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PLANNING BEAT: January 2010
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Sunday, January 17, 2010. CHARRETTE: CITIZENS AID PLANNERS. Every now and then, government and the people can put aside differences to join forces for the betterment of the community. It’s “magic” when that happens. One of those magic moments occurred nearly a decade ago, when City of Bakersfield, Calif., officials, design professionals and everyday citizens joined together for a charrette to brainstorm the future of downtown. The article can be read at http:/ tinyurl.com/DowntownCharrette. Most of these...
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Mediate It: Mediate Foreclosure Process
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8220;One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears — by listening to them.” — Dean Rusk. Sunday, March 1, 2015. Confusion and frustration were etched across the face of the man as he awaited his appearance before a Kern County Superior Court judge. In one hand he held letters from his bank documenting ongoing negotiations to restructure his home loan. In the other hand, he held papers documenting the bank's efforts to evict his family. The Mortgage Bankers Association reports 14 percent of ho...
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Dianne Hardisty: Bernanke, Fed lousy watchdogs
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Selected stories about business, science and politics, as well as opinion and feature articles written by Dianne Hardisty. Sunday, March 1, 2015. Bernanke, Fed lousy watchdogs. Long before Republicans scored a surprise victory in Massachusetts and long before some Democrats started backing away from Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, Bakersfield, Calif.’s former Republican Congressman Bill Thomas expressed doubts. On Dec. 26, 2009. It can be read online at http:/ tinyurl.com/ThomasFCIC. Bernanke̵...
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Mediate It: History Hunt: Olcese House Shows Bakersfield's Character
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8220;One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears — by listening to them.” — Dean Rusk. Sunday, March 1, 2015. History Hunt: Olcese House Shows Bakersfield's Character. Jack Hendrix jokes that he needs a 12-step recovery program. He’s a compulsive collector. He collects furniture, statues and pottery. He even collects old family photos of people he doesn’t know. He finds them in second-hand stores and hangs them on the walls of the old houses he collects in east Bakersfield. 8220;I like to w...
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Mediate It: CAN DISASTERS BE TOO BIG TO FIX?
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8220;One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears — by listening to them.” — Dean Rusk. Sunday, March 1, 2015. CAN DISASTERS BE TOO BIG TO FIX? The annual conference of the American Planning Association. Held last week in New Orleans, focused on the city’s recovery after flooding during Hurricane Katrina. Throughout the city were billboards advertising the new HBO series “ Treme. 8221; about people displaced by Katrina from an historic, but poor New Orleans neighborhood. 8221; Robert B. ...
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Mediate It: March 2015
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8220;One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears — by listening to them.” — Dean Rusk. Sunday, March 1, 2015. Katrina Five Years Later: Safety responders bring lessons home. Boat that washed ashore blocks St. Bernard Parish street. When Hurricane Katrina tore through the Gulf Coast five years ago, not only did it destroy communities, it overwhelmed local governments. The needs of desperate citizens far exceeded the ability of their government agencies to respond. Bakersfield architect Willi...
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Mediate It: MEDIATE: AVOID COURT BATTLE
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8220;One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears — by listening to them.” — Dean Rusk. Sunday, March 1, 2015. MEDIATE: AVOID COURT BATTLE. Lee Jay Berman, a mediator, president of the American Institute of Mediation and host of the syndicated weekly radio talk show “Talk It Over,” will be the keynote speaker at a daylong conference in Bakersfield that will highlight the benefits of mediation. California courts operate and collaborate with mediation programs to help resolve many types of cas...
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Mediate It: Baby Boomers Headed Your Way!
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8220;One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears — by listening to them.” — Dean Rusk. Sunday, March 1, 2015. Baby Boomers Headed Your Way! 8220;Hell no, we won’t go” was a protesters’ chant commonly heard decades ago during the Vietnam War. That protesting generation of baby boomers now seems to be taking the same chant into its aging years. Many are in denial about getting old. Consider the plethora of anti-aging creams, vitamins and beauty aids on the market. And many are discovering tha...
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Mediate It: HELLO...IS ANYBODY LISTENING?
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8220;One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears — by listening to them.” — Dean Rusk. Sunday, March 1, 2015. Several weeks ago, I wrote about Assemblyman Pedro Nava’s legislation, AB 1588, which proposes to require lenders to enter into discussions, or mediate loan modification requests, when property is headed for foreclosure. See “As foreclosure crisis keeps growing, lenders, borrowers need mediation,” by John Hardisty http:/ tinyurl.com/MediateForeclosures. The Wall Street Journal.
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Mediate It: CHARRETTE: CITIZENS AID PLANNERS
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8220;One of the best ways to persuade others is with your ears — by listening to them.” — Dean Rusk. Sunday, March 1, 2015. CHARRETTE: CITIZENS AID PLANNERS. Reporter James Burger took a rare look back at what the charrette accompanished in a story that appeared in the Jan. 17, 2010. The article can be read at http:/ tinyurl.com/DowntownCharrette. Has everything been accomplished that charrette participants envisioned? No, but much has been done. And still more will be done in the years ahead. Hunting fo...
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