Real Name: Steven Mayer Member Since: May 18, 2006 Last Signed In: November 16, 2009 Profile Views: 613 Blog Views: 22912 What recession? CEO of agency that administers health care to poor gets $13,000 raise Should Kern institute zero tolerance for dog attacks? Are Bako's dog control laws strict enough? Bakersfield man needs bone marrow transplant Mojave company qualifies for million-dollar Lunar Lander X-Prize Blowing dust prompts health warning With little ammo against H1N1, officials aim at seasonal flu Should the Secret Service have investigated alleged local threat to Obama? VICIOUS ATTACK: Are we tougher on violent humans than we are on violent dogs? State asking for billions more in stimulus for high-speed rail September 07 October 07 November 07 December 07 January 08 February 08 March 08 April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 November 08 December 08 January 09 February 09 March 09 April 09 May 09 June 09 July 09 August 09 September 09 October 09 November 09 Get an e-mail with a magazine you can print to read on the go. Sign up for the Topp Stories Printcast.
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For Immediate Release Thursday, July 30, 2009 -- 11 pm On 7/30/09, at approximately 8:37 p.m. Bakersfield Police received a report of a stolen vehicle which had just occurred in the 4300 block of Tierra Verde Street. The victim also reported that her 2-year-old son was in the vehicle at the time it was stolen. The mom had left her vehicle running inside her garage while she retrieved something from her apartment. When she returned several minutes later, the vehicle was gone. Approximately 10-12 minutes later, the vehicle was located by officers in the 800 block of Johnnie Street. The vehicle was abandoned. Officers also located the victim’s son walking near the vehicle. The child was not injured and was returned to his mother. There were no witnesses to the theft and there is no suspect information at this time. Anyone with information on this incident is asked to call BPD at 327-7111.
Pirate Radio has been sunk. It's no longer flying the skull and crossbones on its main mast. It has walked the plank -- and any other awful metaphor you can pull out of your pirate's chest. ARRGH! After several hours Monday running an audio loop that said KKXX was "under construction," the local office of American General Media announced that the station format known for playing an unusually wide variety of music is history. For good or for ill, Capt. Jack Sparrow has given way to contemporary crooner Jeremiah doing "Birthday Sex." "Hot Hits 93.1 will play ALL of today's hottest hits from pop to hip-hop," explained Monday's news release from AGM California. What do you think of Pirate's demise? And where do YOU go for your music? Bakersfield Police Lt. Hajir Nuriddin is worried. You can see it on her face and on the faces of Capt. Joe Bianco and Sgt. Joe Aldona as the trio gathers in the basement of police headquarters. Gang-related shootings in Bakersfield have spiked in the first half of this year, Nuriddin says. And to make matters worse, witnesses, street-level informants, and even anonymous tip lines have fallen all but silent. (One member of Bakersfield's black community asks for extraordinary measures by police.) "Has our city become desensitized by the violence that is occurring right in front of our eyes?" Nuriddin asks. Have we become desensitized, especially to black-on-black violence? Terry Bowe is a lifesaver. In 2005, he donated his blood stem cells to a critically ill patient whose name he didn't know and whose city of residence remained a guarded secret. Nearly four years after receiving Bowe's life-saving gift, Arizona resident Kimberly Richards remains a survivor -- and a thriver. "Terry considered it a privilege to be given the opportunity to save someone else's life," Richards said Wednesday from her home in Arizona. "Where would I be if he hadn't?" Now at age 54, Bowe has the rare chance to do it again. The Bakersfield husband and father's bone marrow has been matched to a 59-year-old man suffering from leukemia. Once again, Bowe doesn't even know the recipient's name. "I'm amazed that I get to do this again," Bowe said. "After my first experience, I swore I would do it again in a heartbeat. And I am. No hesitation. What do you think of Bowe's actions? Read the full story here. When Minnesota Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann said recently she would defy the law by refusing to complete next year’s national census, members of her own party begged her to reconsider. She ignored them. Bachmann complained that the national census, and the annual American Community Survey administered by the U.S. Census, include questions that are intrusive and out of bounds. Government and business planners say the confidential information gleaned from census surveys is invaluable in long-term planning of transportation systems, business expansion, health care infrastructure and other endeavors. What about you? Will you fill out your census forms or join Bachmann in her somewhat lonely vigil against what she sees as big government intrusion into our private lives?
Graphic printer Ken Hart, the owner of Master Graphics in Bakersfield, has come up with a bumper sticker he's giving away that proclaims, "Bakersfield: City of Righteousness." Hart said the San Joaquin Valley's southernmost big city has long suffered the slings and arrows of outrageously bad press. It's time to change that image, he said, by changing the mindset of those who live in B-town. Yes, he knows about the crime, the toxic air, the high rates of teen pregnancy and teen dropouts. But Hart also says Bako people are some of the kindest humans in the universe. Read the story here, then come back and tell us what you think. |
