Video Credits: Katareena Roska, iPhone 14. On June 2, 2015, Wear Orange was born. It was also supposed to be the 18th birthday of Hadiya Pendleton—another young life cut short by gun violence. From that day forward, the organization has grown, expanding its im... More »
In your “Guest Opinion” dated 17 May 2023 (“Catherine Cheng: Stop Anti-Asian Hate”), Pasadena City College’s Coalition of Asian Pacific Employees (CAPE) was maligned, and we must speak up. At PCC, the Asian Pacific Islander Desi American (APIDA) faculty and st... More »
May is mental health awareness month, and conversations about teen mental health and social media are happening on parent text chains, around the dinner table, and at pediatrician’s offices, just to name a few. In fact, last week, the U.S. Surgeon General issu... More »
Since we have gone weeks without a pot, this week I decided to cook up at least two columns. Across the country a lot is being made about pretextual stops. By now, many of us know what a pretext stop is. According to a City memo, a pretextual stop is when a ... More »
I managed to fight my way through the pain of the kidney stone with the aid of a couple of bottles of pure cranberry juice. The pain went away and didn’t come back. And I’m not solving for Y to figure out the why and how. Just glad to be pain free. Serious... More »
Dear Mayor and Council: Before rubber stamping this staff request for approval of a $4 million contract for management and consultant services consider whether or not these services can be performed by PWP employees. If not, why not? PWP spends a staggering ... More »
I have worked at Pasadena City College for the last 15 years and I am deeply disappointed that various shared governance groups have hit a new low. I have never seen such blatant and relentless displays of anti-Asian hate. This month the API community should b... More »
I am a member of the Progressive Asian Network for Action (PANA), an all- volunteer grassroots community organization whose members reside in Pasadena, South. Pasadena, the SGV and other Asian neighborhoods in L.A. Our slogan is “Peace, Justice and Equality fo... More »
I commend the Rose Bowl Operating Committee (RBOC) for the decision at their last meeting to postpone a vote they were asked to improperly take on a proposed multi-million-dollar development in the Arroyo Seco. They wisely saw that there were many unresolved q... More »
Pasadena’s proposed total Operating Budget is up by a whopping $288 million over last year to a new record total of $1.2 billion. To be fair, that’s inflated by a number of one-time windfalls, including $181 million in Measure R funds for “mobility improvement... More »
Pasadena City Hall believes in the Golden Rule: “Those who have the gold make the rules.” Nowhere is this more apparent in the ludicrous approach that the current City Hall clique took in response to the state law that set a maximum of $4,900 in contributions ... More »
The Pasadena City Council did the right thing the other night by rejecting a staff plan to go back to “normal” after the recent rains, allowing more landscape irrigation and revoking the 15% voluntary water reduction plea. The staff plan’s narrow focus on wate... More »
