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Looks like voters will still have a say on a same-sex marriage ban in November, thanks to the California Supreme Court’s decision to keep the measure on the ballot.
Mighty kind of the Court, don’t you think?
This is, after all, the same court that just two months ago basically told Californians their opinion on gay marriage didn’t count, that the one-man-one-woman definition approved in 2000 by 61 percent of the voters was unconstitutional.
That decision on...
On a pleasant July 4th back in 1979, my brother-in-law gathered a fistful of sparklers, bound them with duct tape, stuck the wad into the grass and lit it.
Nearly thirty years later, the ensuing explosion— the blinding white flash, the compression of the blast wave against my chest — remains one of the more vivid memories of my young adulthood.
I'm reminded of that explosion every July, when the annual debate over a fireworks ban in Bakersfield roars to life.
I'm generally...
If we measure our collective health by the way we treat the least of those among us, then Bakersfield is looking pretty peaked these days.
Photo by Henry A. Barrios / The Californian
Lyle the duckling that survived an attack by four teenagers swims in Lisa Andrew's bathroom sink. Lisa is Shannon Andrew's mother. The mother duck died, as did six of her seven ducklings. Lyle, the lone survivor, also swims in the family pool and gets the attention of the family dog that has been able to...
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