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We've been talking about it for a while, and now we finally have a date! The first of a continuing series of Bakersfield.com blogger meet-ups will be on Saturday, March 17 (yes, St. Patrick's Day) at 3:30 p.m. at Dagny's Coffee Company on the corner of 20th and Eye Streets downtown....
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Calvin Calloway, a former student of Vincent Brothers, is one of a few witnesses in the case for which there is an order prohibiting video coverage.
That's why we don't have video of Calloway testifying that he saw Brothers late on the night of July 4 outside the Harper home, a time in which...
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We are now number one on Google, by searching on the words: "Bakersfield High" (keyword energy) Of all the energy companies in Kern County, why is it that non-engineers, who cannot afford to go to college can figure out how to advertise energy education on Google and...
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Hi, i'm Myriam and the last thing of i remember of my mom was that she lives in Bakersfield and worked in UFCW her name is Maria de la Luz Martinez(thats the name form Mexico) but in one of hers letters she told me that she was changed her name to Maria R. Martinez. She have a dougther...
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No doubt that in recent years, car bumpers have become attractive.
But they don't help much in keeping repair costs down in minor collisions of up to 6 mph.
A study on midsized cars found a few that kept damage under $1,500, but most were more expensive with some exceeding $4,000 damage....
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Why did it take 30 years for Americans to break off their love affair with rap music?
Rap sales slid a whopping 21 percent from 2005 to 2006, an Associated Press story reported.
At the risk of sounding like my parents who didn't like rock'n roll, I have always equated rap music with porn...
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This question comes up because a 15-year-old girl spent 5 WEEKS!!!!!!! hiccuping until it finally stopped on Wednesday.
News agencies reported:
She sipped pickle juice, held her breath, breathed into a bag, even went to a neurologist, but for more than five weeks nothing would stop a...
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“The risks to society and ecosystems from climate change could prove to be significant.”-these words came out of the piehole of Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson. Jim Hightower has a short piece up on his website that takes Big Oil to task for not doing enough to develop alternative forms of...
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The fourth best road team in the ECHL (212-6-2-4, .625 percent) will be put to the test over the next 15 days as the Condors begin their most gruelling journey of the season — nine games in four states, starting with the league-leading Alaska Aces tonight.
Bakersfield is third in the...
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Joey Porter, that outspoken linebacker for the Pittsburg Steelers who hails from Bakersfield, has been released by the Steelers.
It begs the question. Where will he go now?
I'm thinking a loudmouth would blend with the Oakland Raiders.
Where do you think Joey's talents could best...
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Kelly Tomlinson's November letter calling for tolerance on the Kern County Bike Path was selected The Californian's 2006 letter of the year. The winner was selected by the editorial board from the 12 letter of the months that were featured in the Opinion section during 2006. The Sunday, March 4,...
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What does "It takes a village to raise a child" mean? In the 1950s it meant
that everyone in the neighborhood helped raise and discipline your child.
This ideology came from genuine love and respect for your neighborhood --
not the artificial feeling we have today. If a child...
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Cold chills went down my back when I heard the news that the Bakersfield
City Planning Commission voted to rename 500 feet of S Street Merle Haggard
Way. The Californian reported Merle was "thrilled" with the honor. It
brought back my own dark memories of how "thrilled" I...
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New Year's Eve was celebrated at home with our best friends. This long
tradition always includes a prayer for health, happiness and protection from
harm in the months to come.
My husband and friends are retired from security and law enforcement
careers, and we have many family members and...
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I started smoking when I was 11 and quit, cold turkey, 19 years later. That
was more than 35 years ago and I haven't picked up a cigarette since.
At the time, I didn't believe I was addicted, but I was. What else would you
call it when you're so hard up for a cigarette that you go hunting in...
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Hanging in my classroom at Compton Junior High School is my high school
letterman jacket with the words "Swim Your Race."
Being the geek that I was, these words were a metaphor. Literally, I was a
swimmer; metaphorically, I believed that no matter the obstacle, we must
stay...
