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Prop 218: The Cavalry Is Coming!
-Proposition 218 is not an easy thing to understand. Theoretically you get to vote on whether you want to pay more for something like water, but you do not go into a voting booth like you would during...
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The Assumption Of Leisure (Or: Sorry Larry, No Parking No Shopping)
Smart Growth WimpySo-called Smart Growth advocates have an issue that really gets their undergarments into an unkind twist, and that is personal transportation. Yes, your car. Another is single family...
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All You Need To Know To Submit A Prop 218 Water Rate Protest Ballot This...
The deadline to submit a Prop 218 water rate increase protest ballot is this coming Tuesday. You can even turn it in during that evening's City Council meeting. Talk about life on the edge. You can...
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Last Chance?
-"A necessary step in any gentrification process is to make people believe that the constant incremental increases in the costs of city services are insignificant." - Reader commentIt has been my...
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Will the Water Rate Increase Succeed at Tonight's City Council Meeting?
-I would think stopping it is a bit of a long shot at this point. As a wild guess let's say that out of the 977 envelopes received so far 100 contain multiple ballots, and out of those perhaps 20%...
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Yet Another Bad Night For Tax Me Madre
-Let me ask you this. If the roles were reversed, and those who supported the water rate increase needed to have a lot of people mail in 'Yes' ballots, would they have been able to get over a thousand...
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Yet Another Stupid Tax Trick From City Hall
-It is becoming fairly obvious that City Hall has only one priority these days, and that is laying their hands on more of your tax dough. It is just about the only thing they do these days.The water...
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Flu'd Out
-Not going to be much of a post today. I have apparently joined the latest flu craze, which is called H1N1. Commonly known as swine flu. A very intense flu bug, too. I can barely lift my head right...
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Tony Brandenburg: Reflecting on Kelly Thomas and Annie Kim Pham
Annie Kim PhamLast month a few hundred people protested the verdict in the beating death of Kelly Thomas. I know, because I stood there shoulder to shoulder with my wife and children, members of my...
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I Am Growing A Little Tired Of Receiving Mail From The Passionist Fathers
-I call the technique calming the herd. A substantial number of residents in the NW corner of Sierra Madre, suitably alarmed over plans for what certainly sounds to be a fairly densely packed and out...
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That Water Rate Protest Vote Number Might Not Be Good News For Pro-UUT...
-The City's report on the final protest numbers in its latest water rate increase effort fairly crows about the success they had with the Prop 218 process. Or on the surface it does.For a city...
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Tony Brandenburg: Sneaky Pete Is Back
An old white guyPetey, the Man of a Thousand FacesLast month good ole Petey Dreier, the Professor Emeritus Complexus Napoleonicus at Occidental College, lifted his head out of his plate full of soup...
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A Secret Mission To Washington DC?
-It seems that our city government has become quite secretive lately. Case in point. Candidates for the City Council have been trying to set up appointments with the Chief of Police and Fire Chief so...
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Tonight's Planning Commission Meeting: The Stonegate Project Appeals Begin to...
The Tattler prefers a Monterey Dada designWe could be slipping into the Sierra Madre Twilight Zone with this one. It happens every once in a while here in the celebrated Foothill Village. The summary...
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One Carter: The Planning Commission Stands Tall
-CETT's Attorney and two of its ruling dignitaries were in the house last night, and they tried very hard to get the Planning Commission to agree with Mayor Pro Tem* Harabedian's idea of a three member...
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Why Is Sierra Madre's Employee Benefits Report AWOL?
-On the Noah Green for City Council website there is the following rather foggy appeal for voting to continue Sierra Madre's Utility User Taxes at the current state leading rate. Having already voted...
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Tony Brandenburg: PUSD's Great Attendance Debacle
-Attendance issues have plagued Pasadena Unified School District for quite some time. The problem currently is that people simply do not want to send their kids to PUSD schools. Declining enrollment...
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Tuesday Evening's City Council Meeting Will Achieve Little Of Lasting Importance
-It is kind of difficult to do if you think about it. A city that is facing as many challenges as this one can still hold a City Council meeting where very little of lasting importance will be on the...
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Mother Jones Magazine: California's Drought Could Be the Worst in 500 Years
-You do know that our illustrious political leadership, both statewide and local, is just kinda jackassing around with the consequences of one of the most severe droughts in California history, right?...
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Last Night's City Council Meeting Was The Mind Bomb
-The TV audio was KGEM'd off when John Harabedian discussed his trip to Washington DC. So I don't have too much to tell you about it. They went, they saw at least some of the important people they...
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