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Kern High School District Trustee Chad Vegas wants “In God We Trust” to be posted in every classroom in the district.
Vegas said he plans to discuss his proposal at Monday night's Board of Trustees meeting. The board member said he strongly supports teaching government and history in schools.
Vegas said Bakersfield City Councilwoman Jacquie Sullivan’s non-profit organization “In God We Trust -- America, Inc.” will...
In the organization of modern life, it has become confusing for people to define where they are on the dating ladder.
Are they dating, or just talking, or hanging out, or in a relationship or fantasizing about what they are really doing.
Reporter Kristi L. Gustafson, a cute young lady with the Albany Times Union, has written a story trying to sort out all that for you.
As your local expert on love, I'll weigh in on this.
Kristi has defined the stages as: Talking to, hanging...
Kern County Superior Court Judge Michael G. Bush agreed Thursday with a May jury recommendation that Vincent Brothers deserved to die by lethal injection for murdering five members of his family.
Shooting each one — his wife, his mother-in-law and his three small children — and stabbing his wife too qualified the former Fremont Elementary School vice-principal for the state's harshest penalty, Bush ruled.
The finding in the first-ever death penalty case for which Bush...
A Chicago Tribune story suggests that more and more companies are either firing people with unhealthy lifestyles or they are penalizing them in their cost of insurance.
While that makes sense as a way to cut company expenses, it smacks of invading privacy and curtailing freedom of choice.
A couple examples:
*Indianapolis-based Clarian Health has told its 13,000 employees that, starting in 2009, it will charge them $5 per pay period if they use tobacco or exceed specified levels of...
The New York Times has acknowledged it made a mistake in giving the liberal MoveOn.org a $77,000 break on a full-page ad that slammed Gen. David H. Patreaus and the war in Iraq.
The paper charged the group only $65,000 for the ad rather than the $142,000 full price.
I don't care about the politics about all this. It's just in this challenged media revenue times, newspapers should get every dollar they can.
MoveOn.org has said it will pony up the difference.
That's more like...
Sometimes you have to just pull back and see what you really have in prosecuting high-profile criminal cases.
And what you have in Jena, La. are six black teens accused of beating up a white student at school, which knocked him unconscious, but not so much that he couldn't attend a school event later that night.
That's a criminal case to be sure, but not one that calls for 15 to 20 years in prison.
So when the first defendant, Mychal Bell, 16 at the time of the Dec. 4 beating...
Last night a couple was married at the Kern County Fair. The imagery from Californian writer Felix Doligosa Jr. is classic:
"Nacho smells and wedding bells," "dirt stained her white wedding gown," and "fairgoers munching on corn dogs and drinking beer gathered around the couple."
But the couple didn't seem to care about the "distractions," Felix writes. They're in love and the fair was the sight of their first special date.
Ah, how sweet. Maybe...
The Brits have finally come up with a good idea.
In an effort to make their hospitals more healthy, they are banning neckties and some other types of clothing.
I don't care about the long sleeves and jewelry that they want to ban, but they have a great idea about the neckties.
Neckties are the high heels for men. They're stupid.
If God had wanted people to wear neckties, he wouldn't have invented Polo shirts.
But the Brits note that unlike other clothes people wear, neckties...
Las Vegas police have confirmed that O.J. Simpson is a suspect in a sports memorabilia theft case.
One report quoted Simpson as saying the items were his.
The matter is still under investigation and there are conflicting reports so it is not clear yet whether the items taken in the theft are or were in Simpson's possession.
But if there was a break in, it's not a defense that the items were Simpson's in the first place. There are procedures available to handle disputes and burglary...
A North Carolina study show that money is a key incentive for people to lose weight.
In a study of 200 people, one third was given no money, one third was given $7 for every 1 percent drop in body weight and the last third was given $14 for every one percent drop.
The results were after three months, those who received no money lost an average of 2 pounds. Those in the $7 group lost 3 pounds; those in the $14 group lost 5 pounds.
The study indicates it works for companies to pay...
I don't know that I am always clear headed when I go in the potty room, but I know what I go in for and it's never a crime.
So it is with a certain sense of amusement that I read that Idaho Sen. Larry Craig wants to withdraw his guilty plea to disorderly conduct in a restroom because he was confused by media pressure when he entered it.
Specifically, Craig blamed the pressure for being confused about his sexuality. And if you get confused about that, how can you have a clear mind when...
There's an item in Annie's Mailbox today about a man who was given a surprise 50th birthday party.
He got some gifts and thanked each person for coming. He opened the gifts later.
His wife said he now needed to write thank you notes. He said he was too old to do that and because he gave everyone thanks enough.
Annie told the wife, leave him alone. His friends will think he is lacking in manners and they will be right.
I'm not sure I ever wrote a thank you note that I wasn't forced...
As someone who has done this twice, I am curious how people feel about public marriage proposals such as the Bakersfield man who is walking to Anaheim to propose.
Nathan Staker, 21, a Foothill High grad, began on Thursday the 135-mile trek to the home of his girlfriend, 21-year-old Nicole Falthermayer, in Anaheim.
In the stuff that you can't make up, Officer Love of the California Highway Patrol (first name Ryan) stopped Staker at 9 a.m. today (Friday) on Interstate 5 near...
Reporter Jason Kotowski sat in The Quake Cottage simulator of an 8.0 earthquake.
That's a bigun. You don't casually walk to the bathroom during one of those.
My wife and I were talking the other day about our favorite earthquakes. Our pool sloshed a lot during the Northridge quake. I went down there to cover it, stayed on the 26th floor of a hotel and felt a 5.2 aftershock.
At one of those heavily damaged apartment buildings you saw on TV was this Chinese man who...
His 4-year-old asked, "Why do ships have round windows?" "Is hummus like dinosaur poop?" "Why can't we just cook her (his tantrum throwing infant sister)?"
So Wendell Jamieson, city editor for the New York Times, decided to write down the questions from his son, Dean, as well as questions he heard about from other children.
He decided to answer the questions, 124 in all, in a book titled, "Father Knows Less, or, "Can I cook My sister?"...
AT&T began today a service that will allow a parent to restrict the number of calls and text messages on a teen's cellphone, as well as the hours of the day it can be used and what numbers are off limits.
For $4.99 per month per line, the service will also set allowances for ring tones and other downloads.
The company said in its mind, the controls are better than parents taking cellphones away altogether.
The teen phone would have unrestricted access to 911 calls.
A Web site...
A story in the New York Times asks if people have grown weary of tributes and memorials to the Sept. 11 attack, which will have its 6th anniversary this year.
Some feel the 6 years is "just a blink of an eye" in relation to the life-altering tragedy, while others feel a small tribute is sufficient.
I think this, just like Pearl Harbor, was a pivotal event in America. While there may be a time in the future when it gets reduced to an "Oh, yeah, that's right this is the day...
The son of one of my friends just started attending University of Texas.
His father called him up at midnight the other day to say hi and give any needed reassurance. The son said he couldn't talk, he was in the middle of a poker game.
The point is the young man was making new friends. His dad said that always came easy to him.
That's a useful trait.
It always came easy for me as my family moved all across the United States (Minnesota, Wisconsin, California, Texas, Washington and...
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