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Where Do Sierra Madre City Employees Rank Statewide?
-It is an article of faith in Sierra Madre that our city employees receive amongst the lowest total compensation in the state. We certainly hear that often when budgetary considerations are being...
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Blue Baby Syndrome & Nitrification - How Sierra Madre's Yellow Water Crisis...
An even stranger brewNow that high end McMansions are on the horizon for Sierra Madre it would appear that City Hall is finally going to get very serious about its ongoing yellow water problem....
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Dr. Hélène Baribeau - Know Your Water Consultant!
-As a public service for those of you who will either be attending or watching tonight's City Council meeting, The Tattler is providing as much background as humanly possible about this evening's...
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Throwing Out The Blue Baby With The Chloraminated Bathwater
Baby Blue"Has anyone else noticed that Harabedian & Capoccia are having staff address all the water issues brought up on The Tattler?" - a reader's blog comment late last nightLast night was quite...
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Ed Honowitz Betrays the PUSD - Email exchange between Ed Honowitz c/o Senator...
Mr. Ed and his boss Lookie(Mod: I purloined this from our friend Tony Brandenburg's blog. You can link to it in the original by clicking here. Ed Honowitz, until recently a member of the PUSD Board of...
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NPRI Researcher Cites Sierra Madre As Having the "Most Expensive Health Care...
-(Mod: You would think Sierra Madre's Water Department has enough problems already. Bad tasting and oddly colored water, the potential for possibly deadly nitrification blooms later this summer, and a...
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Mater Dolorosa: Is This How It Begins? Or How It Ends.
-An early morning snapshot taken by a very alert resident last week shows a surveyor setting up on the land our wayward Mater Dolorosa neighbors hope to sell off to people wanting to build a tightly...
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Interesting Juxtaposition Of Front Page Looney Views News Articles - Plus:...
It isn't too often that you can pick up a local newspaper and read a story about yet another instance of credit card skimming at the exact same Valero station, followed by a report that we live in one...
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Community Services Commission Meeting: Why Does City Staff Get Paid So Much...
Hart Park House Public Restroom Design RevealedI was going through the Staff Report for this evening's Community Services Commission meeting, and a couple of things jumped out at me. The more serious...
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Sewer Ship Shenanigans: The LACSD Sics Their Lawyers On Transparency Advocate...
LACSD Ship Ocean SentinelYou may recall that a week or so back we posted an article about our friend George Edwardz and his investigative trip to an L.A. County Sanitation Districts confab where a...
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The Tattler Posts Unfortunate News
-Mod: While it is true that The Tattler posts unfortunate news, that doesn't mean it is necessarily a bad thing to do. If the truth be told, we rather enjoy it. I mean, if it was good news you wanted,...
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Joe Mosca's House Is Sold: All We Have Left Now Are Precious Memories Of...
Mod: The Castle of Hope has been sold, an era has ended, and Joe Mosca is heading south to a new life in San Diego. In the process taking the dreams of dozens with him. The last vestiges of the...
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Robert Fellner: Fire District Board Passes Tax Increase to Sustain $263,000...
Cha-ching!Mod: The question that needs to be asked today is whether or not local government now exists mainly to take care of itself and those who work for it. Here in Sierra Madre the answer to that...
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City Hall Shows Its Hand On The Building Moratorium
-Obviously certain members of the City Council will not want to be seen in public Tuesday making any bold or decisive decisions on a building moratorium. A cautious bunch, this is not something they...
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Could The City Attorney Be Wrong About A Two Year Legal Limitation On...
Teresa of BarstowIt has long been the suspicion of some in this community that the developers and Realtors in the area have an attorney working at City Hall that we pay for. Which would be quite a...
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Moratorium On Development: More Stupid City Hall Tricks
Why Sierra Madre remains greatThere is one thing that is for certain in all of this. You are freaking City Hall out big time. The thought that their big three McMansion developments might be stopped...
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City Attorney Teresa "Terri" Highsmith's Wacky Alameda Misadventures Are...
-Mod: Since the staff report on a possible building (or is that water) moratorium here in Sierra Madre reads more like a sales pitch for City Council "no" votes than the balanced and unbiased document...
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I'm Sorry, But Last Night Was Hardly A Victory
-After the water worry portion of last night's City Council meeting finally came to a halt, a break period was called. Myself, along with the many people who showed up to talk about their horror at the...
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MaryAnn MacGillivray's Tuesday Evening Address to the City Council on...
-(Mod: As this community struggles to come to grips with the strategies available to us on the question of building and water moratoriums, it is helpful to turn to someone whose experience rings true...
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How Do We Pay City Hall Back For Pushing Development?
Mod: Beneath all the phony baloney shape shifting on the development issue, the fact remains that City Hall wants McMansion development at One Carter, Stone House and Mater Dolorosa. As always, it is...
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