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Was review of Nikki's Smoking BBQ off base? Shooting headline missed the mark Going to question new firefighter OT in Southern California, too? Famoso coverage great, but what about ... ? The wonders of Kern and casual bikini tops Changes at newspaper, can you try being better? Forget the weather, what's with that page? Did you have to detail dog's destruction? Ann Coulter, TV Guide and dead dogs Newspaper didn't put Ann Coulter in context, reader says June 06 July 06 August 06 September 06 October 06 November 06 December 06 January 07 February 07 March 07 April 07 May 07 June 07 July 07 August 07 September 07 October 07 November 07 December 07 January 08 February 08 March 08 April 08 May 08 May 06 April 06 March 06 December 05 November 05 October 05 September 05 August 05 July 05 June 05 May 05 April 05 Blog RollAsk The Californian Editorials Entertainment Eye of Bakersfield Faith Forum Fired Up! Inside Sports Neighbors Right Thinking Sound Off Talk of the Town 
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Reader: Must we again endure the annual stream of articles/columns in The Californian comparing Bakersfield’s hot summers to the depths of Hades? Every summer, people whine about Bako’s hot, dry weather and feign surprise at our first 100-degree day in May or June. (The chorus of crying and complaining must be deafening in places like Phoenix, Palm Springs and Las Vegas — all of which get much hotter than Bakersfield.)Many of us hearty types have grown to enjoy the pleasures...
Reader: Shouldn’t it have been “Thomas’s trips ...”?—Craig HollandManaging Editor Logan Molen: You’re referring to our front-page headline Tuesday that read, “Thomas’ trips draw notice.”The Associated Press Stylebook calls for only an apostrophe after singular proper nouns ending in “s.” However, the stylebook recommends “ ’s” for singular common nouns ending in “s” — unless the following...
Reader: Your front-page article “Deluge of Questions” and the section-A centerfold on the Lake Isabella Dam (June 18) were very informative and important to this area, as well as to Bakersfield. I bought three copies of the newspaper to preserve and inform some friends. I hope these two articles would be kept available on your Web site for a considerable period of time, for future reference. I've already shown these articles to several people who are very...
Reader: The liberal rag Californian would have you believe that only the news stories they pick, and only the news comments and letters to the editor that they endorse or pick to be published are the only important newsworthy stories.It is important to note that since I wrote my letter to the editor, this rag has published no less than four news stories that are DIRECTLY related to the news story that I wrote my letter to the editor story on.And yet my letter to the editor doesn’t ever...
Welcome to the new version of our Bakersfield.com blogs.As you can tell, there are some big changes. We have moved from our original blog provider, Typepad. Now we are running our blogs on our own system, the same one we use for our user profiles and blogs.So what does this mean for our loyal blog readers? Well, a couple things.First off, to comment on our new blogs you need to be registered with Bakersfield.com. You don’t have to have your name attached with your posts. You can choose...
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