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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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Our local cable company is raising rates. If you get cable, you'll pay at least $3 more. Me, I'll pay $5 more.
Now may be a good time for those of us with fancy cable to cut back. I already dropped the digital movie package a few months ago, and I could save another several dollars by dropping digital entirely.
What about you? Is this just another reason to cut back on or drop cable?
(Go ahead, tell me you're going to go to satellite. They're facing the same price pressures as cable....
Bakersfield City Councilman Ken Weir responded to my e-mail/blog post just now. Here it is. For clarity, on the parts where he's quoting me, I've italicized. Then I'll throw some more stuff in at the end, also italicized.
I believe that it is important to discuss our communications over the past few weeks and to insert some facts that were mysteriously omitted from your blog comments.
You sent an e-mail on the 7th of January requesting information on unfunded liabilities. You also...
Councilwoman Irma Carson will miss tonight's council meeting, and a planned big committee meeting she had scheduled for tomorrow has already been cancelled.
The city sent out this press release just now:
"Councilmember Irma Carson would like the public to know that sheis recovering from an unexpected illness and will be temporarily absent from her City Council appointments. At this time, it is requested that her privacy be honored.
"Councilmember Carson and her family deeply...
If you tune in to KGOV at 7 for the good parts of the Bakersfield City Counci tonight, you'll probably have missed it all.
With only one item on the 6:30 agenda, it was looking short. Then that item was withdrawn, and the one closed session item was pulled too.
So now the council will meet at 5:15, issue two presentations, make an appointment or two, and then approve the consent calendar, the slate of routine items that include all the business.
We could be out of there by 6.
Everybody's favorite controversial housing project, The Canyons, is slated for City Council consideration on Feb. 11.
Back in December, the councilman for the area, Ken Weir, laid out his vision of development standards for Northeast Bakersfield, as the start of a community process. But some of the values he was promoting run distinctly counter to what The Canyons is proposing. Specifically, Weir said he supports open, connected, pedestrian-friendly communities, while The Canyons is planned...
You don't have to like baseball to support a stadium in Bakersfield.
But even the members of the Bakersfield City Council who like baseball, or don't like baseball but want a stadium, weren't quite willing to pledge the $18 million to $35 million needed to build a stadium, especially and particularly now, while the city and every other government is broke.
Members of the Bakersfield Blaze Booster Club were for it. The city could have built a stadium years ago, they said, and has managed to...
With the council sworn in last month, Bakersfield Mayor Harvey Hall was sworn in to his third term last night.
He sent us a copy of his prepared remarks. It's a .doc file.
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