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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
Being one of the nation's largest agriculture and energy-producing regions, Kern County is a California powerhouse. But despite this, Kern worker wages are low and have been dropping for decades when inflation is taken into consideration.
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 effort's admittedly aggressive timetable for building and formalizing a plan to create better local jobs â B3K, it's called, for Better Bakersfield & Boundless Kern â has fallen about two months behind schedule. The delay's no problem, facilitator Marek Gootman said, as it results partly from groups historically left out of economic development discussions f...