58+ min ago   (1237+ words) Public safety, $50 Million and the best Chinese food in the world. Chan is an incumbent city councilman running for reelection in San Gabriel, a city of roughly 40,000 to 45,000 residents packed into just 4.1 square miles. Asked what he’d point to as…...

1+ week, 2+ hour ago   (592+ words) Where to eat before summer calls it a season. Labor Day weekend is here, and around Southern California, that usually means summer is heading into the late innings. The Angels have been sold, the baseball playoffs are just around the…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (534+ words) Bonta accuses company of bad-faith leaks The state attorneys general from Iowa and Montana filed a motion with the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to stop the antitrust lawsuit brought by 12 state attorneys general to halt the $110 billion Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros....

2+ week, 17+ hour ago   (1533+ words) Rattlesnakes deserve less fear and more fascination. Understandably, these tragic events generated considerable media attention—and with it, a fair amount of speculation and concern. Are rattlesnake populations increasing? Are rattlesnakes becoming more aggressive? Is their venom becoming more potent?...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (524+ words) Outsider candidates are rewriting the rules before November Beneath the surface of standard red-versus-blue cable news theater, a much deeper, structural war rages. Both parties are experiencing powerful, bottom-up rebellions driven by voters who are furious at corporate monopolies, exhausted…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (835+ words) Inside the report that could complicate the Paramount-Warner merger A Los Angeles County Department of Economic Opportunity report made public on Wednesday found that a Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros. Discovery merger could cost the region thousands of jobs and more than…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (702+ words) New signs, same great Margaritas: Amigo's still has Colorado Boulevard's number Sometimes when I write about a particular Mexican restaurant in Pasadena, I feel like I’m cheating on my friends who own other Mexican spots around town. We have plenty…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (698+ words) 'Settle by October 1 or we leave.' Paramount Skydance’s chairman and CEO, David Ellison, is reportedly considering relocating Paramount’s headquarters out of California amid the company’s protracted legal battle over the $110 billion Warner Bros. Discovery merger. According to reports first published…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (233+ words) Wu serving in new leadership roles for Parliamentarian societies The California State Association of Parliamentarians (CSAP) has elected Hon. Cindy Wu as its new Southern Area Director, and Secretary of the National Association of Parliamentarians (NAP) District 8, entrusting her with…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (1042+ words) And its Warner Bros. deal just got a lot more expensive On Tuesday, a federal judge in Oakland, California, set a March 2027 trial date for the antitrust lawsuit challenging the Paramount Skydance-Warner Bros. Discovery merger. Paramount is hoping to acquire…...