http://people.bakersfield.com/home/Blog/soundoff/16375 Reader: I enjoyed your coverage of the recent races at the Famoso raceway. The articles were well written and informative and I am grateful for your coverage. However your reporting staff missed the boat, or drag racer in this case, in one important area. We have a homegrown boy who drove a homegrown car and is in the Drag Racing Hall of Fame but I never saw a mention of him or the car. He consistently beat up on the big names when they came West, and that includes Don Garlitts. His name is James Warren. -- Mike Grundvig Jenner: Thanks for your comments, Mike. Glad you enjoyed our coverage. I shared your comment about James Warren with veteran sportswriter Mike Griffith, who's covered motorsports for The Californian for many years. Here's his response: "I don't think I missed any boat. The first story I ever wrote for The Californian was a feature on James Warren and Roger Coburn more than 30 years ago. I've done numerous stories since then. A few years ago I did a feature on James after he was named one of the National Hot Rod Association's Top 50 drivers of all time. "I'll be catching up with James before the 50th anniversary of the March Meet in March 2008. That's the race where he won the Top Fuel title three years running in the mid-1970s, and that will be an appropriate time for a feature on James." Reader: The story you did on the Liberty High School drama team (in the Eye Street section) taking fourth place in the Utah Shakespeare festival was very good. Taking fourth is quite a feat with all the schools taking part in the competition. But I must say that Liberty took FIRST place last year and you did not even put a little blurb in your paper. It would have been nice to have given last year's team, which WON FIRST PLACE, at least some recognition. Thank you, -- Chris Latherow Jenner: They say that no good deed goes unpunished. I can't tell you why we didn't write a story last year recognizing the Liberty team's achievement in the competition. It may be that we didn't have the reporting resources available at the moment. More likely, nobody told us about the Liberty team's accomplishment. Whatever the reason, I regret that we weren't able to give last year's team its due. I'm happy we were able to celebrate the efforts of this year's team members and their accomplishment in this prestigious contest. Reader: Enough already with the Crisp and Cole crusade to try and destroy the two. Do our opinions really matter? Is it going to change anything? If it doesn't involve us directly then maybe we should stop sending letters that state our opinions and what should happen to them. Get over it. You don't have the facts, you only know what the news reporters have said and we all know how accurate the press can be. So get of their backs and let the courts handle it. -- Marleen Patt Jenner: I'm not sure I understand your beef about sending letters stating your opinions. But I can and will address your other statements. First, we're not out to destroy David Crisp or Carl Cole. But the story about what has happened to their real estate business is not only fascinating, it's flat out newsworthy. And as the investigations into their real estate dealings unfold, we will continue to cover those developments. It's true we don't know all the facts. But we know quite a few of them.And sharing the details about how the firm did business is vital to our readers' ability to understand what happened. We're not writing stories with a big headline on every minor turn of the screw in these investigations. But we have shared, and will continue to share, relevant facts with our readers. As for your comment about accuracy, our reporting has been thorough, meticulous and accurate. If there's an error in the thousands of facts we've reported, please bring it to my attention. Reader: Woke up this mornin' Walked out for the news Only thing in the paper Was B.B. singing the Blues You call that a party? Then you don't know Junior Brown 'Cause from where I was sittin' He's the best hands in town. -- Ed Quijano Jenner: Junior Brown is indeed an awesome musician. And our Eye Street editor is a huge Junior Brown fan who attended Wednesday's concert. Jennifer Self, who has been to many -- if not all -- of Junior Brown's Bakersfield shows, confirms that Wednesday night's was one of the best ones. Brown was loose and really seemed to enjoy himself. But as Jennifer points out, it's hard to not see B.B. King's performance -- probably the last one he will make in Bakersfield -- as significant and noteworthy, and probably bigger news. I expect we'll get more chances to see and hear Junior Brown in Bakersfield. We'll look for an opportunity to give him some coverage in the future. In the meantime, thanks for one of the most clever letters of complaint we've received in a long, long time. Reader: The article about Lisa Green considering a run for district attorney if Ed Jagels retires was accompanied by the most unflattering picture of her anyone down there could possibly have found, even in their most hurried moments. She is an attractive, professional-looking woman who has made quite a difference in Kern County. Next time maybe someone should take a little more time and choose a picture that really depicts who she is. Please don't tell me that's the only picture you have in your collection. How exactly was that picture chosen? -- Caroline Reid Jenner: Our archive does contain a number of photos of Lisa Green from recent years. But only two show her with her most recent hair style, the perm she was wearing on the day of the Vincent Brother sentencing. It's our policy to show newsmakers as they look today. That's why our photo editor chose the photo of her speaking to reporters in the hall outside the courtroom after the Brothers sentencing last month. When the Brothers trial ended we asked Green for the chance to photograph a portrait in her office, but she