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The Library, Police, Taxes and Lead In the Water
-I got a chance to watch much of last night's City Council meeting. Not a lot of surprises. I was impressed by the passion of the Library's supporters. There are many different ways to preserve this...
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Could Medical Marijuana Cultivation Save The Sierra Madre Police Department?
Sierra Madre's sales tax take is already buzz based.It has become the opinion of many that the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department will be setting up shop in Sierra Madre in the not too distant future. It...
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NASA Climatologist: El Niño Has Arrived, Will Be ‘One Storm After Another...
Canyon mudflow in 2009Mod: Since El Nino has now officially replaced Dr. Helene Baribeau as the designated savior of Sierra Madre during its time of water travails, I figured we should start talking...
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Reason.com: Occidental Professors Voting to Give Students Power to Report...
Has this man been thinking bad thoughts?Mod: Things just keep getting wackier over at Eagle Rock's very own Occidental College. Apparently if you are some 19 year old beta-twerp whose daddy can afford...
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City Clerk Announces April 12 Election In Sierra Madre
Mod: I received the following Notice Of Election from Nancy Shollenberger yesterday afternoon. Nancy, as you might have already known, is not running for reelection. In addition to next April's...
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Standard & Poor's May 1, 1998: Sierra Madre Financing Authority, CA Bonds...
-Mod: A little blast from the past. What follows is the Standard & Poor's announcement of the now notorious water bond deal the City of Sierra Madre made way back in 1998. A part of the reason why...
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Does Anyone Know What Is Happening In Monrovia?
Mod: We have some crazy times going on in Monrovia. According to the two reports we're posting below, it could be that Monrovia is in some kind of terrible financial bind. Is it salaries? Pensions?...
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October Water Conservation Numbers: Do You Really Think It Is All About...
-There are a lot of local cities on the list for October. Pasadena, Arcadia and Monrovia are right in there with Sierra Madre. I mean, it could be worse. Just look at Perris.But this has got to be...
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The Planning Commission Will Rule On Sierra Madre Medical Marijuana Shops...
Coming soon to downtown Sierra Madre?A week ago we posted a tongue in cheek article about the possibility of medical marijuana clinics coming to Sierra Madre. The notion being that this would be a...
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Sierra Madre Weekly: Sierra Madre City Clerk Nancy Sue Shollenberger to End...
Mod: Here is a nice article from the Sierra Madre Weekly (link) discussing Nancy Shollenberger's retirement from the Sierra Madre City Clerk job. She is in the process of setting up next April's...
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The CalPERS Agenda Item Up For Discussion At Tuesday Evening's Sierra Madre...
-At Tuesday's City Council meeting the long awaited big discussion about CalPERS is scheduled for the enlightenment of all. Courtesy of Councilmember Denise Delmar, who asked the Mayor to agendize this...
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SMPD: "Prohibition On Alternative Law Enforcement Service Providers" Petition...
Mod: Yesterday the following public notice appeared in Sierra Madre's adjudicated weekly newspaper, the Mountain Views News. When you couple this with both the raise the UUT and abolish the UUT...
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Mayor Capoccia and Mayor Pro Tem Goss's Argument In Favor Of Raising Utility...
-Now perhaps I am wrong, but doesn't the City of Sierra Madre (along with every other city in California) have to provide info on all of the topics to be discussed at a City Council meeting 72 hours...
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The Reckoning: Is Sierra Madre Close To Insolvency?
-Mod: I received the following e-mail yesterday afternoon. The author is an accountant who specializes in governmental financial affairs. He titled his e-mail "The Reckoning," and it is all about...
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Nearly 60% of Los Angeles-area city workers collected at least $100,000 in...
(Clickhere for the table of average wages in Los Angeles County cities.)Click here for median income information.Transparent California's website is linkedhere.Really stupid crooksMod: I don't know if...
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Murky Water, Hedge Funds, and No Public Safety Committee Meeting Tonight
Run.The post Dr. Hélène Baribeau era has now begun here in Sierra Madre, and the City's vaunted Water Department is today embarking on a new strategy designed to take the yellow out of the Sierra Madre...
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More CalPERS Mania: Are Pasadena City College's Pension Liabilities Driving...
-As we were talking about just the other day, under Governmental Accounting Standards Board No. 68 (GASB), government agencies will soon be required to record a “net pension liability” on their balance...
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CalPERS/GASB Debt Numbers and Facts: Sierra Madre, Arcadia and Pasadena
-We've been writing on and off this week about the big news that cities such as Sierra Madre, Arcadia and Pasadena will soon have to put their unfunded pension obligations and debt data on all of their...
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Earl Ritchie and His Merry Band of NO UUT Canvassers Asked John Capoccia to...
Did not wish to sign.Well, this wasn't really Earl Ritchie's doing. It was one of the guys in Earl's door knocking brigade. But he was there, which means Earl had the opportunity to both witness the...
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New York Times: Most California Sex Offender Parolees Exempt From Ban
How the CA-RSOL likes to see itself.Mod: This is a follow-up on a topic we have discussed here in the past. Apparently the court victory for an organization called California Reform Sex Offender Laws...
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