To the Rescue: In response to reports...
To the Rescue: In response to reports of financial woes strangling academic and sports programs at Mission College, Assemblyman Tony Cardenas (D-Sylmar) is negotiating behind the scenes with Mission administrators, Los Angeles Community College District officials and community leaders to find ways to raise funds for the college. Cardenas, above, is urging district officials to change its funding formula, which penalizes small schools like the 4,000-student college.
* TUNNEL FUN: Krysten Coan, above, pretends to be a bug in the tunnel of the Dirt Factory, an interactive environmental display at TreePeople. Valley Calendar Weekend, Page 38
* JEWISH PLAYS: “American Jewish Women: Plays for the End of the Century,” a series of staged readings, begins Sunday at the Skirball Cultural Center. Valley Calendar Weekend, Page 35
* BURNED ALIVE: A teenager has been arrested on suspicion of killing a man in a San Fernando parking lot by setting him afire in a random act of violence, police say. B5
* PARKING HIKE: Burbank Airport, which charges more for parking than any other Southland airport, has raised rates again. B1
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