Musings on the white ‘outmigration’

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  But we may still have hope. The Tribune article only spoke of our “income” middle class. Income is just one part of America’s three-part class structure. The other two parts are social skills and power. How we deal with all three parts determines whether we prompt people to respect us or not.

  The Tribune article concentrated on our shrinking income middle class. It said that last year, fewer than half of us Californians made it into the income middle class, just 49.7 percent of us. In 1980, it was 60 percent.

• Dan Walters: Demography determines California's destiny

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• Viewpoint: Hold government accountable

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  I am writing in response to Bob Cuddy’s Dec. 4 column on the referendum effort challenging state Senate redistricting.

  California voters through Propositions 11 and 20 approved a redistricting process that allows for a referendum if the commission selected to redraw legislative lines did not fulfill constitutional obligations. By all means, the commission failed to fulfill its constitutional obligations.

  For some, holding our government accountable may be “annoying,” but for me and the California GOP that is important.

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• Event returns to help Cal Poly wrestling

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  Craig Tobin has plans for the cargo truck he picked up used from the Bakersfield Californian.

  The name of the newspaper remains faded on the rear door above the liftgate, but the former Cal State Bakersfield wrestler — a Central San Joaquin Valley businessman who’s taken ownership of the Fight for Wrestling brand name — has designs on painting the plain white sides of the trailer into a moving advertisement for his mixed-martial-arts-for-charity venture.

  In town putting on today’s 6 p.m. fight event at the Madonna Expo Center to benefit the wrestling programs of both Cal Poly and Cal State Bakersfield, the truck houses the broken down caged ring and all the supports needed to stage a fight.