Robert Price
Columnist and Editorial Page Editor at The Bakersfield Californian
Journalist at KGET-TV (Bakersfield, CA)
Writer, idealist, lover of juvenile humor. Sometime newspaper columnist, Bakersfield Sound author, second-career TV reporter. 3 Emmys, 3 Murrows, 1 Golden Mic.
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2 days ago |
kget.com | Robert Price
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) – You’ve probably heard of TikTok challenges. You may have even participated in some: Coordinated dance moves, visual gags, top-this-if-you-can tricks, usually harmless, sometimes not. Take the one a few years ago that swept briefly through Bakersfield that encouraged people to burn down trees. Now there’s a new one, and it’s just as dangerous: It’s the Chromebook challenge, and it’s starting fires in school classrooms.
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5 days ago |
kget.com | Robert Price
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The call that came into the sheriff’s office at 6:30 a.m. Friday was regarding a man who was trying to break into a house on Water Street, and he’d fired a shot at the front door. He wasn’t just armed with a gun – he also had a machete and a hammer.
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6 days ago |
kget.com | Robert Price
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The world’s 1.4 billion baptized Catholics watched in wonder and excitement at Thursday’s introduction of the new Pope. That number included Kern County’s 240,000 Catholics – many of them quite young. A number of things set Pope Leo XIV apart. One, of course, is that he’s an American. Another is that he speaks multiple languages. Perhaps the most remarkable, is that he’s only 69-years-old, which means young Catholics will grow up with this Pope.
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6 days ago |
yahoo.com | Robert Price
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — The world’s 1.4 billion baptized Catholics watched in wonder and excitement at Thursday’s introduction of the new Pope. That number included Kern County’s 240,000 Catholics – many of them quite young. A number of things set Pope Leo XIV apart. One, of course, is that he’s an American. Another is that he speaks multiple languages. Perhaps the most remarkable, is that he’s only 69-years-old, which means young Catholics will grow up with this Pope.
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1 week ago |
kget.com | Robert Price
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — It used to be that heart patients could only get certain services here in Kern County. More complex or advanced surgeries were often encouraged to travel elsewhere. That is not the case at least at Adventist Health Bakersfield anymore. Credit the veteran heart surgeon who came on board in January 2023. Dr. Robert Stewart believes in science – science fiction and science fact.
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