Lois Henry
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Corps, city at odds over levee
The Army Corps of Engineers has given Bakersfield's levee along the south side of the Kern River, which most people know as a bike path, a rating of "unacceptable" because of rodent holes and too many trees growing atop and along the levee.
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If they won't sell the water south, why not say it?
If there's even a whiff of a possibility that Kern River water will be sold south, we should all sit up and take notice.
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D.A. investigating supervisors' secret meetings
Here's a bit of news that I didn't expect. The Kern County District Attorney's office has launched an investigation into whether the Board of Supervisors' practice of routinely placing the job performance of County Administrative Officer John Nilon on the "closed session" portion of its agenda is legal.
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County to pay $1 million to family whose child was taken
Kern County has agreed to pay a Kern River Valley family $1 million for wrongfully taking their son in 2008 when the family was in a dispute with the South Fork Union School District over how school officials were dealing with the boy's food allergies.
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Just what the doctor ordered, but why so slow?
When there's a problem, just say so and fix it.If that were the county's regular M.O., perhaps it wouldn't have taken so long to make some painfully obvious corrections in how medications are doled out to children at the A. Miriam Jamison Center for abused and neglected kids.
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LOIS HENRY: UC President's visit didn't exactly clear the air
I feel snubbed.
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LOIS HENRY: In this boy's case, transparency is on life support
A 3-year-old boy who nearly drowned on April 28 is unbelievably lucky to be alive after being underwater for more than a minute.
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Bogus agenda: someting secret is going on here
I hate to make more work for the District Attorney's office, but someone with much sharper teeth than me really needs to look at why the Board of Supervisors has the job performance of County Administrative Officer John Nilon listed on the agenda for discussion in closed session nearly every single week.
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Hiker group wants to dictate camping style
Remember I said a few columns ago that environmental groups are trying to ban horses from public lands? Yup, it's happened.
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Lois Henry: FAIL: the Lung Association's air quality ratings
To all you people out there with your hair on fire because the American Lung Association ahhhgain gave our air an "F," please, douse yourselves and think for a minute.
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Something's cookin' but we don't know what yet
Hungry Relay for Lifers may get a hot meal courtesy of the Kern County Fire Department after all.
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Kern County Fire rolls back the chow wagon
Relay for Life participants may have to brown bag it this year.
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The fresh air got in. The world hasn't ended
Open and accessible courts is one of those bedrock American concepts that separate us from two-bit dictatorships and has made us the envy of the world.
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LOIS HENRY: The great outdoors should be great for everyone
I'm not a fan of off-highway vehicles. I prefer hiking.
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LOIS HENRY: The ex-radical who heads air board's key panel
Change may be the only constant in the real world but that doesn't seem to include the Scientific Review Panel.
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LOIS HENRY: Concern over fatal fire misses the big target
A lawsuit filed Tuesday seeks to pin the blame for the deaths of four people killed in a horrific mobile home fire squarely on the back of the park owner, Babby Kurian.
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LOIS HENRY: Back story on service folks? State not much help
Whenever you're hiring someone to do work in your home (or on your car, your hair, your taxes, etc.) it's best to heed the adage "caveat emptor," Latin for buyer beware.
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LOIS HENRY: At last, plug pulled on court computer system
Yes, the giant, money-sucking statewide court computer system that never fully got off the ground in spite of its half-a-billion-dollar launch pad appears to have been killed.
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Buck stops with the supervisors? Apparently not
I said on Sunday that when a public agency with the power to tear families apart operates with impunity we have a problem.Well, we have another one.
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Who oversees when CPS takes the kids?
When government throws a sucker punch, the repercussions can ruin lives. And that's exactly what it looks like Kern County Child Protective Services did to one local mom when it took her two children last February without a warrant and with no evidence that the children had been harmed or were in any danger whatsoever.
