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Columns from the editor of Times Community News
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 –...
Start the Presses: Accusations and flying mud
For about 15 hours this week, I’ve been sitting in Vrej Agajanian’s AABC TV studio, serially interviewing each of the candidates for Glendale’s City Council, School Board and City Clerk.
Start the Presses: Taking another, even closer look at Measure S
We blew it. During the last few weeks, our editorial board stared long and hard at Burbank's proposed school bond, Measure S. We talked to proponents and opponents, and nearly drove ourselves batty looking at spreadsheets and amortization schedules.
Start the Presses: Sweeney Todd at Burroughs High a hair-raising experience
About 30 minutes into watching the Wednesday night dress rehearsal of “Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street” at John Burroughs High School in Burbank, I had an unsettling realization.
Start the Presses: Recovering from a wrenching experience
I walk around my neighborhood with a long-handled socket wrench now. The metal has a comforting heaviness.
Start the Presses: Putting stress on the community
The bomb threat at R.D. White Elementary School on Monday set thousands of sets of teeth on edge, including mine. News it was a hoax brought relief, and anger at the knucklehead who would do such a thing.
Start the Presses: A follow up shot at redemption
Lisa Dugum is 33 and lives in Northridge with her parents.
Start the Presses: Finding some good amid gloom
December can be a rough month. The stress, the obligations, the gift anxiety, and the memories of friends and family whose addresses no card will reach often make me long for January.
Start the Presses: Living library offers pages from the past
They say when an older person dies, a library is lost. If that's the case, I met a university-sized one Monday, and I'd like to preserve at least some of the stacks for perpetuity.
Start the Presses: Community remains the key
At the very back of our Glendale offices, in a cramped, ill-lit room, is a treasure trove of local history, art and the general debris from a 107-year-old business, a year older than the city in which it sits.
Start the Presses: More digital, less paper
In my nearly four years in the editor’s chair, I’ve used this space on occasion to talk about our joys, our pains or to announce changes. This column has a bit of all three.
Editor's Note: New ways to read the News-Press
We’re pleased to announce the unveiling of an app for the Glendale News-Press for the iPhone
Start the Presses: An Armenian chef, French food and a side of homesickness
The L'Eden Restaurant & Bar sits on the corner of Tampa and Madison streets in downtown Tampa, about five blocks away from where the Republican National Convention was held this week.
Farewell, Tampa - here comes Charlotte
TAMPA, Fla. – As the Republican National Convention draws to a close, the Democratic National Convention ramps up in Charlotte, North Carolina, 575 miles to the north.
Start the Presses: Few specifics, more division, no true majority
Rain comes down hard in Florida. It comes down suddenly and leaves just as quickly, the UV-rays quickly burning your skin in the places washed clean of sunblock.
The floor pass mystery - solved
TAMPA, Fla. – Though Tuesday was a day filled with frustrations – filled with clueless guards and curt hall monitors – I solved the photo floor pass mystery Wednesday.
The RNC and the case of the mystery floor photo pass
TAMPA, Fla. -- After trekking up and down yet another stairwell at the Tampa Bay Times Forum with my photo gear, I prayed I had finally reached my goal: a floor photo pass.
Q&A; with Upland delegate Stephen Larson
As part of its coverage of the Republican National Convention, Times Community News met with members of the GOP delegation from the 27th and 28th Congressional Districts - the areas that serve our coverage cities. Next up: Stephen Larson, a former...
Q&A; with Pasadena delegate John Cushman III
ST. PETE BEACH, Fla. -- Times Community News caught up with John Cushman III at the Tradewinds resort, where the California GOP delegation is staying. Cushman, who lives in Pasadena, is chairman of a multinational real estate firm.
La Cañada physician Dr. Greggory DeVore extols the value of the entrepreneurial spirit at 'Newt U' symposium
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. -- Dr. Greggory DeVore, a fetal specialist from La Cañada Flintridge and GOP delegate, talked about the value of the independence and self-reliance during a talk at a symposium outside the Republican National Convention...
Q&A; with La Cañada delegate Dr. Greggory DeVore
TAMPA, Fla. -- As part of the coverage for the Republican National Convention, Times Community News conducted interviews with the GOP delegates from the 27th and 28th Congressional districts. First up: Dr. Greggory DeVore, a fetal medicine specialist...
Start the Presses: No, Meatball isn't up for adoption
At 4 a.m. Friday morning, Paul Hubler's neighbor called. A bear is in my yard, he said. A few minutes later, a 400-pound ursine, believed to be the famed Meatball, was in the shallow end of Hubler's pool.
Start the Presses: Finding serendipity at the Days Inn pool
We sat by the pool at the Glendale Days Inn on a recent morning, drinking Keystone under an umbrella.
Start the Presses: Area enjoys a resurrection of restaurants
When Frank's Restaurant, a Burbank landmark, went dark in March, a collective cry went out from Clybourn to Alameda avenues, from Forest Lawn to Bel Aire drives.
Start the Presses: Rewarding times in the newsroom
Awards ceremonies are usually long, dull affairs. Fortunately, when you're dealing with such fetes given by journalists, you tend to deal with more interesting — or at least creative — types. And an open bar. Always an open bar.
Times Community News receives finalist nominations for LA Press Club awards
The four Times Community News publications in Los Angeles County have received five finalist nominations from the Los Angeles Press Club.
Start the Presses: Sometimes an editor and his staff earn the right to party
I'm doing this old school. I’m sitting in a hotel bar, typing out this column, madly trying to make deadline and keep my award-winning copy and design desks happy. All I'm lacking is a cigar and a green eyeshade.
Start the Presses: Newsworthiness becomes a class struggle
I decided to ask a deceptively easy question.
Times Community News receives record 16 nominations in statewide contest
I’m proud to announce that the Glendale News-Press, Burbank Leader, La Cañada Valley Sun and Pasadena Sun received nominations in 16 categories in the annual California Newspaper Publishers Association contest. As far as I can tell, this...
Start the Presses: Easter — the second start of the year
Today is Easter Sunday, the high point on the Christian calendar and a powerful symbol of rebirth, renewal and hope.
Start the Presses: Being principal for a day is hard work
The day began where it does for so many parents and students: staring at a tailpipe, stuck in traffic. I heard the tardy bell and groaned. That was me, late for my “Principal for a Day” assignment at Toll Middle School in Glendale.
Start the Presses: There's a lot going on here
I have a bunch of changes and announcements to talk about this week, so I best get started.
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