Category: Columns

by John Jefferson George Gershwin wrote the song, “Summertime,” for a folk opera he called “Porgy and Bess.” It’s said to be “written in a minor key and has a slightly melancholy feel.” The opera was about the woes of poor,...

by Slim Randles   Each of us, in our own way, smiles on the Fourth of July. We can’t help it. We are the most fortunate citizens of any nation in the world and we know it. A bunch of us in the valley will be down on the...

Social Security Matters by Russell Gloor, National Social Security Advisor at the AMAC Foundation, the non-profit arm of the Association of Mature American Citizens   Dear Rusty: I try to read your article in the Carmichael...

By Pastor Mike   Greetings in the name of Jesus Christ my brothers and sisters.  I pray that this devotional finds you in good spirits and blessed health. Let me ask you a question, have you ever felt as though you were...