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I have lived through several episodes of immigration reform. The current
debate stirred old memories. I do not presume to offer a resolution to the
current debate, but I will share a bit of my family history that may provide
food for thought.
My family and I were once deported as...
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The late September sun beat down on the oil-soaked dirt playground at
McKinley Elementary School. It was afternoon and I was dutifully leading my
sixth-grade class out for physical education a vigorous game of volleyball.
It was hot, but my students were enthusiastic and threw themselves...
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My husband and I recently viewed the movie "The Devil Wears Prada." I like
Meryl Streep and she was quite convincing in her role as a strong,
demanding, impossible to please, boss.
A long, long time ago, when I was a teenager, I worked at the cosmetic
counter at Brock's Department...
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I recently read on article about Pope Benedict XVI's treatise on Islam and
the West. As a long-time educator and Protestant Christian, I have always
been interested in religious and political views, especially as they impact
the U.S. At this point, attention to Islam, Christianity and world...
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I remember the actual day I learned to read. I had been in first grade for a
few weeks. One morning I left the house to walk to school and I wasn't a
reader. But when I came home that afternoon, I COULD READ! I felt I was the
lucky recipient of a personal miracle. It was as quick as that!...
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After reading a recent letter to the editor regarding fundraising walkers
and bicyclists sharing the Kern River Bike Path, it occurred to me to
communicate my personal insight to this gentleman and others who may not
understand the full impact these fundraising walks have on all participants....
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It was with great sadness and a heavy heart to hear of another life lost at
the railroad crossing at Kratzmeyer Road and Santa Fe Way.
The deadly accident that took place on Nov. 29 is one more reason our local,
state and federal governments need to come together to fix this crossing....
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PUBLISHED 2-2-2007
Oliver repeatedly admonished Stanley in 1930s slapstick: “Well, here’s another nice mess you’ve gotten me into.”
Bakersfield taxpayers should feel that way after learning Fire Civil Service Commissioner Stuart Gentry telephoned dismissed...
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The OB/GYN physicians in Kern Women's Health Group have had their share of troubles with county supervisors.
Accused of being paid too much, bilking the county out of money, taking advantage of a convoluted contract — the physicians have had to go to bat against the board more than...
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Looks like our freshman Congressman has someone other than working people in mind when he thinks about the people who he represents. Today, he voted against the Employee Free Choice Act. The Majority Leader describes the act this way:
http://speaker.gov/newsroom...
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WASHINGTON - The Army said Thursday that the two-star general in charge of Walter Reed Army Medical Center has been relieved of command following disclosures about inadequate treatment of wounded soldiers.
Maj. Gen. George W. Weightman, who was commanding general of the North Atlantic Regional...
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A Santa Rosa high school freshman was being razzed by classmates about her conservative Mormon upbringing when she retorted, "That's so gay."
The school, Maria Carillo High School in Santa Rosa, gave the girl, Rebekah Rice a warning and noted it in her file.
Her parents have sued...
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There is nothing worse than losing a baby.
The hurt by a mother, a grandmother and other relatives is more painful and lasting than being touched by a flaming sword.
So initially, we all wondered how grandmother Brenda Stockman, 46, and her daughter, Sandy, 28, could be arrested on felony...
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I’ve already called attention to our treasonously porous borders being like that asteroid in the film “Armageddon,” threatening us, coming straight at us. But in the film “Deep Impact” when the reporter discovers “Ellie” was really E.L.E. she is...
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What's with Republicans announcing candidacies on late night comedy shows?
Did Arnold start a trend?
Arizona Senator John McCain announced his intention to run on the David Letterman show Wednesday night.
Is the message here that this is funny?
On a personal note, I like McCain as a...
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Calico.3.1.07.carrie
Young and free
How could this happen
You lay there twisted and broken
Eyes wide open to the sun
Copper and beautiful
On hard pavement
To be passed under harder stares
I’ve watched you from my window
Following your mother
Leaping at your shadow...
