Op-Ed

Since COVID-19 hit Merced, there hasn’t been much progress to talk about. Homelessness has only gotten worse, unemployment is as high as always, and, of course, crime is going up. The zealous pundits out there may want to blame the liberals in Sacramento, Gavin Newsom, Donald Trump or systemic racism. However, I would pose that I have…

She was in her 80s, and I was in my 70s, when I received my first letter from Betty Stewart, written in the most beautiful handwriting I had seen since my…

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

As I come to the end of my third year at Merced College, I still hold the same belief as when I officially started here in January 2017: A top-notch community college can transform a community. The numbers back it up. A recent community survey revealed that nearly 80 percent of the households in this area have at least one family member who…

Unfortunately, we have a lot of scared people in our country. A few declarations are in order. I am a moderate Democrat, and since this is America, I am…

By ALEX GUEORGUIEVA Farts. Sure, they smell bad and are unpleasant to be around, but no one would go as far as to call them deadly, right?…

Tom Frazier shares his thoughts on what lawmakers in congress need to be doing in order to get Capitol Hill and the federal government back in line with the thoughts of their constituents back home.

Nothing concerns us more that what is happening to the City of Atwater, and recent controversies at City Hall. We have had a long history because Atwater was…

The following Op-Ed was first published in the Modesto Bee on Feb. 13 In 2014, I asked you to support Proposition 1, $7.5 billion water bond written…

Assemblymember Adam C. Gray (D – Merced) announced the introduction of legislation to establish a medical school at the University of California, Merced as well as bills aimed at improving health outcomes in rural California.