KUDOS, group accomplishment:
from april 25, reseda high is recognized with 22 other district schools, "for making the most improvement in their attendance rates last year over the previous year;" it rose 2.08 percent to 90.36 percent.

SECESSION, neigborhood councils:
we like them, we like them, we really like them. the mayor knows it and hints that they'd go away.
"The Valley, ... would not, at least initially, have rent control or neighborhood councils, two popular city programs."

POP CULTURE: talk about outreach:
from march 13, interview between rock band flogging molly and a very lost writer, writing for oblivious copy editors:
''Over steak and fries at the Robin Hood pub in Reseda, ... "
hardly. it is a great bar, if you're ever on the far side of van nuys.
but that's no worse than tom petty, in his '89 song "free fallin'' sings:
''it's a long day living in reseda / freeway runnin through the yard''.... which freeway would that be exactly?
didn't matter either to the 4 artists who covered the song

SECESSION, the scary part:
freepers (regulars at the freerepublic website usergroups) are capable of saying anything. even this.