By Priscilla Hervey

Summer is coming to an end, but it sure didn’t feel like summer really began. Maybe it’s because I didn’t have to turn my air conditioning on this summer thanks to insulation and attic fans. Of course, here in Southern California, weather does not always indicate the change of seasons.

This week we will write a little bit about this and that. The weather, politics, sports, Latino nicknames.

By Attorney G. Monty Manibog, Senior Partner at Manibog & Manibog Law Firm

(Editor’s Note:  Former Monterey Park mayor is a contributing columnist offering legal tips and perspectives on high profile cases and events.  Monty is the senior partner of Manibog & Manibog, LLP)

The relatively poor City of Bell in south Los Angeles county (population 40,000) has been supporting the lavish lifestyles of their city officials for a number of years, largely unbeknownst to its residents until the Los Angeles Times recent expose reported the following eye popping salaries:

By Dave Barron

My mother-in-law is a tough wiry lady who went through the real depression of the 1930s, riveted bolts on airplanes during World War II and worked the assembly line at Pillsbury Mills for 25 years. Although Frances is pushing 90 years of age, she has a sharp mind and wit and walks with a quick step.