Allison Jean Eaton
Articles
IS COMPTON’S ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER QUALIFIED? WELL, SHE TEACHES SUNDAY SCHOOL AT THE MAYOR’S CHURCH
Compton’s new assistant city manager is Verna D. Porter, a 59-year-old woman of limited and checkered experience in city government and unknown education who lives next door to Mayor Eric J. Perrodin’s mother and teaches Sunday school at his church. City Manager Willie Norfleet appointed Porter on Oct. 19, despite the fact that the city [...]
BURLINGTON COAT FACTORY GIVES COMPTON ECONOMIC KICK IN THE PANTS
The opening of a Burlington Coat Factory and a seasonal Toys R Us store in downtown Compton were promoted Monday by the city’s redevelopment agency (RDA), which is predicting a breath of new life into the local economy—just in time for the holiday shopping season. After roughly three years of various delays, Burlington Coat Factory [...]
TOY LOAN CENTER—LIKE A LIBRARY, BUT WITH TOYS—OPENS IN COMPTON
The program allows registered children to borrow toys much like they would a library book. Lending centers are housed at parks, schools, recreational facilities, libraries, housing projects and even a homeless shelter.
FEDERAL AUDIT SHOWS HOW SHODDY ACCOUNTING COST COMPTON $2.8 MILLION
The federal government released an audit report of the city’s Section 8 program last week that reveals improper accounting and a lack of proper procedures, which resulted in a multimillion-dollar shortfall that was absorbed by the city’s general fund. According to a copy of the official Department of Housing and Urban Development audit report dated [...]
TWO COMPTON METAL-FINISHING COMPANIES FINED BY EPA
The Environmental Protection Agency has cited and fined two Compton industrial companies for violating federally mandated hazardous waste restrictions. The EPA has been conducting surprise inspections of metal finishing companies over the past two years in various communities in Los Angeles and Santa Clara counties to ensure their compliance with the law. Bowman Plating Company, located [...]
COMPTON COUNCIL VOTES TO CENSOR TV COVERAGE OF ITS MEETINGS
The Compton City Council has voted, 3-1, to censor the public-access television broadcasts of its meetings, editing out public comments. Councilman Dr. Willie O. Jones was the lone dissenter. Councilwoman Yvonne Arceneaux was absent. The Sept. 7 agenda item was identified as a “minute motion” on the agenda, and there was no staff report or supporting documentation in the [...]
COMPTON FALLS FOUR DAYS SHORT OF A MONTH WITHOUT A MURDER
Compton was only four days away from an entire calendar month without a murder—something that hadn’t happened since November 2009, and before that, January 2006—when two people were killed in separate incidents on Aug. 27. Just one day before, on Aug. 26, Compton Sheriff’s Station Operations Lt. Brian Meeder had told The Bulletin that the [...]
COMPTON COLLEGE BOARD MEMBER: BURN DOWN THE COMPTON BULLETIN
Lorraine Cervantes of the Compton Community College District Board of Trustees has suggested that a Jan. 2 fire at the Compton Bulletin newspaper was arson—and that the arsonist should strike again. “And the newspaper, I don’t know who tried to burn it down,” said Cervantes, speaking during the public comment period of the July 27 [...]
REVIVAL OF COMPTON POLICE DEPARTMENT IGNITES ANOTHER ATTEMPT TO RECALL CITY OFFICIALS
Disgruntled residents have launched another recall effort in an attempt to oust nearly half of the city’s elected officials. Mayor Eric J. Perrodin, Councilwoman Lillie Dobson, City Attorney Craig Cornwell and City Clerk Alita Godwin were each properly served with notices of intent to circulate a recall petition by sheriff’s deputies on Wednesday, July 28, [...]
