Blog: We'll Miss Ajay Singh

Eagle Rock Patch editor Ajay Singh is leaving the community with a big void.

Blog: Luis Lopez on Planning Ahead

As the economy picks up, so will the pace of development.The shape of things to come in LA depends on coalitions we build for sustainable neighborhoods and on policies that ensure local input.

Blog: College Advising—Advantages of a Gap Year

The year between high school and college is for students to explore their creativity, service, or leadership.

Blog: Exploring College Choices for Juniors

Juniors who start the college process now will be more assured and successful in the end.

Blog: To the Cat Nothing but Everything is Sacred

Learning the value of things from my feline teacher.

Blog: Why Keystone Sludge Must Not 'Borrow' America

Why you should join the Feb. 17 march in L.A. to protest the permitting of the Keystone XL Pipeline.

Blog: 'Insuring' Your New Year's Resolutions

Take stock of your New Year resolutions—and insurance issues.

Blog: Tuesday Deadline to Protest New 'Clean Water, Clean Beaches' Tax

Reminder: Protest of another parcel tax that is coming from the County of L.A. if majority of County property owners' fail to send in protests. To be received by Tuesday, January 15 hearing deadline.

Blog: 6 New Year’s Resolutions for College Applicants

Tips for college applicants to make their New Year hopes and dreams come true.

Blog: Making Eagle Rock's Homeless Count

Help make the Homeless Count in 2013.

Blog: Five Secrets to Saving Money on Insurance

How to get the biggest bang for your buck while buying insurance.

Blog: Join the National Effort to Make March 13 K-9 Veterans' Day

Why it's important to remember so-called "war dogs" that serve to save.

Blog: Dr. A's Pink Salt Body Scrub For Healthy Shiny Skin

How to nourish and rejuvenate dry, itchy, winter skin with a clinically proven salt scrub.

Blog: Cracking the Climate Crisis

How much time do we have left before irreversible changes condemn us to an unlivable Earth?

Blog: Honoring 7 Famous Dogs of War

From the Civil War to the war in Iraq, dogs have served valiantly alongside soldiers.

Blog: A Post-Election Republican Survival Guide

What Republicans must now do to hold onto their sanity after that closet Muslim in the White House gets another four years to create a culture of dependence.

Blog: How Romney Wants You to Pay for College

It's tough for students to go to college these days, but you wouldn't know how tough until you hear Mitt Romney's solution.

Blog: Designating March 13 as K-9 Veterans' Day

An appeal to designate March 13 as K-9 Veterans’ Day.

Blog: Lessons in Education From ‘The Wire’

Education money, testing and statistics—how our political system is taken over by and corrupted through the numbers game.

Blog: Ignoring Climate Change, the 400-Pound Gorilla in the Presidential Race

A prescription for the next U.S. president.

Pondering the "High Costs" of Labeling GMOs

A local resident wonders why producers of GMOs resist labeling them as such.

Blog: How Your Stake in Property Values is Linked to Quality Education

If you care about property values, you need to care about the quality of education at your local public schools.

Blog: Crimes in Eagle Rock—Mostly During Lunch on Fridays

To conduct crime analysis for your neck of the woods in Eagle Rock, head over to CrimeMapping.com and explore.

Blog: Professional Reinvention with Jennifer Oliver O'Connell

Reinvention coach Jennifer Oliver O'Connell teams up with Patch blogger Cheryl Leutjen to host the "What's My Line?" workshop for career transitioners in Northridge on Tuesday, Oct. 16.

Why I Oppose a 710 Freeway Extension

Not Free, Not Fair, and Not Here

Blog: The Next Big Thing—Why 'All Tech all the Time' Fails us

A new disease—call it "technosis"— is sweeping our world.

Blog: 'What's My Line?' Workshop Thursday

A local entrepreneur explores professional identification and wonders which title to put in her business card. Like-minded entrepreneurs are invited to a "What's My Line?" workshop.

Blog: 'Progress & Collaboration' Slate's Vision for Eagle Rock

The Progress & Collaboration Slate proposes a shared vision for Eagle Rock.

Blog: What You Can do About Our Dwindling Middle Class

A working class perspective on the effect of Prop. 30 and 32 on public education.

Blog: 8 Tips on How to Apply to Private Schools

How best to navigate the process of applying to private schools.

Blog: Eagle Rock's Unprecedented Alliances at the Congress of Neighborhoods

Highly publicized among Community leaders and open to all, the 2012 LA Congress of Neighborhoods at City Hall was a great success.

Blog: Why Our Neighborhood Council Needs 'Progress & Collaboration'

Seven Candidates have come together to pledge a new era of Progress and Collaboration within the Eagle Rock Neighborhood Council.

Blog: A Case for Angled Parking in Eagle Rock

Of the many bright ideas "Take Back the Boulevard" has produced, angled parking is one that deserves a particularly close look.

Blog: Whose Pie is That in the Sky, Mitt?

Mitt Romney's energy policy gambles with the planet—and defies reality.

Blog: A Film of Work and Process by Eagle Rock's Peter Konerko

Photographer Peter Konerko is exquisitely captured at his Dahlia Heights studio in a film by J.J. Huckin that represents the working backbone of creative Eagle Rock.

Blog: Disaster Preparedness for Business—a Focus in September

September is National Preparedness Month and a local Southern California company is offering free reviews of disaster plans for businesses and institutions.

Blog: Shame—Ann, Mitt and the 2012 Convention (Part II)

Republicans hark back to America’s past, but their narrative does not include the restoration of a strong, well-compensated middle class in “pursuit of happiness.”

Blog: Shame—Ann, Mitt and the 2012 Convention (Part I)

Ann Romney is entitled to talk about working folks and economic hard times all she wants, but it would be nice if her analysis bore at least some connection to working and economic reality.

Blog: Teaching Women how to Defend Themselves—and Making a World of Difference in their Lives

How one corporate VP turned a personal tragedy into a personal mission to empower women.

Blog: LGBT Assembly Candidate Luis Lopez Embodies Hopes of Progressives

Local State Assembly candidate Luis Lopez receives major endorsements from California gay rights leaders.