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Fri Dec 4, 2009
Team Hope Bake Sale
 Bake Sale   Team Hope is having a Bake Sale Dec 4th from 1130am-130pm in the Mercy Hospital Cafeteria (2215 Truxtun Ave) to raise money for 2010 Relay for Life. Come and support Team Hope and buy a goody. If you would like...
Posted by RebeccaLewis010 - Tue Nov 17, 2009 15:20:40 PST
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Ex-California Prison Guard releases New Book
Just released last week. Story now tells all what goes behind the walls of a California State prison.   http://search.barnesandnobl...
Posted by StandingAlone48 - Sat Nov 7, 2009 22:25:06 PST
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Mettler Needs To Be Expelled
There is no doubt that changes are needed in the Kern High School District.  One such change can't come soon enough -- the expulsion of Ken Mettler.  As a neo-conservative that only cares about his own...
Anonymous user - Tue Sep 22, 2009 10:47:56 PDT
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Local Author Writes Letter to Treas. Sec. Geithner
After a year of seeing and hearing about the misery and disruption to families, the Great Recession has caused to the people of this great country, Leonard C. Tekaat, a local author, decided to write a letter to US Treasury...
Posted by happyashell - Thu Sep 17, 2009 15:33:33 PDT
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9-11 UNITED WE STAND
  9-11 I was in the middle of building our swimming pool, contractor Kris Krauter was here with me going over things and I had news on. I couldn’t believe what I saw when first plane hit and went totally white and STUNNED...
Posted by dianeof70s - Fri Sep 11, 2009 13:12:15 PDT
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weevil deux
look what i found online just now. please consider reading it... unless you're easily offended, that is.   http://www.gilbertgia.com/h...    
Posted by carlalafong - Tue Sep 8, 2009 16:50:50 PDT
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Our Kids and Politics
A poll on FaceBook asked; "Should the United States President be allowed to do a nationwide address to our children at school, without prior parental consent?” Why not...shouldn't our kids be able to hear...
Posted by dianeof70s - Mon Sep 7, 2009 16:59:10 PDT
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Sheriff Joe Arpaio
Just something I came across and thought our local government might be able to take some hints from...  ...
Anonymous user - Thu Sep 3, 2009 09:46:53 PDT
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Economic Crisis Is Solvable
  The currant government deficit spending policies (Keynesian Economics) will lead to another inflation economic cycle. We also know that the currant policies to correct inflation have always created a recession or a bubble...
Posted by happyashell - Wed Sep 2, 2009 15:37:37 PDT
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CURIOUS ABOUT ARTICLE
I am trying to find a story printed Aug.12. It was on page 6 ? It is about a man trying to get his S.S. and he is having a problem with the state of California and Texas. Would someone please post it or e-mail it to me ?...
Posted by rotnrotsmom - Sat Aug 22, 2009 21:35:11 PDT
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Obama 'lends' $2 billion to Brazil for offshore drilling
The Obama administration sent $2 billion taxpayer dollars to Petromas, Brazil's state-owned oil company, for start-up cash to begin drilling for oil at an offshore site . . . in Brazil!  This, despite the fact that Petromas is the...
Posted by savvydude - Thu Aug 20, 2009 19:20:12 PDT
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California issues IOU's
California has been issuing IOU's for decades. If you cross the border illegally, IOU free medical care, welfare, housing etc. If you break a law, IOU free medical, 3 meals a day, an education etc. If you have more babies than...
Posted by puntdaddy - Wed Jul 15, 2009 08:19:42 PDT
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Ken Mettler
Ken Mettler is a poor example of a public servant, educator and administrator.  I read today he wants to cut salaries of Kern High School personnel.  Is it possible to recall him for cause? How bout his altercation with...
Posted by theoppressedone - Tue Jun 23, 2009 23:09:42 PDT
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Stop Making Your Mortgage Payments
To end the recession quickly there are four objectives that must be met.   1.More money must be created in the private sector to increase demand.   2.A majority of people in the economy must receive this money.  ...
Posted by happyashell - Tue Jun 2, 2009 08:18:41 PDT
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DEEP RECESSION WAS AVOIDABLE
  DEEP RECESSION WAS AVOIDABLE   Basically what has happened to our economy, the means of exchange has decreased significantly.   The Committee For Economic Reform and a Better Economic Future has developed an...
Posted by happyashell - Mon May 25, 2009 10:03:55 PDT
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NEW COMMITEE FORMED TO PROMOTE ECONOMIC Stability
A new committee has been formed to promote economic reform and stability.  Their goal is to create policies that promote and create a stable economy that will provide the opportunities for people to be able to provide for...
Posted by happyashell - Thu May 21, 2009 12:27:38 PDT
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PLAN B TO BALANCE CA. BUDGET
This information is to inform you that there is another way to balance CA. budget, stimulate the economy, increase employment and end the recession! By enacting the policy changes we are purposing, they will stimulate the entire...
