Monthly Archives: December 2015

You Know You’re From Kern County When…

December 18, 2015 / By

By Randy Villegas

I asked my fellow classmates and friends to finish this phrase: “You know you’re from Kern County when…” Some of these responses were pretty funny, while others shared memorable experiences from our town of Bakersfield and Kern County.

Making Juvenile Hall the Mental Health Provider of Last – Not First – Resort

December 17, 2015 / By

New America Media, Question and Answer, Anna Challet

Editor’s Note: According to a new study by the San Francisco-based Young Minds Advocacy Project (YMAP), as many as 70 percent of the kids in California’s juvenile detention centers are in need of mental health care, and most of them are not getting it.

Thoughts From a ‘Proud’ Anchor Baby

December 10, 2015 / By

South Kern Sol, Anonymous, photo above: the authors grandparents in 2002

My grandfather passed away in Mexico earlier this year.

Mobilizing the Community for Improved Health

December 9, 2015 / By

By Ray Gonzales, PH.D.

Five years ago, The California Endowment launched a $1 billion dollar, ten year investment in its Building Healthy Communities (BHC) campaign.

Kern Youth ‘Not Surprised’ Local Law Enforcement Named Country’s Deadliest

December 8, 2015 / By

South Kern Sol, Randy Villegas

Ed. Note: Last week the British newspaper The Guardian published an article naming police in Kern County the deadliest in America on a per capita basis.