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By ROBERT PRICE, Associate Editor ---
Easy assembly. Says so right on the side of the box.
I can do easy assembly. Easy assembly means you snap six pegs into six holes, maybe tighten a couple of screws. Then you stick a little paper umbrella into your icy, refreshing beverage, dangle your feet in the swimming pool, lean back and admire your handiwork. Your job is done.
I opened the box containing my bistro table-slash-propane patio heater, purchased that afternoon from a home...
By Robert Price, Associate Editorial Page Editor -
One participant called it a “come to Jesus” meeting. Another referred to it as an “ass-chewing.” Virtually everyone agreed that the temperature in the room went up several degrees when Bill Thomas, the retired 14-term congressman from Bakersfield, paid a recent visit to his old district to check on the progress of his millions.
Well, not his millions. Ours. The bundle Thomas secured for Kern County from the 2006...
By Dianne Hardisty, Editorial Page Editor -
Death lurked in the Capitol’s shadows, waiting to strike when no one was looking.
Fingerprints were wiped clean from the weapon so no one could be blamed.
Senate Bill 76, a straightforward law authored by Sen. Dean Florez, D-Shafter, is dead.
Californians who expect their elected officials to serve honorably and their government to be “transparent” are wounded.
Senate Bill 76 was born in the wake of Bakersfield...
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