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Electricity rate hikes back on the radar in Glendale
Glendale will host a series of community meetings to discuss a schedule of electricity rate increases that city officials say are needed to pay for badly needed infrastructure upgrades and to improve the utility’s financial footing. The meetings...
Tags: Recreational and Sporting Goods Industry, Electricity Production and Distribution, Finance, Public Officials, Local Elections
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Sinanyan should have been prepared
The City Council meeting on May 7 was enlightening. There was Zareh Sinanyan on a crucial vote regarding the DWP contact taking the position that he would abstain because he had not been in office when the issue was being discussed. What is the city...Tags: Public Officials, Politics, Elections
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Glendale considers clamping down further on smoking
Being a smoker in Glendale could get a lot more restrictive in the coming months after officials this week proposed a number of new laws to limit the reach of second-hand smoke. The City Council on Tuesday moved to ban smoking in all new apartment and...
Tags: Laws, Crime, Law and Justice, Google+, Lifestyle and Leisure, Public Officials
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Former city workers retired, but still working
Former Glendale Police Capt. Ray Edey is not one to relax, so when he had the opportunity to return to writing grant applications for the city in September 2011, about a week after he retired, he took it. "I don't golf, fish or hunt," said the 30-year...
Tags: California Public Employees' Retirement System, Public Employees, Safety of Citizens, Politics, Health and Safety at Work
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Glendale pays big pension numbers
As Glendale struggles to get a handle on its growing pension obligations, records show that about 11% of the nearly 1,350 city retirees draw annual pensions of more than $100,000 a year — and some of them far more than that. At the top of the list...
Tags: Employment Opportunities, California Public Employees' Retirement System, 401K, Public Employees, Career and Workplace
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Glendale city commissioner dead at 79
Gary Cornell, a city commissioner who played a role in doling out millions in federal grants for public projects and social services, died Friday morning in his home, his wife said. He was 79. Although the official cause of death was not yet been...
Tags: Civil and Public Service, Public Officials, Politics
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Glendale councilman contends newly elected treasurer is violating city work rules
City officials are reviewing whether a rule that blocks full-time employees from holding other jobs applies to newly elected City Treasurer Rafi Manoukian. Manoukian, who left his council seat early after winning the treasurer post, holds a second...
Tags: Finance, Public Officials, Politics, Economy, Business and Finance, Elections
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After impasse with IBEW, Glendale City Council imposes pay cut on utility workers
More than 200 Glendale Water & Power employees and their union comrades packed City Hall Tuesday night to protest a contract that cuts their pay by 1.75%. Despite the showing, the City Council — unable to reach a deal with the International...
Tags: Healthcare Contract Issues, Health Insurance, Unions, Public Officials, Politics
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Glendale is no different from Los Angeles
In 2001, Former Mayor Frank Quintero approved changing the benefit factor that would allow safety personnel to retire after 30 years of service at age 50 with 90% of their last year of spiked income, rather than maintaining their existing generous 75%...Tags: Finance, Public Officials, Housing and Urban Planning, Local Elections, Politics
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Central square at Americana transferred to city's books to keep from being sold by state
Though surrounded by the shops, residences and restaurants that make up the Americana at Brand, the park in the middle is a public one, and is at risk of being sold by the state as Glendale’s redevelopment agency winds down. To protect the...Tags: Arts and Culture, Public Officials, Politics, Google Inc.
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News-Press Editorial: Lack of genocide recognition is a disgrace
On a Saturday night some 98 years ago this week, more than 200 Armenian intellectuals and community leaders living in Constantinople, today's Istanbul, were rounded up by the government. The political party in power, the "Young Turks," did not want...Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Genocide, Barack Obama, Hate Crimes, Massacres
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Start the Presses: Remembering the Armenian Genocide
Each year Armenians worldwide commemorate the murder of 1.5 million of their ancestors by what was then the Ottoman Empire in the time around World War I. Each year, the United States government – fearing the backlash of Turkish rulers – fails...
Tags: Adam Schiff, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Genocide, Hate Crimes, Massacres
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