New to this paper–and on the front page–is a feature the Chief imagined would have the impact of an article in a space the size of a postage stamp. She both invented and named it. Welcome to the Accountability Corner. In so timely a manner as we can, given that the Voice appears on the […]
I surmise that most of you reading this do not number among the top 1% income bracket. Furthermore, I gather that most of you reading this–at least in Kings and Tulare Counties here in California–identify yourselves as Republican. I’m writing to you. You can thank your party for the tax hike most poor and working […]
The Kid’s favorite comedian is Louie C. K. Maybe not so much, now. She is, she said, very disappointed that someone who could come across as funny and insightful would be revealed as so disturbed. She was in the kitchen making dinner when a report of his contribution to the latest cultural catastrophe came over […]
Tulare Regional Medical Center (TRMC) its clinics and gym, Evolutions, are scheduled to close–temporarily, it is hoped–at midnight tonight, 28 October, and at the time of this writing the new board of directors has yet to have access to the financial information it requires to accomplish much of anything. The books are still in Healthcare […]
One theme of 2017, especially the latter part of the year, must surely be disaster. The hurricanes and fires recently wrought by Mother Nature have overshadowed any political catastrophe we live with daily. During our five years in Cabo San Lucas we endured many hurricanes, and, because these storms are large in area, a […]
Xavier Avila took the oath of office for his seat on the Tulare Local Healthcare District Board on Thursday evening. He will represent Zone 5, replacing Linda Wilbourn’s vacated position. Avila was appointed on October 4 by now-fellow board members Kevin Northcraft, Mike Jamaica and Senovia Gutierrez. Northcraft and Jamaica were in attendance at the […]
Carlton Jones should step down as Mayor of Tulare and resign from its city council. It would be the correct–and decent–course of action. Ask yourself if Jones is a decent individual. Over the years we at the Valley Voice have received numerous complaints about Jones, most amounting to nothing more than gossip. Gossip because people […]
Those of you who remember the novel and movie of the same name, “Deliverance,” I invite to recall the famous scene with the “Banjo Boy” on the front porch of some shack deep in Georgian Appalachia. In the scene, one of four lost tourists, a guitarist, shares something of a showdown with a teen-age […]
How Greene Was My Valley Tony Maldonado, Dave Adalian and I have been hard at the oars now for the better part of two years regarding the doings at Tulare Regional Medical Center (TRMC). It was with some surprise, then–and no small relish–that, before the 7 September issue, I watched the Chief take sudden umbrage […]
This is the 100th edition of the Valley Voice since the Chief and I took ownership of it more than four years ago. I don’t know what–if anything–we’ve accomplished during that time. I’ll let our readers decide. But let me describe the experience. Operating a newspaper during this era of their contraction and decline is […]