Insights and Opinions

Preventative care is critical to the health of you and your family. Preventive care is routine checkups that can detect and prevent hidden illness early, typically before visible symptoms arise. It helps you maintain optimal health throughout your lifetime, improving quality of life and longevity. These routine visits include wellness exams –…

The public demonstrations in Merced over the police alleged murder of George Floyd highlights a local issue. There is a problem with police officers…

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…

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 women’s home. They were doing great work, and then one day they lost their home. Many of us thought that would be a great loss for Merced, but God had a different plan. He blessed the…

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…

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 in a marching band. That was it! Fast forward a couple of years, and I am in Helena, Arkansas in the high school band playing snare drum in the marching band. This was a very good band.…

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…

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 magazine issue the other day, I came upon coverage of a 1955 Ford Crown Victoria street machine. It's a pretty striking car with lots of innovation and craftsmanship — except for one glaring flaw.…