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Is Bailey Canyon Wilderness Park Becoming Sierra Madre's Very Scary Place?
So here is a kind of serious question. And I never ask kind of serious questions except when I absolutely have to do it. So you know. Has Bailey Canyon Wilderness Park begun to take on certain morbid...
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Goodness Gracious Me. It is the Return of Chip Ahlswede
Chip points to the old blockWe're going to go a little deep here. Those who have been with The Tattler from way back in the early days might recall a political operative named Chip Ahlswede. Chip was...
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Who Actually Controls The Arcadia's Best Blog? The Answer Could Surprise You
Win, Place or Sho Tay?Way back on June 25th we had the temerity to post an article here that asked this question: Is the "Arcadia's Best" Blog In the Pocket of Development and Government Interests?...
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Great Interview with Rachelle Arizmendi on the Brad Pomerance Show
Link to videohere.The consensus in Sierra Madre is that Rachelle Arizmendi is quickly becoming one of the best City Councilmembers we have seen here in quite a while. There have been some notable...
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Is Southern California Edison Ripping Off Anti-Solar Power Sierra Madre?
From the video "Edison Hates Rooftop Solar" (link)It is kind of funny, or at least it is in an unfunny sort of way. Sierra Madre, which had city leadership that for years proudly proclaimed itself to...
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Athens Services Contract Leads To Lawsuit For Bribery ... Plus: Mountain...
It's a dirty businessMod: A news site called Western Journalism has an interesting article about up about Athens Services, the company that collects trash in Sierra Madre. The article speculates about...
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According to the Los Angeles Times Sierra Madre Actually Did Hit Its Water...
-During some of the recent City Council deliberations on the matter of rehiring the water rate rascals at Raftelis Financial Consultants, much was made by staff about the supposed inability of Sierra...
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How to Apply for a Job on the Sierra Madre Police Department!
Can you wear the blue?The reputation Sierra Madre City Hall has these days is they don't care to hire anyone from the Foothill Village to fill any of its available jobs. Often the recruitment...
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Special Neighbor Update: The Passionist Fathers Invite You To Share In the...
Special Neighbors take note.They're back. After managing to lure only 8 Realtors to their previous promotional shindig at Mater Dolorosa, most of whom were plainly opposed to the building of abundant...
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Should Sierra Madre Join the Move to Dump the SGVCOG?
-There is an interesting article up on the Pasadena Star News news site today about a move by some area cities to abandon the San Gabriel Valley Council Of Governments and start a "COG" of their very...
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Two Dragon Eyes: Buy GemCoin & Leap Your Profit Now!
Gem King?Someone kindly sent me the following slide presentation, which was largely constructed around a very odd GemCoin symposium held at the Arcadia strip mall headquarters of USFIA last March....
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Trash Wars
Lawyer BrandtA few days back I posted an article called "Athens Services Contract Leads To Lawsuit For Bribery." The purpose of the article was to highlight a story about a bribery lawsuit somehow...
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Who Hid the 1 Carter Peek-A-Boo Sign From Public View?
Where oh where is the sign?If the residents of Sierra Madre cannot depend upon the people whose salaries they fund to protect their interests, what is the point of paying them? It is bad enough that...
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Arcadia City Hall's Mansionization Mayhem Is Getting A Lot Of Troubling Ink...
A dirty bird?In rapid succession newspaper articles slamming a seemingly bought off Arcadia City Hall and its venal policies on mansionization have appeared as more people there begin speak out against...
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Behind MLM: Gem Coin Johnny Wuo accused of ethics violations over USFIA ties
Let's go to the video tape.Mod: The following article ran July 23rd on the blog Behind MLM. In light of the recent revelations regarding former Arcadia Mayor and current Councilmember John Wuo, along...
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Los Angeles Times: Latest forecast suggests 'Godzilla El Niño' may be coming...
It's been a whileSo let's see if we can't put this into perspective. After having endured the worst drought in a thousand or so years (and there isn't any clear indication that the current one is going...
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Not So Fabulous: Staff Trashes Latest Adele Chang Design
If you push the white buttons on the right, does it rewind the tape and play a tune?Well, it would appear that the CETT Circus will be back in town this coming Thursday evening, and the Planning...
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SCAQMD: 710 Freeway Tunnel would raise cancer risk to unacceptable levels
-(Mod: This article comes to us via the amazing Sylvia Plummer and her No 710 Action Committee. It confirms what we have been saying at The Tattler for a long time. The building of the 710 Tunnel...
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Arcadia Residents Will Put An Initiative On The Ballot Designed To Kill Off...
(How much is that in GemCoin?)Late last week I, along with a bunch of other local newsie types, received an e-mail announcing some pretty immense news in the ongoing fight against the McMansionization...
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Preserve Sierra Madre Lists Seven Big Accomplishments
-I don't know how much time you spend over on the Preserve Sierra Madre website (link), but there is some great information there about the many efforts being made to keep the place in one piece and...
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