Bailey Canyon Park Suicide Victim Identified - James Cummiskey Was A Sierra...
Bailey Canyon ParkMod: A reporter for the new Los Angeles Register newspaper by the great name of America Hernandez has been in touch with me over the last few weeks. She was recently assigned Sierra...
View ArticleTony Brandenburg: Anarchy At The PUSD (Part I)
-Shhhhh. It's a Secret ...At the April 24 PUSD Board of Education meeting Mary and I petitioned for help with a picket and protest on Facebook. This is not foreign for us, we have done this from time...
View ArticleSomething That Any Potential Developer of the Mater Dolorosa Properties May...
It has now been just about nine years since one of the most inept City Councils this city ever hatched made one of its worst decisions. That being to allow a woefully under-financed and incompetent...
View ArticlePasadena's Nutso Public Health Head Dr. Eric Walsh Was A Leading PUSD...
Bogey and WalshyAs wacky as things can get in Sierra Madre from time to time, we have yet to have a situation like this come up. At least as far as I know. I am out of town a lot for things like my day...
View ArticleThursday's Planning Commission Meeting ... & Some More
-The coming next great controversy in town is the vast amounts of new development now seen as possible at the Mater Dolorosa site. Obviously our cash obsessed City Hall is salivating at the prospect of...
View ArticleTony Brandenburg: Anarchy At The PUSD (Part 2)
-(Mod: Before we get to the second half of Tony's column on the recent happenings at the PUSD, I thought it would be good to share the following OC Weekly piece about the new album from his band, The...
View ArticleReal Estate War On Older Residents In Sierra Madre?
-Mod: There has been a series of rather derogatory comments posted on this site targeting older residents. These remarks need to be examined and discussed. People should know that this kind of...
View ArticleGil Aguirre on Citrus College's Rotten Fruit
-(Mod: Gil Aguirre, who will always be locally renowned as the man who helped bring down the SGVCOG's Nick Conway, has lately been looking into some of the bizarre financial practices at Glendora's...
View ArticleFight for Your Right to Park On the Front Lawn
-(Mod: Sometimes things show up in my email box that just beg to get posted on The Tattler. And who am I to deny a story like this?)Angry letter criticizing 'curb appeal' of Ocean City home sparks...
View ArticleThe Great Sierra Madre McMansion Assault Opens A Third Front: Stonehouse
If you are unfortunate enough live in the area directly affected by the impending Stonehouse development, you would have received the above postcard in the mail this week. The above scan was sent to me...
View ArticleIs It Time For A Voter Imposed Building Moratorium?
-"Here it all comes. The transformation of Sierra Madre into Arcadia is not going to come all at once although Stonehouse, Mater Dolorosa, and One Carter is a faster jump than a lot of people expected....
View ArticleSierra Madre: The Coming Great Betrayal
Wonderful teeth.Sierra Madre is under assault like it has never been before. We've been doing some research, talking to people who know a lot, and it just might be worse than even we had originally...
View ArticleTony Brandenburg: The Ballad of Anaheim James
January 2014: Fullerton PD Fun Run(Mod: The events our intrepid reporter and Autism Rights protester T-Money discusses here are now also written about in the OC Weekly. Clickhere for additional...
View ArticleA Draft Guideline for Community Preservation
(Mod: Caroline Brown forwarded the following to me over the weekend. Caroline, if you don't know her, has some of the most amazing archives in town and, even more importantly, knows where everything...
View ArticleMeasure UUT's Defeat Will Loom Quite Large At Tonight's City Council Meeting
Tattler cat eating the tweetingBefore we get to the heart of what I think will be the big hoo-hah at tonight's City Council meeting, there is one thing that needs to be highlighted here first. If...
View ArticleSo It Really Is Patriarchy Seating At Our New Mayor John Harabedian Led City...
Well, there you go. Men in the middle, and all the women seated out in the wings. Awaiting their turn to speak, I suppose. Or at least waiting until they're called upon to do so. Thankfully they aren't...
View ArticleTonight's Planning Commission Meeting Will Deal With Stonehouse McMansions
-Oddly enough, tonight's Planning Commission meeting is not listed on the City of Sierra Madre website portal page as one of its upcoming "Latest City Events." I have posted a screen shot of this...
View ArticleThe Stonehouse Garages Galore Plan (GGP) Kinda Bombs
Chair Pendlebury & his courage cushionThePlanning Commission was treated to quite a novel notion last evening, put forward by the legal mouthpiece for the current Stonehouse McMansion development...
View ArticleEver Wonder How Chris Holden Became State Assembly Whip After Serving Less...
(Mod: The following is an article published by the Center for Investigative Reporting detailing how senior legislative positions in the California State Assembly are apparently being sold to the...
View ArticleThe Center for Investigative Reporting: "Interest Groups Play Major Role In...
-Mod: The Center for Investigative Reporting later produced a companion piece to yesterday's article called "Interest groups play major role in Democrats' campaign funds, analysis finds." Since the...
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