II recently bought a Los Banos home and I have been paying my water bill every month. This month I received my statement and it was around $127 for a single man in a five-bedroom home. I never wash my car at home, I do laundry once a week, I have a small lawn and a small garden. That seems like a lot of money for one month. | Full Story

For the past two years I've been on a mission: encouraging older adults to write their life stories. | Full Story

The Central Valley is the world's premier producer of food and fiber. Every acre of Central Valley farmland produces many times what an agricultural acre produces in most other countries. Food and fiber that we produce feeds and clothes millions of people all over the world. We are faced with a serious water shortage that has idled thousands of acres and eliminated thousands of jobs. We are a "hands-on," hard-working, highly-productive area and we desperately need more water and more efficient irrigation systems to do our job. | Full Story

I was appalled and disappointed to see such a crude, crass, sexist -- and might I add poorly drawn -- depiction of Republican Gubernatorial Meg Whitman dressed as a scantily clad "dominatrix" whipping a kneeling (and fully clothed) Democrat candidate Jerry Brown in your Aug. 20 newspaper. | Full Story

Many who came to America seeking religious and political freedom are now practicing the oppression and terror that they escaped. Those brought to America in irons and chains, as indentured servants and to work the railroads became the targets of hate-filled laws and hate-filled people. We have forgotten that we are a nation of immigrants, except for Native Americans. Many of us continue to struggle with laws that do not see us or understand us and in many cases don't care to. | Full Story

Wake up Los Banos! Snooze and you lose. They caught us snoozing again. | Full Story

Thank you for joining us at the NAACP Unit 12AA's fourth annual Freedom Fund Banquet, celebrating 101 years in the fight for equality. This year's theme, "With Liberty and Justice for All," reminds us that our fight is blind to color, race or ethnic origin. Our fight is to ensure that all people are treated with the same civil liberties and justice across our great nation, and to guarantee that all mankind is afforded equal opportunity in all aspects of living. | Full Story

What is taking place here is our planet's greatest humanitarian movement -- medical cannabis for the sick and dying. | Full Story