declined. We will ask again. Reader: I enjoyed your coverage of the recent races at the Famoso raceway. The articles were well written and informative and I am grateful for your coverage. However your reporting staff missed the boat, or drag racer in this case, in one important area. We have a homegrown boy who drove a homegrown car and is in the Drag Racing Hall of Fame but I never saw a mention of him or the car. He consistently beat up on the big names when they came West, and that includes Don Garlitts. His name is James Warren. -- Mike Grundvig Jenner: Thanks for your comments, Mike. Glad you enjoyed our coverage. I shared your comment about James Warren with veteran sportswriter Mike Griffith, who's covered motorsports for The Californian for many years. Here's his response: "I don't think I missed any boat. The first story I ever wrote for The Californian was a feature on James Warren and Roger Coburn more than 30 years ago. I've done numerous stories since then. A few years ago I did a feature on James after he was named one of the National Hot Rod Association's Top 50 drivers of all time. "I'll be catching up with James before the 50th anniversary of the March Meet in March 2008. That's the race where he won the Top Fuel title three years running in the mid-1970s, and that will be an appropriate time for a feature on James." Reader: The story you did on the Liberty High School drama team (in the Eye Street section) taking fourth place in the Utah Shakespeare festival was very good. Taking fourth is quite a feat with all the schools taking part in the competition. But I must say that Liberty took FIRST place last year and you did not even put a little blurb in your paper. It would have been nice to have given last year's team, which WON FIRST PLACE, at least some recognition. Thank you, -- Chris Latherow Jenner: They say that no good deed goes unpunished. I can't tell you why we didn't write a story last year recognizing the Liberty team's achievement in the competition. It may be that we didn't have the reporting resources available at the moment. More likely, nobody told us about the Liberty team's accomplishment. Whatever the reason, I regret that we weren't able to give last year's team its due. I'm happy we were able to celebrate the efforts of this year's team members and their accomplishment in this prestigious contest. Reader: Enough already with the Crisp and Cole crusade to try and destroy the two. Do our opinions really matter? Is it going to change anything? If it doesn't involve us directly then maybe we should stop sending letters that state our opinions and what should happen to them. Get over it. You don't have the facts, you only know what the news reporters have said and we all know how accurate the press can be. So get of their backs and let the courts handle it. -- Marleen Patt Jenner: I'm not sure I understand your beef about sending letters stating your opinions. But I can and will address your other statements. First, we're not out to destroy David Crisp or Carl Cole. But the story about what has happened to their real estate business is not only fascinating, it's flat out newsworthy. And as the investigations into their real estate dealings unfold, we will continue to cover those developments. It's true we don't know all the facts. But we know quite a few of them.And sharing the details about how the firm did business is vital to our readers' ability to understand what happened. We're not writing stories with a big headline on every minor turn of the screw in these investigations. But we have shared, and will continue to share, relevant facts with our readers. As for your comment about accuracy, our reporting has been thorough, meticulous and accurate. If there's an error in the thousands of facts we've reported, please bring it to my attention. Reader: Woke up this mornin' Walked out for the news Only thing in the paper Was B.B. singing the Blues You call that a party? Then you don't know Junior Brown 'Cause from where I was sittin' He's the best hands in town. -- Ed Quijano Jenner: Junior Brown is indeed an awesome musician. And our Eye Street editor is a huge Junior Brown fan who attended Wednesday's concert. Jennifer Self, who has been to many -- if not all -- of Junior Brown's Bakersfield shows, confirms that Wednesday night's was one of the best ones. Brown was loose and really seemed to enjoy himself. But as Jennifer points out, it's hard to not see B.B. King's performance -- probably the last one he will make in Bakersfield -- as significant and noteworthy, and probably bigger news. I expect we'll get more chances to see and hear Junior Brown in Bakersfield. We'll look for an opportunity to give him some coverage in the future. In the meantime, thanks for one of the most clever letters of complaint we've received in a long, long time. Reader: The article about Lisa Green considering a run for district attorney if Ed Jagels retires was accompanied by the most unflattering picture of her anyone down there could possibly have found, even in their most hurried moments. She is an attractive, professional-looking woman who has made quite a difference in Kern County. Next time maybe someone should take a little more time and choose a picture that really depicts who she is. Please don't tell me that's the only picture you have in your collection. How exactly was that picture chosen? -- Caroline Reid Jenner: Our archive does contain a number of photos of Lisa Green from recent years. But only two show her with her most recent hair style, the perm she was wearing on the day of the Vincent Brother sentencing. It's our policy to show newsmakers as they look today. That's why our photo editor chose the photo of her speaking to reporters in the hall outside the courtroom after the Brothers sentencing last month. When the Brothers trial ended we asked Green for the chance to photograph a portrait in her office, but she declined. We will ask again. en-us