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The decision by the Kern High School District board of trustees to change the names of winter and spring breaks back to Christmas and Easter isn't a fight I would have picked.
In fact I was a bit miffed that certain trustees thought it necessary to dredge up the issue until a friend, a teacher at a local elementary school, told me about a preholiday memo she'd received from her principal.
The memo, she said, instructed teachers not to use the word "Christmas" in association...
Photo by Casey Christie
Shelley Hatcher holds a photo of her two sons. Jeremy Stancliff, left, died from cancer in 2002; and Josh was killed in a 2005 car crash with a repeat drunken driver on Rosedale Highway.
Photo by Casey Christie
This ornament on Hatcher’s Christmas tree was given to her son, Josh Stancliff, by his grandmother when he was born. Hatcher says keeping her family’s Christmas traditions was “therapeutic.”
Photo by Casey Christie
Shelley...
If you were out and about Saturday night you may have noticed an increased police presence around town.
If you were out drinking and driving you may even have had a personal encounter with a couple of Bakersfield's finest, after which you were treated to a ride downtown.
If you were driving under the influence and didn't get caught, count yourself very lucky. A task force of 35 officers from 14 local law enforcement agencies hit the streets Saturday night focused on a single task -- to...
In the dozen years since Conni Brunni completed her term as one of the youngest members ever elected to the Bakersfield City Council, kids, career and volunteer work have kept her motor on overdrive.
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Former Bakersfield City Councilwoman Conni Brunni, left, with her birth mother, Sandy Reed Fuller.
Brunni, one of those Energizer-bunny types, hit the brakes hard four years ago when her mother died eight weeks after being diagnosed with ovarian cancer. Brunni was nearly...
If Guinness World Records has a group category for the time it takes an elected official to go from oath-of-office taker to disgruntled rabble-rouser, somebody should make a call. The new Kern High School District board of trustees is surely a contender.
The tension at Wednesday's first meeting of the new board started to build just minutes after its three newest members were sworn in, when trustee Bryan Batey proposed himself and two fellow board members for leadership positions.
The...
There's a rumor going around that liberals have cornered the market on caring. It's actually been circulating for some time. I know this because it's the sort of misconception we conservatives get whacked with all the time.
It's a myth promoted by savvy liberal politicos and globetrotting movie stars who regularly denounce Americans as heartless tightwads. This conservatives-are-skinflints stereotype is such an integral part of liberal doctrine it once inspired a defensive President Bush...
Every now and then my columns are rewarded with feedback so virulent I’m compelled to share some of the more colorful comments.
My recent column on Tejon Ranch Co.’s right to develop its land in any environmentally sound way it sees fit resulted in a number of such responses. A favorite came from a San Fernando Valley resident who declared me “clueless, short-sighted and dangerous,” and noted that I apparently “enjoy living in the unwashed crotch of the...
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