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What?? NBC News Los Angeles: "Arcadia Passes Strict Drought Measures"
Somebody please call FritzI am not certain that the Los Angeles version of NBC News really quite understands what it is saying here. Because there really isn't anything at all strict about Arcadia's...
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Peacock Strut: Arcadia Takes A Shot At Sierra Madre?
-The Los Angeles Examiner has published an article about Arcadia's very minimal Phase 1 water use restrictions. And while the paper makes the same rather erroneous claims about the strictness of our...
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Today Uncle Sam Buys Sierra Madre A New Water Main
-This is the day that Sierra Madre's waterless water company begins the job of constructing a new water main on North Mountain Trail Avenue. You may recall that whatever we have there now hasn't been...
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Tonight's Special Meeting of the City Council
Even though this is a "special meeting" brought about by the failure of our adjudicated newspaper, the unusually inept Mountain Views News, to publish a public notice dealing with the water related...
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This Building Moratorium Will Be With Us For Two Years
Is there such a thing as too much joy?By a unanimous vote the City Council agreed that Ordinance No. 1358-U should be passed, effectively shutting down any new water connections for the purpose of...
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So Maybe This Guy Was A Noah Green Voter?
(Mod: There are some things that you should not do with your smart phone or computer. I think most people understand that, and would never attempt the sorts of unfortunate stuff detailed here. This was...
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Sierra Madre Weekly: If Sierra Madre’s yellow water is damaging pipes, what...
-(Mod: Terry Miller has written a nice piece about our travails for the Sierra Madre Weekly. Some of it cites an article I posted here on Wednesday, which is a compliment that I am pleased to accept....
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Water President Tom Love: $7.54 Billion Dollar Water Bond Will Be On The...
Now there isn't enough water?Mod: In this week's edition of the City Manager's Report there is a missive from the SGVMWD's own Tom Love regarding the need to properly edjamacate Sierra Madre residents...
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Fox 11 News LA: Burbank McMansion Backlash
(Link to this video clip by clickinghere)(Mod: I thought this was a pretty interesting news clip from Fox 11 News LA, which ran last October. Burbank was in the process of acceding to the McMansion...
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The City Of Burbank's Visual Preference Survey: "I Know What I Like When I...
Meet the new neighborsYesterday I posted a little bit of info about Burbank's "Visual Preference Survey." I also included a couple of clear examples of what it is that people living in the self-styled...
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One Carter Underground: The Rise Of The McBunker
Psst! The secret is what lies below, yo.How do you build a McMansion in Sierra Madre, a place that famously does not happily suffer such a thing within its 3 square mile borders? And then place it on a...
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San Marino's McBunker Wars: Coming To Sierra Madre?
-Yesterday we posted about the "McBunker" design concept, and how this could be used by a certain crafty developer to hide the massing and excessive square footage of McMansion style development at One...
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Mater Dolorosa: Was Cameron Thornton Engaging In Mischaracterization?
Look into my eyes ...The developer chosen by Cameron Thornton and his merry band of concerned investment professionals for whatever tract housing project they have planned for Mater Dolorosa is called...
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Are CETT's One Carter McMansions Down For The Count?
Moat with crocodiles optional"The Planning Commission was smart - make Chang & company return on September 18 for another turndown. That's another few weeks before they can appeal to City Council....
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When It Comes To Her Personal Taste In Homes, CETT Architect Adele Chang...
-We all need to work for a living. Or at least most of us do. Veteran Tattler poster Steve seems to have avoided the onus of honest labor, but there are other prices he has to pay. And the guy who...
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Argument: You can’t hide the size of McMansions, regardless of the design
-(Mod: Apparently our little debate over McMansions is resonating in faraway lands. Or at least in Illinois. The author of the piece below is "Dr. Brian Miller, assistant professor of sociology at...
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Does The Mountain Views News Have A Questionable Record On Child Pornography...
From a Chamber of Commerce site -linkIn this weekend's edition of The Mountain Views News there is a notable expose' that discusses the registered sex offender Andrew West, a gent who was convicted and...
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Did "AWest" Ever Work For The City Of Sierra Madre?
How "AWest" depicts himselfThe latest child pornographer to return home to Sierra Madre is a fellow who prefers to be called AWest. Which is also what they called him at the Mountain Views News. I...
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Video: Developer Todd Boden Presents His Radical Water Saving Proposal For...
To see Todd's video clickhere.Way back on August 13 we posted our synopsis of the special City Council meeting held the evening before (link). A number of things were accomplished at that storied...
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The Camillo Road Disaster: Before And After
Before:And After:Probably just about the worst example ever of the consequences of lot splitting in Sierra Madre. From what was once the kind of bucolic setting this town is famous for, to a pair of...
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