Wednesday, May 16, 2012
A proposed Indian restaurant at the northeast corner of Altadena Drive and Washington Boulevard got one step closer to completion by getting Town Council support for its alcohol permit on Tuesday.
Update: The permit was approved by the County Regional Planning Commission on Wednesday morning. Original: The Altadena Town Council voted unanimously Tuesday night to conditionally support the county granting a permit to serve alcohol at a proposed Indian restaurant at the northeast corner of Altadena Drive and Washington Boulevard. The restaurant is part of a proposed 5,000 square foot retail building that would replace an existing structure that once housed a florist at a strip mall at the corner. The owner of the property is Dr. Nirmal Kumar, who runs a medical practice at that location. The new retail building would replace a small outlying building on the spot that used to house a florist. The permit issue will be discussd by the …
The Password Protection Act of 2012 would the enhance current law to prohibit employers from compelling or coercing employees into providing access to their private accounts.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), along with eleven other co-sponsors, introduced the Password Protection Act Of 2012 last week to hopefully curb employers who require that employees provide access to password-protected accounts, like Facebook and Twitter. Individual states, including Maryland and California, have already introduced legislation to ban the increasingly popular practice. In a press release Thursday, Schiff explained why he's backing the Password Protection Act Of 2012, which would protect users across the country: This common sense legislation would prevent employers from mandating that job applicants or current employees disclose confidential passwords to their social networks, like Facebook. Someone's personal page should be just…
Tuesday, May 15, 2012
With San Rafael Elementary planned to be closed because of seismic hazards, PUSD is looking at options for new schools, including one location in Altadena. The options will be discussed at a public meeting on Thursday.
The Pasadena Unified School District announced last Friday that Pasadena's San Rafael Elementary School will need to be closed in the near future because of earthquake hazards, and the Altadenablog notes today that one of the options the district is discussing is opening a new school in Altadena. The new location that the district announced is the district's service center property, which is located on Woodbury Road across from Jackson Elementary School, according to PUSD spokesman Adam Wolfson San Rafael is slated to be closed as soon as the 2013-'14 school year because of the discovery of new fault lines that run under the school, according to a district press release. Under state law, the school cannot modernize any buildings within 50…
Six community forums are scheduled May 17-24 on extending the 710 Freeway. The closest meeting to Altadena is in La Canada Flintridge.
The Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Caltrans are scheduled to hold community forums this week through May 24 to facilitate a public discussion about various “alternative concepts” to the proposed extension of the 710 freeway into the Los Angeles area. The forums, which are part of the so-called “Alternative Analysis phase of the SR-710 Study,” according to the Metro website, are aimed at “bridging the gap” in this freeway from Long Beach. The idea is to relieve congestion and enhance traffic mobility, particularly that of cargo-laden trucks from the Long Beach port, in the study area. The alternative concepts, two of which are graphically represented in the attached images, include: • Bus Rapid Transit • Light Rail Transit • …
The candidates of the 25th Senate District discuss their platforms during Thursday’s forum.
In a newly formed 25th Senate district, two of the three candidates vying for a place on the November ballot championed a new order of representation in Sacramento during a candidate's forum in Glendora last Thursday. Republican Senate candidate Gil Gonzales and Democratic candidate Ameenah Fuller discussed their views on topics important to local voters, including education, taxation and redevelopment. Carol Liu, the Democratic incumbent for the current 21st Senate District and current representative of Altadena was in a budget meeting in Sacramento and could not attend Thursday evening’s forum, according to her assistant. The new 25th district includes Altadena, Pasadena and South Pasadena, and stretches both east and west along the …
Monday, May 14, 2012
See who’s running for offices representing Altadena in the June 5 primary election.
With the candidates on the June 5 primary election ballot finalized, campaigns and voter registration drives are underway. Recently drawn redistricting maps put previous representatives, Rep. Adam Schiff and Assemblyman Anthony Portantino in new districts, leaving Altadena residents voting for brand new representatives in the House of Representatives and Assembly. State Sen. Carol Liu, who currently represents Altadena, is running again in the new district representing Altadena. While Portantino originally said he would be running for Congress, he retracted that statement in a press release January. Races for the new districts representing South Pasadena include State Senator 25th District, U.S. Representative 27th District and State …
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Pino's body was brought out of an Anza-Borrego mud cave by mine rescuers Tuesday night.
Update 1:10 p.m. Thursday: The Medical Examiner's Office today confirmed that the body was indeed that of Guillermo Pino, Jr. The family of missing San Diego hiker Guillermo Pino reported finding the body down a 60-foot shaft in the Arroyo Tapiado area on Saturday. Pino, 24, went missing April 8 while hiking in the area with his family. Authorities suspended the search for Pino by April 17 due to the difficulty of working in the rugged, unstable terrain, locally known as "the Badlands." However, Pino's family continued the search. KNX Radio in Los Angeles, a CBS affiliate, reported Tuesday that a private investigator, Bill Garcia of San Diego, helped the family by lowering a camera down the shaft into a mud cave, and that family members …
It’s a different ballgame in the June 5 primary, with newly-drawn geographic boundaries for the 41st District and an open primary that erases party lines.
Five candidates for the 41st Assembly District lined up to share their views in a forum sponsored by Southern California Public Radio (KPCC) and the Pasadena Sun on Wednesday night in the Crawford Family Forum. Though they touched on a variety of issues, the climate for business in California and local transportation were recurring themes in their responses to questions from the audience. Bill Kisliuk, city editor of the Pasadena Sun, moderated the discussion. The newly-drawn district includes South Pasadena, Altadena, Sierra Madre, Monrovia, as well as Glendora and several other foothill cities in East Los Angeles County. A map of it can be viewed at right. The candidates are Michael Cacciotti, mayor of South Pasadena; Edward Colton, …
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Rep. Judy Chu, who is running in a newly drawn Congressional district that includes Altadena, as well as current representative Adam Schiff spoke in support of President Obama’s gay marriage views Wednesday.
President Barack Obama changed his tune and officially declared his support for same-sex marriage Wednesday, becoming the first sitting president to do so, according to ABC News. "I've always been adamant that gay and lesbian Americans should be treated fairly and equally," Obama told ABC’s Robin Roberts in a sit-down interview that will air in its entirety on ABC's Good Morning America Thursday. See more about Obama’s same-sex marriage views in a video excerpt here. The President also emphasized that his stance on the issue is personal and he supports states deciding on their own where they stand on same-sex marriage, ABC News reported. Leaders on both sides of the aisle, the gay community, as well as citizens responded in full force to …
A money-saving version of the Districting Task Force's original consensus map was approved with a 5-2 vote.
Pasadena Unified School Board members voted 5-2 Tuesday night to approve a slightly tweaked version of the task force-endorsed districting map they praised in March, following a storm of heated commentary triggered from a staff report released only days earlier that provided a sudden handful of alternative, incumbent-friendly maps unseen by public eyes. Many people used public comment time to support the task force's consensus map while also questioning the existence of the other maps, or even the intentions of the board itself. "These maps are an outrage," said Peter Dreier, a resident and Occidental professor who called the alternative maps an example of blatant gerrymandering. "This is after 50 meetings, 10 months of work and community …
michele Zack
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