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Real Name: Gretchen Wenner Address: 1707 Eye Street Bakersfield, CA 93301 Member Since: November 01, 2007 Last Signed In: October 14, 2009 Profile Views: 1849 Blog Views: 37453 Bike riders: Watch for drilling rig on bike path! Canyons meeting under way... Bldrs Exchange drama... Recycling wackiness State's property values decline for first time since 1933... City seeking applicants for Board of Building Appeals Homebuilders v. city (and county): Latest buzz Council, Weds night: development "freeze?" Suing Bakersfield: Pork hits fan? And they're off! City Council seat beckons... City of Bako: Initial damage estimates from state budget deal November 07 December 07 January 08 February 08 March 08 April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 November 08 December 08 January 09 February 09 March 09 April 09 May 09 June 09 July 09 August 09 September 09 October 09 November 09 Get e-mail updates from this blog, and download to print on the go with the City Beat Printcast.
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The city has a bunch of small road projects on the Wednesday city council agenda, in addition to the big-name freeway-building construction.
There’s a project to put a median in on Stockdale Highway from Chapala Drive to Renfro Road. It’ll cost $157,000, and Castle and Cooke will do the work with the city paying the company back.
Closer to downtown, the city will narrow the medians on Stockdale between Oak Street and Wetherley Drive, which is two blocks west of Oak. That will...
I enjoy C-SPAN.
My TiVo is programmed to record five minutes of C-SPAN every day at 4 p.m., so when I get home from work it’s already on. (If I didn’t do that, it would be on History or Discovery, which the TiVo tunes itself to in the middle of the night.)
When I start my Web browser at home, the first page it loads is the C-SPAN schedule page.
Bakersfield is a good place for a C-SPAN fan, because Bright House carries C-SPAN 3, not just 1 and 2 like most cable systems....
Did you catch Bill Thomas and Sue Benham on KGET tonight? It was better than the Obama-Clinton slugfest Monday night.
Thomas is upset about our story today, which he said will needlessly inflame people. And he ripped into Benham for telling The Californian that she understands Caltrans doesn’t like the S-curve.
And when I say “ripped into,” I don’t mean “politely took to task.” I really mean “ripped into.”
Benham held her composure,...
Local transportation insiders call it “the alignment that shall not be named."
It would extend the stub-end of Highway 58 west from Highway 99 and swoop north through neighborhoods and business districts.
The route would then jump the Kern River and connect to the planned Westside Parkway.
It’s a simple, elegant solution to a complicated puzzle that has troubled Bakersfield for decades: how do you connect all the city’s dead-end freeways to each other and to...
The draft EIR for The Canyons, the controversial development along the bluffs of Northeast Bakersfield, has been posted on the city's site.
To download the 31 sections for yourself, go here, then click on Draft Environmental Impact Reports, then The Canyons.
I haven't read it yet, but I'll be taking a look-see this week. If you find anything interesting, let me know.
Also in that same section is the draft EIR for WinCo Foods, a grocery store planned for Panama and Ashe.
It's 6:05, 25 minutes until the council meets, and the chambers are about 80 percent full. I think when the people milling in the back sit down, it'll be 90 percent. And I think just about everybody here is a city employee. SEIU purple is all over place, and there's a line of red -- firefighters and kids -- at the back. There's a lot of orange, too, people in their City of Bakersfield uniforms.
The issue they're here for is health premiums. City Manager Alan Tandy wants the employees to...
Bakersfield city employees and retirees will likely have a new co-pay on their health plan forced on them this week.
City and union officials negotiated Monday for a settlement but were unable to come to a solution, so City Manager Alan Tandy is recommending the council impose the change at its meeting Wednesday.
“It’s always better, you’re always happier, to come to a negotiated settlement, and that’s the goal,” Tandy said Monday.
The employees have a choice...
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