Today is my last day at The Californian, making this my last Bakersfield.com blog post (unless something crazy happens in the next three hours).
I'm going home to Kentucky and will soon be writing for The Louisville Courier-Journal.
Thanks to everyone who has commented on this blog, everyone who has made the discussions interesting to read and to be a part of.
I hope you got something from it. I definitely have learned a lot.
And thanks to my fellow Californian staffers for all their...
Several state agencies are lamenting their cuts in funding.
Nona Tolentino, director of long-term care services at Greater Bakersfield Legal Assistance and program director of Kern's Long-Term Care Ombudsman Program, wrote via e-mail about the unfunded mandates she is left with in wake of the cuts.
According to the state budget, funding for the Long-Term Care Ombudsman and Supportive Services programs was reduced by $5,978,000. The program was cut by 49 percent, the California Association...
Mosquitoes, while small, have caused big problems in Kern. Recently it was West Nile virus, and 70 years ago, it was malaria.
Local history buff George Gilbert Lynch sent me this history on malaria in the county. Interesting reading.
The last epidemic of mosquito-born malaria in Bakersfield occurred as recently as August 1939.
In Thomas Baker's writings, (Colonel Baker's son, who suffered from chronic malaria for years), he stated, "Malaria was epidemic in early Bakersfield from the...
