Rest in Peace, Crescenta Valley Rotary Club Recently my friend Joe Kroening (owner of Andy’s Transfer in Montrose) sent me a write-up of the Crescenta Valley Rotary Club’s history in order to ask me a question about one point in the group’s history. The piece he sent me was fascinating! Here was this local […]
Verdugo Hills Golf Course Update A couple of weeks ago, I took the opportunity to attend a Sunland-Tujunga Neighborhood Council meeting. I was interested in the presentations related to 6433 La Tuna Canyon Road, the former Verdugo Hills Golf Course property. Many in attendance expressed sadness at the loss of recreational space and frustration […]
Excessive Taxes Killing Small Business, Middle Class It’s my opinion that excessive taxes hold back a healthy economy. Glendale’s recent sales tax increase of 3/4% will generate $30,000,000. That brings our local sales tax effective April 1 to 10.25%, which totals $410,000,000. If only 50% of the $410 million was spent on taxable goods ($205,000,000) […]
Juvenile Delinquents of CV – A Gang Fight in Tujunga! We don’t know what led up to the fight, what offenses real or imagined caused two large groups of teenage boys to meet at Sunland Park with deadly weapons for a gang fight. We only know that police rolled up on the fight before it […]
Making Automation Work for Everyone Over the past 20 years, we have seen the fastest period of technological advancement in human history. The internet has become integral to daily life, bringing us into an era of unprecedented connectedness. Technology has enabled life-saving procedures in the medical field, provided increasingly sophisticated defense capabilities to our […]
Officer Matt Welcomed Back with Pie! When I heard that Officer Matt Zakarian was returning as our community liaison to the Glendale Police Dept., I just had to bake pies to bring to our neighborhood watch meeting. [At the meeting] we had an excellent briefing by Officer Matt and crew regarding our role as neighbors […]
Statewide ‘Extravagance’ According to USA Today, May 8, 2018: “The average American household’s pretax income is $74,664. When you add up the money that is paid for goods and services or taxes, the average household spends more than 90% of their income whereas California’s income is $83,000, or 11% higher.” According to payscale.com, the cost of […]
My Report Back from D.C. In January, I joined the California State Assembly delegation to the nation’s Capitol to meet with federal leaders on a host of issues concerning our state and the country at large. This was a fantastic opportunity to meet one-on-one with House and Senate leaders including our own congressman Adam […]
Richard Nixon Comes to Montrose Yes, it’s true! In October 1962, the future President held a campaign rally in Montrose, giving a speech before 2,000 enthusiastic locals. He was running for California governor on the Republican ticket against the Democrat incumbent Governor Brown. (For the youngsters: Governor Edmund “Pat” Brown was the father of […]
Link Paola’s Custom Cars and Custom Car Terminology In the years that Link Paola had a custom car shop in Montrose, between 1939 and 1951, he probably produced hundreds of these sleek rolling works of art. I’ll describe a couple of them to give you a feel for what sculptural genius was being performed […]