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September 30, 2010 Issue
‘Science is Fun,’ Say East LA Sixth Graders
Students of Hamasaki Elementary School observed National Science Day on Sept. 24 by taking part in a variety of fun science activities during a field trip to the... Read more »
EDITORIAL: So, Who Is Subsidizing Whom?
The Los Angeles City Council this week raised the fees it charges for false burglar alarms on the grounds that ninety-seven percent of the calls police respond to... Read more »
East L.A. Cityhood Town Hall focuses on ‘Political Muscle’
On a day when the outside temperatures reached record breaking highs, the air inside the East Los Angeles Community Service Center was heated for a different reason... Read more »
Montebello Committee Paid For Mailers Against Bell Candidate
A Montebello political committee sponsored by local waste haulers was also at one time involved in an opposition campaign against a city council candidate in Bell,... Read more »
Rough Riders Making Attendance, and Academic Gains, Says Partnership CEO
Over two hundred absent Roosevelt High School students were the targets of a foot-pursuit on Sept. 24, during LAUSD’s district-wide “Student Recovery Day”... Read more »
Bell Gardens Is Not Bell, Say City Officials
Improving government transparency and accountability was the topic of discussion at Monday night’s Bell Gardens City Council Meeting. The conversation—which... Read more »
Superheroes in East L.A.? The Tales We Make
It’s September 2010, and I should be thinking about more timely events like Mexican Independence Day and the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, or the... Read more »
Sorry, You’re Under Surveillance
Orwell, Kafka, They could see; That government, Would soon watch me. For governments keen on muzzling and thwarting opposition, terrorism is a God-sent cover.... Read more »
Montebello Borrows From Redevelopment Agency, Again
There would have been no money left to pay Montebello city employees next month had the council not approved a $19.3 million loan from its redevelopment agency,... Read more »