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Is Reni Rose A "McMansion Realtor?" Question Answered.
On Thursday we were discussing the colorful recent history of the Henry A. Darling house at 126 E. Mira Monte Avenue. Or at least that is what this 108 year old home had been called. The Realtor (did...
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The World's Largest Flowering Plant Patiently Explains The Correct Spelling...
Wistaria plant to the world: "Deal with it."(Mod: Please note - The Wistaria plant is not a happy camper even on his best day. Anything we have gotten from him in the past has always been irascible and...
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Pasadena: Low Information Voter Capital Of California?
I'm not sure why it is a city such as Pasadena can hold an election for Mayor and only get a turnout of less than, well, OK. Let's figure that out. No news source in the area has done it yet, so this...
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Save The Arcadia Highlands Files a Complaint Against the City of Arcadia.
Save the Arcadia Highlands has now filed a complaint against the City of Arcadia. This is being done in hopes of halting the imminent threatened encroachment of the kinds of aggressive mansionization...
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A Sierra Madre Resident Reports On Her Tour Of The Henry A. Darling Home
(Mod: One adventurous reader and her husband took a tour of the Henry A. Darling house over the weekend. She then sent me the following report. I thought it was pretty darned good work and I am posting...
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Pasadena Star News: Activists Sue Arcadia Over 2 Residential Development...
(Mod: We cop a lot of stuff from the Pasadena Star News, so it is always a pleasure when we beat them to the punch on a story (link). This article deals with the Highlands lawsuit filed against the...
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Sylvia Plummer and the Fight to Stop the 710 Tunnel
Draft EIR depiction of 710 Tunnel ventilation stacks, with sign added.(Mod: Sylvia Plummer sends out these extraordinary e-mails detailing the latest in the fight against the 710 Tunnel. They are...
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City Manager Report: You Have A Tax Cut Coming July 1st
As I am certain everyone knows, it took turning down Utility User Tax increase ballot measures twice to get us to this point, and you are finally going to receive the first increment of this tax cut on...
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Why is Arcadia Chamber Prexy Scott Hettrick Getting So Snotty With the Save...
He seemed friendlyEvery city has their full quota of windy establishment types. People who honk noisily in defense of any favored fat cats or special interests not being treated with proper deference...
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Robert Fellner: City Report Confirms LADWP Pay Highest Among Peers Both...
(Mod: Transparent California's Robert Fellner researched and wrote a blockbuster of an expose' about just how much more employees of the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power get paid than anyone...
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Tonight's World Turned Upside Down City Council Meeting
What's upside down?This is probably one of the more unusual City Council meetings to come along in quite some time. Rather than having the closed session with the City Attorney at the beginning of the...
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Hilarious Star News Article: Water Board Member Caught Being A Water Rat
Mod: When government officials get caught doing stupid things, it is of interest to us all. Bringing the mighty down to the level of their actual deeds is an enjoyable way to spend some time, and we...
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City Council Meeting Review and Commentary
Mod: With the exception of both the City Council and Attorney, nobody really knows what went down with all of that behind closed doors legal stuff Tuesday evening. Which was also the lion's share of...
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All The Friday News That Will Fit Onto A Single Blog Page
(Mod: People send me newspaper and on-line website articles all the time, and some of them are very insightful and a good read. Others are shocking and need to be shared here as well. If I had the...
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City Council Candidate Tyron Hampton: Pasadena Weekly Columnist André Coleman...
Tyron HamptonYesterday we received the following statement from the Tyron Hampton campaign:Some background in case you are not aware. André Coleman writes the government and politics affairs column for...
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Washing Down Your Tax Hike With Some Yellow Water
If you were to read the Mountain Views News this weekend, you might think that City Hall was responding to a post we made last week about yellow water and the danger to children from nitrification....
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Why The Monastery And Stone House Projects Are Likely To Be On Hold For Years
Yesterday was an enjoyable Sunday because I got to spend a little time basking in the warm wifi of a beloved local coffee shop researching some of the more recent and beneficial Sierra Madre water use...
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Round #3 Of The Almost Endless Sierra Madre Utility Tax Increase Ballot...
Every two years City Hall attempts to raise utility taxes in Sierra Madre. We're talking about 2012, 2014 and, when Mayor Harabedian gets his way, 2016. A kangaroo straight of UUT raising futility. No...
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It's April Fool's Day, So Let's Talk About California State Assemblyman Mike...
The Self-Styled Sweet Dude?Can it possibly be that California State Assemblyman Mike Gatto is the strangest elected official in Sacramento? Certainly the two anonymous blogs that many folks believe he...
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Arcadia Passes An Ordinance Protecting Sycamore Trees, So Naturally Sycamore...
Almost a week ago, Friday afternoon to be exact, people in the Arcadia Highlands area heard the sound of trees being cut down. The address where all of this was happening was 1243 Highland Oaks, which...
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