Aren’t we a couple of years into our anti-litter campaign in Bakersfield? I drove around quite a bit this weekend, and it looks to me like it’s worse than ever. Virtually all of the onramps and offramps on the 99 are clogged with litter, as is the entire strech of 58. Even the still-new westside…… Continue Reading

I gave blood Friday at the Truxtun Ave. blood bank. The new one is awesome, but I chose the closer location this time. The walls of the lobby are covered with pictures of lifetime blood donors, and someday I hope mine will be right up there with them. But I noticed that the pictures are…… Continue Reading

Pats quarterback tom Brady decided to double down on his nonsense after getting busted for cheating. After pinning the deflating of footballs on team staff, now he’s claiming that his phone, which investigators know was used to send thousands of text messages in the days following deflategate, was destroyed by one of his staff the…… Continue Reading

The other night I went to see the California Guitar Trio at Bakersfield College’s spectacular new indoor event center. The band was great, but the people i’d like to thank are the crowd. Bakersfield is well-known for terrible concert etiquette, but the folks at this show were awesome. They didn’t talk during songs. Nobody texted.…… Continue Reading