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Sierra Madre Weekly: Sierra Madre Police Department Seeks Outside Help -...
Mod: Good article from Terry Miller at the Sierra Madre Weekly on the city's crisis de jour. It hit their website yesterday and has yet to be published in the paper edition, which is distributed on...
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KCAL9 News: Sierra Madre Residents Worry About Police Officer Shortage - (And...
Mod: Kind of a vanilla "TV News Lite" report on what is up with the mass SMPD cop exodus. A pretty typical representation of why local television news isn't all that good. But at least the word is...
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Was This The Beginning Of The End For The Sierra Madre Police Department?
Mod: I originally posted this back in 2009. I believe it still quite accurately depicts what the capitulation of Mayor Enid Joffe to the SMPOA cost this city. I also believe it called what all of this...
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City Hall Will Spend Upwards Of $10,000 To Send Out "Nonpartisan" Utility Tax...
"That is a very good question. Once we contract out 100% to LA Sheriff Dept., any and all suits about police would be handled by the LASD Attorneys. Less billable hours for City Attorney Highsmith and...
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The Policing Agreement With Arcadia Gets Pushed To Another Day
If you stayed up late last night to watch the City Council decide whether or not to hire the Arcadia Police Department to patrol the now apparently defenseless late night streets of Sierra Madre, well,...
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Bloomberg Business: The Surge in U.S. Mansion Prices Is Now Over (McMansions...
"Mysterious and spooky"Mod: One of the big myths coming out of Arcadia these days is that all those Addams FamilyMcMannies being built there are somehow creating extraordinary amounts of wealth, and...
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Is Sierra Madre News.net's Bill Coburn Math Challenged?
Remedial ciphering required?There is a Facebook page in town that goes by the name of "Sierra Madre." It is a place where you can often find some of this city's more innocent folks posting their...
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Arcadia Police Night Patrols In Sierra Madre Are On The Arcadia City Council...
Coming soon to a street near you.It happened. And Arcadia's staff report for this issue, wordily titled "TEMPORARY MUNICIPAL LAW ENFORCEMENT SERVICES AGREEMENT WITH THE CITY OF SIERRA MADRE FOR THE...
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Bob Loewen: How Government Unions Are Destroying California
Mod: There is a lot of nonsense out there about why Sierra Madre needs to raise its utility taxes by 66%, giving this town one of the Top 5 UUTs in all of California. The latest canard being floated by...
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A Resident Letter to the MVN's Susan Henderson - Plus Court Cop Flop: John...
I don't know if you read the Mountain Views News, but there was a very heated front page article published there over the weekend. It actually suggested that City Hall may have been engaged in a major...
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Bulldozer Bob Harbicht and the Arcadia Crime Wave
Arcadia Crime WaveThere are two very big issues in the Arcadia City Council election. One is mansionization, and Bulldozer Bob has been a consistent force for promoting what has become the least...
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Arcadia's City Council Unanimously Votes Down Sierra Madre's Request For...
Hat in hand.As predicted a couple of times here on The Tattler, the City of Arcadia has no extra police to spare for patrolling the now defenseless late night streets of Sierra Madre. And because of...
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Pasadena Star News Editorial: Sierra Madre Should Explore Policing By The...
Mod: Big editorial today in the Pasadena Star News advising the City of Sierra Madre to take a long hard look at bringing in the Sheriffs. Linkhere to the PSN site.Mod: The big question: When will...
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Has The Mayor Now Changed His Message On The Policing Crisis In Sierra Madre?
The word coming out of City Hall is now apparently changing, and as such it is quickly becoming even more difficult than usual to figure out exactly what the real situation might be. As a review, here...
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City Hall Blinks? The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Could Be On The...
CelebrateYou know, it would have made it easier for everyone concerned if City Hall had just done the most logical and sensible thing right out of the box. But what fun would that have been? Watching...
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Anais Nin Is Probably The Most Famous Person To Ever Live In Sierra Madre
Above is a picture of the house that Anais Nin called home when she lived in Sierra Madre. The world famed authoress spent a significant amount of time here, something that has been almost completely...
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The Salisian Affair: Why Building Without Going To The Planning Commission...
Mod: We have two videos today that should kick this off nicely. The response from the Planning Commission is the second, and it is one of those golden moments we all treasure from this city's first...
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Tonight's City Council Meeting Is Loaded With Excitement
A California SongbirdI covered the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department versus the Sierra Madre Police Department issue pretty much to death. It certainly was a fun enough ride, but there isn't much left...
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A Really Confusing Thing We Heard Again Last Night About The Police Staffing...
"Seinfeld once said that due to turnover on sports teams people are really rooting for the uniforms. That's just like people who love the SMPD. They love the uniforms, not the chubby little bellies...
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The Los Angeles Times Ranks Sierra Madre Among California's Worst Performing...
No golf courses in Sierra Madre.For quite some time now residents in Sierra Madre have been asking their water department to provide figures that would show just how much water is being lost to all of...
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