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Here's a "raw report" press release from the taxman. Don't you feel good this Earth Day?
The Franchise Tax Board (FTB) celebrated Earth Day today by recognizing the 9.6 million California taxpayers who helped to conserve resources this year by filing more tax returns electronically...
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Restaurants and hotels are invited to get involved in the Bakersfield Hospitality Olympics, an event to show off workers’ skills, build friendly competition and raise funds for the Bakersfield Rescue Mission.
Teams will play timed games such as a tray run relay race and toy assembly,...
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Our latest home sales map is ready for a peek.
No need to grab a map and figure out where to find Loon and Memory courts. (Homes on those streets recently sold.) We’ve done the work for you.
This map is updated with homes that sold in Bakersfield March 1 to March 9, color-coded by sales...
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Did you catch Jenny Shearer's report on a proposal to revitalize Oildale?
See it here.
Officials are exploring the creation of a redevelopment agency that could work on economic development issues in the area.
County Supervisor Mike Maggard, who is spearheading the effort, told Jenny,...
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Go and talk about the gap at a forum put on by the American Association of University Women — Bakersfield Branch.
It will be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday at the Cal State Bakersfield Student Union Multipurpose Room.
According to organizers, there will be a panel of women with successful...
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The Greater Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce's Business After Five Mixer is 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. April 24 at The Villas Model Homes.
That's on the southeast cover of Ming and Grand Lakes avenues.
The host is Castle & Cooke.
Cost for the networking event is $5 per chamber member and $10 per...
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It's been awhile since I have made a post, but that doesn't mean there isn't a lot going on with the Inside Guide!
We are currently working on creating a new section for the Inside Guide- Shopping! It contains all of the local shops you know and love! We'll let you know as soon as we get it...
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When you raise your daughter amid the constant dirt and sweat of the landscaping trade, don't be surprised when she turns the other direction and runs straight into the arms of the flower industry.
It's what happened to Diana Klawitter and her husband, who have run their own landscaping business...
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Here's a "raw report" press release from the Greater Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce:
You are invited to attend an informational Meeting about the GBCC Trip to Ireland
Thursday, April 10, 2008
5:30-6:30 P.M.
At the Chamber, 1725 Eye Street
The nine-day trip in...
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On April 19, 2008, KDG Human Resource Solutions is hosting a monthly lunch program designed to provide continuing education on timely HR management issues that affect business.
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.
Location: KDG Training Room, 4550...
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Baker Street keeps changing.
Assistant editor John Cox has a story today about Saba's Mens Store closing until about mid-July, with plans to reopen in a new location and focus on selling uniforms.
Already, with the story out for only about an hour, a reader wrote to me and said he was sad,...
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Here's a "raw report" press release from the Greater Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce:
Chamber seminar on April 8 highlights benefits of leveraging purchasing power
Learn ways to make strategic negotiations and procurement decisions and obtain local buying advise when the...
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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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Who's been promoted? Who has a new position? Who has earned a new professional designation?
Find out in the weekly People in Business column.
Want to be in next week's?
It's best to submit to bakersfield.com/yourwords.
You can also mail contributions to The Bakersfield Californian,...
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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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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 Greater Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce is hosting an after-hours trade show mixer.
It's from 5:30 to 8 p.m. Thursday, March 27 at the Doubletree Hotel, 3100 Camino Del Rio Court.
General admission is $5.
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Here's what assistant editor John Cox discovered:
A local entrepreneur plans to open three Ben & Jerry’s ice cream shops in Bakersfield, at least one as soon as this summer.
Larry Roland, former owner of now-closed Team Sports Equipment & Apparel on Rosedale Highway, said he...
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Sunbelt Business Advisors and Brokers of Kern County is hosting a free dinner seminar on how to buy or sell a business. It's presented by John W. Willingham, president, and professionals from several local businesses.
It's from 6 to 9 p.m. Monday, March 24 at Best Western Crystal Palace Inn...
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As anyone who watches the markets knows, Visa hit the stock market today in the largest initial public offering in our country's history.
Shares were trading about $58 this morning.
Financial experts are saying people are pretty interested in Visa because well, most people sure like their...
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Do you have a new position? Have you achieved special recognition in your field?
Let us know about it for the People in Business column, which runs every Sunday in The Californian and at Bakersfield.com.
Here's this week's list of achievements.
Want to be in next week's?
It's best to submit...
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Here's proof that a collegial attitude pays off in business.
Students from Cal State Bakersfield's School of Business and Public Administration brought home the Collegiality Award from the California HR Games in San Jose, according to a news release from the campus.
The award lauded the team's...
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The Greater Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce is holding its first Networking Breakfast of the year this Thursday.
It's from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at the chamber, 1725 Eye St.
It's free for members, according to a chamber press release. Seating is limited.
Send an e-mail to...
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The Executives' Association of Kern County will host its business summit next week.
Sign up by Tuesday, March 11. The group can be reached at 634-0641.
Event details:
When: 7 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, March 12.
Where: Holiday Inn Select, 801 Truxtun Ave.
Theme: People - Innovation -...
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A new wind energy project is on the way to an area west of Rosamond.
The Kern Couny Planning Commisson voted 3-1 Thursday night to support the PdV Wind Energy Project by Power Partners Southwest LLC, an entity affiliated with enXco.
The company wants to put in 100 to 300 wind turbines on...
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Cal State Bakersfield has a new dean for its School of Business and Public Administration.
John Emery, the former dean of the College of Business Administration at University of Texas – Pan American, was appointed to the post, according to a CSUB news release.
Emery will take the spot...
