No details reported, other than the stabbing of two women, one fatally, in unincorporated San Gabriel (just north of Rosemead) early this morning.

Good job of serious investigative reporting by the Los Angeles Times has produced a chart showing health care costs imposed on taxpayers by elected officials. Their findings show that Rosemead city council members have the most generous health benefits of any of our neighboring cities:

When I drove home yesterday afternoon, I noticed a Sheriff's Department helicopter, circling. Today, I found out what it was: Observant neighbors in the 8500 block of Olney saw someone going into the backyard of a neighbor's house and called the Sheriff's Department.

The only local city mentioned in this editorial is Monterey Park, but the bit on health and retirement benefits is true for pretty much all the local cities.

State Senator Ed Hernandez is holding a "Community Conversation" in Rosemead this Saturday.

Event Details:
Date: Saturday, June 18, 2011
Time: 9am – 10:30am
Location: Garvey Park
7933 Emerson Place
Rosemead, CA 91770

Cantonese, Mandarin and Vietnamese translation will be available.

Interesting article in the SGV Tribune about possible new state assembly, state senate, and congressional districts for us in the San Gabriel Valley.

Visited the Tribune website today and noticed a warning about San Gabriel's ticketing party scheduled for Wednesday morning. From 7am until noon on May 9, the SGPD will be using decoys in the vicinity of San Gabriel Blvd and Live Oak to entrap drivers who fail to yield for a supposed pedestrian.

You have been warned.

This story has been getting quite a bit of coverage in the local media. Apparently, there's a team of robbers targeting women who return home late at night. Victims have lived in Alhambra, Monterey Park, San Gabriel and South Pasadena. Obviously, they could also hit neighboring cities.