4th District Supervisorial Candidate Cliff Thompson has delivered Kern County voters a detailed list of the crimes and infractions he has been arrested for in his past.

The press release from his campaign is attached to this post.

Most of the alleged crimes were dismissed or expunged from his record.

The cases are mostly brash infractions typical of a Taft boy growning up rough, rowdy and less-than-fully legal on Kern County's west side. They go from a driving while intoxicated case back in 1970 to an assault charge in 1998.

Thompson said being on the Taft City Council has helped him channel his passion into more positive channels since those days.

Kern County Supervisor Ray Watson and Taft City Councilman Cliff Thompson are facing off in a race for Watson's 4th District seat.

Tell me what you would ask them if you had them cornered for a frank talk over morning coffee.

James

Kern County officials released final drafts of U.S. Army Corps of Engineer maps that reveal the kind of flooding Bakersfield would face if one of the two dams at Isabella Lake fails.

Our story sums it up and you can link to copies of the maps there.

Or you can find a detailed interactive copy of the maps on the county website and search for the impact the flood might have on your home or business.

The version of flooding the Corps and the County released is a "worst-case" scenario. Three other scenarios were studied by the Corps, but they aren't being posted online by the county because county officials want the public to be ready for the worst.

To sum up the worst scenario — flood waters would hit northeast Bakersfield within six hours, travelling fast enough and deep enough to knock a person off their feet and float a car off its wheels.

As the waters spread out, however, the force of the flow would ease.

Still, nearly every part of Bakersfield would eventually be flooded — as much as 5-20 feet feet deep in downtown Bakersfield and two to four feet deep in the western half of the city.

Only northern Oildale, northern Rosedale and the hills around Bakersfield College would be spared.

Former Kern County Public Health Officer Dr. B.A. Jinadu is claiming the retirement he earned with 21 years of service to Kern County.

Depending on how you calculate it, the county can't release the exact amount for privacy reasons, that retirement is worth between $92,000 and $104,000 a year.

At the same time he continues to owe the state of California $410,000 as part of a settlement he agreed to in 2003 to end Medi-Cal overbilling charges.

The state debt cost him a new job in San Diego County, which led to his Kern County retirement.

But he bought a $1 million hilltop home in Chula Vista and still owns his home in Bakersfield. Both properties now have state property liens against them.

What are people thinking about this situation?