Marylee Shrider
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Marylee Shrider: Say yes to Prop 8 — and no to PG&E
It's good to be the king. Or PG&E.
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Marylee Shrider: Tilted Kilt servers shouldn't tour outside of pub
I wasn’t going to talk about the Tilted Kilt.
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Marylee Shrider: Heard of Harvey Milk Day? Be worried
Up in Sacramento, awaiting the governor’s pen, is a bill that apparently doesn’t mean much to the mainstream media, but should.
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Marylee Shrider: West Point student answers call for bone marrow donation
Joel Payne is a young man of very few words, so when the Department of Defense called asking for him, his parents weren’t sure what to make of it.
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Marylee Shrider: 30 kids in kindergarten? Way too many
It’s gonna be a heck of a year. And not in a good way.
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Marylee Shrider: If officers are on cell phones, it's because they need to be
A friend was sitting at a red light the other day, chatting on her cell phone, when she glanced up to lock eyes with a police officer in the next lane.
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Marylee Shrider: Let's take a vote on energy bill
Some people just don’t know when to shut up.
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Marylee Shrider: Thank God that Vegas is running again
Here’s a bit of sunshine for those of you who think we in the media only write about bad news.
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Marylee Shrider: Voters should decide on same-sex marriage
Looks like voters will still have a say on a same-sex marriage ban in November, thanks to the California Supreme Court’s decision to keep the measure on the ballot.
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Marylee Shrider: Fireworks lovers are their own worst enemy
On a pleasant July 4th back in 1979, my brother-in-law gathered a fistful of sparklers, bound them with duct tape, stuck the wad into the grass and lit it.
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Marylee Shrider: Duck beating horrible, but youths' cruelty is tragic
If we measure our collective health by the way we treat the least of those among us, then Bakersfield is looking pretty peaked these days.
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Marylee Shrider: He gave her the White House for celebration
A small wedding, a quiet honeymoon. That’s all Diane Rutledge expected when then-beau Jerry Bryson proposed last year.
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Marylee Shrider: Kern needs to shake off recall fever
Is it my imagination, or is Kern County suffering from a severe outbreak of recall fever?
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Marylee Shrider: Barnett entitled to run office as she sees fit
I realize the decision by Auditor-Controller-County Clerk Ann Barnett to stop all county-performed wedding ceremonies is controversial, but, yikes, we haven’t witnessed this kind of media coverage in Kern County since our last multiple-murder case.
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Marylee Shrider: Let the students pass out Bibles
Kern High School District officials take note: If you’re going to violate students’ civil rights, it might be a good idea to dodge the valedictorians and mock-trial champs.
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Marylee Shrider: Gay marriage ruling an act of 'judicial tyranny'
I don't know what was more shocking about the recent state Supreme Court decision to redefine marriage — the reasoning behind the ruling or the justices’ blatant disregard for the will of the people.
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Marylee Shrider: Thieves stole blood trailer, but you can still give blood
There’s been a lot of bad in the news this week, but first place in the how-low-can-you-go category surely goes to the creeps who stole the field trailer from Houchin Blood Bank early Tuesday morning.
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Marylee Shrider: Vote yes on 98 to protect private property
In case you haven’t heard, there’s an election coming up, on June 3.
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Marylee Shrider: Ben Stein's film on intelligent design is about freedom
If the point of a documentary film is to get people talking, then Ben Stein’s new movie, “Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed,” is wildly successful.
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Marylee Shrider: Death penalty isn't 'cruel,' it's justice
The U.S. Supreme Court took a long, hard look at death penalty procedures in this country, finally concluding this week that lethal injection is not unconstitutional after all.
