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Kern County had the nation’s ninth riskiest residential mortgage market during the first three months of the year, according to a Monday report by First American CoreLogic, a Santa Ana-based real estate data company.
At the end of 2007, the county ranked No. 8 among the 100 large...
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A local man is selling tacos tomorrow to benefit the family of a Bakersfield teen battling a severe case of valley fever.
Eugene Alonzo, owner of L.A. Tacos, will be selling his special-recipe tacos from noon to 6 p.m. at Sports Authority at 4821 Ming Ave.
All proceeds will go the family of...
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Reporter Vanessa Gregory headed up to Tehachapi this morning to catch up with residents of Alta Estates.
The developer of their new subdivision, Empire Land (aka Prestige Homes and numerous other entities) filed for bankruptcy April 25. The Ontario homebuider's attorney told us the company will...
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For once, we're not among the worst.
A new study has found that women's life expectancy declined significantly in 180 U.S. counties from 1983 to 1999.
And, happily, Kern County isn't among those.
Most of the counties are in the deep South and Appalachia, according to the study, which was done...
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On March 11, 2008, Leonard Marella was arrested in the 100 block of Wilson Ave. in the Oildale area.
Upon coming into contact with police Mr. Marella ran. The reason he ran is because he knew he had a warrant issued for his arrest for a probation violation and Mr. Marella assumed the...
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The Trekkies just can't get enough of movie scenes being shot in Kern County. Check out a Google Earth view of the location and theories on who was behind the wheel of the red Corvette.
Meanwhile, another day at the Kern County Fairgrounds nets meager profits, but good stories for a rock and gem...
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I am really enjoying your "Lost Treasures of Bakersfield" postings and blogs. I was raised in Oildale & Bakersfield, late ' 50s & early ' 60s.
Watching the elegant red & silver Santa Fe "San Francisco Chief " passenger train arrive & depart...
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It's kinda remarkable how much money is evaporating from failed mortgages.
We counted about $2.1 million gone -- poof -- one day last week from Kern County foreclosures alone.
Imagine that expanded to include all the troubled markets around the country. Imagine that happening every business...
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What a lovely afternoon. My husband had the day off and we went for lunch at a downtown cafe. He had the French Dip, and me, I had the curry chicken sandwich on a croissant. We both enjoyed sitting outside, with a nice breeze, shooting the breeze.
After lunch, we went to...
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Click on the blue icons and check out the CRAZY purple lines on these graphs.
Foreclosures were at a record-high again in March, according to the latest statistics from the Kern County Recorder’s office.
The county recorded 638 property foreclosures last month — a tally exceeding...
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The company's moving its headquarters to Denver.
Read reporter Gretchen Wenner's report. She'll be bringing us more information throughout the day.
For now, what's this going to mean for the oil industry here?
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Here's a "raw report" press release from the Kern County Treasurer-Tax Collector:
Kern County Treasurer and Tax Collector Jackie Denney reminds the public that the second installment of your Kern County property tax is due on April 10, 2008. In order to avoid a 10% late penalty...
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Here's a report from Roy Burlingame and Joyce Holtzclaw, organizers of this event. Joyce is with Nations Petroleum, and Roy is with Dynamic Graphics, Inc.:
The SPE Western North American Region of the Society of Petroleum Engineers and the Pacific Section American Association of Petroleum...
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Visitors spent more than $1.15 billion in Kern County in 2006 — an all-time high.
Read John Cox's full report here.
The good news got us thinking. If you were a tourist, what would bring you to Bakersfield and Kern County? What do we have to offer others should know about?
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Okay, real estate and econ junkies.
On Tuesday, I interviewed Los Angeles economist Christopher Thornberg, who spoke at yesterday's county economic summit. Excerpts of our conversation were printed in the Californian.
But if you're interested in hearing everything from our interview —...
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Today's Kern County Economic Summit was packed with info.
Check out the blue bar to the left, which is a copy of the State of the Economy report Cal State Bakersfield economics professor Abbas Grammy put together. It was part of the information packet given to attendees at today's summit at the...
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The song is called Phat Chance, and it's about my sense of regret over being too cheap to record at Fat Tracks (though I came close on a couple of occasions). In opting to be a cheapskate, I robbed myself of the opportunity to be where two unique Bakersfield sounds were created, the sound...
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If you have read any of my other blogs, then you have probably read that in May of 2007 we were hit by a guy on a Sunday afternoon (near 12 noon) who was drunk and taking a sleep aid. So, finally....he is convicted and sentenced for the DUI involving us. BTW, while he was going...
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• The New York Times has a feature today on longtime Sacramento developer Dunmore Homes, which is now tanking (including its Kern County projects):
http://www.nytimes.com/2008...
• The Sacto Biz Journal has a story on...
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The Kern County Fire Department has launched a new web site. Not sure how muych new content there is, but it looks a bit snazzier.
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Bakersfield and Kern County pop up in several off-site blogs. Here are a few fresh posts:
A traveling adjunct professor learns to survive in Bakersfield while driving between here and Santa Barbara every day (and adding in a weekly trip to Palmdale). Snow storms? No problem.
Owls, sandpipers...
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A new report shows that one out of every 100 adult is in jail or prison, according to this story by AP writer David Crary.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/...
That is a lot of people. With all of our prisons and our anecdotally high conviction and incarceration in Kern County, we can't help...
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I've been reading Sunset , billed as the magazine about "Living in the West," since I was a kid flipping through my parents' copies. When we moved to Bakersfield and and bought our first home, I eagerly ponied up for my own subscription.
The March 2008 issue came in the mail...
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Some days you wake up and the view is exceptional. Here are 180 degrees of mountains for your viewing enjoyment.
