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Budget woes are nothing new for our schools, but impending budget cuts really have parents talking.
“Did you hear?” one anxious mom asked me this week. “Stockdale High School cut their band.”
Shocking if it were true, which it absolutely is not, says Stockdale band director John Biller, who started Stockdale’s music program when the school opened 18 years ago.
“Wow, I hadn’t heard that one,” Biller said on Thursday. “There’s a lot...
What a week.
What an exhilarating, surprising, maddening week.
Our new president was ushered into office in a celebration so moving and so historic that Americans of all races wept as Barack Hussein Obama promised to protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.
It was a day to set aside partisan differences and most of us did.
But the honeymoon will soon be over and the man elected to lead — not by virtue of a proven record, but by a vague promise of change — has...
Yet another report came out this week, confirming that Kern County is a miserable place to live.
Just last week, Bakersfield made Forbes.com’s list of America’s 10 most boring cities. This week we have the news that we were fourth in the nation in property foreclosures in 2008, and, on Thursday, the American Lung Association of California gave Kern County a big fat “F” for its failure to protect its people from second-hand smoke.
Honestly, how do we live...
News alert: We’re in the midst of an economic meltdown and consumers aren’t spending like they used to.
I only mention it because there are retailers in Bakersfield who don’t seem to know it.
You know the stores I’m talking about. The ones where stone-faced sales clerks are clearly annoyed by people wanting to give them money in exchange for merchandise. Where clutter clogs the aisles and where, even with receipts, returns are an exercise in humility.
Where customer...
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