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Glendale City Council candidate not firm on foam ban
While several City Council candidates said they’d be willing to look into a plastic foam container ban at a campaign forum Thursday night, few would give a direct answer as to whether they would support such a law if elected. Dozens of cities...
Tags: Business, Starbucks Corp., Politics, Google Inc., Local Elections
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Manoukian is wrong for the job
I wholeheartedly agree with city treasurer Ron Borucki that his position should be an appointed one. Some positions in city government should not be based on politics. The city treasurer needs to have a background in banking. We need the best-...Tags: Politics, Bankruptcy
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Council candidates Sam Engel and Edith Fuentes take heat at forum
City Council candidates on the campaign trail have lobbed critiques at city employees, bashing their pensions and salaries, and, at a campaign forum Wednesday, their ability to serve on the council. Two retired city employees, Sam Engel and Edith...Tags: Politics, Chevy Chase, Government, Local Elections, Public Employees
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Mayor Quintero disavows support for City Council candidate Edith Fuentes
Mayor Frank Quintero on Tuesday said he was shocked to see his picture on a campaign mailer sent to Glendale residents this week by City Council candidate Edith Fuentes. He has not endorsed Fuentes, he said. “I strongly disagreed with her...
Tags: Politics, Local Elections
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Appointed treasurer needed by city
On March 1, Brittany Levine wrote an article topped by the headline, “Manoukian hopes to help quash Measure A,” which would make the city treasurer an elected position. He hopes for strategic support to serve in that position. The City Council...Tags: Politics
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Run to polls to vote for Freemon
In Kurt Sawitskas' letter to the editor on March 9, he stated he was not voting for Jen Freemon because her husband was a former president of the Glendale Teacher's Association. Really? Strange, because one of the GUSD's recent school board members,...Tags: Politics
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Times Community News receives record 23 nominations in statewide contest
Times Community News – which includes the Glendale News-Press, Burbank Leader, La Cañada Valley Sun and Pasadena Sun – received a record 23 finalist nominations in this year's California Newspaper Publishers Assn. contest. Every section of...Tags: Politics, Newspaper and Magazine
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Glendale school board candidates take on bullying
Bullying among students and the responsibility that parents and district employees have when it happens was addressed by six of the seven school board candidates Monday during a forum hosted by the Montrose-Verdugo City Chamber of Commerce. The...Tags: Politics, Health and Safety at School, Teaching and Learning, Teachers, Students
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City clerk candidate Stephanie Landregan hits at 'uncounted votes'
This post has been amended, see note below for details. The challenger for the position of city clerk, the official who runs Glendale elections, criticized incumbent Ardy Kassakhian at a public forum this week, saying some votes had not been counted...
Tags: Politics, Google Inc., U.S. Postal Service, Voting
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Ron Kaye: Democracy wins a round
The setting was beautiful: a hill high above the intersection of the Santa Monica (10) and Long Beach (710) freeways, with panoramic views of downtown L.A. and much of the San Gabriel Valley, even on this dark and misty Thursday night. But the scene...Tags: Local Government, Politics, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Highway Transportation, Voting
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No need for Glendale school board changes
The race for Glendale school board looks like a power grab to me. Why else would anyone want to unseat any of the three outstanding incumbents who are running to serve us again? Let me start with this alarm — Jennifer Freemon is backed by the...Tags: Politics, Labor Legislation, Career and Workplace
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News-Press provides faraway connection
Very interesting that I was looking for a friend who is a certified public accountant as well as a civic activist about 10 days ago, only to find out via the Mailbag (“A long-distance fan of the city clerk,” Feb. 23) that he is endorsing...Tags: Politics
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