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You Have Two Voice Messages
-The family and I got home early last evening from a trip down to Orange County to see a hockey game, and I was pleased to see that there were a couple of voice mail messages waiting for me. As I am...
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What If Everything You've Been Told About High Density Development In Places...
-Mod: At the very core of state environmental law is SB 375, the bizarre edict that commands all California cities to build as much high density housing as they can possibly accommodate. The claim...
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Sierra Madre Mayor Nancy Walsh Endorses Paul Tanaka for Los Angeles County...
-In what the staff here at The Sierra Madre Tattler has now begun to refer to as the "political equivalent of twerking," Mayor Nancy Walsh has made what has got to be regarded as a very controversial...
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Chris Koerber Will Not Be Running For Re-Election
-(Mod: Chris stopped by my house last evening to discuss this. Am I stunned? You bet. He is right, though. Family comes first. I wish him all the best.)Date: 01/09/2014 - For Immediate ReleasePress...
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City Staff Is Back To Telling Us Sierra Madre's Water Rate Increases Are All...
Really? You'll fix the pipes this time?"As indicated by Councilman John Buchanan at the last meeting, the situation "isn't going to get better with age." More than 30% of the city's water mains need...
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Nancy Walsh Will Also Not Be Running For Re-Election
Where have all the good times gone?(Mod: Noon update. The Mtn Views News neither confirms nor denies that Nancy Walsh is out. "Still open for speculation" is all that is said. Mayor Walsh will be...
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We Don't Really Know How Many Prop 218 Water Rate Protest Ballots Have Been...
-I was reading through the staff reports for a few of the agenda items that are going to be discussed at Tuesday evening's City Council meeting, and something rather interesting jumped out at me. This...
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Heroic Modern Families Will Fight For Their Stonegate McMansion Rights @...
Stonegate: Where the sun sets in the northThere is just so much history for what has happened at Sierra Madre's longest running development disaster, One Carter. The work of mostly the same...
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Where Have All The Flowers Gone? The Civility Party, Once the Hope of Many,...
-They're all gone. Not a one of them is left for us to marvel at their decorum and civil ways. The Civility Party, the three 2010 Sierra Madre candidates for City Council who won feverish acclaim as...
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CETT Investment Corporation Threatens To Sue City of Sierra Madre Over...
We have obtained a memo from City Hall that details a threat by CETT Investment Corporation to sue the City of Sierra Madre should the City Council's decisions this evening on their three Stonegate...
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It's On - The Great Sierra Madre McMansion War
-"Size matters to the Planning Commission." - Robert HoWhat an interesting evening at the City Council meeting. I have to say it, John Harabedian and John Capoccia stepped up their game considerably...
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Fires On The Horizon This Morning
According to various TV news talking heads there is a fairly massive fire in the hills just overlooking Glendora. It started as something small a few hours ago, and then just spread. Like wildfire, I...
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Disasterville: The NBC Southern California News Report On Sierra Madre's Many...
-(Mod: I have for you a fairly substantive - though obviously City Hall influenced - report from the area's local NBC News affiliate about our increasingly famous water debacle today. You can link to...
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The Five Questions About Our 2003 Water Bonds That City Hall Won't Answer
-There are some taboo topics for City Hall in the Prop 218 conversation, and they have to do with a few of the core causes for their pumping water rates up by a lofty 61%. Raising these topics does...
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Pat Holland On Sierra Madre Mayor Nancy Walsh's Endorsement Of Paul Tanaka...
-(Mod: Sierra Madre resident Patrick Holland forwarded me his letter regarding Mayor Walsh's endorsement of Paul Tanaka for L.A. County Sheriff - link. It has been printed in the Los Angeles Times, as...
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Reuters: Battle Over Police Pensions In U.S. Cities Takes Ugly Turn
A momento from a 2003 SMPD labor actionMod: Here is a troubling little article for you to spend a slice of your Sunday with. As a Tattler reader you are clearly aware that the real issue driving the...
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Who Do You Trust More For Water Rate Information? The Mountain Views News Or...
Perhaps Mayor Walsh never saw this report?H. Susan Poole-Henderson Carter (etc.), the erstwhile publisher of our adjudicated newspaper of record, The Mountain Views News, seems positively obsessed with...
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Sample Ballot Statements 2: Rebuttal to the Arguments Against Measure UUT
-"Let me make one thing perfectly clear – Voting NO on Measure 12-1 WILL NOT reduce the current UUT revenue stream, and it WILL NOT jeopardize Public Safety in any way!" - John Capoccia, Feb 9,...
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Rebuttal to the Argument in Favor of Measure UUT
Mod: Yesterday we posted the "Rebuttal to the Argument Against Measure UUT," which will appear in the sample ballot mailer you will receive in a few weeks for this April's elections. Today we are...
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Is Moody's Investors Service Functioning As A Debt Collector Here In Sierra...
-On December 12th of last year Moody's Investors Service issued a press release detailing their reasons for downgrading Sierra Madre's water bonds to what for all intents and purposes is junk. Here is...
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