Sounds like sour grapes from bad drivers...

Sounds like sour grapes from bad drivers

First off, people drive in Glendale like they are training for the

Daytona 500, and I hear people are upset they got tickets for not

stopping for pedestrians. Pay your fine and quit crying.

If you followed the rules in Glendale, then you clowns would not

have gotten a ticket. The Glendale Police Department, I think, was

very fair with Lillian Anjargolian of Los Angeles. She did not stop

for a pedestrian; that is why she got a ticket. You might live in Los

Angeles, but in Glendale, the police department enforces the law, not

like Los Angeles, where everybody runs around with nothing to do.

PAUL D. CARNEY

Glendale

Solve budget woes, get a war bonnet

Ted Walters hit upon the solution to Glendale’s budgetary woes

without realizing it. The Indian gaming casino is a marvelous idea.

Why didn’t that august body called the City Council think of it?

Surely they can find a few qualified Native Americans, whose

ancestors once thrived on the banks of the L.A. River, and cut

another land deal for a dollar.

The Indians will be grateful, and so will the local high rollers.

I’m sure the Indians will want to adopt the council members, if not

the entire town, with all its vibrant ethnic diversity.

I can visualize the councilmen in ceremonial war bonnets having

their names bestowed upon them. Names that reflect upon their lofty

station. Names like “Galloping Gopher,” “Petulant Pole Cat,”

“Militant Magpie,” “Dances with Deer Mice” and “Cacophonous Coyote.”

JOHN UNDERWOOD

Glendale

Deukmejian Park would be good spot for library

I would suggest that the new library be within the renovated old

winery building at the Deukmejian Park. A partial addition might be

necessary, and I understand that this is not within the boundaries of

La Crescenta, but it would certainly be a wonderful setting.

Partnering between Glendale and La Crescenta might make this

state-of-the-art library project financially feasible, serving two

communities that already share educational resources quite

successfully.

INES CHESSUM

La Crescenta

A-B-C city ratings idea deserves a trial run

If ever there was an example of precisely why the “powers that be”

(business-obliging city government functionaries, law business

self-promoter Kenneth Carlson, normal profit-seeking landlords) ought

to listen to extraordinary “common folks,” it’s Else Graat’s superb

“cut-through-the-fog” high-beam suggestion.

E.G. succinctly advocates a straightforward solution to the

hyperbolic rent-control debate: Have a small group of appropriately

trained city employees consistently rate apartment buildings A-B-C in

terms of habitability, just like county restaurants are rated A-B-C

for cleanliness by inspectors.

I can almost already hear the rumblings of opposition from Ken

Carlson and the landlords contriving their “informed” anti-rating

arguments. Soon, no doubt, the News-Press will be filled with their

carefully penned lawyer- and Realtor-advised missives.

Nuts to them! Else Graat is my “local heroine,” and I urge the

News-Press staff to investigate this option offered by the

clear-thinking Graat. Establishing a small city-run staff of raters,

they could simply inspect first all buildings advertised in the

News-Press offering apartments for rent/lease. Then, subsequently, as

the word gets around, maybe owners will voluntarily clean up their

run-down apartments, making them far more rentable. ...

Please, city of Glendale leaders, give Else Graat’s idea a fair

hearing; don’t only respond to landlords, exploitive attorneys and

other such financially biased persons. In my mind, Else Graat has

unlocked the rent-control debate decisively.

RICHARD B. CATHCART

Glendale