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Mark Pulido Re-elected in ABC School Board

Sunday, 08 November 2009 22:10 AJPress

(1 vote, average: 5.00 out of 5)

Mark Pulido Re-elected in ABC School Board

INCUMBENT Filipino American Mark Pulido was re-elected November 3 to the Board of Education of the ABC Unified School District, made up of the Artesia, Bloomfield, and Carmenita School Districts. The ABC Unified School District serves the cities of Artesia, Cerritos, Hawaiian Gardens, as well as portions of Lakewood, Long Beach, and Norwalk.

Mark Pulido received the highest number of votes of 24 percent. A new challenger, James Kang, got the second highest vote at nearly 21 percent, displacing incumbent David Montgomery. Another incumbent, Olympic Chen, garnered around 20 percent.

Pulido told Asian Journal he is honored to be re-elected, and he thanked his supporters, for giving him the opportunity to serve his third term in the school board.

"I will get right back to the work of the school board. We will make sure we all get through this most difficult financial situation. I will continue to work hard to give our students in the district the best education," Mark said. "As a product of the ABC school system and a parent of a current student in the district, I know how important education is. It’s a great opportunity for me to be able to give back to my hometown community by serving in the school board," Pulido said.

LUCKY SEVEN? Pacquiao ready to make boxing history

Sunday, 08 November 2009 22:07 Joseph Pimentel | AJPress Los Angeles

(9 votes, average: 4.00 out of 5)

LUCKY SEVEN? Pacquiao ready to make boxing history

HOLLYWOOD – MANNY Pacquiao is going for lucky No. 7.

The "Pambansang Kamao" is one win closer to making boxing history.

Mayor Villaraigosa appoints Charlie Beck as new LAPD Chief

Sunday, 08 November 2009 22:05 Rene Villaroman | AJPress Los Angeles

HANCOCK PARK – Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced the appointment of Charlie Beck as the city’s 55th chief of police during a press conference held at Goethe House on Tuesday, November 3. Beck’s appointment was preceded by an exhaustive search and several interviews made by the Police Commission and the mayor.

Villaraigosa said that he and the police commission met with Los Angeles civil rights community activists, business, civic and religious leaders and the law enforcement community in their search for a successor to LAPD chief William Bratton who has resigned recently to work with a private security firm based in New York.

Deputy Chief Beck, who was born in Long Beach and earned a Bachelor of Science degree from California State University, Long Beach, began his law enforcement career with the LAPD 32 years ago. He is expected to be confirmed by the city council next week. He has earned a reputation as progressive police officer and a man of character and integrity. "He’s a police officer who is tough on crime and he’s a leader with deep respect and understanding of the police officers under his command and the communities they are sworn to protect and serve. He is the right man to the LAPD at the right time," Mayor Villaraigosa announced.

Parent’s right to change child’s residence to another state in custody cases

Sunday, 08 November 2009 21:27 Atty. Kenneth Ursua Reyes

PARENTS that are going through divorce and legal separation sometimes have to make a decision to move out of state for various reasons. It may be because their family network is in another state. This decision often have a significant impact on the visitation of the other parent because it would be more difficult for the non-custodial parent to exercise his or her visitation rights in a frequent and continuing manner if the custodial parent moves to a different state hundreds or thousands of miles away from the non custodial parent.

New hope for people whose relative has died

Thursday, 05 November 2009 00:48 Atty. Michael Gurfinkel

On October 29, 2009, President Obama signed into law the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act, which contains provisions that may benefit aliens in the US who are under petition, but their "qualifying relative" has died. This new law allows people who are under petition (and their spouses and children where applicable) to continue to be eligible for adjustment of status, where the petitioner has died, or even in some cases where the principal beneficiary has died.

In the past, if a person was under petition and the petitioner died, the petition was also considered "dead," unless the person applied for and was granted "humanitarian revalidation." However, it was extremely difficult for people to qualify for humanitarian revalidation. In addition, under the previous law, if the principal beneficiary died, then their surviving family members would not even have the opportunity to apply for humanitarian revalidation.

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Asian Journal- The Filipino-American Community Newspaper

Mark Pulido Re-elected in ABC School Board

LUCKY SEVEN? Pacquiao ready to make boxing history

Mayor Villaraigosa appoints Charlie Beck as new LAPD Chief

Parent’s right to change child’s residence to another state in custody cases

New hope for people whose relative has died

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