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By DIANNE HARDISTY, editorial page editor -- The question that hangs heavy in the air: What happens when you are an appointed commissioner who serves at the pleasure of the Bakersfield City Council and you are no longer a "pleasure"?
Stuart Gentry, vice chairman of the city's Fire Civil Service Commission, may soon find out.
Gentry, who waged a contentious and unsuccessful battle in 2000 to unseat Ward 6 Councilwoman Jacquie Sullivan, is in his third year on the commission....
By DIANNE HARDISTY, editorial page editor -- There’s no such thing as being legally wrong, but morally OK when it comes to anti-political corruption laws California voters enacted in 1974.
But that was Vice Mayor Harold Hanson’s reaction to concerns about newly elected Ward 3 Councilman Ken Weir’s apparent conflict of interest.
“Legally, I don’t know if it’s wrong or right,” Hanson told The Californian. “Morally, I think it’s...
PUBLISHED 1-27-2007
The dart world is foreign to me, as I’m sure it is to many people. But that world is closer to us than you would think.
Bakersfield holds two dart tournaments per year — in January and June. My aunt and uncle were among those taking aim at the tournament this month.
Most people don’t go beyond their favorite bar to play darts. Some have never even thrown a dart.
Aside from an electronic dart board that was on the wall of my parents’ old...
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is test driving a revised naturalization test that will be implemented in 2008. On the Jan. 28 Viewpoint page, The Californian asked three local college professors and a...
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