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Talk about walking the walk.
Sarah Gallaher has made a summer of it, forgoing job and vacation to walk across America, from Seattle to Washington, D.C.
Her mission? To hike the nation's highways and byways as a "witness for the sanctity and dignity of all human life from conception to natural death."
Wow. When I was 19 and just out of high school, all I wanted was a weekend at Pismo.
But Gallaher, who grew up in Arvin and graduated last year from the Valley Oaks Charter...
It was the oddest thing. Seconds after the Rosedale Union School District board of trustees voted to approve the hiring of two new teachers Monday, they voted to approve maternity leave for each.
Before either teacher had worked a day in the district.
Nice work if you can get it.
Actually, you can get it if your teaching talents are so superior as to convince the district superintendent you're worth waiting for, though that argument didn't sit well with two of the board members...
Looks like our schoolchildren won't be breaking any laws when they pledge their allegiance to the American flag. That particular freedom is secure for the moment, but the battle to protect the pledge is far from over.
The U.S. House of Representatives did its bit this week to safegurad the pledge from activist atheists and arrogant judges when it passed the Pledge Protection Act with a vote of 260 to 167. If passed by the Senate, the act will remove cases involving the pledge of allegiance...
The leadership of the Episcopal Church in America may have trouble deciding what they believe, but here in Bakersfield the local diocese isn't afraid to call sin a sin.
The Diocese of San Joaquin, which oversees Episcopal churches in Bakersfield, joined eight others last week in asking church leadership to give them a new boss. Their grounds? The one they have now - the newly elected presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori - doesn't know squat about Scripture.
They were actually not...
The Kern River Bluffs-General Holding-Mike Maggard mess has taken some ugly twists and turns over the past few years, but the most recent development - a possible move by the city to regulate a chunk of private property out from under its owners - may be the ugliest yet.
The issue was the subject of heated debate at a recent city planning meeting, where commissioners wisely opted to postpone a decision on the revised hillside development ordinance until Aug. 17.
Good idea. Depriving a...
I've driven by the Park at River Walk every day since the tragic death of 8-year-old Jamine Korin and every day there are a dozen or so children splashing and swimming in the pond where she drowned.
And every day I ask myself the same question: Now that signs are posted in the park, who will get the blame when the next child dies?
The city of Bakersfield? The park's developers? The worker who cleans the park bathroom? Who?
Willing attorneys, like the one Jasmine's family hired last...
I was just settling down to a bit of writing last Friday when I suddenly realized I had, that very morning, broken the law.
At least that's what my husband told me when I frantically confessed I'd forgotten to check in with the Kern County Superior Court's jury system the night before and, at that very moment, court officials could be calling my name for jury duty.
"You're in contempt of court," he said.
Me? In contempt? No way. I follow the rules. Toe the line. Do my duty...
I recently recieved an e-mail from U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Erik Mathiesen of Tehachapi. Only he's not in Tehachapi, he's in the Oruzgan Province in southern Afghanistan, serving as an infantry medic.
He wanted to say hello, how’s Bakersfield and could I send him some stories, nice stories, about other local men and women serving overseas? Seems he’s grown weary of nothing but “polling data, war statistics and stories of military...
Nobody does make-believe better than Hollywood, so it's no surprise the latest political flim-flam to hit the November ballot took root in Tinseltown.
Millionare movie producer Steve Bing and Silicon Valley pal Vinod Khosla are the gilded sponsors behind the oil tax initiative, a fairy tale of a measure that would tax oil companies to pay for research on alternative energy sources.
Not that alternative energy is a fable - rising prices at the pumps and America's dependence on foreign oil...
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