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Pasadena Now: Local State Senator's Suicide Prevention Legislation Passes Key Policy Hurdle

Monday, June 25 2018

The State Assembly’s Education Policy Committee has passed SB 972, the suicide prevention legislation authored by Pasadena-area Senator Anthony J. Portantino, that would require public, charter, and private schools to print a suicide prevention hotline number and/or text crisis lines on student identification cards for grades seven through college.

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Outlook Newspapers: Portantino Tabbed to Chair Appropriations Committee

Friday, June 22 2018

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Pasadena Now: Pasadena's Luke Walker's Barber & Beauty Care Honored as Small Business of the Year

Wednesday, June 20 2018

Pasadena-area State Senator Anthony Portantino welcomed and honored Pasadena resident Luke Walker and his family as the Small Business of the Year at the California State Capitol Tuesday.

The recognition is extended by the California Business Association, which each recognizes one business from each Senate District as Small Business of the Year. Portantino chose Walker’s Barber Shop and Beauty Care shop, at 627 N. Fair Oaks Avenue in Pasadena, as this year’s Small Business of the Year.

The Pasadena Journal: 2018 Small Business of the Year Recipient: Autobiography of Luke Walker

Wednesday, June 20 2018

Luke Walker was born in the Holly Springs community of Springfield, Arkansas. Luke started working at age 5, and at an early age, he and his 5 brothers were taught to cut their own hair by putting a string around their head and cutting upward to the string, as in performing a bowl cut. Luke became so proficient at cutting hair that by age 8 was charging 10 cents for haircuts on the front porch of his home.

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Asbarez: Scholarships and Genocide Education Included in State Budget Due to Portantino’s Leadership

Tuesday, June 19 2018

SACRAMENTO—California State Senator Anthony J. Portantino is the Chair of the Senate Education Budget Sub-Committee with long and close ties to the Armenian American Community. In that capacity, he personally submitted two important education proposals on behalf of Armenian Californians into the California State Budget. This included six full tuition scholarships at Hastings College of Law for graduates of the American University of Armenia and a $500,000 state grant to create study guides for California schools to properly teach the Armenian Genocide.

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