Celebrating the inauguration

A package of stories regarding the local views of the inauguration:
School Children's Eye View:
Fifth and sixth graders from Children's Community School in Van Nuys give their opinion. Connie Llanos in the Daily News.

Voters embrace change
Once Reagan Country and a bastion of political conservatism, the San Fernando Valley voted overwhelmingly for President-elect Barack Obama in landslide proportions that exceeded his mandate across America.

As Obama becomes the country's first African-American president Tuesday, Valley residents who voted for him still have the same hope and optimism as when they walked into the voting booth Nov. 4. Tony Castro in the

Obama reaches out
He isn't quite the King of All Media, but Barack Obama will enter the White House on Tuesday unusually well-poised to make effective use of the media by exploiting an admiring press and the high-tech communications savvy of his young staff.

Is all that good news? It's not only Obama's political opponents who see a downside to his emphasis on the so-called "new media." Kevin Modesti in the Daily News.