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New controversy strikes Goh campaign
Since Karen Goh returned to Kern County from a publishing career in New York in 2004, she has helped foster a strong network of Christian leaders in government, politics, media, business and nonprofits.
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Bakersfield athlete killed in bicycle race
A Bakersfield mother of two who took up competitive cycling nine months ago after an injury ended her marathoning career died Sunday while competing in a bicycle race outside Yosemite National Park.
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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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Young's Marketplace on Brundage to close this week
Young's Marketplace, an independent grocery store that's a Bakersfield institution, will close at the end of the week.
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President: CSUB's future hinges on tax measure vote
BY JORGE BARRIENTOS Californian staff writer
He was short on specifics -- unlike in the past -- but Cal State Bakersfield President Horace Mitchell warned Tuesday the campus would have to cut $5.3 million from its budget if the governor's tax hike measure fails in November.
That would force the university to rethink how it operates, he said during one of his regular budget forums on campus. The only good news out of Mitchell's talk was that no cuts need to be made now for the 2012-13 school year.
"We cannot take as a given that things will be exactly as they have been," Mitchell said. "Quite the contrary."
So from now through November, Mitchell and his staff will meet with deans, department chairs, faculty, staff and students to hear their ideas for operating with less. He said he intends to be transparent and collaborative.
Also until November, the campus will use onetime "temporary funds" to deal with any current shortfalls, Mitchell said. CSUB has already been cut to the bone, having sliced $15 million from its operating budget in the last four years. That budget now stands at $147 million.
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