BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Outside Dagny’s Coffee Co., a downtown cafe that serves as a kind of crossroads for a broad swath of Bakersfield, Katherine Haas, 38, was trying to make sense of Kevin McCarthy’s stunning ouster as House speaker this week. But she wasn’t viewing it through the lens of the bitter infighting of Washington. She was thinking of his representation of the increasingly diverse city of 400,000 that watched as he built a political career through the sheer force of his affability and
In California Rep. Kevin McCarthy's hometown of Bakersfield, supporters cursed the scorched-earth politics in Washington that cost him his job as speaker of the House.
In California Rep. Kevin McCarthy's hometown of Bakersfield, supporters cursed the scorched-earth politics in Washington that cost him his job as speaker of the House.
Kris Tiner, in his role as director of jazz studies at Bakersfield College, spends a lot of time teaching students the skills they need to improvise on their instruments. It s