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A blog about Kern County, Politics, and Religion & Faith.
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A couple of blocks from my home, a mere five-minute walk away, lays an 80-acre parcel of land that will soon fall to residential development.
I’m not especially happy about this, as I, my family, my dogs and my neighbors have spent several years jogging, walking, dirt biking and otherwise enjoying the property and its wide open spaces.
If I had my druthers, the land would stay as is.
Since I haven’t invested sweat, dollars or my financial future into the land, my druthers...
How about that Super Tuesday?
Wasn't it great to be a real player in the presidential primary, instead of a June Johnny-come-lately? To be courted for our votes and not just our donor dollars?
Last year, naysayers inexplicably claimed that moving the presidential primary up a measly five months would cause the ruination of the state's electoral process. Some of those same critics now readily admit the earlier-than-usual election wasn't such a bad idea after all.
Some of us - OK, a lot of...
Sometimes doing what experience, education and instinct says is right can be hard.
Sometimes it can even cost you your job. Or your governor-appointed seat on a state board.
Fresno County Supervisor Judy Case found that out firsthand when she crossed state Sen. Dean Florez, who not only managed to railroad Case from the California Air Resources Board last month, he also took the unprecedented step of showing up at her Senate confirmation hearing to help things along.
The tactic...
Every now and then it's a good idea for we Americans to poke our heads up and have a look at how folks in other parts of the world do things.
Especially when we're about to do some of those same things.
One of them is the implementation of SB 777, the public school indoctrination act that mandates only positive portrayals and comments of homosexual, bisexual and transsexual lifestyle choices in public schools.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the bill in October. Liberal politicos...
Every year the Kern High School District expels about 500 students from its schools for drug-related offenses.
That number amounts to a piddling 1.3 percent of the district's 37,000 students. At least some folks find it piddling. Some, like KHSD Trustee Bob Hampton, apparently even find it acceptable.
He all but said as much with his abrupt dismissal of the suggestion by Trustee Ken Mettler that the district bring drug-sniffing dogs on campuses in a preemptive strike in the local...
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