Gov. Newsom talked up clean energy at the California Economic Summit in Bakersfield. But his optimism doesn't jive with Kern County leaders, who say they are staring down a financial crisis amid declining oil revenues
Representatives from the city of McFarland are pressing the Kern County Board of Supervisors to reconsider the city’s plan to turn the community library into a police headquarters. A city presentation on Tuesday prompted the board’s first public discussion about the fate of McFarland’s library. When the proposal to convert the library into a police station was made public earlier this year, it faced. <span class="read-more"><a href="https://edsource.org/2022/once-again-mcfarland-city-leaders-lobby-the-county-to-turn-its-library-into-a-police-station/679010">read more</a></span>