Bipartisan effort to reform H-2A guestworker system
Senators introduce an immigration bill aimed at stabilizing farm labor by reforming H-2A, allowing experienced undocumented farmworkers a path to permanent status, freezing the AEWR for three years, and replacing labor certification with an attestation method to ease shortages while protecting domestic workers.
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Washington D.C
Roy Gabriel
California Farm Bureau Federation
Gabriel
AEWR
Congress
Larry Craig
R-Idaho
Ted Kennedy
D- Mass
California
U.S
United States
Local collaboratives unite Kern County communities for change
Since 1992 Kern County hosts about 21 local collaboratives tackling safety, healthy families, and economic development. They partner with the Public Health Department, Probation, Health Centers, and nonprofits like the Salvation Army and Red Cross to improve children’s lives and neighborhoods.
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Kern County
Public Health Department
Salvation Army
American Red Cross
Visions
Mentors shape Latinos through guidance and example
The piece extols mentorship for students, especially Latinos, arguing mentors provide guidance, questions, boundaries, and confidentiality. It cites personal teachers and parents as influential guides, notes high Latino dropout rates, and links mentoring to greater college persistence and success.
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Richland
Day
Quotable Reflections on Faith and Life in Everyday Struggles
A brisk collection of aphorisms on faith organizations, divine guidance, personal conduct, and civic life. It blends humor with moral exhortations about God, church, and opinions on leadership and change. The piece riffs on how belief shapes choices, with light jokes about diets and breakfast can ends.
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Minter Field
Rosedale
The
Press
Diane
Ship N’ Shop
Atkins
My Dear
Nancy
Sonic’s
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Editorial
Christine Souza
Ag Alert
Monte Albalos
Gross
General Mills
PTA
Mary Lou Inselman
Redwood
Rae Aasiasm
Ivern
Hasta Luego
Deanna Rodriguez Root
and Laaive
Margaret Beker
A Reed Print Inc
Shafter Press
East Lerdo Highway
Reed Print, Inc
Aldrin Ct
Bakersfield
Shafter
P.O. Box
Frank W. Reed
Donald L. Reed
East
Lerdo Highway
Margaret Baker
P.O
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