By Jason KUROSU Last year, the inaugural Welcome Home, Vietnam Veterans ceremony was held near the nation’s first city-sponsored Vietnam memorial, located at the corner of Honolulu Avenue and Ocean View Boulevard in Montrose. Forty-five years after its construction, veterans gathered at the memorial to share their experiences and speak about the different responses for […]
By Mary O’KEEFE Crescenta Valley knows Sgt. Burton Brink as the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Dept. community officer from the CV Station, but in Arcadia he is Candidate Brink, facing a new and different challenge. Brink has a history in Arcadia. He grew up there, his mother served on the city’s planning commission and he […]
By Ted AYALA Glendale City Council agreed to execute an agreement with a Los Angeles-based firm that would help Glendale move forward with the second and third phases of its ambitious Glendale Narrows Riverwalk Project. Funding for phase two of the plan – $1.53 million – is secured, said director of Community Services and Parks […]
By Jason KUROSU Identity theft cases and complaints have skyrocketed over the past few decades, as the sophistication of white-collar crime has increased with advancements in technology. California ranked third in the Federal Trade Commission’s 2013 list of states with the most identity theft per capita, following only Florida and Georgia. The commission also recorded […]
»Politics: A Personal Perspective By Kevork KURDOGHLIAN The California Democrats State Convention on Saturday, March 8 held at the Los Angeles Convention Center was my first political convention. I’ve been enthralled by politics since I was 7 years old, since my first journalism class at Paradise Canyon Elementary in the summer of 2002, yet it […]
In response to a precipitous drop in regional film production, Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich authored a motion unanimously approved by the Board of Supervisors today to launch an aggressive effort to halt runaway production. The flight of the multi-billion dollar film and production industry has created an enormous impact on the Los Angeles County economy […]
Assemblyman Mike Gatto’s legislation to increase penalties for those who flee the scene of an accident cleared another legislative hurdle today, passing the Assembly Transportation Committee by a vote of 13-1. Gatto’s bill, AB 1532, would expand hit-and-run penalties to include automatic license suspension for motorists who flee the scene of any accident involving another […]
Bill has 64 co-authors, including a majority of the State Assembly AB 1839, the California Film and Television Job Retention and Promotion Act of 2014 passed the Assembly Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, and Internet Media Committee today by a vote of 7-0. The legislation, authored by Assemblymembers Mike Gatto (D-Los Angeles) and Raul Bocanegra […]
The public is invited to attend a “Building Responsible Government” Town Hall with Assemblyman Mike Gatto. On Saturday, April 5, 2014, from 11am to 12:30pm, Assemblyman Gatto will be available to answer questions about community issues, provide updates and information about his 2014 legislation, and discuss suggestions for legislation in 2015. This will be Gatto’s […]
By Mary O’KEEFE The suspect who was the center of a burglary investigation that began on Thursday that included both Los Angeles County sheriffs and the Glendale Police Dept. has been arrested. Late Thursday afternoon a burglary occurred in the Highridge Road area of La Crescenta. It was alleged the suspect stole a shotgun from […]