Tag archive for ‘Mark Martinez’

  • It’s time to end the health care debate roller coaster

    With the House set to vote on the health care reform bill Sunday, Republicans are still using scare tactics to confuse the issues. Not that they don’t want reform, they just don’t want Obama’s reform. It’s time to get off this roller coaster ride, writes CSUB political science professor Mark Martinez.

  • Business Conference or Plato’s Cave?

    What happens when the leaders are as equally clueless about the shadows on the walls as Plato’s cave dwellers? It looks like we’re going to find out at this year’s Bakersfield Business Conference, to be held Oct. 9 on the campus of California State University, Bakersfield.