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Tax Politics: The City Manager Changes Her Tune About Halloween On Alegria
Let there be taxes!There apparently was quite a flurry of activity downtown yesterday as many residents voiced strong concerns about what appeared to be a law enforcement pull out from Sierra Madre's...
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Arcadia Is Certainly A Wild And Wonderful Place
As you are aware I am certain (or perhaps you are not aware and I only think you are), we expanded our area of coverage a few months back from Sierra Madre alone to now include Arcadia and Pasadena....
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How Much Of Sierra Madre's Failure To Reach Its State Water Use Reduction...
There is a Special Meeting of the City Council tomorrow evening at City Hall, and it deals with one agenda item only (link). The Agenda Report goes by this rather ominous sounding title:As you can...
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Big Questions for Tonight's City Council Special Meeting on Water Conservation
-Sierra Madre's water conservation problems are due to pipe leaks and shoddy infrastructure. Blaming the residents is BS. - Reader comment 10/18We had a pretty lively conversation about this here...
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Desperation & Deception: Sierra Madre Makes Plans To Spend $2.3 Million...
Raging waters.It was a pretty sobering meeting, though I can think of one premise cited throughout the evening that probably wasn't quite as correct as it should have been. That being water loss...
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If METRO Doesn't Kill the SR 710 Tunnel Should We Kill LA County Sales Tax...
-(Mod: Great rundown by Sylvia Plummer of a very interesting situation developing with METRO, the 710 Tunnel and a sales tax increase ballot initiative called Measure R2. Something I personally will...
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Arcadia Weekly: Will Arcadia Taxpayers Dump Their UUT?
-(Mod: There was a very good Joe Taglieri article on the move to dump the UUT in Arcadia published in the Arcadia Weekly last week. I am reposting it here today. Since the move to do away with utility...
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Why Would You Even Want To Go To This Meeting?
-"Here is what you need to know about the Sheriff's proposal. And what this committee will not tell you. First, it will save the city $800k a year. That is 10% of our general fund. That money can be...
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Saving Arcadia: The Arcadia City Council Meeting Report
Mickey Segal: Not backed by an amber mine.Tuesday’s City Council meeting saw a surprising and much needed shift in the alignment of power in Arcadia with the appointment of Mickey Segal to fill the...
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The Politics Behind Moving Sierra Madre's Elections From April To November
-Traditionally Sierra Madre has always held its municipal elections in April. This has served the community well over the years because it has helped to focus the minds of the voters on the often...
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The Promised Water Infrastructure Repairs That Never Happened - Plus...
-As you are already aware I am sure, in the past the City of Sierra Madre was not quite on the level about the reasons why it was raising water rates as it should have been. What residents were told...
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The Sheriff's Contract Proposal Review Committee Did Exactly As It Was Told
-Probably about as ugly a City Hall confab as you would ever want to see in this town. Much was made about this meeting not being broadcast on TV, but to be perfectly honest, perhaps it is better that...
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The Most Important Reason For Going With The L.A. Sheriff's Department Still...
P.D. WuvIt was great fun watching Mayor Capoccia sink the specious arguments of Sheriff Contract Committee Poobah Glen Lambdin last night. Especially his nonsensical and frankly dishonest claim that...
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Halloween On E. Alegria: Does The City Have This Or Not?
Scary!As you may recall, earlier this month we busted City Hall over what appeared to be its abandonment of the East Alegria Halloween festivities, an event that attracts an estimated 10,000 people to...
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Robert Fellner: What’s really driving CalPERS contribution rates higher and...
-Mod: Great article from our guy Robert Fellner that originally ran in the Los Angeles Daily News (link). There are those who think we want to jettison the Sierra Madre PD because we just don't like...
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Tony Brandenburg - Halloween: The Night He Came Home (to Sierra Madre)
-Sierra Madre has been a locale used for some very ... interesting films. From Invasion of the Body Snatchers, to Halloween, to The Worm Eaters. Sierra Madre, bask in your cinematic glory!Kersting...
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Sierra Madre's Water Woes: Who Are The Dirty Thirty?
-It looks like City Hall is rounding up all of the usual suspects. Or perhaps they're the unusual suspects because they haven't been rounded up before, and nobody but the municipal authors of this...
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Pat Holland's Brave Letter Regarding The Outrageous Behavior Of Some...
-In all fairness, there have been a couple of interesting Letters to the Editor of the Mountain Views News published lately. Including the following from Sierra Madre resident Pat Holland regarding the...
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Leaked Secret Internal Report Portrays So Cal Edison As An...
SCE: A bad day at work.This secret internal report, titled "Workplace Culture and Climate Assessment," was prepared by an independent mental health consultant group (referred to in the report as an...
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The Henry A. Darling House Is Back In The Bull's Eye
=(Mod: The apparently always at-risk Henry A. Darling home is back in the news, and once again before the Planning Commission. The following went out from Preserve Sierra Madre Tuesday.)Dear...
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