Marylee Shrider
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Marylee Shrider: We must learn to live within our means
It seems to me the best way to survive the current economic crisis is to heed the advice of those who survived the last one. The big one.
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Absense of newspapers hurts communities
When you're 70-something and your day starts before dawn and the world is hushed and the coffee's hot and you walk out your front door and -- rats! -- there's not a newspaper in sight -- well, your morning is pretty much shot.
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Marylee Shrider: Absence of newspapers hurts communities
When you’re 70-something and your day starts before dawn and the world is hushed and the coffee’s hot and you walk out your front door and — rats! — there’s not a newspaper in sight — well, your morning is pretty much shot.
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Marylee Shrider: Once again, Harvey Milk Day is a bad idea
Didn’t we just do this?
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Marylee Shrider: Student's freedom quashed in college classroom
Think freedom of speech is alive and well on California’s college campuses?
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Ministry FLOODs needy with food, love, prayer
A couple years ago, a Bakersfield church gave a few of its members a bit of seed money with instructions to “get out there.”
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Marylee Shrider: Hold onto at least some school library services
A bit of friendly advice: Don’t mess with librarians.
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Marylee Shrider: Tech education a big win for students
At last.
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Marylee Shrider: Don't panic over prospect of school budget cuts — yet
Budget woes are nothing new for our schools, but impending budget cuts really have parents talking.
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Marylee Shrider: Events of this week point to wild ride of a year
What a week.
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Marylee Shrider: Let's start with enforcing smoking laws we already have
Yet another report came out this week, confirming that Kern County is a miserable place to live.
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Marylee Shrider: Businesses that take care of customers will survive
News alert: We’re in the midst of an economic meltdown and consumers aren’t spending like they used to.
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Marylee Shrider: Ministering in Romania all about God
Christmas is still a few days away, but DeAnn Sampley already has what she asked for.
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Marylee Shrider: Teen speaks about mental illness to help others
There she sat, smiling up at me, her sweet spirit intact, her proud mom by her side.
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Marylee Shrider: Time to grow economy, not shrink it
If the phone rings in the next week or so and it’s Americans for Prosperity calling, don’t hang up.
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Marylee Shrider: Man 'gave up the long board for the long cross'
Why does Tom Alexander take to the streets of Bakersfield each morning, lugging a 60-pound cross on his back?
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Marylee Shrider: Murray Family Farms won't be unhinged by fire
Vickie Murray didn’t shed a tear over the fire that incinerated her three-acre hay maze the day before Halloween. Heck, she barely raised an eyebrow.
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Marylee Shrider: Mettler shouldn't have to bear the blame
It’s been a great week for gay-rights activists, Prop. 8 protesters and the local media, all of whom are simply giddy over the infamous sign scuffle at a recent Friday-night rally.
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Marylee Shrider: Vote no on Prop. 2, an attack on farmers
Flash a photo of a dead chicken before our eyes and our collective lower lip trembles, so easily convinced are we that the sins of a few farmers are the standard for most.
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Marylee Shrider: Proposition 8 no civil rights issue
What was I thinking?
