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Morning Brief -- May 4, 2007

Notes from the MSM and beyond...


  • Attorneys representing Grand View Memorial Park victim families in the civil class action against the troubled cemetery is now also suing the Hepburns, who owned the facility before Marsha Lee Howard took over. Howard was accused of financial mismangement and mishandling remains. News Press

    I supposed it's inevitable -- the Hepburns have been mentioned off-and-on in the court filings, and Howard died last year of what coroners determined were natural causes amid the legal troubles.

  • The Daily News does its folo on this Burbank Housing Corporation apartment flipped to the city for a profit 10 days after seller bought it-gate.

  • Adam Schiff blogs about attending Armenian Genocide survivor and Glendale resident Ghazaros Kademian's 100th birthday party over the weekend.

  • For the Atwater Village-Glassell Park folks -- Eric Garcetti's blog

  • This week in Vanguard: Glendale's self-styled muckraker Barry Allen looks into the Komar-Amidi flap in the developer battle over the right to build a hotel on Wilson and Maryland; also an attempt to break down the April City Council election results along ethnic lines.

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More to come...

East of the 5

The news and views from Glendale, Burbank and adjacent 'hoods, brought to you by Daily News reporter Alex Dobuzinskis (And yes, we know a chunk of Burbank is WEST of the 5, but "Mostly East of the 5" doesn't quite have the same ring to it.)
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