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For those of you charting my humble musical path, the song Merle Hasn't Lost His Fightin' Side jumped over about 1200 songs this week on this chart,
http://www.neilyoung.com/lw...
to hit #243. Yes, it's still a long way to #1, but with a little help from my friends...
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I have a theory that is pretty much proven itself, as a soldier 1st and then as a civilian I have little to no opinion on what the world as a whole can do. I vote and move on, well I am tired of getting caught up in the mess that is becoming a trend here, I mean the Army as a whole has become a...
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I really have no patience for peoples attitudes now days, I find myself having a shorter fuze with people that are plain ignorant, I mean we have gone to many wars through out the ages of man and where did it always get us to? No where fast. In my opinion it makes no sence to go to war we should...
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I am just wondering whats going on with soldiers getting state taxed while deployed in other countries? I just read an article, about how other states are going to stop taxing soldiers while overseas, I have been overseas for over 7 years of my 10 and a half year career, and them taxes add up for...
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I like Rudy, America's favorite mayor and a former US Attorney General. I like his stand on gay and pro-choice issues. His stance during his tenure as Mayor of NYC showed he respects illegals as human beings when he issued a decree that stated city employees could not contact the feds with...
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Help me fellow bloggers.. how do you start tracking someone you suspect has Alzheimers, when do you call their doctor and what can you expect the Dr. to do. When do you call the family attorney, and when do you begin to interfere with someone's life?????
Story is my relative shows signs, short...
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teachers, parents, students, and their supporters flooded the education center last night in support of bcsd educators, with numbers of picketers estimated to be upward of 800 ... the superintendent and his clan contend that the union is being unreasonable & that teachers don't want what the...
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PUBLISHED 3-1-2007
Logic dictates that a lethal product used as directed ought to be banned — and there is no longer any scientific doubt that tobacco is a killer.
But Congress and few people want to risk another Prohibition era — with all its attendant risks of crime,...
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PUBLISHED 3-1-2007
How nice. How very genteel. How downright Marie Antionette-like.
On the eve of a critical meeting, during which scarce road-building dollars were to be doled out, members of the California Transportation Commission were being wined and...
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n-gage, our e-newsletter about all things interactive on Bakersfield.com, goes out to your inboxes every Thursday at 10 a.m. Tomorrow's will be issue number 2. To make sure you don't miss a single edition, including a new "neighbor" profile every week, click here to sign up...
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Clark and Soltz of VoteVets.org have created a YouTube Video about their new website: StopIranWar.com
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The Titanic was real, so must "The Lost Tomb of Jesus" which includes Jesus, the Biblical Savior of the world; his wife, Mary Magdeline, and their son Judah, also be real?
Where does that question come from?
James Cameron, the filmmaker who explored the wreck of the Titanic and...
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Now it can be told: people are concerned about global warming not because it's a serious threat, but all due to Satan's Plan to change the subject using the Weather Channel as his minion:
http://www.thecarpetbaggerr...
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The evidence is far from over in the trial on whether Vincent Brothers killed five of his family members, but the last two days has shown the ebb and flow of "who's winning."
One could argue that on Monday when Vincent Brothers sobbed upon seeing the photographs of his dead family...
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2/28/07
Paint it Black. It's a song I used to love, but could never relate to entirely. Now, sadly, I can relate to it. I know that getting depressed is a common reaction that Alzheimer's patients experience, especially as they approach the middle stage of the disease. ...
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When you think “Rescue the damsel in distress, kill the bad guy, save the world” think of Al Gore. Say what anyone will anyone hated by both the Clintons and Bush must have something right about him; and in my opinion this something is the fact Al is a consummate romantic. There are...
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It's been only three years since that nightmare of a grocery strike here in Bakersfield, but already there are rumblings of another strike in the offing.
Union reps now negotiating with owners of Vons and Albertsons are looking to get back what they lost with their last contract, but they may...
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A few weeks back, I posted something about an old phone device I had found under a house. I kept toying with it and had made some headway. Then, the other night, I was having trouble sleeping and was flipping through some old catalogs I have. Very old in this case. They...
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