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Every November at California State University, Bakersfield, we invite our international students to enjoy a bountiful lunch of turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, yams and pumpkin pie. Yet when they leave

President Lynnette Zelezny — who made history as the first woman to lead California State University, Bakersfield — announced Monday that she will retire Dec. 31, capping a five-and-a-half-year era

Five years ago, five million across the nation attended the women’s march. People in Kern county also took steps for a better future for females: 5000 people marched each year in 2018 and 2019, according to Women's March Kern County co-director, Robin Walters.

Nearly 200 pages into their first written work, the diverse groups coming together from across Kern to reimagine the local economy have learned many things, not least of which is that giving everyone their say takes time. The efforts admittedly aggressive timetable for building and formalizing a plan to create better local jobs — B3K, its called, for Better Bakersfield & Boundless Kern — has fallen about two months behind schedule. The delays no problem, facilitator Marek Gootman s...