Share: This year on Easter morning, President Donald Trump proceeded to open Truth Social, his social media platform, from which he posts multiple times a day, and shared a nonsensical tirade including a threat to Iran if they didn’t open up the Strait of Hormuz. The post was insane, just like the rest of his posts have been, and left a question on whether this is just the level Trump has always been or if he is deteriorating. “Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and …
Criminals don’t deserve the spotlight, their exposers do
Share: Miami Herald journalist Julie K. Brown published a book called “Perversion of Justice” in 2021, recounting her difficult and ruthless investigation in 2018 that finally brought sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein’s operation to light and exposed the power of corruption that had sheltered his crimes. Now Brown’s book is being adapted into a limited television series by Sony Pictures that follows Brown, played by Laura Dern, and explores her journey in investigative reporting and how she managed to take down the financier. With the amount …
How one student became a voice for others and found her own
Share: Darya Derakhshani was walking into a restaurant just off of the Pasadena campus last year when suddenly she encountered a man inside who noticed her race and spoke to her inappropriately. As a Muslim immigrant from Iran, stares were not something Derakhshani was unused to. But in a situation like this in a country where people who look like her are hated on sight, she was unsure of what she could do to escape and not have the encounter end in a violent way. …
BLOTTER: ‘It’s five o’clock somewhere’—morning drinkers make a drunk getaway from Lot 4
Share: Monday, Mar 30, 2026 2:56 a.m. – An officer found a homeless person at the IT Building and escorted him off campus. 8:31 a.m. – A man was found digging in a dumpster by kitchen staff and an officer advised him to leave and he did. 10:59 a.m.– A homeless man was found sleeping on the ground of the second floor men’s restroom in the C Building by staff and escorted off campus. 11:09 a.m.– A student fell and injured her knee during class …
Catering to students makes PCC’s geography program the best in the country
Share: Pasadena City College’s Geography Program was recently recognized as the best community college Geography program both in the state and in the nation, where it received the 2026 AAG Award for Community College Program Excellence from the American Association of Geographers (AAG). There are 210 community colleges in the United States that offer two year degrees in geography. Currently the program has awarded 160 credentials from 2018 to 2025 and 32 awards from the same period of time, more than any other California Community …
Historic Workforce Agreement puts Pasadena first
Share: On November 12, the Pasadena City College Board of Trustees unanimously approved a monumental Workforce Education Agreement as California’s first of kind. The five year agreement was recommended by the Facilities Subcommittee and announced publicly on November 17 under the college’s $565 million Measure PCC construction bond. According to the PCC Business and Administrative Services, in November of 2022 Pasadena voters approved Measure PCC with the purpose of preparing local students for four-year colleges and training local residents for high-skilled jobs through hands-on work, …
The mirrorball shone its light on a good couple but not the right couple
Share: Dancing With The Stars (DWTS) has just finished its 34th season and declared Robert Irwin and Witney Carson the mirrorball champions. The popular dancing show turns celebrities into more experienced dancers in spirited competition with weekly eliminations. The best couples to watch this season include The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star Whitney Leavitt with pro Mark Ballas, actress Elaine Hendrix known as Meredith Blake from the Parent Trap with pro Alan Bersten, reality star Dylan Efron with pro Daniella Karagach, Olympic gymnast Jordan …
Dear Trump: Our degrees are not unprofessional, you are
Share: President Donald Trump has stirred controversy once again, but that surprises no one. The Trump administration announced the changing of certain degrees to be “non-professional degrees”; the question that popped out was, what is non-professional even supposed to mean? The blatant insult to these professions is clearly laced in this statement, implying that these degrees, important ones, should not even qualify as a field people train for or find a suitable job in, but one that is not as important to the system. Some …
‘You can find the strength to continue on’: How ‘9-1-1’ honors deceased lead character
Share: “9-1-1” might have actually gone to chaos. “9-1-1” is a popular procedural drama created by Tim Minear, Brad Falchuk, and Ryan Murphy that premiered in 2018 that centers around the lives of first responders, including firefighters, cops, and 911 dispatchers. Murphy may be a familiar name for many as the creator of many popular shows such as the “Monster” anthology series, “Scream Queens”, “American Horror Story”, and the hit Fox series “Glee”. “9-1-1” is now in its 9th season with part 1 premiering on …
‘This is a family’: How Cross Country goes the extra mile
Share: For many people, sticking on a numbered sticker and racing against a bunch of other people is a once a year event, if at all. But for students who run track and field or cross country, this is not just a constant thing but their norm. From students who have run since high school to those just starting in college, these athletes train hard and run even harder for their respective events and teams, both men’s and women’s. Pasadena City College has had throughout …