If it wasn't for their own customers knowing how bad PGE could be, Proposition 16 would probably have passed.

Instead, areas served by PGE provided the majority "No" vote to keep the electric giant from getting an even stronger stranglehold on their monopoly.

I guess if you're termed out and unopposed in your election, you get to spend your money on things that will help raise your visibility for a possible future run for office. Supervisor Gloria Molina just sent me (and probably everyone else in the district) a reusable shopping bag.

So you want to visit a museum, but you're too cheap to pay for it? Lucky for you, there are ways around paying. Here's a link to a .pdf document on the Norton Simon Museum's website that lists free days for most area museums. Enjoy!

Haven't had a chance to get on-line to write about Memorial Day in Savannah Cemetery.

The cemetery looked great. Two days earlier, dozens of volunteers placed flags at the headstones and tombstones of veterans buried in the cemetery. Dozens of others (some volunteers, some doing community service) helped spruce up the place.

The SGV Tribune is doing another "Rah, Rah" story about our city council: Rosemead's Budget Plan Saves Services from the Chopping Block."

It's a funny article, once you put it in context:

Nice pictures taken from the blimp in this story posted on the LA Times website.

The banner pretty much says all I know.

The M.C. Gill Corporation presented the Savannah Pioneer Cemetery with a check for $8,000 to support the historic cemetery and help balance Savannah's books for the current year.