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If Wednesday night’s City Council meeting is any indication, Russell Johnson will keep his job as planning commissioner.
So he should. By most accounts, Johnson has served ably; many say his service has been exemplary.
City Councilman Ken Weir’s call to remove Johnson from the commission, while allowed under the council’s appointment criteria, was ill conceived and poorly timed. It also stirred up considerable community angst, not to mention the overkill media coverage....
The U.S. Supreme Court took a long, hard look at death penalty procedures in this country, finally concluding this week that lethal injection is not unconstitutional after all.
Not that it ever was, but the anti-death penalty people are relentless at finding new and duplicitous ways of stopping justice in its tracks.
They were foiled again in a 7-2 decision by the Court, which upheld Kentucky's lethal injection process, a method nearly identical to the one used here in California. The...
It’s only six weeks until Memorial Day. Is your flag fit to fly?
It may seem a bit early to prepare for a holiday many Americans barely acknowledge any more, but Fran Ramirez can’t start soon enough.
Every Memorial Day for the past decade, the 72-year-old Ramirez has made it her business to ensure that each of the 5,000 flags that flutter over the graves of American veterans buried in Union Cemetery is clean, pressed and free from wear.
As a member of the United Veterans...
One evening a number of years ago, while a student at Cal State Bakersfield, I was researching a paper in the school library when I paused to take a stretch.
As I glanced up, my gaze fell on a nearby computer screen, in front of which sat a man deeply engaged in a pornographic peep show.
It was a busy night in the library, yet the computer stations on either side of the pervert were empty, creating a narrow, but ineffective buffer zone for students clearly uncomfortable with the...
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