Robert Price
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Last standing anti-Romney still plugs away
When Newsweek called Barack Obama America's "first gay president" last week for his embrace of same-sex marriage, Fred Karger had to have had mixed feelings.
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Thank you, bubble: We're moving on to next stage of life
Nothing like a real estate bubble to motivate a homeowner to finally clean the garage.
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Hakimi moves down the road (but not far)
Ahron Hakimi's first splash into the pond of transportation policy leadership barely made a ripple.
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Who's more patriotic? We must know
Could Luis Alejo be any less qualified to serve in the California Assembly? He has been observed in a distracted state during the recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance. Clearly he does not love his country. Perhaps his allegiance is somewhere else -- given over to some insidious one-world government plot, for example.
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Undoing my phantom shopping spree
We interrupt our coverage of the predatory practices of greedy U.S. banks and financial institutions to bring you this update: Those companies aren't just looking out for themselves. They're looking out for us, too. They have to, because when it comes to credit card fraud -- a $190 billion-a-year problem for U.S. banks -- we're all in the same boat.
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Bakersfield's tourist potential gets an airing on Californian Radio Tuesday
David Lyman, manager of the Bakersfield Convention and Visitors Bureau, was a tad annoyed by Robert Price's April 1 column comparing two prominent U.S. music cities.
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ROBERT PRICE: We can learn a lot from Nashville
Bakersfield has been comparing itself to Nashville for years -- and vice versa to a lesser extent. The connection, of course, is music -- the country music industry, certainly, but more so the role of each city as the incubator of a distinctive expression of American culture.
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Need a job? This one is pretty tough
You may have heard the commercial for Fresno Pacific University that's been airing on Bakersfield radio: Consider a career in teaching, the ad suggests, because the baby boomers who've been in classrooms for the past three or four decades are getting ready to vacate.
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Finally, sex-ed may embrace state standards
After decades at or near the top of the state's teen birth rankings, might Kern County finally be instituting some positive changes? That's quite a leap to make based on word that the Kern High School District is in the preliminary stages of aligning its sex education curriculum more closely with state guidelines. But the KHSD, as much as any other single source of information to local teens, is unquestionably in a position to effect positive change. Whether the district seizes that opportunity will be something that's worth watching over the next few months.
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We're all news producers these days
The sad, alarming video of the American Airlines flight attendant having an apparent mental-health breakdown just as her Dallas-to-Chicago flight was about to take off Friday was striking to me for more than one reason.
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Robert Price: Pornography and the pastor it ensnared
Had the issue been debilitating alcohol dependency, would the Rev. Dave Champness of Bakersfield's RiverLakes mega-church have felt compelled to resign, as he did in a stunning announcement from the pulpit a few weeks ago?
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March shaping up as Red Simpson Month
For a musician who has written enough songs to stuff a suitcase -- which, in his heyday, he famously filled with regularity -- all too little has been written about Red Simpson outside his hometown.
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They're taking their civic pride on the road
Ryan Smith, like many of us, has had the "I'm from Bakersfield" conversation with smirking locals from other cities.
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Rain and faith in a noisy camp
If Dante had gone camping in the western Sierra last weekend, he might have wanted to revise his nine circles of hell.
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CSUB's security/intelligence program discussed on 'Californian Radio'
Editorial Page Editor Robert Price is the host of "Californian Radio" from 9 to 10 a.m. Tuesday on KERN-AM 1180. He'll be discussing CSUB's Global Intelligence & National Security program with his guests, Michael Yraceburn of the Kern County District Attorney's Office and Jeff Heinle of the Bakersfield Fire Department, both of whom are members of the program's advisory committee.
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ROBERT PRICE: No cloaks or daggers in new CSUB major
Call it diplomacy support school. Call it global realities school. Call it information development school. Just don't call Cal State Bakersfield's 3-year-old Global Intelligence & National Security major "spy school."
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ROBERT PRICE: Why voters are choosing independence
If you are disappointed, annoyed or fed up with the Democratic and Republican parties to the point of abandonment, you have a growing number of friends.
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ROBERT PRICE: Our civil rights narrative must be preserved
They saw the smoke of the firebombs, heard the screams, felt the outrage of injustice -- and they acted on it. Janie Forsythe McKinney, a white girl then just 12, rushed water to the victims of a bus bombing targeting civil rights activists in Anniston, Ala., in 1961. Claude Liggins, a black college student then 20, was so troubled by what he saw of the incident on television that he joined the Freedom Riders, a group that stood up to racial segregation by riding buses throughout the South -- and he spent a month and a half in a Jackson, Miss., jail for his trouble.
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Next on 'Californian Radio': Employment law
Editorial Page Editor Robert Price is the host of "Californian Radio" from 9 to 10 a.m. Tuesday on KERN-AM 1180. He'll be discussing employment law, and the lawsuits associated with those laws, with his guest, human resources consultant Robin Paggi.
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ROBERT PRICE: Kevin McCarthy has more than the requisite hair
If you are a committed Republican and you are gnashing your teeth over the flawed candidates elbowing for position in the quest to unseat a vulnerable president, you may be amenable to today's fantasy: President Kevin McCarthy.
