Students turn out for annual volunteer effort
For The Madera Tribune Madera Unified Leadership Students volunteer at the Madera Animal Shelter during the annual District Day of...
Tyler Takeda
Opinion: California’s energy glut, part II
About two weeks before 2024 ended, the California Public Utilities Commission authorized the fifth and sixth rate hikes for PG&E in the...
Jim Glynn
Opinion: California’s energy glut, part I
Is it possible for a state to produce too much energy? The knee-jerk answer is “No.” But, in reality, California produces far more energy...
Jim Glynn
Letters: Needless losses
Several times a year, we lose power out here. Very seldom is it weather related. It is mostly birds of prey, shorting out the service and...
For The Madera Tribune
Opinion: Refiners win latest round; accountability could be coming
The cheating, price-gouging refiners who produce most California gasoline have won another round. Average prices per gallon have fallen...
Tom Elias
Book Talk: Michael Koryta, ‘Rise the Dark’
Michael Koryta’s “Rise the Dark” (2016, 445 pages in paperback edition) is the sequel to “Last Words,” which I reviewed last week. Aside...
Jim Glynn
Opinion: Doubt removed, oil refiners gouging us
There was some room for doubt back in February, when gasoline prices rose precipitously: Until the oil companies who refine most...
Tyler Takeda
Opinion: No gas stations? Is this the future?
The story of climate change is one of gloom and doom. We hear forecasts about melting icebergs, rising ocean levels, disappearing...
Jim Glynn
