Oh, brother. Now they're naming roads after reporters? Ugh.
In Bakersfield, we're gonna' give Merle Haggard TWO streets with his name. (Don't ask me how 'cause I didn't care enough to figure it out.)
Just in case...
Bakersfield Californian, The (CA){PUBLICATION2}
February 15, 2006
Section: A Section
Page: A1
Street name dispute ends peacefully
JAMES BURGER, Californian staff writere-mail: jburger@bakersfield.com
A short dust-up between Oildale and Bakersfield over which community will get to name a street after country music legend Merle Haggard ended with a simple fix: Haggard may get two streets instead of one. Bakersfield would change "Merle Haggard Way" to "Haggard Way" and Oildale would get rights to honor Haggard by putting his full two-word name on some street or monument in the future.
An Oildale contingent of 10 people met with Don Jaeger of the Bakersfield Convention and Visitors Bureau on Monday to hammer out the deal.
"We made 10 new friends that day," Jaeger said. "Everybody understands it's all about honoring Merle."
Jaeger, who had hatched a plan to rename S Street, said that change will be taken back to the Bakersfield Planning Commission for approval, possibly on March 22.
"That frees up the name Merle Haggard for use in the Oildale area," Oildale native Tom Clark said.
He was the man who, on Friday, appealed the commission's original approval of "Merle Haggard Way."
That appeal would have overturned the final Planning Commission decision and sent the Haggard battle to the Bakersfield City Council.
But Monday's meeting ended the name dispute.
"Don agreed that their group will support the Oildale group when the time comes," to approve a naming in Oildale, Clark said.
Plans for a naming deal in Oildale are still in the works, Clark said, but options for roads that would get the Haggard name include 7th Standard Road.
Barbara Lomas, chairwoman of the Planning Commission, was the only commission member to vote against the full "Merle Haggard" way plan.
She said she'll be voting "no" on Haggard Way again because it still labels one street with two names.
"I'm glad that people are trying to get along and trying to reach a compromise. I still think it's a bad idea," Lomas said. "I like streets to have some consistency in the way they are named."
As for the street in Oildale, Lomas suggested there are possibilities that might fit with Haggard's rough-and-tumble youth.
"What's that street leading to Lerdo (jail)?" she said.
Shoulda renamed the alley after him.
Peter Jennings is dead?
I thought sure that I saw him on the news last night.
Or was that Dan Rather?
Or was it Tom Broklaw?
How can you tell the difference?
Peter Jennings Way? Will that intersect with PLO Boulevard and Hanan Ashrawi Lane?
No doubt a one-way street, left turns only.
Then he recanted and said "as you do research you meet more people".
What a clown.
How about they skip the NYC street and go for broke on the street at the RJ Reynolds headquarters? My sister in law died the same way as Jennings, oat cell cancer in the lungs and dead in 3 months, same with my neighbor who died the same way 4 years ago. I walked out of my apartment one day at the wrong time and found her opening her door completely bald. She started crying saying she had lung cancer, and I really coudln`t say anything other than she will beat it. 2 months later she was dead.
All of them smoked, or like my neighbor like Jennings quit and started again. Why this sh*t is still legal is beyond me, once you start you`ll never stop. Sure some stop completely but most never do, it is a lifelong addiction and fight..Nicotine is absolutely the most addictive substance on this earth so much so that people keeps smoking even after they have been diagnosed with cancer, and we have all heard the stories of those who smoke through their tracheotomies after having their larynx removed.
It boggles my mind that ephedra in diet pills after killing just a few people was immediately banned, but cigarattes which has been killing millions for decades is still on the market. You don`t even get high from the crap, all it does is satisfy an nicotine itch. If we want to make any use of it, introduce it to Al-Qaeda and replace that Qwat stuff they chew with Marlboros. Gauranteed it will do more damage to their population than any smart bomb ever could. Send them free cartons for the next 10 years.
Judging by the comments here, it would appear that the De Mortuis Nil Nisi Bonum period has expired ;-)
Why not just rename Broadway to Quisling Street and honor all the journalists and Hollywood types with one big ceremony?
I think of that street now and again....Makes me grin.
I can't imagine thinking about a street named after Peter Jennings.....
what?
no national holiday?