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So What Is This Water Rate Increase About Anyway?
.There have been a lot of reasons given by the City as to why our water rates need to be increased. Infrastructure maintenance is one reason that is often cited, being able to maintain adequate overall...
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The Water Rate Hike
Water rate high rollersSo much happened last night. Not that there were any big victories won, mind you. The large proposed water rate increase did not go away, we're still on the hook for that. Plus...
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Did a Failed Downtown Development Scheme Lead to Today's Water Department...
.Boom.The effects of Tuesday evening's City Council call for big water rate increases continue to reverberate in town. This week on The Tattler we are approaching 300 reader comments on that and...
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A Special City Council Meeting On A Do-Over UUT Ballot Initiative Is Now...
Mount Latte'The biggest fundraising effort in the history of the City of Sierra Madre rolls on. With a water and sewer rate hike "process" already proceeding, the UUT increase do-over initiative is...
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Sierra Madre Tattler: Weekend News & Commentary
(Mod: After what was a very busy week of in depth discussion and analysis of the water rate and utility tax increase situations here in Sierra Madre, we will now take a bit of a break from all that and...
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Caroline Bourque Brown: Living with Wildlife in Sierra Madre — or anywhere!
.(Mod: Caroline delivered a great presentation called "Living with Wildlife in Sierra Madre" at last Tuesday's City Council get together. Here it is in the written word.)I made the following...
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Tony Brandenburg: Dear Crabby
.On my contributed blog from November 8, 2013 there was an interesting post (click here) that I believe warrants a response more sophisticated than the quick answer I had submitted then. It read:If the...
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Tonight's Special City Council Meeting: Will the Proposed UUT Extension...
.(Mod: Since what the City Council will be pondering at this evening's special gathering is essentially a do-over vote on something the voters of this town already shot down in April of 2012, we...
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Josh Moran Invokes the Grim Reaper Tax and Other Sad Moments From a Not So...
In Sierra Madre, the taxman's friend"That's cute - Moran, in a very matter of fact way, just told the residents that we were top heavy with seniors and they are going to die, so their houses will turn...
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Is Tax Me Madre a Little Sacramento?
.(Mod: If you are looking for something to compare the mentality behind Sierra Madre's highest in the State of California double digit utility taxes to, you don't have to go any farther than...
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The Real Reason Why City Hall Is Sending Out Prop 218 Water Rate Protest...
.Our City's latest e-mail blast went a-wailing out unto the masses of we the residents yearning to be taxed yesterday, and some light was shed on just what the exact fate of the Proposition 218 water...
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Your Executive Summary of the Tattler Weekend News
.(Mod: As a busy decision maker we know that you don't have very much time for nonessential information. You need the right data at the right time, delivered in a concise and easy to digest format....
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Where Would We Be Without The Looney Views News?
This was supposed to be a part of MPT* Harabedian's big opengov.com media announcement and PR launch today. I can't imagine he is too impressed with his adjudicated buddy Harriet Susan Carter Poole...
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Tony Brandenburg: Risperdal - Hit the Road
.What on Earth is Risperdal?Risperdal is the trade name for the drug Risperdone. Risperdone is an antipsychotic drug used for treating schizophrenia, schizoaffective disorder, bipolar disorder, and...
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The "They're Spending It Like They Already Got It" Tuesday Evening City...
Wheee!You do know that the UUT 3 has some grandiose plans for the vast windfalls of cash the City hopes to receive from the 60% water rate increase. That plus the double digit utility taxes they hope...
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Mater Dolorosa Passionist Retreat Center: A 40 Unit High Density Housing...
.(Mod: There was a meeting of concerned residents last night. I didn't go because I only found out about it at the last minute, and opted to eat dinner instead. I should have gone. Fortunately a good...
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Blogging Tonight's City Council Meeting ... Or Not
It is your choice.I won't say that going there is the best choice, because it is not. It would be more effective politically than staying home and sharing your opinions here on this blog, but by no...
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Fact Checking Nancy Walsh and Josh Moran
.It was the Prevaricator Playoffs at last night's City Council meeting, with Nancy Walsh and Josh Moran duking it out to see who could deliver the biggest whopper of the evening.Perhaps it was the...
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Dr. Reese Halter: Humans and Animals - An Inseparable Bond
Greyfriars Bobby(Mod: Reese Halter forwarded me this article a few weeks back, and I've been hanging on to it because I thought it would make a great Thanksgiving Day post. I also believed that it...
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What Pat Alcorn and David Crochetiere Had to Say Tuesday Evening About the...
The Hart Park HouseMod: At last Tuesday's City Council meeting a discussion about the fate of the two outside restrooms attached to the Hart Park House became a little heated. The goal of Mayor Walsh...
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