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A small wedding, a quiet honeymoon. That’s all Diane Rutledge expected when then-beau Jerry Bryson proposed last year.
Diane and Jerry Bryson pose with President and Laura Bush at the White House in March 2008. The couple were at the White House for Jerry Bryson and Laura Bush’s 44th class reunion. They graduated from Robert E. Lee High School in Midland, Texas. (Photo courtesy of the Brysons.)
It was, after all, the second marriage for both, she having lost her...
Is it my imagination, or is Kern County suffering from a severe outbreak of recall fever?
Calls to “kick ’em to the curb” have become the knee-jerk norm in recent weeks, whenever an elected official — usually a conservative elected official — makes a decision or statement not popular with those who don’t share his or her views.
It’s becoming quite the trend. And an ugly one at that.
The effort to recall City Councilman Ken Weir, last I heard, is...
I realize the decision by Auditor-Controller-County Clerk Ann Barnett to stop all county-performed wedding ceremonies is controversial, but, yikes, we haven’t witnessed this kind of media coverage in Kern County since our last multiple-murder case.
No laws were broken, no rules were bent, no office policies trod upon, yet pundits, reporters and news anchors from here to New York continue their breathless, though not always accurate, daily reports in the wake of Barnett’s...
Kern High School District officials take note: If you’re going to violate students’ civil rights, it might be a good idea to dodge the valedictorians and mock-trial champs.
Those kids know their stuff.
One of those kids, 18-year-old Brant Bonetti, called me a week ago Thursday, the day after his graduation from Stockdale High School. A constitutional right has been trampled, he said, apologies and assurances are in order.
He couldn’t be more right.
Seems that...
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