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The Kern County Board of Supervisors Remains Tone-Deaf and Out-of-Step
By Gonzalo Santos, Published on 10/28/25 as an OpEd  in The Bakersfield Californian . Last Tuesday, October 21, a large number of Kern County citizens from every walk of life – young and old, of all ethnic backgrounds, U.S.-born and immigrant, veterans and lawyers, educators and community advocates, and faith leaders – turned out to the county’s Board of Supervisors (BOS) meeting to call on the supervisors to rescind their September 23 resolution opposing Proposition 50, pass
Gonzalo Santos
Oct 273 min read
THE PASSING OF THE UNITED STATES OF MENDACITY
The United States has, like all great powers before it in our long tormented world, manufactured, exhibited, propagated, and consumed...
Gonzalo Santos
Aug 3
THE ORIGINS & CHALLENGES OF THE TERMINAL CRISIS OF THE U.S. DUOPOLY
There's a flagrant asymmetry between the dual collapse of legitimacy and efficacy of both U.S. liberalism, firstly, and subsequently its...
Gonzalo Santos
Jul 24
MAY DAY: A LOCAL & NORTH AMERICAN HISTORY
First, a local history. Going back to its earliest history, Bakersfield, California, had a well-earned reputation of being a bastion of...
Gonzalo Santos
Apr 29
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