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I'm Sorry, But I Cannot Decide Who the Winner Is
Aaaghhhhhhhh!!!!Last Sunday we announced a contest, and it was our solemn intention to choose from amongst all of the submissions supplied and help City Hall rename the mash up of the Green Committee...
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Tony Brandenburg: PUSD Gumbo
Ezra Seymour GosneyThe Sierra Madre Voting Quagmire Our vote was stolen by redistricting. I don’t believe that can be be denied. Our middle school was leveled before there was a plan to build a new...
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Sierra Madre's Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 3208 Is This Year's 4th of July...
A real 4th of JulyI can't be completely certain, but I think you guys might have finally got it done. After 3 (or has it been 4?) years of answering MaryAnn MacGillivray's call and pushing hard for our...
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Are You Hip To SMTV Channel 98 Yet?
Who you be, stranger?Things sometimes just seem to happen. And when they do you can be a bit confused by what it is you think you might be looking at. Take SMTV 98, our new TV station that I certainly...
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The Bob Matheson You Didn't Know
Matheson in his AFN t-shirtI received several emails from a Tattler reader yesterday who has been digging into the Bob Matheson situation here in Sierra Madre in hopes of digging up more information...
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Next Tuesday's PUSD Meeting: Playing the Race Card All Over Again?
Bingo.There is a certain journalistic territory that I have decided I am going to have to call Colemania. Named in honor of the Pasadena Weekly's very own Andre' Coleman, it is a place where the more...
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October 2011: Moody's Drops Sierra Madre Water Bond Rating
Mod: As the City of Sierra Madre gears up to raise our water rates for the second time in a little more than two years, it is important to remember just how poorly the folks downtown handled it last...
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Memorial Day in Sierra Madre
I received an e-mail from Duncan MacGillivray regarding the VFW's Memorial Day ceremonies tomorrow. I had asked if there was something I could post on this site to jog peoples' memories a little, and...
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We (Finally) Have A Winner!
Way back on May 12th we announced a contest designed to help create an affirmative and planetary needs compliant title for the newly created mash up of the Green Committee (previously renamed I've been...
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Wake Up! It's City Council Meeting Night!
Mayor Pro Tem* Process FatigueI'm telling you, I could use a nap myself sometimes. I can't begin to tell you of all the evenings I have drifted off into dreamland during City Council meetings. However,...
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The "Not Me!" City Council and a New Two Tiered System of Government In...
"We don't want to do this, we don't want to upzone, we don't want to be punitive - but we will do this, we will upzone, and we will be punitive." - a reader's comment last night on the City Council's...
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Tony Brandenburg: Making the Right Friends In All the Wrong Places
Renatta has her mind made upFile Under “With Friends Like These” DepartmentThe sub-districting fiasco, created by a paranoid city to fend off a lawsuit that was never filed and never would have been,...
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In Sierra Madre a Public Records Act Request is Like a Box of Chocolates
Mama always said ...You know what a PRA is, right (link)? It is a California law stating that anything you might want to find out about a government agency and what it has been up to lately is not a...
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Tony Brandenburg: The Rites of (an occasional) Spring
Just looking for a 4th ...Captain’s Log, Stardate 5.30.13The 2001 Voting Rights Act prohibits “racially polarized” elections that impair the election of minorities. Redistricting was supposed to fix...
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Sierra Madre: Once Again The Mouse That Roared
Fear our wrathIt had been a good educational week around my house. My older son, now having achieved the storied age of 13, was accepted into the Pasadena Youth Symphony Orchestra for his abilities at...
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Does Sierra Madre Have Water Schizophrenia?
On the City's website there is an announcement that you as a resident of Sierra Madre must begin restricting your use of water immediately due to the severe drought conditions that have plagued the...
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Tony Brandenburg: Oh, Pick Me! Pick Me!
Mayor McCheese longing for StellaWhere is Uncle Milton When You Need Him?On June 1, 2013, I went down to Pasadena City College to see the PUSD Board of Education special meeting for the interview of a...
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Moody's Sierra Madre Water Bond Rating Is Lower Than We've Been Told By City...
Baa1 is not A1, even with grade inflationWhen I filed my California Public Records Act (PRA) request regarding the state of our water bonds with the City of Sierra Madre folks downtown last week, what...
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It's Five-Flusher Modern Family McMansion Night @ The Planning Commission
Whopper with cheeseMost everyone is familiar with the term "four flusher" I think. According to the Urban Dictionary this is an old but venerable American term synonymous with fraudulent behavior with...
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Sierra Madre 3, McMansion Nation 0
Carter Castles take it on the chinI stayed for the whole show last night and I gotta tell you, the Planning Commission did not disappoint. The wily forces of McMansion Nation were lined up and ready to...
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