We’d sit eating fried fish, gazing out an E Street window as a Friday’s boiling sun set. He wore overalls, doing the hands-on equipment work that produced a daily Fresno Bee. I wore a shirt and tie, fidgeting with words to avoid libel, writing a few snappy headlines to lure readers and with deadlines wrapped [...]

It’s a year old. A chunk of people still want to flat out kill it. Another hunk want to gussy it up a bit and let it become an adult. And who knows how many millions haven’t a clue that it exists, let alone whether it’s a savior or a villain. Happy first birthday, health [...]

The hats, scarves, blankets go to new — Terry’s House — and familiar places — Marjaree Mason Center, Poverello House, newborns at Clovis Community Medical Center. My wife has been making them by the thousand over the last several years. Don’t want to put words in her mouth, but I know most of her donations [...]

‘Fess up. Oftentimes we are too busy to reflect on the good we do at Clovis Community Medical Center and, worse, fail to remind others that this isn’t “just a place of business” or “where I work.” For the last bunch of years, I’ve prepared Community Medical Centers’ annual corporate community benefits report, which is [...]

Sorry, each staff member said. So sorry. Their eyes said sorry, too, and the softness of their mannerisms. The doctor said this procedure was something he was called upon to do two or three times a week. He, too, used comforting words. I’m not here to hurt you, he said. As my son and I [...]

Thanks to politics, I’m reminded that the stink season has started. And pity to us all. Seems GOP candidate Van Tran sent out a scratch-n-sniff mailer in his drive to unseat U.S. Rep. Loretta Sanchez in Orange County. “Something smells rotten about Loretta. It’s the stench of Washington.” Yeah, yadda-yadda. Hard to imagine how the [...]