Posted by happyashell - Wed May 20, 2009 03:40:29 PDT
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Plan B for Califorina
I would like to share a letter I wrote to our Senator Roy Ashburn.  Please feel free to post your comments. If you agree with me and don't want our government putting our posterity into massive debt, with its huge deficit, and...
Posted by happyashell - Sat May 16, 2009 16:35:07 PDT
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BC Student Government Holds Landmark Elections
For the first time in the history of the Bakersfield College Student Government Association (SGA), the annual elections of the board of directors is being planned and carried out though a partnership with Kern County Elections. In years...
Posted by amberc - Thu Apr 30, 2009 09:50:53 PDT
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Dismayed by Inga Barks' April 6 letter
  I was dismayed to see Inga Bark’s letter of April 6, 2009, appear in the online edition of The Bakersfield Californian. Reason for my dismay is simple; Ms. Barks has a very poor grasp of facts. There is too little space to...
Posted by jamiejacks - Mon Apr 13, 2009 09:34:56 PDT
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Private Investigators lobby at the State Capitol
On Monday, over 70 California Association of Licensed Investigators (CALI) members took time from their busy schedules to participate in the annual legislative day at the California State Capitol. Attending from Bakersfield were Private...
Posted by JMSerano - Thu Mar 19, 2009 11:13:12 PDT
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First woman voter in Kern County
Women's right to vote took years of work by suffrage movement groups across the nation. These groups believed if women had voting rights they could help clean up dirty politics and cure social ills such as child labor, prostitution and...
Posted by Contributor - Fri Mar 6, 2009 15:05:55 PST
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Wind Wolves Preserve for "Sheep"...
              When people imagine a wildlife preserve, Wind Wolves Preserve (WWP) at the edge of southwestern Kern County, fits the description well. At least as a...
Posted by CountChad - Mon Mar 2, 2009 10:15:25 PST
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Stimulus 2009: What does it mean for you?
What does the most recent Stimulus bill mean for you? News Release   For Further Information: 661-323-1040     Stimulus 2009: Something for nearly everyone 95 percent of workers to benefit – but they will...
Anonymous user - Wed Feb 18, 2009 13:42:17 PST
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President Obama & me
 Back in the fall of 1964, at the tender age of 21, I went a half block from my parents’ home in Brooklyn New York to the Arlington Avenue branch of the New York Public Library, where I registered to vote. In order to...
Posted by lizkeo - Wed Feb 18, 2009 11:06:39 PST
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Proud yet Saddened
Waking up the day after our recent election, I was very proud of our country in many ways and very saddened by California in others. The fact that we have come so far as a nation that within a little over a hundred years a man who would...
Posted by l8deblu - Mon Nov 10, 2008 11:12:41 PST
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No On 8 Rallies in Bakersfield
It was a beautiful three days in Bakersfield this past weekend (Oct 24-26) as those in opposition to proposition 8 exercised their free expression of speech and assembly at three different intersections on three different days. ...
Posted by linfestyp - Tue Oct 28, 2008 12:45:48 PDT
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Prop 8 ramblings...
So since I've moved out of California, I've been pretty happy that California's laws haven't effected me, except now, they do. We all know prop 8 is supposed to overturn the law that over turned our vote a few years ago on the subject of...
Posted by ki6amd - Tue Oct 28, 2008 12:37:36 PDT
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Bill Thomas to Discuss the Election at Bakersfield College
The man who had one of the best views of the Washington political scene for many years will provide Bakersfield residents with insight on the upcoming election in a special event at Bakersfield College on October 30. Former U.S....
Posted by amberc - Mon Oct 27, 2008 17:49:09 PDT
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Yard Signs...
 Yard Signs: The moment last summer when Barack Obama clinched the Democratic nomination I went to my garage, pulled out my “Vote Pro-Life” sign and put in my front yard.  My home is positioned in such a way that...
Posted by jblack - Mon Oct 27, 2008 14:28:07 PDT
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Justice for Jared
JUSTICE FOR JARED   I am just your average mother. That fact is an important detail of MY story. In less than three weeks, we will go to the polls, again, to vote on gay marriage. We’ve been here before and we’re here...
Anonymous user - Thu Oct 23, 2008 13:49:02 PDT
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Berg vs. Obama, Civil Action No. 08-cv-4083
I am quite a bit upset that this story has not recieved much main stream media attention.  Apparently Obama's citizenship has been questioned by a law suit against him in Pennsylvania (Berg vs. Obama, Civil Action No....
Posted by jkappel - Thu Oct 23, 2008 13:35:08 PDT
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Vote Nader 2008
I can't wait any longer. I'm posting it as is. *** This video is the first entry in Bakersfield.com's video polling contest. Submit your video of "Which presidential candidate is getting your vote and why?" and enter to win...
Posted by hotandfoggy - Wed Oct 22, 2008 11:35:53 PDT
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GOTV at the Obama Family Rally
It was a big day for Bakersfield on Saturday as hundred showed for an Obama Family Rally.  People were fired up for the next President of the United States, Barak Obama.  Provided, of course, that rally goers got to those...
Posted by linfestyp - Mon Oct 13, 2008 10:33:55 PDT
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A Change We Can Believe In??
