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Posted by Editorial Page Editor Dianne Hardisty -- On Wednesday, Feb. 28, Bakersfield City Council members will consider a proposal to spend about $69,000 to landscape and improve the two locations along Highway 99, where the city's "monument signs" greet northbound and soundbound travelers.
The existing gray signs with the city's "squiggle" logo are ugly and almost impossible to read, particularly at night.
City Council members also will be asked to pick between two...
Sunday, Feb. 25, 2007 column by Editorial Page Editor Dianne Hardisty -- Once in a while, we get a letter to the editor that keeps coming back, like a boomerang. That describes a letter the Opinion section received earlier this month from retired Bakersfield teacher Sue Coats, who wrote in defense of Ward 3 Councilman Ken Weir.
The cyclical path Coats’ letter traveled helps explain the controversy swirling around Weir, the growing tensions on the Bakersfield City Council and the need...
Sunday, Feb. 11, 2007 column by Dianne Hardisty, editorial page editor -- It seems to be the mission of freaky animal rights activists to mess up holidays.
As Thanksgiving approaches, they flood the letters to the editor section with form letters describing the murder and mayhem inflicted on turkeys. Their intent: to convince people to trade turkey for tofu.
It’s the same for Christmas and New Year’s. Forget about giving folks the bird or drooling over a juicy standing rib...
An audit of California public agencies, including those in Kern County, revealed last month many of their staffs don’t understand or intentionally violate state public records laws.
The Californian and other newspapers assisted in conducting the audit by Californians Aware. The results were pathetic. Statewide the organization gave an average grade of F+ to the 214 local and state law enforcement agencies audited. Few of the six Kern County agencies audited did much better....
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