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Greetings Bakersfield Denziens. I have a chance through Bakersfield Magazine to give Bakersfield and Kern County podcasting a shot in the arm, but I need to hear from you.
Please contact me at
kerncountypodcasters.ning.com
or
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Cigarette smoking is responsible for about one in five deaths annually, or about 438,000 deaths per year in the United States, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
It is also the leading preventable cause of death.
The county released the findings today of their...
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This a post about the human touch but not necessarily in the warm, feel-good sense.
There's been a lot of buzz lately about a new film called "Manufactured Landscapes" that features photographs of things like quarries, mines and factories in China to illustrate how industrialization...
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Bakersfield, like most other American cities, continues to deal with a growing transportation problem related to the number of cars on our highways. Much has been made of plans to expand our current road network with heated discussions focusing on where to build the new streets and how to...
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Ever wondered what Kern's most famous export looks like? I took this video of crude oil during a visit Tuesday to Hathaway Oil Company, an independent producer in northern Kern County. Oil from this region is notorious for being thick and goopy ... and it definitely was. Company owner Chad...
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The Dryden Flight Research Center sent out this press release today:
SOFIA COMPLETES CLOSED-DOOR TEST FLIGHTS
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. - NASA's Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy, or SOFIA, has passed a significant mission milestone. It has completed the first...
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Welcome to Weighed Down, the blog that will accompany the Californian's upcoming series of stories exploring obesity.
Overweight and obesity has exploded over the last 30 years, becoming an epidemic facing over 60 percent of Kern County residents alone.
To see how obesity affects people's...
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As Baby Boomers age, taking care of elderly relatives will become a greater task.
To help people with relatives suffering from Alzheimer's, the Alzheimer's Disease Association of Kern County is hosting a workshop on caregiving.
Starting tomorrow, "Alzheimer's, The Basics in...
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Kern County’s 2007
Freeway wrangling
Bakersfield’s transportation future was a hot topic in 2007 — sparking heated debate between city of Bakersfield leaders and Kern County officials for months on end.
City officials argued they could find money to fund a massive web...
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MRSA has been given a pretty scary nickname: superbug.
But MRSA — otherwise known as methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus, which also doesn't sound too fun — shouldn't keep parents up late at night worrying, state and local officials said today.
Several of these...
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It looks like Kern Medical Center's beleaguered OB/GYN department will grace the pages of The Californian yet again.
A former KMC OB/GYN resident has filed a claim against the county, the hospital and several other medical residents for damages she says she suffered after the residents...
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If 80 percent of people with West Nile virus have no symptoms, that means at least 690 Kern County residents were infected by the mosquito-borne virus year.
This figure assumes that every person who felt sick went to the doctor, who then reported the case to the state, so this number is...
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Another World AIDS Day comes around, but is the community any wiser?
I spoke yesterday with Audrey Chavez, director of the Bakersfield AIDS Project, about World AIDS Day and where Kern stands in fighting the infectious disease. (Read "Observe World AIDS Day at many local events" in...
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Seeing a pregnant woman sidle up to the bar with a pint of Fat Tire or a pregnant woman taking a couple drags on her Virginia Slims while walking down Chester Avenue will probably make more than a few people cringe.
But what about expecting moms taking sips of wine?
That is what a new...
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To most...Tehachapi Community Theatre is typically known for doing cutesey westerns, classics like "Arsenic & Old Lace," and other crowd pleasers that don't ruffle too many feathers. Opening on September 29th, however, they are presenting a piece that is praised in the modern...
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Why does it seem like whenever Kern County is No. 1, it's for something bad?
Kern County has led the country this year in West Nile virus cases. And to help residents understand the threat and what the county is doing to combat the mosquito-borne virus, Supervisor Michael Rubio and Interim...
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When I left for work this morning, I noticed some ash on my windshield.
Did you see this too?
It could be affecting your health, warns the local air district.
The San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District issued a health warning this morning for Fresno, Madera, Merced, Kings,...
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Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign coffers shot from near-zero to overflowing — we're talking Kern County donations — near the end of the mid-year reporting period.
The surge came mid-to-late June, mostly from Sikh donors, records show. One contributor told us Clinton has the...
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West Nile virus was in the spotlight yesterday, but valley fever also got a nod.
(Read "Rising danger" in today's Californian.)
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's state-of-emergency proclamation over our rising West Nile virus cases says:
"Whereas there are also numerous...
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Sports fans we need your help.
The sports department is putting together a "Kern County's All-Time Most Wanted Team," for its upcoming high school football preview. We're looking for Kern County players that went on to have outstanding/ prolific college careers. Carr at Fresno State,...
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The vote for the world's new seven wonders is coming to a close and the winners will be announced this weekend. AP says the Great Wall of China, Machu Picchu and the Roman Colliseum are the front runners.
The pyramids in Egypt aren't in the running because their overseers didn't like the idea...
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Driving home through a disgusting and dense smoke filled air (From one side of town completely to the other) I started to wonder... why are fireworks even allowed in Kern County? I hear of other towns and counties where fireworks are banned with the exception of 4-5 permits given out to...
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Does anyone else get this? You can sign up for it on the Board of Supervisors website under Mr. Rubio's page and have it delivered to your inbox. Its an interesting take on what is happening here in Kern County. I have been getting it for about a year now. I am glad Mr. Rubio puts it out.
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This Week In Bakersfield Theatre - weekend of June 30th, 2007
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I thought Merle Haggard's namesake was being dropped into the mix?
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Okay... about a week ago the potential drought situation was the talk of our town. In the paper, on-line, in the news, even heard it from some annoying talk radio host. So, are we in a drought? I reluctantly hosed down my driveway this weekend after mowing the lawn, fearful that...
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