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Sierra Madre City Manger Elaine Aguilar Versus Transparent California.com -...
Let there be taxes!Last Thursday we posted an article called "Why do Sierra Madre’s City Employees Receive Better Benefits than the City Manager of Beverly Hills?" (link). It was picked up and relayed...
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Postcard Panic: Noah Green Is In Favor Of More Water
Hello dollyI am not sure how a City Council campaign could be conducted in any worse a way. From those naked Facebookselfies to his bold postcard proclamation this week that he supports more water,...
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The One Cratergate McMansions Process Grinds On
Do you want fries with that?As I am sure you are aware, the Planning Commission had previously rejected Adele Chang's crass and vast 5.5 bathroom water hog McMansions at a place the people who actually...
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The Planning Commission Tells Adele Chang To Bury Her Houses, Says Nothing...
Of course, it will take a really big shovelFor a while there it looked like we were watching an SMTV3 replay of a Planning Commission meeting from last summer. There was the bizarrely supercilious...
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Sierra Madre Has the Single Most Expensive Individual City Employee Health...
-(Mod: Transparent California.com is honing in on Sierra Madre like a coyote on a toy poodle. Researcher Robert Fellner has now discovered that the single most expensive city employee health plan in...
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Councilmember John Capoccia Suggests His Claim In The Mountain Views News...
~ The Great Tax Fighter ~I was included in an interesting exchange of emails yesterday between Councilmember John Capoccia and SierraMadreNews.net publisher Bill Coburn. Mr. Capoccia had forwarded the...
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Just In Case You Know Some People Who Believe That Measure UUT Is Not A Tax...
Print this out and hand it to them.http://sierramadretattler.blogspot.com
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Did City Hall Break The Law When It Mailed Out Its "UUT Fact Sheet" At...
-If you live on the east side of the Sierra Madre Empire chances are pretty good you received a water bill from the City of Sierra Madre late last week. And tucked away inside of that water bill...
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Is the 500 Year Drought Enough for Sierra Madre to Embrace a Building...
-The item of most interest to this blog on tonight's City Council meeting agenda deals with getting truly serious about water conservation. We've had water conservation edicts loudly proclaimed in the...
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Can Employee Health Care Costs Be A Reason Why Utility User Taxes In Sierra...
For today I thought it would be a good idea to share with you some hard evidence backing up our claims that Sierra Madre has some of the highest municipal employee health insurance costs in the state....
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Bart Doyle and Nancy Walsh Want to Scare You
Pro-UUT solicitors out campaigningOne of the really big differences between our side of the UUT question and the other is the quality and amount of information being given out. While we have come at...
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Many Cry Out - Has the Wistaria Festival Been Canceled?
As we all believed we knew, this Sunday's Wistaria Festival is not only on, but it is also receiving the full favor of every possible media exposure available. That being from newspapers to the many...
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Repaying Mayor Nancy "Because We Can" Walsh In Kind
Yes on Measure UUT leader Nancy WalshThere was a Tattler reader comment yesterday that I found particularly interesting. I thought about it a lot, actually. Not only because it touched on something I...
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The New 'Yes On Measure UUT' Signs Say 'Protect Sierra Madre'… My Question...
The Highest Utility User Taxes (UUT) in the State of California?The Highest Employee Health Benefit Costs in the State of California?The Highest Increase in Utility Taxes in California...
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Gene Goss Has Developed A Troubling Veracity Problem
(click to enlarge)If you go to Gene Goss's City Council campaign webpage you will be informed about his apparently quite serious pledge on the matter of support from outside organizations. Here is...
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Tonight's City Council Election Debate: Is The Fix In?
-As anyone who has seen Noah Green's unfortunately revealing Facebook pictures can tell you (link), the curtain has pretty much fallen on his chances of ever winning a City Council seat in Sierra...
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It's All Quite Debatable
-"I cry for the parents who will have to explain to their children how that man in those awful pictures was elected to a position of high honor in our community." - Comment I hope I am not being too...
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Why Do Sierra Madre Politicos Goss and Harabedian Share a Campaign Treasurer...
-Easy Gene?We discussed this briefly the other day, but upon further review I thought we might want to look a little more deeply into this story. As the person who posted the following information...
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Why Won't Gene Goss Fire Yolanda Miranda?
Sue Levoe making even less sense than usualSo we are now in our third day since The Tattler's revelations first emerged regarding Gene Goss's campaign treasurer Yolanda Miranda and her role in the...
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Pasadena Star News Comes Out Against Measure UUT - Says No to Noah, Yes to...
-Measure UUT (or the MUTT as I have started calling it), just got a big thumbs down from the triumvirate of SGV daily papers, the Pasadena Star News, the San Gabriel Valley Tribune and the Whittier...
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