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Westfield unveils plan to turn The Promenade into $1.5B ‘live, work and play’ complex
“Certainly this will be a nice, net positive,” said Bill Roberts, an economist for Cal State Northridge and an expert in Valley real estate trends. “It’s a continuation of the gentrification of the Woodland Hills area, and brings an environment for relatively upscale individuals. -- Los Angeles Daily News
Faces of homelessness in Los Angeles
Cal State Northridge journalism professor David Blumenkrantz traveled to four locations in the San Fernando Valley in August to photograph and speak with homeless individuals in an attempt to spotlight — and humanize — the issue that has risen to crisis proportions in Los Angeles. Here are some excerpts from those encounters. -- Jewish Journal
L.A.’s boldest plan ever to help the homeless
Interviewed in August for a project on homelessness in Los Angeles by Cal State Northridge journalism professor David Blumenkrantz (see accompanying story), the couple hit on a problem underlying the plight of those who live in the city’s streets: Not having a home makes it harder to get one. -- Jewish Journal
It’s Time for Transit Decisions at the Polls
To address the concerns of California State University Northridge students, staff, faculty and neighbors, Metro also included $180 million to implement bus rapid transit connecting the east and west ends of the Valley. Not only will this help decrease carbon emissions, traffic congestion and parking problems on and around campus, but it will encourage more utilization of public transit. -- San Fernando Valley Business Journal
LA Observed Notes: Media, politics and place
Former city controller and mayoral candidate Wendy Greuel was named executive-in-residence for the Cal State Northridge business college... -- LA Observed
This Type Of Person Is More Likely To Be A Hypocrite
“If the two [political] parties came to me for therapy and I was hearing all that’s going on, I would immediately say that you all are at a stage of adolescence with how you’re treating one another,” Mark Stevens, a psychologist and professor at California State University, Northridge, told HuffPost. -- Newscaf
Polish Film Festival In Los Angeles
The festival, taking place in select theaters, as well as the campuses of the University of Southern California and California State University-Northridge, will continue until October 20. -- Canyon News
CSUN hosts its first Latino education fair in Northridge
NORTHRIDGE Sylvia Romero looked confident in a doctor’s lab coat as she stood by Saturday with a stethoscope at Cal State Northridge. She is 7. -- Education News
John McGrath: UW’s Mathis, sack machine, embraces maturity and parenthood
Baby Joe recently relocated to California, for the duration of the school year, with his mother, who attends Cal State-Northridge. Mathis grew up about 50 miles away, in Ontario, and returns now and then. He’s happy if acquaintances don’t recognize him as the grump who, as he put it, “was angry at the world, always asking, ‘Why this, why that?’ -- Bellingham Herald - WA
Obama’s Hope-and-Change Foreign Policy
Egypt followed a similar script. Obama was romanced by Mohamed Morsi — the erstwhile anti-American president of Egypt, who as a young man had spent several years in California, first as a student at USC and then as an assistant professor at CSU Northridge. Obama apparently envisioned Egypt as soon to be run by somebody schooled in the modern American university’s race/class/gender activism who would appreciate Obama’s own Cairo Speech mythologies. If Egyptian theocracy replaced autocracy, so much the better, given that the former at least had a revolutionary authenticity that the latter lacked. The result, however, was the veritable destruction of Egypt until the unexpected coup by the now-shunned junta of General Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. -- National Review