Two Gents' Worth
May 6, 2025
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You are already singling out the golden days to hang in your memory – the days when smart, attentive kids in a great class would delight you with their genuine enthusiasm for learning and ability to achieve. When the topic arises, you mostly recall the gems who got your jokes, who pulled up those around…
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It’s no small thing, leaving the place where you were born and lived for half a century — even if your “new” place is only a bit more than 100 miles from your “old” one. You leave many things behind — including friends and a sense of pride that you had played a part in…
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Let me tell you a story. It’s about a little girl, a doctor’s office waiting room full of cancer patients in various stages of denial, and the man with a reddened right cheek. Nobody is happy to be in that room. The little girl can’t sit still. She is precocious, uncaring of the cancer karma…
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Let me tell you a story. The first time I moved away from Fresno was around Valentine’s Day in 1973. I piloted my hotshot blue ’71 Ford Pinto up Highway 99 to Sacramento – then motored east on I-80 and over the snow-capped Donner Summit into Reno. I headed north on the 395 and –…
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I spent nearly four decades in broadcast journalism – both TV and radio. Right after I graduated from Fresno State, I moved to Susanville to become a radio news director and then – nearly bankrupt, since radio paid no money – made my way back to Fresno and somehow became the youngest TV reporter in…
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An aspect of divinity – the heavenly marshmallow-like white fudge candy my father always cooked up around Christmas time – is that it is very susceptible to changes in humidity and can sometimes flummox even those who have made it a hundred times. When it’s right, it’s indeed divine. One year in the mid-50’s –…
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Now that I’ve returned from my summer-long sojourn to the Midwest, my attention has turned to Fresno’s Next Big Thing: the re-opening of Fulton Street. I’ve spent quite some time over the past few days, walking up and down what used to be the Fulton Mall and what — within days — will officially be…
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President Trump has managed to breathe new life into the sputtering assault on the American flag, the NFL, the National Anthem and patriotism by a group of disaffected players. The President sent out a Tweet aimed at NFL team owners early Tuesday morning: “Why is the NFL getting massive tax breaks while at the…
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“We sit by and watch the Barbarian, we tolerate him; in the long stretches of peace we are not afraid. We are tickled by his irreverence, his comic inversion of our old certitudes and our fixed creeds refreshes us; we laugh. But as we laugh we are watched by large and awful faces from beyond;…
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