To Political Candidates, Ballot Measure Campaigns, the Democratic Party, and Labor Unions in California: From major criminal justice reform ballot measures to electing a new district attorney in Los Angeles County, in the past several election cycles, Black wo... More »
Dear Assembly Members Holden, Friedman, Rubio, Chau, Rodriguez, Chen, Calderon and Garcia, We, the undersigned representatives of cities in the San Gabriel Valley, write in firm opposition to Senate Bill 9 (Atkins), which would end single-family residential zo... More »
With the agreement of California’s new budget, families and child care providers can breathe a sigh of relief. The budget includes historic investments for Early Childhood Education (ECE), funding several reforms that activists have pursued for years. These re... More »
The Time is Always Right to do What is Right Martin Luther King Legal cannabis has become big business in 33 states and the District of Columbia. There are an estimated 55 million Americans that regularly use cannabis. The total U.S. economic impact from marij... More »
The long-awaited draft of the Housing Element has finally been released by City Hall. Every eight years, cities are required to update their Housing Elements (which are a part of each City’s General Plan). The most controversial part of Housing Elements is t... More »
Dear Pasadena City Council members and staff: Increasingly nature is sending us a message and fortunately some are listening. The message involves protecting the natural world and all the vital elements that foster life — the water, the animals and varied spe... More »
I love the quiet. You know, that dead silence that you can only get in the desert where you hear your heart beat. There is a sense of peace that you can only experience in the quiet. Now, I know everyone doesn’t agree with me, and I know I have to be realist... More »
If I ask whether you care about housing people who live on the streets, I imagine you’d answer “of course” and “they should be housed.” But when presented with practical solutions, particularly bridge or temporary housing, the answer from most people tends to ... More »
We all have thoughts — but how those thoughts manifest into actions that remain true to our original intent is where we must bridge the gap. Of course there are some who simply walk through the world with harmful intent, which we can address another time, but ... More »
Over the past year, one of the heartbreaking side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the loss of so many local small businesses. In spite of our community rallying together to shop local, buy local, and eat local, the toll was too much to handle for man... More »
Dorothy is an 87-year-old woman who lives alone in a small Pasadena apartment and experiences consistent food insecurity – no reliable access to adequate nutrition because of financial circumstances. So she comes to the Pasadena Senior Center the first Friday ... More »
It broke my heart last week to see longtime Pasadena resident Mark Tracy on TV grieving the loss of his home, which burned in an accident involving a young child and fireworks. I have known Mark for the better part of 40 years. I’ve known his girlfriend Jackie... More »
