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Live Blogging Tonight's City Council Meeting
Tonight's City Council meeting begins at approximately 6:30pm. If you can't be there but would like to have your opinions heard, here is the next best way of doing that. As the meetings rolls on you,...
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The City Is Scared To Death About Losing the Next UUT Vote
A white elephantOne thing that really came out at last night's City Council meeting, there are some in this City who are scared to death that the people who vote here will turn down the UUT all over...
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The United Teachers of Pasadena Versus the PUSD and Board of Education
No $ here either(Mod: A month or so back the United Teachers of Pasadena passed out a flyer detailing their grievances with the Pasadena Unified School District and its Board of Education. Decreased...
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Inter-Con Security Systems: Did the Mayor and City Council Really Do Their Jobs?
Welcome to Ticket Madre?Once in a while a story comes along that attracts a lot of attention, becoming in time a metaphor that takes on a much larger meaning than anyone might first have thought...
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Out Of Control? The Great City Hall Money Grab
We had a pretty lively conversation here yesterday about the inappropriately conducted City Council hire of parking enforcement rent-a-ticketers Inter-Con, and how this reinforces an impression that...
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The Tattler's Sunday News Returns
(Kid needs to cheer down)Mod: The Tattler Sunday News has been gone for a while, which also means it has not been available lately. It would have been posted here on almost every Sunday had we done the...
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The Tattler Has Now Filed a PRA Regarding the City's Investigation Into the...
There are so many problems with the City these days that it could easily become a full time job just trying to unravel them all. At times what goes on at City Hall seems almost like the work of people...
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Public Art - Paid For By Developers?
Old school public artLast evening the Community Services Commission met to discuss many things. Like the military this Commission is all volunteer, so you know that there is a high level of dedication...
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PUSD District 3 Board of Education Runoff Election: The Vote Thieves Get Beat...
Congratulations to Tyron HamptonIt is one of the most unlikely outcomes ever. A group of ideologically committed individuals, backed by the usual politically correct Pasadena choir of alphabet soup...
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Tony Brandenburg: A Couple Days of Racket
On April 8, 2013, the grassroots parent group Invest in Pasadena Kids (IiPk) got busy trying to incorporate the 8th Guiding Principle into the Pasadena City Plan. What might that be you may wish to...
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Last Night's Planning Commission Meeting: The One Carter Debacle Continues
Valley Castle in utero"These lots are horrible. We all know that." - Planning Commissioner PendleburyOne Carter continues to be the gift that keeps on giving. The only question now being that after...
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CalPERS Costs Go Up - Will a 10% UUT Be Enough to Meet the City's Pension...
One of the reasons why the City is as worried as it is about the possibility that a renewal of our utility taxes at 10% could once again fail in April of 2014 is that it would adversely effect its...
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Press Release Sunday
(Mod: If you are an organization and you want to get your news out to a world that needs to know what you have going on, then you're going to need to do a press release. A press release should be short...
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City Council Reorganization this Week: Nancy Walsh Assumes the Throne
God save the Queen - click hereTomorrow evening we will witness the peculiarity of Sierra Madre politics in all of its troubled glory. The least capable have risen to power, and perhaps the most...
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The Surprising Fate of a Co-Founder of Earth Day - Ira Einhorn
Ira the Unicorn(Mod: Yesterday was Earth Day and, while most of us went to work and didn't get to participate in any of the activities, the occasion was commemorated here in town in a variety of...
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Here's Johnny! A Meltdown for the Ages (plus) 70% More Baloney on Water Rates
Not at all entitled"I wanna be Mayor Pro Tem! I wanna be Mayor Pro Tem! My votes were better than his!" - reader comment @ 10:06pmI'm not going to say that the early portions of last night's meeting...
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Does Your Vote Even Count In Sierra Madre?
Mayor Pro Tem* AladeenOne of the consequences of Mayor Pro Tem* John Harabedian's odd arguments defending his rather undemocratic power grab at Tuesday evening's City Council meeting is to once again...
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Failed Pasadena Districting Task Force Head Ken Chawkins Thinks His Opinions...
Perhaps you remember Ken Chawkins. As a card carrying member of the endlessly meddlesome Edison Mafia (which also includes John Buchanan and Duarte's 710 Tunnel loving Metroman John Fasana) Ken seems...
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It is Time We Did the Right Thing
Sierra Madre's Alan WoodThere was an article in a recent issue Pasadena Star News (click here) that reminded me of something that I think we need to start talking about again. First let me show you the...
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A Couple of Web Traffic Milestones for The Tattler
It's all just lights on a screenFor those of you who might care about such things, our little blog hit a couple of web traffic milestones somewhere during the middle of last night. We crossed the 1.5...
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