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Sierra Madre City Council Special Meeting On The Budget
-This budget agenda item was supposed to be discussed at the City Council meeting a week ago Tuesday. However, the baffling and frankly dangerous resistance by Mayor Harabedian and Councilman Goss to...
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Sierra Madre's New Director of Planning and Community Preservation Was Until...
Secret Hire? Vincent Gonzalez(Mod: I have updated this post as more info came in. The City Council was not told about this hire. Elaine kept it a big secret. The result being Sierra Madre has now hired...
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The Boyle Heights - Sierra Madre Connection
Not how we do it, but cool anyway.Here is an example of irony at its finest, and an example that you might only find in Sierra Madre due to the vast disconnect between the people living here and...
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Pasadena Star News: Housing mandates conflict with water restrictions
(Mod: My Sunday "every other week" column in today's Pasadena Star News deals with two favorite Tattler topics at once, water and mandated development. They're connected of course, though maybe one of...
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What Exactly Are Community Budget Outreach Meetings?
-They can also be called Community Input Meetings, and some are coming soon. But what exactly are they? I mean, what are they really? From conversations I had over the weekend they appear to be an...
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One Mayor Walks In, And Another Mayor Walks Out
All glory is fleeting.I am not sure this will quite live up to the Mad Max Thunderdome sounding title of this post, but it is fairly edgy nonetheless. Due to a longstanding tradition here in Sierra...
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So Exactly Who Are Goss And Harabedian's Mysterious No Show McMansion Men?
-"The highlight of the evening, if you can call it that, was after Denise nominated Capoccia for Mayor, Arizmendi seconded. Harabedian then nominated Goss to be Mayor Pro Tem (since he got the most...
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Is Anyone Familiar With This Sierra Madre Rescue Dog Rumor?
-I always feel a little proud when this blog is the first place to report on an important story. Nothing is more fun than breaking some real news to the people who want it. This is what gives readers a...
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Is It Just Me, Or Does City Hall's List Of Vincent Gonzalez's...
Let there be revenue enhancements!As you are well aware, we dote upon conspiracy theories here at The Tattler. Actually, we also enjoy making them up. In a city where cotton candy press releases are...
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Has A New Kind Of McMansion Driven Land Grab Now Reached Sierra Madre?
-I received a scan of the following idiosyncratic piece of snail mail from a good friend yesterday evening. It is an interesting and timely little document, and I thought I should share it with you...
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Post "Fight Of The Century" Tattler Sunday News Review
-(Mod: As I am sure you know by now, Floyd Mayweather defeated Manny Paquiao in the only professional boxing championship that anyone has cared about in years. When was the last time you thought about...
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Tuesday's Special City Council Meeting: Dealing With Jerry Brown's Water...
-“If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.”― Oscar WildeIn case you were not aware there is a "Special City Council" meeting taking place tomorrow night. The...
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Is There Anyone Here Who Believes That City Hall's Budget Outreach Meetings...
-"Following the recommendation in the staff's agenda report, the City Council added an ordinance to the municipal code that bans common sense in city government. The council's action formalizes a...
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Last Night's City Council Meeting Really Was Special
Water use remains a big concernI guess that is why it took place outside of the normal "every other Tuesday" order for City Council meetings. The reason for this being there really is a whole lot that...
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Mater Dolorosa Developer New Urban West Calls It Quits
The dream is over.Just about a year ago today we first heard about New Urban West and their hope of being the developer that would soon build 50 some odd 3,999 square foot homes on a large swathe of...
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Robert Fellner: Southern California Water District Paid $42,942 For A Single...
We're now #2.Mod: Somebody has finally broken our record. Back in March of 2014 The Tattler shared with a stunned city that at $37,815 per annum Sierra Madre had at that moment the single highest...
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The Tattler Follows Up On Some Big Recent News Stories
-There has been a lot happening lately, so much so that we've lost track of some of the news we had been following. I figured that today would probably be as good a time as any to follow up on a few...
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Pasadena Star News: Has The Fix Been In On The 710 Tunnel All Along?
-There is a heavily used bureaucratic term that reveals more than intended. It is called "The Process," and for many who have chosen to spend unremarkable lives working in the vast cloaca maxima of...
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Freedom Is Not About Trampling On The Rights Of Your Next Door Neighbors
-The big deal at tomorrow's City Council meeting is yet another crack at the same thing that was discussed at the previous couple of City Council meetings. Yes, it does seem like this one has been...
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Councilman Goss's Secret Correspondence: The Results From The Tattler Public...
You got mail!As you may recall, it was after Gene Goss had proclaimed before God and City Council a few weeks back that he had been receiving a lot of messages and complaints from unidentified sources...
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