Two Gents' Worth
April 25, 2025
Books
Peggy Noonan is widely and justifiably known for her brilliant series of columns in the Wall Street Journal. She has been writing these columns for the past 15 years, and regular readers have found them to be elegantly written, well thought-out and extraordinarily clear in their messages. Now Noonan has compiled the “best” of her…
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Fresno
It’s hard to believe that summer is almost over in Fresno, but you know the end is near when you see kids returning to school. Of course, school starts earlier than it ever did when I grew up around here. Seems to me we didn’t have to go back to classes until after Labor Day,…
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Donald Trump
We can all see this one coming, can’t we? Our current presidential campaign – the one being waged by two of the most distrusted and disliked major-party candidates in recent memory – is on track to render the eventual winner a failure. It’s a “take no prisoners” campaign – full of personal insults, wild charges,…
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I was glad to hear that Fresno mayor Ashley Swearengin already has a new gig lined up when she leaves office in a few months. Swearengin is going to become the president and CEO of the Central Valley Community Foundation – a local nonprofit clearinghouse for charitable contributions and grants. And I say – good…
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Vin Scully is retiring, and that’s a very big deal, indeed. When I was kid, growing up in Fresno, I loved playing baseball on all those glorious warm summer nights. We’d play wiffleball or hardball or softball – whatever we had on hand – late into the evening – until we couldn’t see anymore. We’d…
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