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Sometimes we have no idea that we’re in standing the presence of greatness.  As students at John Muir High School in the late 1970s and early ‘80s, we often saw the unassuming elderly gentleman on campus. He always had warm words of advice, encouragement ... More »
On April 15 ballplayers at Dodger Stadium and throughout Major League Baseball donned Jackie Robinson’s number 42 in remembrance of Robinson’s historic breaking of baseball’s color barrier nearly 70 years ago. Then, less than two weeks after that soaring... More »
Anthony Portantino likes Twitter and Facebook as much as the next guy, but he worries that extreme texting and posting are eroding young people’s ability to successfully interact in the real world. The former Assemblymember recently admonished students from ... More »
One of the countless prescient scenes in Ray Bradbury’s dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 finds the hero, Montag, struggling to memorize a simple Bible verse as a toothpaste commercial blares over the radio on a commuter train. Living in Bradbury’s im... More »
On Friday morning at the Arclight Theater in Pasadena, the Cross Cultural Center, PCC Flea Market and the Office of Student Life sponsored a special premier screening of the new movie, César Chávez, for PCC faculty, staff and students. I thank these orga... More »
For the past 30 years, I’ve fought for lung health with the American Lung Association. Our organization has been a leader in the battle against tobacco, which is the leading cause of preventable illness and death in the U.S. Over the years, this battle has exp... More »
Current drought conditions across California are prompting a new awakening among urban dwellers about just how important agriculture is in their own lives. While great distances lie between farmland and the dense urban neighborhoods of Pasadena and the San Gab... More »
Dear Editor, re: Councilmember Madison mandatory spay and neuter Everyone in the community is concerned about aggressive dogs and stopping dog bites. No one wants their dog to be killed or shot by police who are trying to deal with the problem of dogs roaming ... More »
There’s nothing more lowdown than an adult who preys on kids. Especially an adult with power and authority to whom kids and their parents turn for help. When they use that authority and power to deceive, coerce, manipulate, intimidate or otherwise ... More »
According to “Duck Dynasty” star Phil Robertson, black people were happy in the Jim Crow south. Paula Deen told a New York Times interviewer that white southerners treated African-Americans “like family” during t... More »
We all want safe communities for everyone–those that we love, those that we know, those that we don’t know. Safety is of the utmost importance to anyone that has a genuine care for people and for animals alike. With that being said, Pasadena City Councilman ... More »
A great man who was recently laid to rest on the southern tip of humanity’s birth continent once said, “It always seems impossible until it’s done.†The truth of that simple-yet-profound statement is not limited to towering, larger-than-life leaders li... More »
