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A blog about Kern County, Politics, and Religion & Faith.
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I have a friendly suggestion for retailers looking to salvage what’s left of a less-than-stellar holiday shopping season.
Turn down the sound.
Turn down the volume on that mind-numbing urban rap or alternative rock music and some of us might come back. By “us” I mean we middle-aged baby boomers and our big fat disposable incomes.
I made every effort to avoid those maddening...
Christmas came a week early for some here in Kern County, where justice and private property rights may prevail after all.
Kern County Superior Court Judge Kenneth Twisselman's ruling that the city must do an environmental impact report on the hillside ordinance it approved last year is a sweet victory for the land owners targeted by the ordinance, though with the final ruling still to come they're too circumspect to say so.
Please, allow me.
With his ruling last week, Twisselman...
It's the holiday season, so our hearts and minds naturally are preoccupied by all that goes with it. Family time. Faith. Christmas presents and parties.
We don't want to think about ugly things like the cold-blooded killing of eight people in an Omaha shopping mall or the heartbreaking suicide of a cyber-bullied girl in a St. Louis suburb.
But we must.
We must understand these were not acts of rebellion, but of mental illness. And we simply must shake off our collective denial and...
A friend from Bolivia, whom I met a few years ago on a church mission trip, visited Bakersfield this week.
It's likely her final visit to the United States, as visas are increasingly hard to get, she says.
Not that she's hankering to stay. Her country may be one of the worlds poorest and a hotbed of political unrest, but she's compelled to return home for reasons greater than ease and wealth.
Her people need her. They need to hear what she has to say.
My friend, Judith Mendez, is a...
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