The 1978 Pinecrest Mudslide – Part 3 In the last couple of weeks I wrote about the Genofile family, and their dramatic brush with death during a massive mudflow. In February 1978, the fire-swept hillsides above the Pinecrest development had cut loose during heavy rains. The “debris slug,” a destructive mix of water, mud and […]
It’s A Small World After All Sometimes I feel like the universe tilts just a little, causing me to spill back to my childhood and reflect on all those precious memories. That happened to me, right as we were ushering in 2021. In December, I had purchased several copies of the same book from the […]
After One Year of COVID-19, the American Rescue Plan is Restoring Hope Again It’s been a little over a year since this virus first brought our nation and the world to a standstill, a year since many of us packed up our offices and started working from home, and a year since we’ve been able […]
The 1978 Pinecrest Mudslide – Part 2 The story of the Genofile family’s brush with death, continued. It was the middle of the night in February 1978. A burst of intense rain had broken loose a massive portion of the fire-scarred San Gabriel Mountains above the Pinecrest development. Mud, rocks and water had easily crested […]
New Housing Units Coming In? Los Angeles County and the City of Glendale are currently working on their housing element update, which must be done every eight years. The state decides how many housing units for each of the various income levels must be added to an area and it’s up to the city, or […]
The 1978 Pinecrest Mudslide – Part 1 We should always remember that the very ground we live on was built by massive, violent floods. As the San Gabriel Mountains rise, they shed granite. When it rains hard, those granite pieces flood out of the canyons and wash across our valley in rock-filled waves 20 and […]
Vaccine Update It’s hard to imagine that it has been over a year since we first took action to keep our community safe from the COVID-19 pandemic. It has been a challenging year for all of us, and I am working every day with my colleagues in the legislature on a range of pandemic related […]
Against Acting in Secret On Feb. 25, the Glendale Design Review Board approved a project at 3950 Foothill Blvd. comprised of 34 apartments and four commercial spaces despite considerable opposition from the community. That opposition was doomed to fail because in March 2020 the city granted the developer concessions regarding building height, lot coverage and open space […]
Reflections on a ‘Legend’ Recently we lost Tommy Lasorda, baseball and Dodger legend. I had the opportunity to meet this wonderful man on several occasions. Tommy came to speak to the students at Rosemont Middle School with a message of encouragement and a challenge to the student body. This was my first year as Rosemont PTA president. […]
High-Speed Rail from Vegas to La Cañada? The Crystal Lake Freeway? I just love writing about things that could have been, but never panned out. In the past I’ve written about plans to turn the valley into a reservoir, construct a racetrack at CV Park, build Montrose Junior High, and the wholesale development of the […]