Next week’s Raisin Day Festival highlights upcoming activities
It's just a week until Dinuba's biggest community event of the year – the annual Dinuba Raisin Day Harvest Festival. For four days Rose Ann Vuich Park will be filled with residents and visitors...
Who says bipartisan cooperation is dead?
Joe Biden and Donald Trump are proving that even sworn enemies can cooperate to promote one another’s political interests.President Biden, with his criticism, and his Department of Justice, with its search of Mar-a-lago and...
Pageant, Raisin Days highlight a busy September of Dinuba events
It's been a physical drain for all of us to forge our way through this unprecedented September heat wave. We know the weather finally will cool off and we'll have a traditional transition into...
Patent ‘reform’ will undermine small business
Starting and growing a business is challenging, even in the best of times. But these are not the best of times, and Congress could soon make it even harder for small businesses to compete...
Republicans can’t run and hide on abortion
The Republican Party only had about a half-century to prepare for the end of Roe v. Wade, yet is still scared and confused now that the late, unlamented decision is no longer with us.It...
Hot weather remains a factor in Valley’s scholastic, athletic events
It's bad enough when you have triple digit temperatures affecting and limiting your summer activities. It's another matter when the heat is putting the hammer to school activities.The latest Central Valley heat wave —...
Hospitals finally are facing the music when it comes to price transparency
Two Georgia hospitals were recently fined $1.1 million for failing to publish their prices. The facilities had also ignored letters from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services asking them to publicly disclose what...
No, Liz Cheney isn’t Abraham Lincoln
“It’s a slip, not a fall,” Abraham Lincoln said after his loss in his legendary 1858 Illinois Senate contest against Stephen Douglas.Liz Cheney apparently has the same attitude after her nearly 40-point wipeout in...
It may not look like it now, but an athletic rivalry is born in...
It wasn't just the normal excitement at Tom Flores Stadium in Sanger to mark the return of high school football on Aug. 19.It was a milestone evening for the Sanger Unified School District. The...
Drug importation: a dangerous prescription
Most Americans take the safety of their prescription drugs for granted. But if the FDA proceeds to allow states to import drugs from Canada, that could change -- because the risks of some imported...