Election Day 2020: The Sequel(s) Possible results of an election nightmare With President Trump clearly indicating that he will contest the election, it is important to consider the possible post-election scenarios for the weeks and even months following Elec... More »
This week, the PUSD Board of Education is set to vote on the Learning Continuity and Attendance Plan, which is a District requirement that developed out of the recent passing of the California Senate Bill SB 98 to “to balance the needs of all stakeholders, inc... More »
Pasadena is my hometown. I grew up here and graduated from local public schools. In junior high school I was introduced to the costs of racial segregation during the first week of classes. In my 7th Grade Metals course (a requirement for all boys), the boy i... More »
Sept 14, 2020 Dear Honorable Mayor and City Council, We can appreciate some of the challenges of trying to figure out how to meet the goal of 9,409 Housing units in the next eight years. It feels not only daunting and even impossible but in this letter we have... More »
At the end of August, I went to the beach for the first time this summer with my mom. This beach is fairly out of the way and there was scarcely anyone there. The other beachgoers who were there were masked, and there was a persistent wind that kept the air ar... More »
On March 19th when Governor Newsom shut down the state to “flatten the curve” of COVID-19, he said, “this [lockdown] is not a permanent state, this is a moment in time.” We are now coming up on six months of a “moment in time” here in California. While many of... More »
I join the chorus of Pasadena residents who, at the August 24th City Council meeting, expressed their outrage at the City of Pasadena’s posting of a narrated video of the killing of Anthony McClain on its website. First and foremost, the statements in the nar... More »
We Need Responsible Legislatures As I observe the fires devastating our communities, I think of our state legislators who approve measures that can help address climate change, the plastics crisis and global pollution. But this was not a good year for such act... More »
Service above self. This lofty ideal lies at the heart of the American experience, which measures a person’s worth by what they give back to society – not what they take. And although today’s poisonous politics rewards those with the biggest egos and greatest ... More »
During the most recent round of school closures, there were allegations of inequity in the decision-making process about the closures. With the tragedies of the killings of George Floyd, Anthony McClain and other Black Americans, protests about racism in polic... More »
Re: Pasadena’s Wrongful Posting of a Biased and Inflammatory Narrated Video of the Killing of Anthony McClain Dear Editor: I join the chorus of Pasadena residents who, at the August 24th City Council meeting, expressed their outrage at the City of Pasadena’s p... More »
When I was in production for my film “Can We All Get Along?” I asked many long-time PUSD families, some three or four generations in the district, ‘Why were the schools re-segregated?’ There was no one answer. For some, it was the end of busing and commitment... More »
