As the workday grows ever longer, an increasing number of companies are offering alcohol as an office perk, as per the Wall Street Journal. Do we really want employers to inadvertently trigger risky behavior or alcohol addiction? In the spirit of independence from alcohol abuse, here’s the story of Leigh Steinberg as shared by our […]
Is the City Going a Little Overboard? Is there any length that anti-smoking soldiers will not go to in order to stomp out the big, bad nicotine boogeyman from every remote corner of modern society? The May 16 issue of CV Weekly detailed the push by the Glendale City Council to empower citizens to sue […]
Happy (Or Not) Anniversaries On our family calendar during any given year, June is typically the month with the most entries. It’s a month with once-blank squares for each day crammed full of important date reminders notated in various colors of markers, ball point pens, pencils and highlighters and featuring cartoon-like stars, hearts, underlines, arrows, […]
Mysteries and Questions on CV History, Part 1 I regularly get questions about our local history, sometimes the same question repeatedly. Over the next few columns, I’ll address some of these questions and attempt to solve a few mysteries about the valley. If you have any questions you’ve been puzzling over, shoot me an email […]
A 14-year-old daughter openly drank her mother’s cocktail. The mother shrugged, the kid sips from her drinks, and said it was probably okay “as long as she’s doing it at home, and isn’t driving.” (She drives at 14!) She asked me, “What do you do if you know your child is drinking?” Professionals answer: Sona […]
It’s Already a Wonder-full Summer Regular readers know that a few times each year the wonders in my noggin spill over onto my keyboard. With all the scandalous news of late – from Boston to Benghazi and the IRS to the NSA – the wonderings have become a flood. So strap on your waders and […]
Lake La Crescenta? I love to chronicle the goofy proposals for our community in the past – the schemes that could-have-been. It’s interesting to think about the effects each of these proposals would have on our community. But none would have had a more profound effect than that proposed in 1892 – to put La […]
Public Should Know When School Employees Have History of Abuse In February, a major scandal rocked the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) when teachers at Telfair Elementary in Pacoima and Miramonte Elementary in South L.A. were discovered engaging in long-time patterns of abuse and misconduct. Despite the allegations that teachers were sexually abusing students, […]
A Firestorm of P.R. Being a lifetime Southern California resident, I’ve always been extremely appreciative and regularly in awe of the dangerous work done by our many thousands of wildfire fighters when faced with blast furnace temperatures, hellacious Santa Ana winds and thousands of acres of tinder-dry brush that cover our Southland. Fighting out-of-control fires […]
“City of La Crescenta” Voted Down in 1964 La Crescenta had talked about becoming its own city from its very inception in the late 1800s, but had never seriously given it a shot. In 1951 that issue was clouded when half the valley, including the business district of Montrose, annexed itself to Glendale to take […]