Robert Price
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Bakersfield, CA, United States
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RAM art gallery opens in Old Town Kern this week
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – Kentucky Street in Old Town Kern is a mix of light industrial businesses, low-income housing, empty storefronts and homelessness. Well, meet the new neighbor – RAM, an art gallery with immediate street cred. Cred that comes from its high-profile owner-curator, Rachel McCullah Wainwright, who spent the previous 10 years at the […] → Read More
Special Delivery: Post Office employees find naked man in lobby
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – Even the federal government is not immune from the impacts of Bakersfield’s ongoing problem with itinerate crime in the downtown area. Bakersfield police confirm that an individual broke into the Merle Haggard post office at 18th and G streets early Friday morning and made himself at home until an employee arriving […] → Read More
Valentine’s Day gift giving is big business in Bakersfield
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – Today is all about love and flowers and big business. How big? $27 billion big. That’s almost double what it was just 13 years ago, when Americans spent $14 billion on Valentine’s Day. Of that $27 billion, about $2 billion is cut flowers, with men, as you might expect, buying most […] → Read More
ROBERT PRICE: Don’t let election-denier nonsense hamstring elections division
The Big Lie lives on, and now it’s trying to take Kern County hostage. → Read More
ROBERT PRICE: With a speaker and a chief justice, Bakersfield can now claim rare but not unprecedented status
An acquaintance cornered me last week with a question about American history and Bakersfield’s place in it now that a homegrown politician, Kevin McCarthy, has ascended to what, theoretically, is → Read More
Garry Davis, longtime sergeant in sheriff’s homicide division, dies at 76
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – The Kern County Sheriff’s Office has lost one of its best. Garry Davis, who was a sergeant in the homicide division, as well as in search-and-rescue, died Dec. 20 at the age of 76 after a long fight with Parkinson’s disease and other ailments, his family said. Davis grew up in […] → Read More
Yes, you can go home again, KGET’s Robert Price learns after long-deferred return to Iowa town of his birth
AMES, Iowa (KGET) – Something has been bugging me for most of my adult life. I was born in a small Midwestern town a long, long time ago and I left a long, long time ago and haven’t been back. That is, until the day in early December when I finally made it back to […] → Read More
ROBERT PRICE: Red Simpson’s son helped preserve the sound of Trout’s, if not the aroma of stale beer and butts
The embers of honky tonk history were still moist from the fire hoses when David Simpson pulled up in back to see what was left. → Read More
Netflix’s ‘Wednesday’ makes 60-year-old ‘Goo Goo Muck’ a surprise hit, but who gets paid?
If you’re a fan of “The Addams Family” spinoff “Wednesday,” you’re probably familiar with one particular catchy tune. → Read More
20 years later, CALM Holiday Lights maestro has gone national
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — It has become a Kern County institution: the Holiday Lights at CALM, one of the primary fundraisers for Bakersfield’s zoo, the nonprofit California Living Museum. The man behind it, homegrown Josh Barnett, started creating scenes of wonder and delight literally as a boy. Look at him now. It might seem hard […] → Read More
Abortion, economy, preservation of democracy on Kern voters’ minds
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – It’s Election Day and voters are motivated in ways they have not been inspired before. But what is driving these voters? What’s driving their vote? KGET talked to a half-dozen voters to find out. Half the voters we spoke to, all of them women, said Proposition 1, which would codify a […] → Read More
‘Operation Dark Nodes’ nets 29 street gang arrests
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – One day after a criminal street gang enforcement operation in and around Bakersfield involving at least nine law enforcement agencies acted on 21 search warrants, local, state and federal officials revealed some of the details. Following an 18-month investigation targeting individuals associated with the loosely organized Sureño street gang, a multijurisdictional […] → Read More
Could nuclear fallout shelters be making a comeback?
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — This week marks the 60th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, a historic showdown between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Tensions during that month-long nuclear standoff inspired many here and across the country to install below-ground fallout shelters. Here is what’s left of them. “Together we shall save our planet, […] → Read More
Newsom responds to ‘demonization’ label: ‘You’re dominating’ as a ‘global leader’ in renewable energy
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – The two-day California Forward Economic Summit wrapped up at the Mechanics Bank Bakersfield Convention Center and among the special guests: the governor of California, who addressed criticism of his handling of Kern County’s economic future. Scarcely 24 hours after Newsom was criticized for what Assemblyman Vince Fong called his “demonization” of […] → Read More
David Urner, son of Urner’s founder, dies at 92 after 70 years with family business
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Bakersfield has lost one of its business giants. David H. Urner, son of the founder of Urner’s Appliances, has passed away at 92. Urner’s tenure with the family business spanned four generations, starting with his father, David E. Urner, who opened the doors in 1919, and continuing with his stepson Steve […] → Read More
Edwards AFB Air Show and STEM Expo is back this weekend, but get to the base early
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (KGET) – It’s back! The 412th Air Wing at Edwards Air Force Base is opening its gates to the public this weekend for the first Aerospace Valley Open House and Air Show in 13 years. Yes, the U.S. Air Force is back in the entertainment business, in a manner of […] → Read More
‘Dirt Does Dylan’ bring Nitty Gritty bandmates to Crystal Palace for sold-out show
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Coming Tuesday night to Buck Owens’s Crystal Palace is one of the nation’s best-loved country-folk-rock-bluegrass outfits, the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. The band, now in its seventh decade of existence, features two founding members – drummer-guitarist Jimmie Fadden and longtime frontman Jeff Hanna and Jaime Hanna, Jeff Hanna’s son. Jeff Hanna […] → Read More
98-year-old World War II veteran who ‘loved everyone’ is laid to rest
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – Bakersfield said goodbye to Augie Flores, a 98-year-old World War II veteran who continued to serve his community long after the guns of war fell silent Friday morning at Saint Francis Catholic Church. Augustine Joseph Flores didn’t just live a life of service, he lived multiple lives of service. There was […] → Read More
Amid fentanyl epidemic, a troubling myth: Can merely touching the drug be harmful?
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – We’re hearing more and more about the proliferation of fentanyl on the streets and in our schools – a troubling trend given the drug’s high level of toxicity. But what does the prevalence of fentanyl in its many forms mean for school officials who may encounter the drug – most commonly […] → Read More
School district holds meeting to address fentanyl concerns
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Two weeks after a 13-year-old student at one of its schools was arrested with 150 fentanyl pills, the Bakersfield City School District board of trustees–Tuesday evening at 6 p.m.–will discuss possible new regulations pertaining to “administering medication and monitoring health conditions.” District spokeswoman Tabatha Mills told 17 News the two agenda […] → Read More