I can’t not write about the murder of Cecil, the 13-year-old famously black-maned lion lured out of Zimbabwe’s Hwange National Park and shot by an American hunter, Dr. Walter James Palmer, a dentist from Minnesota. Yes–I meant murder. The shooting was the final act in this grisly drama, after Palmer first shot Cecil with a […]
Now that the Governor has signed SB277 into law that mandates all children are vaccinated or they will not be allowed into public or private schools, the backlash has started. Yes Senator Pan is a pediatrician in his other life, but that should mean he has the knowledge of those children who have had adverse […]
On June 18, a Visalia police officer, responding to an “anonymous tip” forced his way into the home of Mary Jane Bryant on suspicion of elder abuse. According to Bryant, she ordered the police officer to leave her property, but he responded that she had given him permission to enter the premises. Despite Bryant’s protests, […]
On July 8, three Special Masters for California’s Commission on Judicial Performance (CJP) filed their Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law regarding their inquest of Judge Valeriano Saucedo of Tulare County Superior Court. Pivotally, the tribunal found Tovar’s testimony at trial compelling while alternately characterizing Saucedo’s testimony as lacking in credibility. Indeed, the tribunal […]
Governor Brown signed into law the most controversial bill in the 2015-2016 Legislative Sessions, SB277 – Mandatory Vaccines. “I find it disconcerting that Governor Brown did not show the same consideration to the people who have dedicated their personal time and energy to oppose this bill as he did in his first term with AB2109 […]
Disclaimer: I vaccinated all my children as the law states they had to be vaccinated before attending school. This law goes one step further and infringes upon our parental rights. If your child does not get every single vaccine on the states list of vaccines, they will not be allowed in pre-school, public school, high […]
My wife wanted me to write about the evils of artificial grass–astroturf–as a replacement for the real thing in this time of drought. Nah. But I will begin with something equally fake–the notion that the stars and bars represents Confederate culture and history, and is symbolic of the valor of that side’s soldiers. It seems […]
They say practice makes perfect. This isn’t necessarily so. In all my years as a practicing Catholic I was never a perfect one, and am now in a lapse that has lasted 35 years. To be clear, I’m not even a Christian anymore. But neither are those who ascribe natural or man-made phenomena to the […]
Let me start by saying this writing is not a discussion on which religion is more Godly or who will be ascending into Heaven and who will fall into the pit of despair. That is a debate that has been waging since the beginning of time and continues to this day. This is also not […]
The Valley Voice is accused, occasionally, of not being balanced. As the editor, I receive many letters and emails on a wide range of topics. Let me show you what being unbalanced truly looks like verbatim: Kumbayah LGBT, please let us keep our freedoms of religion, speech, a ssociation and assembly. (Letter to the editor […]