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A $7 beer and Bakersfield's cost-of-living illusion

I paid $7 for a Guinness last night at the Tilted Kilt. That in itself should go down as one of the greatest crimes this city has ever witnessed. But it was more than that. It was more evidence that, accommodations aside, it's no cheaper to live here than it is San Francisco, or L.A. or San...

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An extra $15 bucks a pop

Get ready to pull a few more dollars out of you wallet if you fly American Airlines this summer. Beginning with tickets purchased June 15, you'll have to pay $15 to check just one bag — each way. I can just see it now — people who don't want to pay the $15 will try to lug their...

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The Continued War on Ridiculous Fees

Today in the BC in the Letters to the Editor, there is a letter written by someone who recently patronized a local restaurant and discovered at the conclusion of their meal that the place tacks on an 18% "service fee" to their customers' check. This fee has nothing to do with gratuity;...

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Any Which Way They Can

Here a fee, there a fee, everywhere a feefee, and I am not talking about a French poodle. I have really developed a hatred of the word "fee". It has come to mean more than the price of a penalty or a service rendered. Now, the way I see it, "fee" means "just one more way...

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What are you doing to cut back?

Reporter Courtenay Edelhart is working on a story today about the rising cost of food, and how that's hitting people in the pocketbook. What are you doing to save money on food? Are you going to restaurants less? Shopping at discounters rather than the grocery store you used to visit? If...

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