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By ROBERT PRICE
Associate Editorial Page Editor
Twenty-minute hikes are no big deal to Lydia Bishop. She goes hiking and biking in the Cascades of west-central Washington every chance she gets. But she undertakes those recreational exertions voluntarily, not because she’s marooned.
Bishop, a self-described “rugged mountaineer,” nonetheless managed to maintain her good humor when she found herself momentarily stranded at the new William M. Thomas Air Terminal at...
By DIANNE HARDISTY
Editorial Page Editor
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Breakfast. My husband was crunching his Cheerios, hogging The Californian. I was flipping through another newspaper, washing down Special K with black coffee, when I spotted the story.
So, Jack, did you get some ballot information from CalPers?
He recalled he had — a mailer in advance of a California Public Employees Retirement System board election.
Do you still have it? Go get it. I want to show you something.
Now?...
Idaho Sen. Larry Craig has incredibly bad timing. The sex controversy he hoped to leave in Minneapolis came tumbling out of his closet on a slow news week before the big Labor Day weekend. The bizarre story involving the conservative Republican senator bumped the resignation of Dilberto Gonzales off the nation’s front pages.
After reading days of newspaper accounts and watching hours of cable news reports featuring police questioning Craig about his actions during a sting...
It hasn’t been a good month for Republicans – young and old. Well, for that matter, it hasn’t been a good year, what with Republican Congressman Mark Foley’s resignation in the wake of a scandal involving boy congressional pages. And then there was that little mention of Republican Louisiana Sen. David Vitter in the alleged DC madam’s phone book.
Now comes the guilty plea from Republican Idaho Sen. Larry Craig, caught in a male bathroom sting by...
Aug. 26, 2007 column by Associate Editor Robert Price -- Richard Stutzman's house is finally dry, and it only took 13 days. That's considerably faster than the damage estimators suggested early on. As for the rest of the mess -- the rest of this place Stutzman once called home -- that's anybody's guess.
Stutzman is the 86-year-old Bakersfield man whose house was pillaged by vandals earlier this month. He'd put his house on the market and moved into a retirement complex after his wife...
Aug. 23, 2007 column by Editorial Page Editor Dianne Hardisty -- It was the last few miles of a tiresome round-trip to the coast. After cheating death on treacherous Highway 46, I headed east on 7th Standard Road. Home was within reach.
The "Big Waves: Five Decades of Surf Rock" CD I bought at Starbucks was shaking the old Honda. Despite the 100-plus temperature, the sun roof was rolled back. I was seriously "highway surfing" when I hit the beach of reality....
The Californian has encouraged readers to send e-mails to Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa telling him what we think of his stinkin' sludge farm (Green Acres Farm) near the intersection of I-5 and Taft Highway.
Several readers have reported that when they e-mail Antonio at mayor@lacity.org they receive an automatic, computer-generated reply.
So, here's an idea: Keep sending the honorable mayor your e-mails, but send The Californian a copy at opinion@bakersfield.com. We'll figure out...
Robert Price, the Californian's Associate Editorial Page Editor , columnizes about a growing trend in education:
If somebody had ordered me to select a major on my first day of high school, I would have been forced to choose among three or four leading candidates.
Rock-band vocalist. Comic book illustrator. Pro football receiver. Second coming of Rod Serling, the “Twilight Zone” guy. Music, fine arts, athletics, literature. I really had it narrowed down.
Maybe...
By Publisher Ginger Moorhouse -- Aug. 5, 2007 -- It’s August. It’s hot. And the search for shade is on. Like many people, I try to run a few errands at noon or after work. But most of my time is spent trying to find a leaf of shade in local parking lots. I don’t mind walking a distance to shop, as long as there’s some shady green relief when I return to my car.
Some Bakersfield business owners instinctively know that people are more likely to shop in or visit their...
By Editorial Page Editor Dianne Hardisty -- Aug. 8, 2007 -- A utility company has a folksy television ad in which a serviceman gets trapped in a basement by a gabby old man who goes on and on about how he loves his clunker old washing machine that he has dragged from one move to another — from Eureka to Fresno.
The serviceman finally shuts him up by offering him a rebate if he trades in the old clunker for a new, energy-efficient machine. Quicker than he can hike his pants up to his...
By Editorial Page Editor Dianne Hardisty -- July 29, 2007 -- Is this what voters bet on when they passed a ballot measure in 1984 establishing the state lottery? Nevada-style video lottery machines screaming at suckers from the walls of convenience stores, restaurants, grocery stores, gas stations? Instant winners and a lot of instant losers?
No doubt gambling is big time in California, where voters years ago gave Indian tribes a gaming monopoly. But for the most part, the...
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