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The Grade
Reporter Jorge Barrientos on local school issues
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Bits and pieces from one of Kern's news geeks
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Three @50
A blog exploring the costs of city and county public safety pensions
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No holds barred
Columnist Lois Henry says "What the...?!"
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Ralph Bailey
Community columnist Ralph Bailey"
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Community columnist Ric Llewellyn"
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School House Zach
Sports reporter Zach Ewing goes inside local prep sports
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Condors Talk
Sports reporter Mike Griffith on Bakersfield's hockey team
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Sports editor Ross Priest reads the sports world its last rites
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Sports writer Jeff Evans tackles local and national sports
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Another beauty between BC and Hancock
These guys always seem to have great games. BC's 24-21 Golden Empire Bowl win on Saturday had more twists than a Magic Mountain roller coaster (OK, that's a pretty sorry cliche). BC be at Hancock for the second time this season, and...
Posted: Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 11:22 pm
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Statement by CARB board member
Here is a video of Dr. Telles asking that the truck rule be set aside because of problems with the researcher's credentials. It's pretty strong. &nb sp;
Posted: Saturday, November 21, 2009 at 1:02 pm
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Lies and cover ups tarnish California Air Resources Board
It’s not the lie, it’s the cover up that’ll get you. How many times does this wisdom have to be pounded into the heads of bureaucrats? The scandal over how a lead researcher behind California’s new diesel truck rul...
Posted: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 7:33 pm
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Strange encounter ends in arrest
I received a lot of reaction to my piece about the fellow who came to my door the other night, acted strangely and then ran off (see Wednesday’s paper or my blog at www.bakersfield.com) . Well, he was arrested Thursday evening, still...
Posted: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 7:14 pm
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Is a new southwest Body Xchange coming?
Q: For quite a while there used to be a sign on Stine Road (right off of Panama) indicating that a Body Xchange would be coming soon. I noticed this week that the sign has been removed. Are there still plans for a future Body Xchange at t...
Posted: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 6:22 pm
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Will The Californian allow new story commenting tools?
Q: Does The Californian have any plans to allow readers to post comments on its Web site using Facebook or Twitter accounts? Some news sites are now letting readers log-in to their sites using their Facebook and Twitter accounts. - ...
Posted: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 6:20 pm
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Why are tractors plowing on a no-burn day?
Q: Why is it on the first no-burn day of the season I see several tractors plowing their fields sending huge plumes of dust hundreds of feet in the air? I thought the point of a no-burn day was to reduce the amount of particulate in the ai...
Posted: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 6:19 pm
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What is the Fairfax-178 "design flaw"?
FYI, we're changing how we blog Ask TBC items. We'll post them one-by-one instead of grouped by day they run in the newspaper. - Government editor Christine Bedell Q: For months now it has been explained that the westbound off-ramp to Fai...
Posted: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 6:13 pm
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PG&E smartmeters WILL be tested
Just got this from Sen. Dean Florez' office. YAY! (though why it took intervention from a senator to get the CPUC to get off its duff and actually treat consumer's complaints seriously is another story!) Still, good news! And I'm also re...
Posted: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 12:12 pm
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Week 11 (playoffs) running thread and scoreboard
by zewing
UPDATED, 11:49 p.m.: Here's what we're looking at for next week. We'll talk more about it Sunday in a Most Important Things post, but I wanted to get the matchups out there and talked about now: Division I (8) Centennial at (1) ...
Posted: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 11:08 am
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