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I am a free lance writer based in the San Fernando Valley, a cozy 450-square mile bedroom community of two million close friends (some of whom are even legal residents) just over the hill north of Los Angeles and part of the City of Los Angeles.
For years we've been trying to break away from the "mother ship," because we have all the money; pay the richman's share of taxes, but receive a pauper's portion of city services.
I was a reporter/associate editor for the San Fernando Valley Chronicle for four years. That was followed by a two-year stint as editor of The Tolucan located on the outskirts of Beautiful Downtown Burbank.
My specialty is writing opinion pieces after finding interesting news stories, detailing the story to some extent, providing a link to the original story, and opining on it.
Whenever possible, I go for the humor, but sometimes it's necessary to go for the jugular.
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Officials with the Catalina Island Conservancy announced that beginning immediately they will begin injecting female bison with birth control delivered by dart gun to control the herd and insure their health and well-being.
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It was bad enough for a Colorado home owner to find a squatter clad only in his underwear in a home he had up for sale, but the man was allegedly running a meth lab, too.
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Blue words have been getting the blue pencil treatment by a vandal at a library in Columbia, Tennessee, according to the librarian.
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It’s well after Halloween, nonetheless a Sherman Oaks, California, resident shot it out with a ninja-look-alike robber who broken into his home, police said.
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The tables were turned on burglars in Toledo, Ohio, who thought they were going for gold jewelry, but came away with brass.
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It was a pleasant surprise for a Phoenix, Arizona, high school librarian when she received a package containing two long overdue books along with a check to cover the fines incurred.
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An aspiring actor in Los Angeles decided to make the paparazzi his best friends for one night to celebrate his 27th birthday and make a big news splash to help launch his acting career.
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A sign showing the distance from the beginning of I-40 to the end has proven to be a little too popular and a favorite target of thieves.
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Although “meep” is a nonsense word signifying nothing, nonetheless it’s use has been banned by the principal of Danvers High School in Massachusetts, and "meeping" now means suspension.
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“Hands up! Your money or your life,” is the usual demand from robbers, not we’ll pray together before I separate you from your money.
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It’s really hard to find any advantages to being a codger or codgerette except for the freedom to say anything you want and pretty much get away with it. Everything else is a pain…literally.
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Dr. Michael Kamrava, who treated Nadya “Octomom” Suleman for infertility, was ousted by the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, said Sean Tipton, an organization spokesman.
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Double chutzpah! Not only did a trio of robbers hold up a couple in their home, but one of the men came back two hours later and asked the female victim out on a date.
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It could be called a friendly blood feud between two men, that began many years ago, who over time have donated 40-gallons of blood each.
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While authorities in Southern California are searching for the arsonist who started the Station Fire in the San Gabriel Mountains, which affected residents in La Canada-Flintridge, they do know who started a fire in a La Canada home: The family dog.
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It was a blast from the past when a Pennsylvania man, who is a history buff and recreates firearms used in past wars, accidentally shot a two-pound cannonball through the wall of his neighbor’s house.
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Republican candidate Michael Untermeyer, who is hoping to be the next district attorney in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, has teamed up with a GPS ankle monitor as his campaign partner.
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Most grannies will do what it takes to visit the grandkids, be it hopping on a train, plane or bus, or even making a phone call, but not this kind of call: A bomb treat to the kids school.
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In an unofficial personal survey conducted by California blogger, Zach Behrens, he found that with California raising camping fees, it’s cheaper to vacation in a hotel than to go camping.
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At six o’clock this morning there was a vast black cloud with wispy inky fingers reaching for the sky hanging over the mountains to the east of Los Angeles.
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