Insights and Opinions

By Lee Pevsner If the answer is NEVER, you better be 12 years old, or not a citizen of the USA. The turnout in Merced County for the last election which occurred in November 2018 was 61.44 percent. That is pretty good for us. Usually we really suck at voting. “My vote is not going to do any good,” you say. Really? Talk to…

As I look back to a time before the Merced County Rescue Mission lost their home, they had about 30 people being housed either in their building or in their…

By MIKE BETTENCOURT Upon reading “ICE Out of Merced” (Op/ED, Oct. 31 edition) I was sickened to realize how much the State of California has declined under…

On Saturday, Nov. 2, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., at the corner of Loughborough Drive and Meadows Avenue in Merced, there is going to be a “Town Hall Block Party,” and you are all invited. The party is being thrown by the Merced City Council, so there probably won’t be any beer, but it will be worth your while to attend. Matt Serratto — the…

By Lee Pevsner When I was about 12 years old, I was in Redding, and happened to see a marching band going down the street. I wanted to be a snare drummer…

Car enthusiasts all have their favorite vehicles, myself included. I have loved the 1956 Mercury since I first spotted it 63 years ago. The Merc gets…

Now that the rain is really done until fall … or is it? There was more than two inches of rain in May 2019. From 2016 to 2018, the average for May was .05 inches. The all-time average is 4 tenths of an inch. In any event, there are some excellent opportunities to get out and enjoy the outdoors. Too late for this year, but the annual…

Sometimes custom car builders, or even the auto factories, get it wrong in their designs, to my way of thinking. In perusing the latest street rod…