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A friend was sitting at a red light the other day, chatting on her cell phone, when she glanced up to lock eyes with a police officer in the next lane.
Eyebrows raised in warning, the officer motioned for her to hang up the phone, which she did. Apparently satisfied, the officer then turned his attention back to the conversation he was having on his cell phone.
The incident led my friend to ask the question a lot of folks have posed since California’s new hands-free phone law...
Some people just don’t know when to shut up.
Fortunately, U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy of Bakersfield is one of them.
McCarthy, a champ of a talker, was an early instigator behind a burgeoning House energy protest, now heading into its third exhilarating week.
In case you missed the story — and if you blinked you probably did — McCarthy was one of about 50 Republicans who took to the House floor Aug. 1 to protest Congress’ failure to vote on an energy bill before...
Here’s a bit of sunshine for those of you who think we in the media only write about bad news.
Chad Vegas, pastor, educator and rabble-rouser, will run for another term on the Kern High School District board of trustees.
I can just hear the separation-of-church-and-state folks retching over their Corn Flakes, but Vegas’ decision to run again is good news for a lot of reasons.
It’s good news for Vegas’ fellow board members, some of whom tell me...
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