Baldacci, ‘Long Shadows’
It’s been a while since David Baldacci wrote his last “Memory Man” novel, but I think that “Long Shadows” (2022, 435 pages in hardback) —...
Chuck Doud
Opinion: Mothers know everything
First published in The Tacoma News Tribune, Tacoma on May 13, 1984. You can always tell a mother — but you can’t tell her much. You know...
Tami Jo Nix
Opinion: Greetings for Mother’s Day weekend
The Sunset Avenue Church of Christ, under the direction of Alice Tate Williams, will host another of its free clothing distribution, 9...