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This press release landed in my e-mail today. Ah, the stuff editors receive.
I've never heard of this list, but it sounded curious. Curious enough to share, as everyone's had good and bad experiences from service companies and seems to have an opinion.
— Christine Peterson
Home Warranty...
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The Californian has launched a new web page dedicated to news about plans to expand the Big West of California refinery on Rosedale Highway.
Check it out: www.bakersfield/com/refinery
On the page you can read past stories, watch a video about the expansion, join a blog discussion, take a poll...
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Local businessman John Getty has opened Sound Waves, a new business at Airport Drive and Wilson Road that offers everything cars. He's building on a wholesale business he's had for years.
While it's been open since Jan. 2, he's having a grand opening and ribbon-cutting at 1 p.m. Friday, Feb....
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I walked out of my house this morning, locked the front door and saw a NOTICE in big, bold letters taped to my house.
It said that "tomorrow" people would paint new black numbers on my curve for $5 — and I could pick a picture such as a rose or flag for even more money.
The...
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We don't have the Bakersfield Business Conference any more, but we do have the Bakersfield Women's Business Conference. And this year's, slated for April 17, will the 19th in the community, and will be at the Rabobank Arena, Theater and Convention Center.
Soledad O'Brien, CNN special...
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Problems? We have problems?
A group meant to address those problems — housing, air quality, water supply and reliability, transportation and education — meets from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday in Fresno.
They're officially called the California Partnership for the San Joaquin Valley....
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Scanning the business wires this morning, I came across this fun little story. Why fun? I guess because you neve really think about where things like cleaning wipes come from.
This is from Associated Press reporter Jim Fitzgerald:
"Germs are the enemy at Nice-Pak Products Inc., which...
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Good morning, all!
We're the new growth and economy team in The Bakersfield Californian's newsroom. We "officially" kick off our new jobs Feb. 12, but let's get the conversation started now.
We'll be writing about anything and everything in our local economy and our community's...
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David Crisp and Carl Cole, the image-makers of Bakersfield’s bygone real estate boom, ended the year deep in a quagmire of home loan defaults, allegations of deceptive borrowing practices, civil lawsuits and an ongoing FBI investigation.
Although Cole, 60, left the now-defunct Crisp...
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There was no avoiding news about the housing slump this year. But just as the residential real estate industry flagged, other local industries surged, such as retail and wind energy.
Mortgage meltdown
The record-setting home value appreciation that swept the city two years ago was replaced...
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Well, more than likely, you’ve been to quite a few restaurants here in Bakersfield. So why haven’t you reviewed them yet in the Inside Guide? It’s fast and easy. But where do you start? What makes one review better than another?
Here’s some example of a great review...
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Big Business Up To Its Usual Game of S***w the Public
Instances of outright mortgage fraud are coming to light. Reports of suspected fraud from federally regulated institutions more than doubled between 2003 and 2006. Federal officials estimate mortgage fraud totaled...
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Open-shop laws threaten unions
A great article on why Right to Work laws help workers!
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The Employee Free Choice Act
By a vote of 51-48 the Employee Free Choice Act was defeated in a Senate cloture vote after passing the House 241-185. EFCA will sure to be an issue in the 08 Presidential Race as all Democrat candidates supported stripping workplace freedoms away from...
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It's not a tremendously exciting article, well, it's not really exciting at all, I just thought that it was ironic that Liz Claiborne just died last week and they're already firing people and changing stuff around that she probably wouldn't have had any of while she was alive. Gotta...
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Overtaken by Mexican tycoon Carlos Slim whose fortune is now at an estimated $67.8bn ( £33.6bn) - equivalent to 8% of Mexico's gross domestic product - compared with $59.2bn for the Microsoft mogul, putting him in the lead by a decisive $8.6bn.
More recently, Mr Slim has developed a...
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Potential buyers and anyone else interested in taking a look inside the partially renovated Padre Hotel had a chance to stroll around the circa-1928 downtown landmark during the first of three open houses on Monday. View a video of the open house.
The Padre is listed for sale for $5.6 million....
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The Holiday Inn Select in downtown Bakersfield may soon become a Marriott. An estimated $6 million renovation project to upgrade the hotel is underway and is expected to be complete by late September. What do you think? Is a more prestigious hotel in downtown a step in the right...
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A study came out yesterday that found health benefits to be the most highly coveted of employee perks.
One caveat of the National Business Group on Health report that I found particularly interesting was the fact that two in three, or 65 percent, favor charging smokers more for health...
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When I watch TV, all I hear every five minutes are commercials for MOR furniture. The hard-sell, redundant, annoying commercials play at every single commercial break, on every cable channel targeted at the Bako area, always saying the same things. I am so totally sick of their...
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ExpressJet is launching a new airline carrier and plans to begin service to Bakersfield and 23 other midsized cities, including Fresno, this spring. The new airline, which plans to add routes that currently do not have non-stop service, has not yet released flight schedules and would not confirm...
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Recently, I stumbled across two article's in BC's newspaper, The Renegade RIP, (http://www.therip.com/news/... about the minimum wage being...
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For a paltry(tongue in cheek) $18.7 Billion..Mitt Romney's Bain Capital is now the proud owner of Clear Channel Communication. Read the writeup here.
While many may welcome someone else taking over Clear Channel, we need to look at the new players. Bain Capital was founded by current...
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If you haven't figured out that it's Breast Cancer Awareness Month, you must live under a rock — a rock that has probably been painted pink and tagged with a pretty pink ribbon.The publicity and social marketing of this cause are everywhere.There's pink Campbell Soup cans, pink Estee Lauder...
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