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Does Anybody Know What Methodology Is Used For Codifying City Of Sierra Madre...
-I've been puzzled about this one for quite some time, yet I have never asked the question here. What methodology (or rubric if you prefer that term) was put into place to organize information searches...
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Does Metro Want Men To Cross Their Legs While Riding The Gold Line?
-This one would have to be considered quite unbelievable under normal circumstances, except that you should never see it like that. There is very little in this world that is not believable if you...
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How Would You Like To Oversee A Few Hundred Million Dollars In PUSD Measure...
Pretty much how it gets doneHere is an opportunity to get involved in something interesting that just might make a real difference. That is, if you are a really hard-nosed noodge about it. Apparently...
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Los Angeles City Hall Corruption Leads To The Destruction Of The...
Ain't I special?(Mod: The following article is up on the City Watch site, and it details a classic example of how big money and political influence peddling can lead to the destruction of historic...
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Bigger Than Bell: $6.4 Million Embezzled From Pasadena
How'd they get all that money past Burger Boy?I'm telling you, the place is in some kind of crazy fiduciary mess. The Pasadena Unified School District and its missing Measure Y and Measure TT bond...
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The Fight Against McMansionization Is Everywhere Now
Beverly Grove or Camillo Road?Mod: I was trying without much success to find the right article to kick 2015 off with, and then as if by magic I received the following from a friend who has sent me so...
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Tattler Exclusive: Pasadena City Hall Employee Tells All
Parson Danny "Fingers" WootenMod: A little piece of luck here. I have scored a no holds barred interview with someone intimately acquainted with the current woeful goings-on at Pasadena City Hall. Why...
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Robert Fellner: San Diego Police Department losing most officers to lucrative...
Money to burn?Mod: 2015 is shaping up to be quite a year, with many interesting challenges facing those working to bring governmental sanity to the Foothill Village. An issue that has been a problem...
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What Happened to the John Ellins vs. Marilyn Diaz Case?
Ellins: Shiny eyed and lawyered upAs we should know by now, the wheels of justice do not turn very quickly. And as far as I can tell, in the case of the legal imbroglio between former Sierra Madre...
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Are Development Impact Fees A Form Of Bribery?
A guy has gotta earn, you know.We have all heard this story many times. Development Impact Fees are how the City of Sierra Madre recoups its costs for new development. Water main hook-ups, sewer...
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Live Blogging: Pasadena City Hall "The Embezzlement Show Trial" Starring...
Somebody is in trouble!We are here tonight because you just don't get to see many shows like this in the local government realm. The excitement is due to roll out at 5PM, though there may be some...
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Will The City Council Shut Down 'Loophole Housing' At Tonight's Special Meeting?
Does your new neighbor have big metal teeth?There was a very special addition tagged onto tonight's City Council Special Meeting. That being the discussion of a Moratorium on Residential Demolition...
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An Ordinance For A Moratorium On Residential Demolition Permits Moves Forward
Illustration provided by the Sierra Madre Society for the Preservation of 1950s California HomesInteresting meeting last night. Apparently there were 14 home demolition permits issued in 2014, with 4...
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So Where Does The Buck Stop In Pasadena?
Parson Danny Ray Wooten's Halo of HolyThe underlying theme of the Special Meeting held Monday evening at Pasadena City Hall was, of course, blame assigning. Who exactly is to blame for the 11 years of...
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Sierra Madre 'One Of The 10 Safest Places In California' Is In The Throes Of...
One way to get PD attentionI don't know if you get over to the City of Sierra Madre Facebook page much. I hadn't been there in a while, but somebody kindly pointed the following item out to me. Perhaps...
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Why The City Of Sierra Madre Needs A Moratorium On Demolition Permits Right...
xxxxxxxxx Candidate for Demolition: The Henry A. Darling House @ 126 E. Mira Monte xxxxxxxxxTwo days ago, on January 8th to be exact, the City of Sierra Madre Planning & Community Preservation...
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Barbarians At The Gate: One Carter's Developers Want McMansions Galore
Best stink eye ever.At Tuesday evening's City Council meeting there will be a showdown between the City of Sierra Madre and the developer that goes by the acronym CETT. This over the first home slated...
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Are We At The Point Where CETT Sues Sierra Madre Yet?
Bad Kitty demonstrating McMansion developer ethics.We had over 160 comments on this blog over the weekend. The topic on both days was preserving Sierra Madre and holding off what we have come to call...
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Pasadena Star News: Sierra Madre Developer Turns to City Council for Approval...
McDonald: He'd hoped for a better outcome.(Mod: Well, here's a scoop for you. CETT Lawyer Richie McDonald ispredicting a defeat for the mighty McMansioneers tonight ... So what's up? The media is...
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Jan. 13: Live Blogging Tonight's City Council Meeting
(Mod: I tried this at the Jan 5th Pasadena City Council "special meeting" on the $6.4 million dollar embezzlement scandal, and it worked pretty well. I am going to post my comments here with the time I...
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