Recently several elementary school districts in Kern County announced they will no longer conduct 8th grade “graduation” ceremonies due to the budget meltdown. Many parents were upset about the suspension of the ceremonies.
Unfortunately, the parents should be upset about the long running hoax being perpetrated upon many of them. Approximately, 50% of the kids “graduating” [...]
8th Grade “Graduation” Hoax
Posted Sunday, March 15th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
by Ken Mettler in Opinions
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Redevelopment made painfully simple
Posted Friday, November 7th, 2008 at 2:33 pm
by Ken Mettler in Opinions
The Kern County Board of Supervisors recently discussed spending $908,000 of the taxpayers’ money on out-of-town attorneys and consultants to initiate another layer of unaccountable government called the Oildale Redevelopment Agency.
Why not use the money to just hire local community activists as Community Improvement Liaisons (CIL) within a designated target area? The CIL would act [...]
Conservative Civil Disobedience
Posted Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 at 10:25 pm
by Ken Mettler in Opinions
Our republican government is wary of judicial tyranny.
Abraham Lincoln was severely critical of a United States Supreme Court decision which held that Congress had no power to restrict slavery in federal territories and that black persons had no rights which white persons were bound to respect. Lincoln refused to accept the court’s ruling in [...]
Kern Sales Tax Increase for Addicts
Posted Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008 at 10:03 pm
by Ken Mettler in Opinions
Is the state government on heroin? Our California legislature is certainly a tax and spend addict.
The proposal to increase the local sales tax by another one percent to 8.25%, is due to the state stealing our local tax funds. Currently, state lawmakers are pilfering money from Kern County and its transportation funds to [...]
