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Affordable Care Act

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    Ask Emily: Obamacare's new coverage rules and costs

    BY EMILY BAZAR CHCF Center for Health Reporting
    Monday, May 20 2013 05:44 PM

    Q: I had colon cancer and have had trouble buying health insurance ever since. Under Obamacare, will insurance companies still be allowed to refuse me because of my medical history?

    A: Finally, an Obamacare question with a simple answer, and the answer is NO.

  2. Obamacare's insurance requirement: Where do you fit?

  3. Searching for the right insurance under Obamacare

  4. How new exchange may help Californians buy health care

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Centennial Corridor

  1. Transportation sanity takes another step

    By The Bakersfield Californian
    Saturday, Mar 16 2013 11:00 PM

    Bakersfield's new freeway system might have once seemed like a pie in the sky dream, given its far-distant date of anticipated completion and a price tag so large it seemed almost incomprehensible. But look at it now: Local officials have just turned over symbolic dirt on another eight-mile stretch of road, and with other key components due to be finished this summer, it's clear Caltrans, the city of Bakersfield and the other vital players will be able to keep a promise that a previous generation of transportation officials failed to deliver on 40 years ago.

    Work began last week on the final phase of the Westside Parkway, a $188 million project that will extend from westernmost Truxtun Avenue to Heath Road and, eventually, will significantly ease traffic for commuters in a city that has dramatically outgrown its outdated road infrastructure.

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    Final phase of parkway truly 'shovel-ready'

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    Yard sales make pitch to stop freeway's path

  4. Residents holding yard sales to fuel fight against freeway

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Importing Doctors

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    IMPORTING DOCTORS: More than half of Kern physicians were foreign-schooled

    BY KELLIE SCHMITT Californian staff writer
    Saturday, Jun 23 2012 12:00 PM

    As a 3-year old boy in India, Dr. Brijesh Bhambi watched his father maneuver an ox-driven plough on the family farm, and imagined digging a hole to the other side of the world.

    His father told him a smarter way to get there would be to study hard and become a physician.

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    IMPORTING DOCTORS: Are we creating a foreign brain-drain?

  3. IMPORTING DOCTORS: Pace of foreign-physician influx may slow

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    IMPORTING DOCTORS: KMC's multimillion dollar deal with Caribbean school marks part of controversial trend

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Taft High School Shooting

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    Suspect in Taft Union High shooting charged as adult

    BY COURTENAY EDELHART Californian staff writer
    Monday, Jan 14 2013 08:58 AM

    The suspect in last week’s shooting at Taft Union High School entered a not guilty plea at an arraignment Monday in Kern County Superior Court, where he is being tried as an adult.

    Suspect Bryan Oliver, 16, is charged with two counts of attempted murder and two counts of assault with a firearm in the wounding of one student and the targeting of another, and one count of assault with a firearm in the wounding of teacher Ryan Heber, District Attorney Lisa Green said. Heber suffered a superficial wound to the head after he was grazed by a pellet.

  2. School administrators being 'hyper-vigilant' after Taft shooting

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    Taft vigil features prayers, encouragement

  4. Students at other schools on edge after Taft shooting

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Just One Breath

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    McCarthy: CDC to hold valley fever symposium

    BY WILLIAM HEISEL The Reporting on Health Collaborative
    Monday, Apr 22 2013 06:19 PM

    The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will visit the San Joaquin Valley later this year to train health professionals and the public in recognizing and defending against valley fever, Rep. Kevin McCarthy said Monday after an in-depth meeting with the agency.

    McCarthy, R-Bakersfield, talked with CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden about the challenges of fighting the neglected disease -- which sickens an estimated 150,000 people every year, mostly in California and Arizona.

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    JUST ONE BREATH: Valley fever advocates see hope for new funding, new laws

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    JUST ONE BREATH: Woman lost two years to valley fever -- and remains fearful of return

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    JUST ONE BREATH: More readers tell of their battles with valley fever

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Earthquakes : 60 Years Later

  1. The quakes of '52 on 'Californian Radio'

    By The Bakersfield Californian
    Monday, Jul 23 2012 10:50 PM

    Editorial Page Editor Robert Price will host a special edition of "Californian Radio" today with the entire hour devoted to the anniversary of the 1952 earthquakes that hit Tehachapi and Bakersfield.

