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Glendale, California’s Character and Ethics Project recognized 17 adults and 12 students for demonstrating outstanding character on Thursday, December 11, 2008.

I got a call back from the Glendale Public Works Engineering Office yesterday, and learned that one other permit has been issued for a cellular antenna installation in a residential zone – the Glen Knolls area on Sunshine Drive north of Kildonin. This is in addition to the first T-Mobile permit, which was issued for [...]

Steven Pearlstein’s editorial in The Washington Post today imagined an alternative universe in which a top Wall Street executive took control of a 2006 investors’ meeting, decrying the company’s excessive risk taking, warped loan underwriting standards, and the credit bubble. Pearlstein argues that a business leader who had taken these steps might have suffered in [...]

Glendale, California could adopt the language and intent of San Diego County and City’s municipal ordinance regulating placement of wireless telecommunications equipment. San Diego’s ordinance was recently upheld by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals.

To discover if other cellular telephone antennae have been approved for installation in Glendale neighborhoods, I contacted the Planning Department and spent a long time on the phone with a staff member who could find no information on file whatsoever.
He finally asked around and found out that permits were being issued by the City Engineer’s [...]

An email received recently from a long-time neighbor and friend:
I wanted to tell you about a really fun class that our family is taking. It is a ballroom or social dancing class that is taught by ballroom champion Larisa Bates. The class is on Sunday nights at 6:00 P. M. at the StudioADance dance studios [...]