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Robert Fellner: Would you take a 12 percent pay cut in exchange for a 100...
-(Mod: As you likely know, Robert Fellner is a research fellow with the California Policy Center and a transparency researcher for TransparentCalifornia.com. He has also taken a keen interest in the...
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Richard McDonald Discovers That People In Sierra Madre Are Not Especially...
Tremble, towniesAttorney Richard McDonald, who represents whomever it is that is so adamantly trying to build McMansions at One Carter (or whatever they are calling that sadly abused place these days),...
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Did Mayor John Harabedian Give Sierra Madre "The Horns" at the 4th of July...
Did he?Having grown up in the belly of New Jersey, and therefore immersed in a culture that has blessed our world with such classic highbrow entertainment as "Jersey Shore" (link) and "The Guido Guide"...
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Pasadena Star News - Saving flushed fire hydrant water too expensive, Sierra...
-Mod: This was originally posted at the bottom of the previous article, but since the first three comments made so much sense I thought I would move it up here and make this into a separate post. It...
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Sacramento Is Cracking Down On Your Water Use
Got paint?I guess it was inevitable. When even the all knowing and mighty statesmen of Sacramento have woken up to the fact that the State of California and its 39 million thirsty residents could run...
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Captain Obvious On Agenda Item #5 “FY 2014-2015 Budget: Direction Regarding...
Credit: NPRI(Mod: Frequent Tattler commenter Captain Obvious needs no explanatory introduction. Obviously. The Captain often speaks out on this blog about the very special economics of City Hall, a...
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Gene Goss Is Kind Of A Funny Dude
Really?"We have two fine candidates. I don't know either one of them." - Gene GossMod: A few interesting things happened at last night's City Council meeting. I am not going to get into very much of...
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Despite What You've Heard - The Sunsetting Of The UUT Is Not The End Of The...
-At Tuesday evening's City Council meeting we heard a discussion on Agenda Item #5, which deals with the sunsetting of our current state highest utility taxes. A distinction that the voters had decided...
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Transparent California Is Now Doing For School Districts What It Did For Cities
-I received a couple of e-mails this week from Transparent California. As part of their ever expanding coverage of government employee compensation in this our once Golden State, they are now posting...
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Tony Brandenburg: Muir High School Confidential - The Great Naked PUSD...
La Fleur de MuirDance Monkey DanceI have been in Europe recently. In fact, that is where I am writing this. I have been here a week or so, and I expect I will be here four weeks later. That is, of...
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City To Begin Replacing A 2,500 Foot Stretch Of Water Main This Friday?
Bruce and a rusty pipeThe following article was added to the Los Angeles Register website late last evening, and I am posting a portion of it here for you today. Written by their beat reporter for our...
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Sierra Madre's Adjudicated Weekly Newspaper Finally Publishes Our Building...
It's only moneyThe Public Notice for the remaining City Council business involved in extending Sierra Madre's building moratorium through July of 2016 has now finally been published by the Mountain...
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Does Anybody Really Know What Steve Scauzillo Is Going On About?
All we are saying ...There is a Steve Scauzillo column up on the Pasadena Star News site (I think it originated over at the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, actually), that makes a rather odd reference to...
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Affirmatively Furthering Fair Housing: Heading Our Way?
-(Mod: There is a great blog from up in northern California called "Save Marinwood." They face many of the same SB 375 spawned problems that we face here, and they write about those issues quite a bit....
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Robert Fellner: Pasadena Unified Superintendent Promoted, $55,000 Raise,...
-Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) superintendent Jon Gundry has just been tapped as the new superintendent for the Santa Clara County Office of Education (SCCOE), despite PUSD’s failing marks...
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California Policy Center: Proposed Local Pension Reform Ballot Measures
-Mod: I was poking around the California Policy Center website last evening and came across a very interesting page. Apparently there have been referendums put on the ballot and voted upon by citizens...
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Sierra Madre Mayor John Harabedian Travels To Glendale To Host A Political...
Here is your invitation. A little pricey I know, but think of this man's accomplishments!Now you might be wondering why Ardy "Arr Arr" Kassakhian has become such a hero to the fine people of the City...
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Mountain Views News Mystery Math: Does It All Add Up?
-The Mountain Views News is celebrating its seventh anniversary this week. It being a broken mirror's worth of bad luck since certain aspects of that paper, to use a California Superior Court Judge's...
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It is August & Time For A Fine Tattler Summer Vacation
-I am going to dummy up The Tattler for a week. Time for a break from all of this. The dog days of summer are upon us, and there isn't too much going on right now anyway. Of course, I have said that...
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Tale of Two Cities: Arcadia's Minimal Water Restrictions
-(Mod: I received the following e-mail from Pat Alcorn yesterday. I figured it was important enough to bust in on my vacation and post.)From: Pat Alcorn … To: jcapoccia ; ddelmar ; jharabedian ; ggoss...
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