    On this 60th anniversary year of the killer quakes, Californian staff writer Steven Mayer will be in the studio to discuss the stories he wrote for last weekend's editions of the paper. Mayer spoke to many people who lived through the quakes, to a leading seismologist and to architects who reflect on how the damage of the second quake forever changed the face of downtown Bakersfield.

  2. EARTHQUAKES OF 1952: A conversation with a Caltech seismologist

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    EARTHQUAKES OF 1952: Quakes and attitudes changed Bakersfield's historic downtown

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    EARTHQUAKES OF 1952: Locals share their memories

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  1. Earthquake, aftershock epicenters

Amgen 2012

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    Zabriskie dominates Stage 5, assumes overall lead

    BY MIKE GRIFFITH Californian staff writer
    Thursday, May 17 2012 10:25 PM

    Captain America showed his strength Thursday on the streets of Bakersfield.

    David Zabriskie, riding for Garmin-Barracuda and wearing his "Captain America" riding suit, stormed into the overall lead of the Amgen Tour of California with a powerful performance in an 18.4-mile time trial course that started and finished adjacent to Bakersfield College.

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    Armstrong leaves 'em in the dust

  3. Olympic qualifying is complicated process in world of cycling

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    Amgen excitement draws diverse crowd of onlookers

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  1. Stage 5 (Bakersfield)
  2. California
  3. Stage 1
  4. Stage 2
  5. Stage 3
  6. Stage 4
  7. Stage 6 & 7
  8. Stage 8

Buyer Beware

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    BUYER BEWARE: Women regret choice of cosmetic surgeons

    BY KELLIE SCHMITT Californian staff writer
    Friday, Feb 24 2012 10:30 PM

    K. Marie Espinoza's voice shakes and her eyes mist when she remembers the day she decided to get liposuction. Espinoza, 47, had been feeling bad about the extra flesh that had accumulated around her midriff and thighs.

    "I was self-conscious," she said.

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    BUYER BEWARE: Why doctors are drifting into cosmetic surgery

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    BUYER BEWARE: A peek behind the surgical curtain

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    BUYER BEWARE: State law fails to protect patients, critics say

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  1. An overview of a Liposuction operation

High Speed Rail

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    Judge to hear lawsuit over high-speed rail bonds

    BY JULIET WILLIAMS The Associated Press
    Thursday, May 16 2013 12:26 PM

    SACRAMENTO -- State officials on Thursday agreed to drop a request to consolidate all lawsuits challenging California's use of voter-approved high-speed rail bonds, allowing a trial seeking to stop their sale to begin later this month.

    Opponents of the $68 billion bullet train project and attorneys for the California High-Speed Rail Authority submitted their agreement to a Sacramento County Superior Court judge.

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    Valley farmers reach key settlement with bullet train agency

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    Engineers suggest west-of-Hanford route for high-speed trains

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    Bullet train draws a bull's eye on downtown Bakersfield

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  1. High Speed Rail Map

Where Does the River Go?

  1. Judge hears arguments in Kern River rights battle

    By The Bakersfield Californian
    Wednesday, Mar 23 2011 06:43 PM

    By LOIS HENRY

    Californian staff writer

  2. LOIS HENRY: Bakersfield turns out for the Kern River

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    LOIS HENRY: Speak up for your river

  4. City takes a major step in fight for the river

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Featured Assets

  1. Water Use Facts
  1. Kern River Canals and Water Districts

Crisp & Cole

  1. Crisp & Cole trial set to begin next January

    BY JOHN COX Californian staff writer
    Monday, Jan 14 2013 05:24 PM

    A trial in the Crisp & Cole mortgage fraud case has been scheduled to begin Jan. 28 of next year -- five years and four months after federal agents raided homes and offices connected to the formerly high-flying Bakersfield real estate firm.

    U.S. District Judge Lawrence J. O'Neill set the trial date at a Monday court conference after considering the complexity of the criminal case, according to the U.S. Attorney's Office, which is prosecuting.

  2. Crisp & Cole agent sentenced to 27 months

  3. Lender asks to delay civil trial against Crisp, Cole, others

  4. Judge in Crisp & Cole case chooses October for next court date

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Featured Assets

  1. Check out the PDF with the players and the properties
  2. Read the complaint state regulators filed against Crisp, Cole & Associates








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