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California Public Records Act Request For Information On The Suspension Of...
A legal option currently unavailable to Sierra Madre?(Mod: A few weeks back I decided to try and figure out how Sierra Madre's Sex Offender Ordinance was legally suspended by City Hall. This what done...
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Are Sierra Madre Library Supporters Preservationists?
They don't look especially dangerous ...There is a seemingly permanent understanding in town that goes something like this. Those who believe in preserving Sierra Madre as a small village community...
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Tony Brandenburg: Cosplaying as a Capital Crime: Darrien Hunt, Executed in...
Stop Killing Our KidsThere have been some pretty angry people in Ferguson, Missouri making a lot of noise. And for good reason. If you actually believe what the mainstream media and the Ferguson Police...
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So Just How Wrong Is It Really To Demolish Monrovia?
There goes the neighborhood.(Mod: Living next to Arcadia has presented certain challenges to Sierra Madre. And certainly next Tuesday's City Council confab will be a next big test in our struggle to...
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The Only Reasons Why ABC Eyewitless News Vans Will Ever Come To Sierra Madre
Bear video here.There are only ever a few reasons why those blue ABC Eyewitless News vans might be seen cruising the streets of Sierra Madre on their way to a big story here. Back when it used to rain...
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An Hour & A Half With The City Attorney
-If you think about it, the One Carter debacle has been quite a money maker for the law firm owned by Michael Colantuono. After all, he has been there right from the beginning. A gravy train made of...
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Tony Brandenburg: Darrien Hunt (Part 2): Cosplaying Execution and Other Acts...
-Then the police arrived. I like the police. They have uniforms and numbers and you know what they are meant to be doing … I wanted to answer the questions properly, but the policeman did not give me...
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The Argument Against Going Forward With The One Carter ("Stonegate") Project...
The beginning of the end?(Mod: The following document was sent to the City Council a few days back by Preserve Sierra Madre. It details the main arguments against going forward with the Planning...
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Sierra Madre: Answer The Call
City Hall: Tonight @ 6:30(Mod: Tonight's City Council meetings is one of those big occasions in town that only happen every once in a long while. I think you'd need to go all the way back to Joe Mosca...
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So Is That It?
-I have to admit, they had me going for a little while there. The whole CETT house monster proposal looked like it was going to go down big time. The many residents in attendance lined up to speak and...
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Video: 91 Year Old Maude Ann Taylor Gives the Speech of the Night at Tuesday...
-Here is a Thanksgiving present for everyone, courtesy of a YouTube poster who goes by the name of Citizen of Sierra Madre. At the end of the City Council's somewhat frustrating discussion about...
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Can Newly Signed Assembly Bill 52 Rescue One Carter?
Remember where you live.We have written about the following matter several times in the past, and soon newly signed legislation in Sacramento could possibly bring this issue back to the forefront in...
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Deja Vu Christmas: The Pink Cow Is Still In The Creche?
Pink: November 2014I am often baffled by the indifference of mankind to its own foibles. Not that I believe things could ever get all that much better, mind you. I'm hardly that naive. After all, we...
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Tony Brandenburg: The Many P's of Black Friday, or Acrostic Fun with the LAPD
Bob Baker and friendsI refused to shop on Black Friday, but that hardly meant I was going to stay inside. After all, I'm not under house arrest. I did wash the dishes, so I had my hall pass. So out the...
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Yet Another Problem With Sierra Madre's Nativity Scene?
-Yesterday I received the following pictures from a concerned resident. She had read Saturday's article (link) about the continuing travails of the pink cow in the Kersting Court creche (or Nativity...
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Video: Robert Spencer speaks at the VFW Veterans Day Commemoration, Sierra...
-Robert Spencer, the author of several bestselling books on the topic of Jihad, or Islamic Holy War, and the threat it represents to our country in these present troubled times, came and spoke to a...
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Is China Cracking Down On Its Wayward Wealthy?
Uncle ZhouAs vast amounts of cash from China continues to make a considerable impact on the local real estate market, indications from Beijing are that the open side door that has allowed much of this...
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It's No Coincidence - Arcadia Has Both "Private Property Rights" and McMansions
An Arcadia Nouveau Riche Rube RanchIn yesterday's edition of the Los Angeles Times there was a very important article called How Arcadia Is Remaking Itself As A Magnet For Chinese Money, which you can...
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Uh Oh. Is The Fix In On One Carter's 610 Baldwin Court?
There is a small item in yesterday's City of Sierra Madre"e-blast" (as opposed to maybe a far milder e-zephyr? Or an e-pat-on-the-noggin?) that begs for a bit more attention than it was given there....
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The Costs Of Delaying The Approval Of The General Plan
----------------------- That fire line is right about where the McMansions will go. ------------------------While the City Council's"Call for Review" of the mess known as 610 Baldwin Court has been...
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