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I wasn’t going to talk about the Tilted Kilt.
I was going to ignore it and dismiss concerns over the pub's scantily clad servers with an if-you-don't-like-it-don't-go-there shrug.
Seems the pub’s servers — nubile young women clad in teeny tiny kilts and matching peek-a-boo bras — have been showing up in the oddest places. Like places other than the Tilted Kilt.
Owner Jeremy Helper said late Friday these visits were little more than an...
Up in Sacramento, awaiting the governor’s pen, is a bill that apparently doesn’t mean much to the mainstream media, but should.
News of the measure is making the rounds anyway, via the Internet, where some incredulous parents are actually checking urban legend sites to see if it could possibly be true.
Bad news, folks. It is.
In a vote split straight down party lines, the California Legislature approved AB 2567, a bill that would establish May 22 as Harvey Milk Day, to...
Joel Payne is a young man of very few words, so when the Department of Defense called asking for him, his parents weren’t sure what to make of it.
Joel Payne of Bakersfield, a sophomore at West Point, is donating bone marrow in hope of helping a a 55-year-old woman suffering acute lymphocytic leukemia. (Photo courtesy of the family)
Home in Bakersfield for the summer after a grueling first year at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, the 19-year-old former plebe...
It’s gonna be a heck of a year. And not in a good way.
At least not for kindergarten teachers of the Rosedale Union School District, where the kindergarten class-size reduction program is kaput, thanks, in part, to our Legislature’s stubborn inability to balance the budget.
One veteran teacher tells me her kindergarten class, like others in the district, has 30 students, including several 4-year-olds.
With only one part-time aide and few parent helpers, she’s...
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