Los Angeles-based production company 41D Film Partners, LLC is turning Randal Simmon’s life story into the movie Man of Valor: The Life, Death and Legacy of LAPD SWAT officer, Randy Simmons. The 27-year Los Angeles Police Department veteran and SWAT officer was killed in the line of duty on February Read more…
While posted up at a Starbucks, editing another story on deadline, I noticed a handmade sign over a window table across the room. A hearing-impaired man was offering tax services. I went over, introduced myself, and discovered the power of this tight-knit community.
For her story on the Remote Clinic in 2009, Patricia Nazario wins two Golden Mike Awards: Best Serious Feature and Best Reporting. For the next week, doctors and dentists with the global organization Remote Area Medical are offering free root canals, new glasses, and a range of other healthcare Read more…
As mourners gather to celebrate the life of pop star, Michael Jackson, Patricia Nazario took a seat in the pew and reports from the oldest church founded by African-Americans in Los Angeles. Most were African American. They sat close to one another, crying at times – but also standing Read more…
Cathy Harvey is a single mom raising three sons with special needs. They each have Cerebral Palsy, autism, and attention deficit disorder. During the week, Harvey is up before the sun to get her boys ready for school. Patricia Nazario stopped by their San Fernando Valley home to see the Read more…
In the Los Angeles Unified School District, the approach to special education is two-fold: Provide support and services and mix disabled children with the rest of the students. Cathy Harvey is a single mom who’s banking the system will help prepare her three special-needs sons for life in the real Read more…
Temper tantrums, intense therapy sessions and expensive prescription medications are among the challenges that confront parents with special-needs children. To handle it all, a single mom raising three disabled boys in the San Fernando Valley has tapped several resources. Patricia Nazario explains how she doesn’t spend a red cent of Read more…
Just as Tinseltown is famous for its stars, a little Mexican pueblo is world-renowned for its silver. After World War II, starlets and socialites turned their backs on war-torn Europe and headed south to Taxco… and to Antonio Pineda’s workshop, or taller. Patricia Nazario spoke with the legendary silversmith. Read more…
Congress enacted the Rail Safety Improvement Act of 2008 to ensure commuters greater protection aboard trains. At its core, the law requires Positive Train Control, or PTC technology, to be installed on most railroads across the United States. Initially, the deadline was 2015, but Congress has now extended it to December 2018. Read more…
Train companies are slowly making the $15 billion dollar investment in Positive Train Control, or PTC, to comply with the 2008 Rail Safety Improvement Act. Members of Congress initially required railroads implement PTC by 2015, but extended the deadline to 2018 after several major operators said they wouldn’t make it and threatened Read more…