Directives for Schiff and CVW

I am writing this letter to express my concerns with House representative Adam Schiff and Crescenta Valley Weekly.

Firstly, I would like to ask Adam Schiff to speak about the rise of unaffordable and empty high-rises flooding Glendale’s streets. We see undeveloped streets filled with families stuffing themselves into Section 8s desperately trying to meet the bills every month, even saddening is that these families consist with a leading majority of the elderly, either escaping the border war in Artsakh or attempting to survive in Glendale. I ask Adam Schiff to propose we halt these $2,000-a-month studios filling our skies and figure out how to aid the ever-growing impoverished in Glendale.

Now, I turn my attention to Crescenta Valley Weekly. I find it troublesome that with the mass demographic of Middle Eastern people intertwined in our community it has not touched on a single humanitarian crisis happening in Armenia, Iran, Iraq, Syria or even Palestine. Yet CV Weekly finds it appropriate to advertise weekly releases in restaurants, like Porto’s, which live in the heart of Glendale. I suggest that for the future, CV Weekly should include at least one humanitarian crisis happening to at least one of the hundreds of Middle Eastern demographics living in Glendale and La Crescenta before placing their papers in restaurants closely rooted in Glendale history.

Chris Simonian
Glendale