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More than 15 months after the Eaton Fire burned through Altadena, a new privately organized cash assistance program is offering something most fire-relief efforts have not reached: unrestricted monthly payments to displaced renters and tenants, sustained for t... More »
Before a judge hears the case, before a tenant loses the apartment, before a landlord absorbs another month of unpaid rent, Los Angeles County wants to put both parties in a room with a mediator and a check. The Department of Consumer and Business Affairs laun... More »
Every year, the City of Pasadena spends $1.5 billion. Most of the attention goes to the General Fund—the quarter that pays for police, fire, libraries and parks. But the biggest decisions—the ones that shape whether our city works or fails—are made in the Capi... More »
When a Pasadena parcel tax failed and left public school funding short, Jim and Dawn O’Keeffe didn’t write a letter. They called 50 film crews. On May 8, 2012, the O’Keeffes sent those crews into all 28 schools of Pasadena Unified School District, from sunrise... More »
The money arrives where the need is sharpest — in rent payments, in mortgage checks, in the emergency costs that pile up when a home burns and the insurance doesn’t cover it all. My TRIBE Rise, a grassroots nonprofit co-founded in West Altadena in 2019, says i... More »
Imaging is a critical technique in biology—from identifying cancerous cells in biopsies to observing how immune cells like macrophages hunt down and destroy pathogens. Traditionally, distinguishing and labeling individual cells in images and videos has been an... More »
Rep. Judy Chu will step away from Capitol Hill and into a church learning center on Saturday May 2 to talk about something that doesn’t usually make the congressional calendar: how faith becomes civic action. Chu, who represents Pasadena and the San Gabriel V... More »
Sixteen months after the Eaton Fire tore through West Altadena, burning a path through neighborhoods where Black families have owned homes for generations, a coalition of community organizations is pursuing a structural remedy: a formal Black Cultural District... More »
After publishing an article sourced from the third-party outlet CalMatters, this newsroom received a detailed communication from Governor Newsom’s office raising substantial concerns about the piece’s accuracy and framing. In the communication, Governor Gavin ... More »
Pasadena residents will see a stretch of sunny spring weather this week, with temperatures climbing into the mid-80s by Saturday before cooling early next week, according to National Weather Service forecasters in Los Angeles/Oxnard. Today’s forecast calls for... More »
The City of Pasadena sets the standard for transparency and accountability in local government. Yet the handling of the 133-unit Rosemead Family Apartments at 600 N. Rosemead Boulevard represents a disturbing failure of that proud tradition — one the City Coun... More »
On Tuesday, the Pasadena Unified School District will hold its second and final scheduled town hall on the school consolidation process, this time in person at Pasadena High School from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. The session comes one day after the Superintendent’s Sch... More »
