Protecting Children: tackling bullying in schools now
A Pacific region school culture analysis urges early action to curb bullying across the Central Valley. It links persistence of taunting to long term harm, urging adults to intervene, set firm rules, and foster a peer supportive community to keep schools safe for all students.
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Columbine
Red Lake
Tacoma
Michael Anthony Mobley
Ahwahnee Middle
Is Arnold an Environmentalist? Air Board Ruling Test
California environmental policy becomes a test of Governor Schwarzenegger’s commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The ARB navigation unfolds under new chair Mary Nichols, with AB32 aims and potential cap and trade details due for October.
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AIR Board
California
Arnold Schwarzenegger
ARB
Mary Nichols
Jerry Brown
Bill Clinton
Schwarz
Schwarzenegger
Air Resources Board
Great Britain
Yazmina Cortinas Profile in Out and About Feature
On Aug 15 I interviewed Yazmina Cortinas. Born in Bakersfield and raised in Buttonwillow and Shafter, she now works at Shafter City Hall as a clerk. She loves Folkloric dance and recently joined a ballroom group while dreaming of leading an older troupe.
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Yazmina Cortinas
Yasmina
Yazmina
Bakersfield
Buttonwillow
Shafter
Maple School
Shafter High
WIA
City Hall
City of Shafter
New York
Right
Bobby
Kern County towns blast LA sludge dumping stance
Senator Dean Florez held a Bakersfield news conference on August 14 after a judge overturned Kern County’s Measure E banning land application of sewage sludge. The measure, backed by over 83 percent of Kern voters, would curb hundreds of thousands of tons of treated biosolids dumped on local fields yearly. Florez urged Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to negotiate alternatives and honor local health and environmental concerns.
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Dean Florez
Shafter
Bakersfield
Kern County
Southern California
Kern Fields
Florez
Los Angeles
Antonio Villaraigosa
Villaraigosa
Kern County Urged to Fight Measure E Ruling on Sludge Plan
Florez vows full defense of Measure E and seeks venue change to the 9th District Court of Appeals. He argues the Aug. 13 ruling harms Kern County residents for the benefit of Los Angeles, which ships most treated waste to Kern. The judge found Measure E discriminatory for not applying across all of Kern, touching on the commerce clause.
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Florez
Kern County
9Th District Court of Appeals
Los Angeles
Kern
U.S. District Court
Garyllen Feess
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