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People Get Together And They Do Have Their Meetings
It's good to be the KingBeing the Mayor does make quite a difference. When John Harabedian was still holding down that gig he always had the option of yanking a Consent Calendar item from its hiding...
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Is Sierra Madre To Be A Chloramine Water City Forever?
-At Tuesday evening's City Council meeting the topic of Chloramines and the blending of Sierra Madre's native water with the stuff being piped in from the Metropolitan Water District was given long...
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John Harabedian and the 30,000 Square Foot Mystery
-We here at The Tattler like nothing better than a good mystery. Actually, the only thing we like better is solving those mysteries. Which we can do every once in a while. I mean, why not?In this case,...
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So Where Does All Of Sierra Madre's Money Go? Plus: Arcadia Nailed On Brown...
-The Budget Input Roadshow rolls on, and maybe you've been to one of those many outreach events, or are planning on doing so soon. But if you are going, you really do need to check out the Community...
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Moody's: Sierra Madre Water Bonds Remain At Junk Level
Ba1: More bad bond news this week.Sierra Madre's water woes go deep, to use a word that might not be completely appropriate. Maybe we should say they go shallow because we don't have very much of the...
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Take The Noah Green Challenge: What Would You Cut?
Ready for the Noah Green challenge?You might recall that during the last City Council election candidate Noah Green challenged the residents of Sierra Madre to identify the things they would cut should...
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Massive Doyle - Stockley Era Water Bond Debt: Could It Cost Sierra Madre Its...
-One of the sad ironies regarding Rob Stockley's leadership in the purported fight to save Sierra Madre's Library from the budgetary chopping block goes as follows:The amount of money it will take to...
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PUSD Project Manager Frazer Thompson Has Been Booted Off The Middle School...
Now what?(Mod: The Middle School that never seems to get finished has suffered yet another setback. Project Manager Frazer Thompson, the popular and familiar spokesman for this project over the last 3...
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Oxy Moxie: Fun With the $15 An Hour Minimum Wage
-I get into these bizarre arguments over on a Facebook page called Pasadena Politics. Can't help myself really. It isn't always easy being right in a world where everyone else is wrong. And nowhere are...
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The Sierra Madre Tattler Friday News Dump
Hopefully they're not moving to ArcadiaMod: I am not quite sure where to put these news compendiums anymore. Trust me, I have been losing sleep. I used to post them on Sundays, but now I have other...
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Monday is Memorial Day - Your Attendance is Requested
McMansion Development Brown Act Lawsuit in Arcadia Mod: Here is some excerpts from an article that ran in the Pasadena Star News earlier this week.Arcadia resident may file lawsuit against city for...
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Pasadena Star News: Rose Bowl Ticketgate more ‘Far Side’ than outrage
Free tickets for fun city officials (Mod: The latest in those every other Sunday opinion pieces I am doing for the Pasadena Star News - link.)There probably isn't a more politically correct city this...
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Why Is The Sierra Madre Police Department Offering To Make The Least Amount...
-Tuesday evening's City Council meeting will be dedicated almost entirely to trying to find a way to make the budget fit into the new 6% utility tax (UUT) reality Sierra Madre is now heading towards....
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The Opposition to the Very Noisy Fire Horn Gets Louder
I don't know if you've seen this Facebook site yet, but those Sierra Madre residents who are not exactly overjoyed by that nostalgic daily blast from the past every blessed day now have a place to go...
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Is The UUT Going Back On The Ballot For A Third Time?
Round and around we go.Those two elections where the voters said NO to increasing utility taxes was apparently not enough. Now we are looking at a third attempt at raising those very same taxes. How...
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Where Are City Employee Health Care Insurance Costs In Sierra Madre Now?
-The City's health care insurance costs came up a few times in the comments yesterday, so I thought today we should look into this topic a little bit and see exactly where we are at. It never hurts to...
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Arcadia Preservationists Taking Their Case To The Voters
Today we have some pretty good news via the latest edition of the Save Arcadia newsletter.This, in addition to the Brown Act lawsuit also initiated by the Save the Arcadia Highlands folks (link), shows...
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Has This Been Your Experience With Water Waste Enforcement?
Hog Heaven(Mod: I received the following letter yesterday. After hearing a lot of talk from the city about just how serious they planned on getting about overuse of water during the millennial drought,...
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Your Tattler Sunday News and Review for May 31st
Be Water WiseMod: Another month has somehow passed us by. As far as this blog goes it was a fairly decent one. We'll finish up at 5PM today (Midnight GMT) at around 68,000 hits, more comments than I...
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So Much of the Financial Information City Hall is Putting Out is Not Very...
-Residents are being asked to help the City Council deal with Sierra Madre's budget problems, and at the June 6 "Budget Town Public Meeting" this will finally all come down. In a controlled way, of...
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