Illegal Abyss
Reference 02/01/17 GNP front page article “Judge says city violated state law”, the Glendale City Attorney Mike Garcia has literally led the Glendale City Council into an illegal abyss. More disturbing is that the...
Category: Glendale Citizen Letters
Letters received to Glendale Coalition for Better Government from citizens of Glendale published unedited and expressing the opinions of the writer only.
Glendale Assets For Sale to Pay CALPERS
Since June 2014, our [Glendale] city council members have been in negotiations to sell the historic Glendale Civic Auditorium to Glendale College. The college would like to expand their footprint, but the topography of...
Proposal by Glendale Coalition For Better Government Could Save Millions
Kudos to Harry Zavos and Larry Moorehouse of the Glendale Coalition for Better Government in drafting an alternative proposal to save millions of dollars for a repowering of the Grayson power plant. The GWP report...
Remembering our Veterans on Memorial Day May 25 2015
I rarely speak publicly about my military experience in Viet Nam, because I feel lucky to be one of the soldiers who returned home in one piece and in sound mind. I was in...
We Lose Accounability if Council is allowed to set its own Salary
Presently our City Council is a part-time Council. Its members’ salary, under the city charter, is fixed by California’s Government Code. Measure C would alters this by allowing the Council, by ordinance, to decide...
City Officials should heed citizens concerns
The bankruptcy filed by the City of Detroit should be a warning that all city governments need to take heed of. Although there are many factors which have contributed to the financial nightmare of...
Destroying a small city with big developments
The city of Glendale, CA is, by all standards, a small city: 200,000 population! Its streets were designed to accommodate this kind of population, so they are mainly one-lane and full of grown up...
The Real story why Unions are behind the Fast food workers and the $15 minimum wage.
On Friday, the Labor Department reported that the overall unemployment rate dropped slightly to 6.1 percent in August. There are six different measures of unemployment, the most common being the U-3 rate. The U-3...
Critical of Glendale News Press Spin
The Glendale News Press editorial of 8/8/14 stated in part the following: “our city leaders must keep seeking and acquiring property in those places where it makes the most sense to create new public...
Water Crisis in the Shadow of Pension Reform
Recently, it was reported a water main had ruptured flooding Sunset Boulevard and the UCLA campus. The questions Glendale residents should also be asking can this happen in the “Jewel City”? Glendale, like Los...
