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Writer, idealist, lover of juvenile humor. Sometime newspaper columnist, Bakersfield Sound author, 2d-career TV reptr. 4 PSW Emmys, 5 PSW Murrows, 1 Golden Mic.

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Irony abounds in DUI arrest of Kern County’s legendarily aggressive former district attorney, Ed Jagels Original

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By Robert Price 
| KGET-TV (Bakersfield, CA)
Posted: Jun 2, 2026 / 06:06 PM PDT Updated: Jun 2, 2026 / 06:08 PM PDT BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — For nearly three decades, he was the fist of reckoning. The agent of legal accountability. The most aggressive prosecutor in California, bar none, and the longest serving. Now Ed Jagels, the Kern County District Attorney through some of Bakersfield’s most trying and controversial years, is a potential defendant.
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Optimistic or not, Kern County voters submit their ballots out of a sense of duty Original

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By Robert Price 
| KGET-TV (Bakersfield, CA)
Posted: Jun 2, 2026 / 06:02 PM PDT Updated: Jun 2, 2026 / 06:02 PM PDT BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Voting is a leap of faith. You submit your ballot and you hope for the best. Hundreds of thousands of Kern County voters have taken that leap of faith over the past few weeks, culminating in today’s tabulation. But how many voters actually expect things to turn out the way they hope?
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Give the man a grave marker, supporters say: Bakersfield’s first Black valedictorian is anonymous at Union Cemetery Original

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By Robert Price 
| KGET-TV (Bakersfield, CA)
Posted: May 29, 2026 / 06:01 PM PDT Updated: May 29, 2026 / 06:01 PM PDT BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — He was a businessman, a model citizen and Bakersfield High School’s first African American valedictorian. And how do we remember Henry Edward Simpson today? The answer: Not very well. It was 1900 and, admittedly, the competition was not overwhelming — the Drillers’ graduating class had just five students. But the best student is the best student, period.
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