Saturday, April 12, 2014

By Fronnie Lewis Saturday, April 12, 2014

Obama adminstration takes steps to get equal pay for women

The debate over equal pay for women was going strong this week. Last Tuesday, April 8, was Equal Pay Day — that’s how far into the new year women must work to match what men earned the year before. Surprisingly, women make up nearly half of the U.S. workforce, but only earn 77 cents for every dollar a man gets […]

Saturday, April 12, 2014

By Fronnie Lewis Saturday, April 12, 2014

A section of the I-5 freeway to be shutdown in Burbank this weekend

Caltrans is planning a shutdown of a section of the I-5 freeway in Burbank this weekend. The “5” is the nation’s busiest interstate, according to U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Highway Administration (FHWA). The upcoming closure is part of the ongoing Empire Project, which involves a series of improvements to the I-5 in Burbank between Magnolia Boulevard and Buena Vista Street. Those improvements include: carpool […]