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It's been a couple of days, but I'm still not clear how the illegal immigration resolution approved by the City Council Wednesday is radically different from those proposed by Councilman David Couch .
A few months ago, Couch called for resolutions making English the official language of Bakersfield and declaring the city would not become a sanctuary for illegal immigrants.
Considering that English is already the official language of California and illegal immigration is, after all,...
The Rev. Philip Tutu hails from a continent that news reports tell us is wracked with poverty, AIDS, malaria, wars, corruption and maniacal despots. But there is another Africa, Tutu says. An Africa very different from the one Americans think they know.
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Photo by John Harte
Roselyn Mairori collects modest bridal dresses to rent to the poor women in her home country of Kenya who can’t afford to purchase them.
Photo by John Harte
Roselyn Mairori and her husband, Rev....
The 500 acres chosen as the final resting place for thousands of American veterans and their spouses is surely one of the most picturesque spots in Kern County -- the perfect place to honor those who have honored their country.
Or so many of us once thought.
It now appears water resources in the designated area off Highway 58 may be too slim to sustain the lush, green grass we assumed would blanket the cemetery's gravesites, just as it does in all but two of the 125 national cemeteries...
So there I was, up to my elbows in a column on term limits, when I was gobsmacked by a news item on WorldNetDaily, one of those news sites that runs stories most mainstream media don't.
Seems some parents in Wildomar, near Riverside, are in a snit because the private Christian school they sent their daughters to is opposed to the girls' homosexual behavior.
California Lutheran High School officials expelled the girls for "engaging in homosexual conduct in violation of the Christian...
The only surprise about the California Supreme Court's recent decision that public pay is public information is that some people were surprised.
Of course public pay should be accessible to taxpayers. That's why they call it public.
Even so, what should have been a foregone conclusion had to wind its turtle-like way through the state's judiciary until California's highest court affirmed Monday that taxpayers have the right to know the names and wages of those whose salaries they pay....
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