The new year has progressed to the point where my resolutions are still waiting to be fulfilled. Fred has been dead a year on Tuesday....

First published in The Madera Tribune on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2014. I’m not sure I’ll be buying any Girl Scout cookies online this year. I...

We had a brief respite from all the rain that has fallen on Madera this week. The air smells clean and my tiny backyard is covered in...

In a TV interview, the multimillionaire resident of Montecito, who is a neighbor of Oprah’s, broke many hearts by saying that he wanted...

For a lawyer who does litigation, the greatest span of time is the one between the summations to the jury and the words, "They’re back.”...

We are finally receiving the rain we desperately need to keep our farmland green. However, more important than the rain on the valley...

It is a very sad time for the County of Madera with the closing of our Community Hospital. I have lived in Madera for 69 years and served...

As regular readers of this column have probably figured out, I think that Steve Cavanagh is the best new male writer of mystery/thriller...