A change we can believe in, I think not! If you have been following election coverage then you will remember this motto as said by Barack Obama. When I was watching the vice presidential debate I remember hearing Joe...
Posted by klcjns - Mon Oct 6, 2008 16:09:20 PDT
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CSUB to host debate on Prop. 8
California State University, Bakersfield’s Gay Lesbian Straight Student Network (GLSSN) is teaming with the Kegley Institute of Ethics to co-host a debate on Thursday, Oct. 9 on Proposition 8, the Eliminates Right of Same Sex...
Posted by CSUB1 - Mon Oct 6, 2008 12:11:03 PDT
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How my Government is destroying my Golden Years
As a US Citizen I find that I have "no" rights in the following issue and am evidentally considered "fraudulent" by my own Government. .=The same Government that I once took an oath to defend and honor. Very briefly...
Posted by valvue - Mon Oct 6, 2008 11:42:15 PDT
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Disappointed and concerned about lack of citizen interest
  A very disappointing thing happened to me in the last few days. I attended two Ward 3 town hall-type meetings that were organized and hosted by Councilman Ken Weir and City Staff.   No, I wasn’t disappointed...
Posted by willwinn - Thu Sep 11, 2008 10:45:03 PDT
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Author David Kulczyk at Russo Books on September 27th
 Author David Kulczyk will be signing and speaking about his book, California Justice - Shootouts, Lynchings and Assassinations in the Golden State (Word Dancer Press) at Russo Books (9000 Ming Ave) on September 27th .   ...
Posted by CaliforniaJustice - Mon Sep 8, 2008 11:05:07 PDT
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Evolution just a 'theory'
Anyone who prefaces the word "theory" with the words "just" or "only" obviously doesn't even know what a theory is. The ignorant among us equate theory with belief. They aren't the same thing and no the...
Posted by avantichamp - Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:51:59 PDT
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A Response to Marylee Shrider's Article on the Gay Marriage Controversy
Dear Marylee, While I can understand and appreciate your religious beliefs concerning homosexuality, I'm quite appalled that you would make such a gross generalization of the entire gay population.  Just as I am entitled to my...
Anonymous user - Mon Jun 2, 2008 13:43:43 PDT
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Bereavement Without End-A Plea From Alienated Parents Everywhere
The death of a child is indisputably one of the most incredibly horrible tragedies one can imagine. Whether by sudden accidental circumstance, or by a more lengthy cause as in illness, the loss of a child is undeniably painful to...
Posted by splitntwo - Thu Apr 17, 2008 15:35:31 PDT
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Perils of Party Loyalty
 Early now, in the political season, but  even so, there doesn't seem to be much fervor, except of course on CNN. A fair amount of inter party insults, but we can only hope that when we get down -- or up -- to Red vs Blue this...
Posted by pbowhay - Wed Jan 23, 2008 15:52:24 PST
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Bakersfield Bound...
As we have been traveling from Iowa to Nevada for the Presidential campaign caucuses, we finally arrive in California next week as we travel around the state prior to the super-duper-tsunami-mega-extreme- awesome-include overused media...
Posted by CSPANCampaign2008Bus - Mon Jan 21, 2008 10:26:09 PST
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Internet and freedom for political power
In the United States, the processes of our political competitions are famously analogous to the processes of our capitalist economy.  It is a broadly leveraged criticism that a candidate's position on an issue is, unfortunately,...
Posted by nickdziegler - Fri Dec 21, 2007 15:17:13 PST
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1st Amendment Television
Last night, the Clovis City Council passed their  Digital Infrastructure and Video Competition Act  (DIVCA) ordinance. This action ensures that Clovis  will be a part of the statewide franchise agreement  that...
Posted by DoctorMason - Wed Nov 7, 2007 09:00:02 PST
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Governor Schwarzenegger Casts Veto of Harmful Card Check Bill in California, Reports The National Alliance for Worker an
Governor Schwarzenegger Casts Veto of Harmful Card Check Bill in California, Reports The National Alliance for Worker and Employer Rights The National Alliance for Worker and Employer Rights praises the good work of Governor...
Posted by NAWER - Fri Oct 19, 2007 09:30:26 PDT
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Will Iran Be Next?
Local members of The World Can't Wait - Drive Out the Bush Regime! joined others at the Peace Corner (Stockdale Highway at California Street) on October 12 to protest the threatened aggression our country has made towards Iran.  We...
Posted by linfestyp - Mon Oct 15, 2007 15:36:51 PDT
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Never in Bakersfield, Never!
In hundreds of cities across the country, video channels are set aside on cable television systems exclusively for local community use. Non-profit organizations, individual citizens, schools, churches, public agencies, and others are...
Posted by DoctorMason - Mon Oct 15, 2007 13:56:28 PDT
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NAWER demands Governor of California save secret ballot elections for farmers
The National Alliance for Worker and Employer Righ Internet: wfine@freeworkplace.org http://www.freeworkplace.or...
Posted by NAWER - Wed Sep 19, 2007 10:13:08 PDT
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