Hi, CV! Like my mother, I find it easy to be a parent. Sometimes I think it’s because of my age; I don’t need to live through my child. My mom gave me space. I would come home from school and watch the same soap opera, “Another World,” as she was watching only I was […]
What will it take to be heard by GUSD? Is it time to look at our options? In my years on the CV Town Council, I have attended many events and meetings to support our local schools. Without a doubt, school pride runs deep in our foothill community. The town council has always taken a […]
‘Burn, Baby, Burn – Disco Inferno’ (On Foothill Boulevard) The 1976 lyrics of the hit song came true for La Crescenta’s one and only disco one hot October night in 1980. Sherlock’s Restaurant and Disco burned to the ground. The Dundee family had been successful restaurateurs in La Crescenta for several decades. Former pro boxer […]
Hi, CV! An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. CV Alliance works to help prevent underage substance use and abuse. We put on programs that are too often attended by people who already know information about substance abuse or who are already in crisis. The information we present is grand and friendships […]
Can’t Afford Schiff’s Park In the May 28 edition of the CV Weekly was an article on “Preserving Open Space in the Rim of the Valley” by Rep. Schiff. Rep. Schiff loves to spend taxpayers’ money. The National Park system can’t take care of what the backlog is now to bring most parks up to […]
Good News for Planetary Science and JPL In September 2003, the NASA mission Galileo plunged into Jupiter’s atmosphere after spending a decade orbiting the gas giant collecting data. With little fuel left, mission control sent the spacecraft on an intentional collision course with Jupiter to eliminate any possibility of the satellite contaminating one of its […]
The Tujunga Mining District Few realize that there was a significant gold rush in Big Tujunga Canyon in the late 1880s in what was then known as the “Tujunga Mining District.” This little known chapter of history is documented by my good friend Cecile Vargo in her history blog ExploreHistoriCalif.com, from which I draw most […]
Hi, CV! We hope you are settling in for another good, relaxing summer. You know there are plenty of free things to do in Los Angeles over the summer. Start “Googling” free concerts in L.A. or free movies in L.A. and you’ll get the gist. Today, I’m going to focus on four events that you’ll […]
Newborn DNA Collection Raises Serious Privacy Concerns A government repository of the DNA of all children born? It sounds like something out of 20th century dystopian fiction. Surely, that can’t happen here, right? Actually, millions of newborns each year provide a blood sample to the state to be screened for congenital disorders. But what happens […]
Promises Made, Promises Kept? Many voters know the annual electrical fund transfer of approximately $20 million from GWP to the general fund violates the [Glendale] City Charter. When the city increases our electrical rates beyond the cost of delivery and does not meet the seven criteria of Prop 26, it is a back door tax. […]