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Pasadena Mayor Bill Bogaard Responds to My Letter About the PUSD
Mod: An interesting letter exchange was sent my way yesterday. I figured I'd post the two letters involved here just as they are so that you guys can check them out as well. The exchange was initiated...
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District 3 PUSD Board of Ed Candidate Ruben Hueso Loses United Teachers of...
Bone bitYou might recall that The Tattler made some news a few weeks back when we revealed that Ruben "Bone" Hueso had violated the rules of the Boy Scouts of America by swiping scout imagery for a...
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Tattler Sunday Local Sequestration News Report
Low flying attack aircraft(Mod: So far we have escaped any reduction in our services related to the sequestration budget cuts in Washington DC. Therefore, and despite all of the rumors, there will be...
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Our Pasadena Unified School District One Last Day Before the Board of Ed...
We're not part of it, and we will have one final pre-election post on the vote theft topic tomorrow. What we have today are a lot of final observations about the candidates connected to those who took...
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It's Election Day and ... No Vote for You!
Jerry Seinfeld's original Soup NaziHueso is now below 50%!Hueso 660 49.6%Hampton 488 36.7%Phelps 2,001 61.5%Ayala 1,252 38.4%Dreier 0% My fellow Sierra Madre residents, you now live in a very...
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The Eternal General Plan Update Steering Committee & PUSD Election Results
The word coming out of last night's General Plan Steering Committee meeting is that after 4 long years of hard work on what was supposed to become the blueprint of our community, they still could be...
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Trial Date for Alleged Extortionist and 'Unicorn' Campaign Aide Cyrus Andrew...
No sparkles hereMod: As you may recall (for a detailed accountclick here) during last April's City Council elections my likeness and other personal information was placed by certain local individuals...
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Stonegate Architect Claims 5 Bedroom, 5.25 Bathroom House 'Normal for a...
Read me a story pole, AdeleIt isn't funny, so it isn't comedy. At least it's not when it is as literally close to home as this mess. But I suspect from 50 miles away you'd probably find it hilarious,...
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A Petition to the Pasadena Unified School District for an Elected At-Large...
Return the voteIf you read this blog at all I am sure you are aware that we will have no representative on the new PUSD Board of Education when it is seated in a few weeks. However, there is still a...
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The One Hour Ahead Sunday News
Mod: The drive to get people to sign our petition for the PUSD Board of Education is going well. Among those who have signed it is Mayor Josh Moran, which goes to show that getting Sierra Madre some...
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Tony & Mary Brandenburg: Is the PUSD Rolling Out the Firing Squad?
Bang?One Day in OctoberMany important events happened on October, 16, 2012. You were probably so hung up on your own trip that you didn’t even notice. In fact, some were so critical that you probably...
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Twice a Month Sierra Madre has a City Council Meeting. Tonight is One of...
It is a night of two important meetings. There is a Board of Education get together where members of our community, armed with a petition filled with hundreds of signatures gathered over the weekend,...
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Smoking, Water, School Board Elections and Other Problems From Last Night's...
First we should probably talk a little about what went down at the Board of Education meeting. Our folks went armed with their petitions and signatures to win us the opportunity to actually vote for...
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PUSD: Was the "Sub-Districting" Process a Failure? Do We Blame the "Old White...
An old white guyPerhaps one criterion that created this disconnect is that voting subdistricts must not disenfranchise any historically underserved ethnicities. The demographics of a community are an...
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Putting The Tattler On Hiatus
Don't get me wrong, I am hardly tired of doing this. Nor am I worn out on talking about the topics that we cover here, and have discussed many more times than just once. As I believe you know. I just...
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(Hiatus Re-Do 3/26/11) The World's Largest Flowering Plant Is Giving No...
Undoing Nuttal's Mistake(Mod: While on hiatus we will be pulling from the vast stack of stuff here some past posts.) Our beloved Wistaria Vine, also known as the World's Largest Flowering Plant due to...
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Wistaria Festival Day Joe Mosca Movie Marathon!
Pucker up for the plant!(Mod: If you are like me and choose to carefully avoid the streets today due to the vast hordes of other motivated out of town people anxiously seeking their transformative...
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Tony Brandenburg: Gimme Gimme
Right now would be goodHyperbolic OverdriveLast week there was a PUSD Board meeting. Mary was there, but I was not. It was the first meeting I have missed in a while.I was in Austin at something called...
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Scott Phelps On the PUSD's Real Labor Crisis
Scott sharing(Mod 2: Scott Phelps recently won reelection to the somewhat changed PUSD Board of Education, this time for the District 7 seat. He easily bested an opponent that was both heavily financed...
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The Facts & Figures Report
I know this guy ...It is possible to accomplish a lot by just talking. Or writing about things for that matter. However, there are those among us that speak the language of numbers, and given their...
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