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Endlessgate: The Planning Commission Goes Another Round With CETT Investments...
No protective headgearIt seems like this has been going on for almost ever. The folks from CETT investments Corporation, along with their busy architect Adele Chang, plus the always warmly humorous...
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Planning Commission Meeting: The Stonegate House Of Many Shapes And Sizes …...
- (Mod: It is about 2AM, just got home from a very productive work trip to Portland, Oregon. Where, by the way, it was 62 degrees and rainy. It was a very good day. What made it even better is four...
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San Marino's Effort To Recall Dennis "Poopgate" Kneier
Dennis "Mayor Poopgate" Kneier caught in the act. Videos here andhere.(Mod: The following article was put together by some residents of San Marino. They are facing the same kinds of wacko development...
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In Los Angeles County Superior Court A Nuremberg Defense Strategy Can Get You...
In LA County Courts they believe it.Mod: Who knew that the "I was just obeying orders" defense would someday become the pathway to untold taxpayer riches in the Courts of Los Angeles County? Apparently...
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Could Sierra Madre Become The Next Cudahy?
-A few short years ago thenCity Council mainstay Kurt Zimmerman proposed that a forensic audit be conducted here so the many mysteries of Sierra Madre's sorely abused finances might finally be revealed...
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Is Certain Public Comment Getting Left On The Cutting Room Floor? Plus: There...
-I have received several complaints from people who have told me that their public comment from the most recent Planning Commission meeting has pretty much been chopped out from any of the SMTV3...
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Will This City Council Have The Fiscal Discipline Needed To Run Sierra Madre...
The Library campaign takes flight.Are you kidding me? There is not a chance in hell that a Harabedian-led City Council is going to show the backbone it will take to stand up to this city's employee...
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Brown Act Boys Club: Fighting To Keep Things The Same?
Two gents in comfortable shades of brown.Mod: As we saw Tuesday evening, the all male Tax Me Triplets faction of the City Council is getting ready to put a new UTT Measure on the ballot. It will be the...
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A Very Big Announcement From Preserve Sierra Madre
-(Mod: I received this announcement yesterday from Preserve Sierra Madre, formerly known as the Coalition to Preserve Mater Dolorosa and Stop the Housing Project. It is some very big news for those...
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X-Mayor Nancy Walsh: The Blue Sky Hair On Fire Speech
This is the latest video in our series of Sierra Madre X-Mayor Nancy Walsh's oddly incoherent City Hall performances. It was taped on September 23rd, the date of our most recent meeting of the City...
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Would The Taxpayers Ever Abolish The UUT Altogether?
Currently we're a 10% UUT city.Tuesday evening is a City Council Special Meeting, and the topic will be City Hall's budget. Much of the meeting will find us having to listen to certain City Council...
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Judy Gold: A Conversation With Mayor John Harabedian About Reforming Sierra...
-(Mod: What follows is an email conversation that took place between informed resident Judy Gold and the Mayor of Sierra Madre, John Harabedian. The topic is the City Hall reform proposals being put...
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Captain Obvious: How Sierra Madre's Robust Real Estate Market Makes The...
-(Mod: Today's guest informant is Captain Obvious, a gentleman who is as comfortable with numbers as he is uncomfortable with some of the curveballs being pitched lately by City Hall. What he shows us...
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When Will The Hostage Taking End And City Hall Get Around To Doing Its Job?
It's getting old, Chicken LittleFor three of our five Councilmembers last night it was still a combination of Chicken Little panic attacks and hostage taking time. You would have hoped they'd have...
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Tonight's Meeting Of The Planning Commission Could Decide The Fate Of One Carter
-What is decided tonight will undoubtedly set a precident for what happens in the future, not just for the additional houses at One Carter but also future developments throughout the city. We cannot...
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Game, CETT, Match? And What Is Up With Adele's Angry Meeting Pal Attorney...
Richie McDonald: Not happy?I have begun to believe in the theory that wannabe One Carter developer the CETT Corporation in no way cares if the Planning Commission approves their immense genericpile of...
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Tony Brandenburg: Getting Linked In With PUSD's $350 Million Dollar Bond...
Do you know David?Do You Remember?You may or may not remember David Azcarraga, but if you don't, let me refresh your memory. David Azcarraga was the Pasadena Unified School District Chief of...
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Curbed: Insights into China's Love of Copycat Suburbia
Hopefully not the future for Mater Dolorosa or One Carter.(Mod: This was by far the most cited article in the comments this week, probably because of Thursday's CETT ugliness. I received it in my email...
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Tuesday Evening's City Council Special Meeting On The General Plan - A...
A face houseIn a more perfect universe a small city such as Sierra Madre would be able to chart its own course. Be it the density of the community, the design of buildings already built or about to be...
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Captain Obvious Says: 2013 CalPERS Payout Costs Are Now Available Online at...
-(Mod: Over on the California Policy Center site there is the following big announcement regarding Transparent California. The very same source that broke the stunning news that our very own City Hall...
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