Yegparian: June 8 Primary
Much of the action and deception in California’s June 8 Primary Election is on the Republican ballot and the five propositions. But read on (or skip) to the end of this piece for the election […]
Much of the action and deception in California’s June 8 Primary Election is on the Republican ballot and the five propositions. But read on (or skip) to the end of this piece for the election […]
Many of you may immediately think that I’m referring to Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Az. You know, the guy who’s appointed himself the grand protector of the American southwest by chasing after ghosts, […]
Now that I’m commuting to work by bicycle almost every day, I get to ride beside the Los Angeles River for more than seven miles of my trip. The very notion of this river may […]
Thurs., April 22nd, I was called, literally minutes before it was to start, to be told that Burbank’s Homenetmen was hosting a lecture about Soghomon Tehlirian by Stephan Simonian, M.D. Feeling a bit lazy, I […]
As always, the campaign for California’s 43rd Assembly District seat produced its share of interesting stories, from the heartwarming and inspiring to the weird and lurid. I ended up at three different polling places during […]
I work for a large city in California. Late last fiscal year (spring 2009), in a fit of spite-laced “cost-cutting,” my employer decided to furlough, one day out of every two-week pay period, the roughly […]
This=43rd Assembly District Special Election of April 13, 2010. We= the Armenian community, in the 43rd and beyond. Win=electing Nayiri Nahabedian. Seems like it’s pretty simple math doesn’t it? But it’s not. Unfortunately, rather than […]
In this fourth of what started as a three-part series on LATimes coverage of interest to Armenians, let’s briefly visit Azerbaijan, Georgia, and Iran. As you might guess, Iran gets lots of coverage, what with […]
In this third of what started as a three-part series on LA Times coverage of interest to Armenians, I’ll address some Kurdish-topic patterns I’ve noticed over the past two-plus years. Arguably, the Kurds have fared […]
In this second of a three-part series on LA Times coverage of interest to Armenians, I’ll address some Turkish-topic patterns I’ve noticed over the past two-plus years. What’s notable is the tremendously lopsided proportion of […]
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