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EDITORIAL PAGE EDITOR DIANNE HARDISTY WRITES: Faye Shearer is a retired restaurant worker who spends a lot of her days in a world of hurt. Injured on the job, she has degenerative disc disease and pinched nerves in her back.
Last December, Shearer thought her prayers were answered when she pulled into a parking lot behind the former federal courthouse on Truxtun Avenue and found an empty handicap parking spot. Shearer was headed to an evening performance of “The...
Students from Jill Kelsey’s multimedia class wrote in expressing concerns about Kern County’s homeless census.
The Actis Junior HIgh School students did not like the idea that the county was willing to give homeless people what they had asked for: Cigarettes.
Here are some exerts from their letters:
It is just showing that smoking is good, but its not.
— Skylar Payne
Please just give them blankets and food not cigarettes.
— Angelique Amaya
Our...
A view of the criminal justice system from the inside is presented in the attached articles written by teens incarcerated in the county's Crossroads program. The teens are identified only by their first name.
The articles are being presented in conjunction with Law Week in Kern County, which begins next weekend. A schedule of Law Week activities can be found on the Kern County Superior Court Web site (www.kern.courts.ca.gov).
On the Sunday Forum page in The Californian's Opinion...
PUBLISHED 4-20-2007
BY MARTHA MARTINEZ
I come from a culture where “it’s better not to know” that anything is wrong with you. But everywhere I turn, there are news reports about breast cancer not being diagnosed early enough in Hispanic women, and how young women are being targeted by an aggressive, hard-to-detect breast cancer. I am Hispanic, young and worried.
Hispanic women seem particularly targeted by a hard-to-treat breast cancer. “Basal-like”...
Dianne Hardisty, editorial page editor -- OK, all you folks in bloggerland. What do you think? When I woke up this morning and checked my e-mail from home I discovered a Voicemail message from an angry Bakersfield woman who accused me of publishing pornography.
She said she was referring to the drawing of two guys that “I find both very offensive, very suggestive and very explicit. If you are going to do pornography, you should try another business.”
I nearly had a...
The Opinion Section in Sunday's Bakersfield Californian features a sampling of editorial cartoons from the nation's newspapers and letters from Californian readers reacting to NBC and CBS firing shock jock Don Imus after his racially charged comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team. What do you think of the firing?
By DIANNE HARDISTY, editorial page editor -- My hands gripped the steering wheel as I headed to the office a few days ago, bracing myself for an onslaught of angry calls.
In that morning’s Californian was an editorial I had written inspired by news coverage of the ongoing Vincent Brothers murder trial. Brothers, the former vice principal of two Bakersfield City School District schools, is accused of murdering his wife, three young children and mother-in-law. Prosecutors contend...
ANOTHER VIEW -- By Michael Lingo, Bakersfield City School District superintendent.
Mark Twain advised against entering into an argument with people who have barrels of ink. I have found that generally to be good advice. However, the editorial, “School behavior outrageous,” is just that — outrageous and must be answered.
The Bakersfield City School District employs about 3,400 adults; yet the editorial appears to paint each one with the same brush The Californian uses...
It’s enough to make your eyes roll back into your head and force the casual observer to diagram the action — a lot of action. So much action you wonder:
If former Bakersfield City School District Vice Principal Vincent Brothers spent so much time chasing female colleagues, did he spend much time educating our children?
No wonder the district struggles with No Child Left Behind when some staff members seem preoccupied with each others’ behinds.
Harsh as that...
Associate Editor Martha Martinez writes:
People are quick to assume that many immigrants are illegal. Many claim immigrants come to this country to take advantage of our welfare system and don’t pay taxes.
But a recent study shows that immigrants are becoming citizens at record high numbers — contradicting the popular belief that immigrants do not want to accept American values.
Of all the immigrants now living legally in the United States, 52 percent are naturalized...
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