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Monday's Special City Council Meeting On The UUT Isn't Quite What You Might...
Sierra Madre's Historic Tax DecreaseIn case you are not yet aware, there is a Special Meeting of the City Council coming up this Monday. The topic is Utility User Taxes. As you do know I'm sure, the...
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Planning Commission Main Event: The Return of CETT
Adele ChangTonight the CETT Circus is back in town with yet another of its proposed hillside homes. There is already quite a history in town with CETT, and this does have the feel of a rematch. Here is...
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Planning Commission Meeting: The Toaster Gets Popped
The Toaster.We've taken to calling the new Adele Chang design for One Carter"The Toaster," mostly because it sort of looks like one. Or maybe a toaster oven, perhaps even a microwave. Or, as one...
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Pasadena Star News: Arcadia’s fight against upscale blight of mansionization
Mod: Just a remarkable editorial from the Pasadena Star News yesterday. Longtime Tattler readers will recall a time when there was no press in favor of slow growth, and the foremost daily in our little...
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Preservationists Try to Sway Monks to Their Cause: Religious order wants to...
-(Mod: Just so everyone is aware, the following Los Angeles Times article was originally published in 1992.)Preservationists Try to Sway Monks to Their Cause: Religious order wants to raze...
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"Chinese Daily USA" is a Publication Owned by Arcadia City Councilmember Sho...
It has become the opinion of some close observers of the GemCoin financial scandal in Arcadia that much of this was originally conducted in order to create a significant amount of investment capital...
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Last Night's Special City Council Meeting Was Yet Another Bad One For Bruce...
Just mailing it in?You have to wonder if perhaps Bruce Inman is asking, in a round about and rather passive aggressive way, to be retired. And if that is the case, judging by the frustrated reactions...
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Sierra Madre: Despite Your Votes to the Contrary, Are You Still Paying 10%...
-The residents of Sierra Madre have twice voted themselves a Utility User Tax (UUT) cut. The first time was in 2012, and the second 2014. This had to be done twice because, as you likely know, City...
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Arcadia City Councilmember Sho Tay Holds A Community Outreach Meeting On...
Show time with Sho TayAs Arcadia faces resident driven lawsuits and ballot initiatives designed to curb McMansion development there, the City Hall Empire is now attempting to strike back. City...
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LA School Report.com: Nearly 100 LAUSD email accounts tied to Ashley Madison...
-Mod: The LA School Report blog (link), which focuses almost exclusively on the Los Angeles Unified School District, did an "Ashley Madison" search on all of the LAUSD email accounts and other...
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City Manager Dominic Lazzarretto Attempts Stop The Bad Press Arcadia City...
Big boys do cry.There is blaming the messenger, and then there is going to the messenger's boss and complaining about that messenger. The latter apparently being the preferred method for Arcadia City...
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Arcadia Association of Realtors Pol Chief Chip Ahlswede Takes Some Credit for...
-Long time residents of Sierra Madre are sure to be familiar with Chip Ahlswede. Chip was one of the political wunderkind who ran the "No on Measure V" campaign here, and despite $170,000 in...
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It's Sierra Madre's First Ever McGranny Mansion Mystery!
Behold! The mysterious rising of Sierra Madre's ever McGranny Mansion, complete with elevator.Today's post involves a most unlikely twist on the old Granny Flat concept. As many readers here will...
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More Arcadia Johnny Wuo Woe? Angry Protesters In Ontario California Shut Down...
Protesters in Ontario did something Arcadia City Hall won't.The city government of Arcadia might not have any problem with any of those alleged GemCoin ponzi schemes. And since as many as a pair of...
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John Wuo Was Absent From Last Night's Arcadia City Council Meeting. Can This...
John Wuo & Steve ChenDavid Arvisu spoke from the podium at last night's City Council meeting in Arcadia. He had a document to present to the denizens of City Hall that exposed Councilmember Johnny...
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Save Arcadia Highlands.com Video Nails Roger Chandler
-As most anyone who saw Tuesday evening's Arcadia City Council meeting will tell you, the performance put on by Roger Chandler was both seriously incoherent and senseless.Basic logic went flying out...
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Behind MLM.com: Is USFIA tied to Options Giant Ponzi scheme?
(Mod: As you know, USFIA is the Arcadia-based company that has become somewhat famous (or infamous) as the creator and marketer for the amber mine backed crypto-currency known as "GemCoins" (link). The...
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So Who Were these People Who Wanted Sierra Madre To Have The Highest Utility...
-The strategically placed very last item on the agenda for next Tuesday's City Council meeting deals with the so-called Community Input Meetings that were held in Sierra Madre last May and June. The...
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Marvin Weese Home: Slated For Destruction?
A pattern we have seen beforeHere we go again, everyone. Think the Henry A. Darling home, Part 2, but with a clearly intact history that goes to the heart of what Sierra Madre is, and many hope will...
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Councilmember Sho Tay's Arcadia Outreach Meeting: Was it Really Just a Q&A?
Pinocchio Sho?At the most recently held Arcadia City Council meeting, Councilmember Sho Tay claimed that the get-together he had recently hosted was just a "Q&A" held to answer the questions of...
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