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A Couple Of Things City Attorney Teresa "Red" Highsmith Forgot To Tell You...
T-MoneyBetter put this one in your "Unbelievable City Hall Idiocy" file. Right next to the one you have on the Civility Party and Josh Moran's denial of having ever known Bob Matheson. We're talking...
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Could Elon Musk Put Southern California Edison On The Unemployment Line?
-It could be that big utility companies like SoCal Edison are within a decade of going the way of the dinosaur. With the major oil corporations only a banana step behind them.Why is that you ask?...
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Tonight's City Council Meeting Is Mostly About One Thing Only: The General...
Four Mayors that delayed the General Plan UpdateIt's better late than never I suppose. Though why this 18 month General Plan Update"process" is now entering its sixth year of, um, processing, is a...
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The General Plan Update: A Race Against Time
Run.There can be little doubt that a whole lot of time was wasted between the moment when Mayor MaryAnn MacGillivray first set the General Plan Update into motion in 2009, and what occurred at last...
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How Now Brown Cow: Pink No More
-Our two year crusade regarding the pink cow in the Sierra Madre Christmas Creche, located at the heart of the downtown shopping district in Kersting Court, has achieved a positive outcome. We're...
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Next: A Moratorium on the Demolition of Older Homes?
-Apparently slow growth mania is now sweeping the City of Sierra Madre. So used am I to a City Hall that seemingly wants to mulch the entire Foothill Village for the purpose of building SCAG housing of...
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Arcadia Highlands Fighting Back Against McMansions (plus) Judy Chu Rung Up On...
Residents of the Arcadia Highlands area of our McMansion afflicted neighbor down the hill are getting organized in hopes of preventing the destruction of what is really one of the nicest places in that...
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Tattler Post No. 2,000
A number, like any other.I have been doing this blog since December 12, 2008, which means I have now been at it for almost exactly 6 years. An exercise in typing that I believe is unparalleled in...
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Sin City: Did You Know That In China Arcadia Is Known As "The Mistress City...
Access this video byclicking here.So I was searching the Internet yesterday afternoon, looking for interesting and exciting things to bring you here on The Tattler. Sunday being one of the few days...
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Vocativ: A Video The Chinese Government Would Prefer That You Not See
Yesterday's post was so popular we thought we'd go back to the same well and see what else is there to dig up and exploit for the pleasure of you, the Tattler reader. And we did hit pay dirt. The...
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More Consequences Of Delaying The General Plan Update
(Mod: On December 10 we posted an article called "The General Plan Update: A Race Against Time." You can link to it here. Here is a bit of what was said.)There can be little doubt that a whole lot of...
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Transparent California: Sierra Madre's 2013 Salary & Benefits Data Now Available
Funny how things work in the world of government. Just as 2014 is about to give up the ghost, the salary and benefits information from 2013 becomes available. Speedy isn't quite the middle name of...
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The Tears Of Chairman Mao: More Than $1.3 Trillion In Secret Cash Smuggled...
Mao is crying.(Mod: In case you've been wondering where the dough for those "all cash house buys" in the area has been coming from, here is a report from a news site called Quartz that neatly lays it...
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Arcadia Weekly: Arcadia Council Deals a Blow to Builders
-(Mod: The Arcadia Weekly is a sister paper of the Sierra Madre Weekly, both of which are products of Beacon Media out of Monrovia. This article also appeared on Thursday in our local version, so...
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Forbes Magazine: The Ugliest McMansion In America Poll
-Forbes Magazine posted an article about McMansions that was not meant to flatter the genre. And an unassociated site, SodaHead, in a shameless bid for web traffic I suppose, has been running an...
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Narcotecture: The Other McMansions
-We have been discussing McMansions here a bit over the last month or so. The reason being so many of these things are being built down in Arcadia that it is only a matter of time before they start...
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Not Every City Surrendered Its Sex Offender Ordinance
-As you may recall from previous articles, in December of 2013 the City of Sierra Madre quietly surrendered its Sex Offender Ordinance in Court to an organization called California Reform Sex Offender...
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Informative Infographic On L.A. County Pay Disparities
-I received the following from Robert Fellner at Transparent California.com yesterday. He puts these infographics together and sends them out to the world so people can get a real close look at just...
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Is It Your Patriotic Duty To See A Movie This Holiday?
-I took the family to see The Interview yesterday. I bought my tickets the day before, just to make sure we got in. All of us wanted to go, so why take a chance on something like that? Who knows what...
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