Que pasa? : PEOPLE

* Hard work has brought success for Linda Griego, 43, who was recently appointed Los Angeles deputy mayor. After transforming an abandoned 1912 firehouse into a popular downtown eatery, Engine Co. No. 28, she opened the Red Car Grill in West Hollywood. A UCLA graduate, Griego had once thought about a political career, but focused on business instead. As the youngest in a family of seven bakers and railroad workers, she said, “I started working at age 11, helping my uncle and wrapping bread. I knew I would someday be in business.” Now the New Mexico native hopes to use that business savvy to stimulate the economy by making the city more receptive to businesses and entrepreneurs.

* After 12 years at the Spanish-language daily La Opinion, where he rose to executive editor, Sergio Munoz has been named executive news director of KMEX, Channel 34, and West Coast bureau chief for Univision, which owns KMEX. Munoz was already known to Univision viewers as a commentator on “Portada,” the network’s weekly television newsmagazine. “I see an enormous future for KMEX and Univision,” Munoz said. “I’m also sad . . . The past 12 years at La Opinion have been the best years of my life.” The Mexico-born Munoz hopes to improve the integration of local and international coverage, providing a link, for example, between the more than 500,000 Central Americans in Los Angeles and their homelands.