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Not Too Much Going On At Tonight's City Council Meeting
Apparently the City Council doesn't want to distract anyone too much from the important business of voting to raise your utility taxes, so they decided to not do much of anything tonight.No important...
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Arcadia McMansion Slump: Zillow Rates the Peacocktown Housing Market "COLD" -...
There is this blog from Arcadia called "Arcadia's Best." Run by some dude who now lives in Omaha, NE, it is where many decidedly naive development apologists go to post their extraordinarily clueless...
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Arcadia Weekly: PAC Contributes Heavily to Bob Harbicht’s Campaign Coffers –...
Bulldozer Bob Harbicht - Development's $26,850 puppet?Mod: We're in a "tale of two cities" situation with Arcadia right now, but with only the most subtle of differences. In Sierra Madre we can see the...
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Could This Be The One And Only 2016 Election Postcard So Far That Was Created...
There have been quite a few postcards in this election so far, but it appears that the only one that was put together and mailed out by actual Sierra Madre residents is the example we're posting here...
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The Best People Give So You Can Pay More Utility Taxes
Mod: We managed to get our mitts on the campaign donor list for the Measure UUT ballot initiative, and it is quite the who's who of the frilliest folks in the Sierra Madre community. Taxes might be for...
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Measure UUT & Sierra Madre's CalPERS Pension Debt: "Every individual...
Sierra Madre's untrue ballot initiative question? (link)Most people in town would tell you that the reason they are going to vote "Yes" on Measure UUT is because they want to save the Library, or what...
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Dearest Amy: I Found Your Nose. It Was In My Business
Mod: I get comments from time to time that suggest I somehow do not have the right to do this blog. These criticisms are often personal. I think that is because some don't actually understand the...
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Tony Brandenburg: Home, Sweet Home
This Year in ReviewI have been on an extended vacation. Well, that is not exactly true. You may recall that I am a musician in between long breaks as an educator.I went on a couple of band tours, two...
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Bulldozer Bob Harbicht's 30 Year Political Legacy: Pension Tracker Shows...
Pension Tracker is this useful tool that allows adventurous citizens to explore and confirm just how deeply sunk in CalPERS pension debt their local government agency is at this golden moment in time....
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Barry Gold's Catch 22
Courtesy of the satire page "Yes On UUT"linkMod: What follows is the latest news from the Barry Gold write-in campaign for City Council.CITY WEB SITEIn last night's update I told you that on the...
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The Sierra Madre Tattler Would Like To Thank The "Yes On Measure UUT"...
Sometime around the second week of March the "Yes On Measure UUT" campaign, inspired no doubt by the towering genius of its proud Pasadena resident campaign manager, decided to spend a few thousand...
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Sierra Madre Sheriff Contract Proposal Committee Member Don Handley Comes...
Mod: An important letter appeared on the Pasadena Star News website yesterday (link). You recall Don Handley, right? He served on the Sheriff Contracting Proposal Committee along with Glenn Lambdin,...
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Do The "YES" Campaign's Internal Polling Numbers Show That Measure UUT Is In...
Street fire.We have not yet been able to get a look at what the Yes On Measure UUT's rumored internal polling looks like. That these folks have money enough to do polling at all is kind of astonishing...
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Arcadia's Mr. Sensitivity Bob Harbicht Speaks Out On Behalf Of ... "Retarded...
To view Bob's video click here.When you get right down to it, Bob Harbicht, the 30-year City Council retread and willing puppet of predatory developers in Arcadia, is just not all that sensitive a...
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CHINAWEEK Shocker: The Return Of Johnny GemCoins?
When John Wuo suddenly resigned from his Arcadia City Council seat early last October, he pretty much disappeared from view. Facing an entire rash of difficult legal challenges, the former Mayor of...
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Concerned Sierra Madre Resident: Here's 4 of the Biggest Whoppers from the...
You say: “Give it to me straight.” Meaning: I want to hear the truth. Unfortunately, and with the sorts of individuals making up the YES On Measure UUT crowd, that just ain’t gonna happen. There are...
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Concerned Sierra Madre Resident: Is the SMPD Union Trying to Buy The Measure...
It makes sense, I guess. “SMPD Security”, formerly known as the Sierra Madre Police Department before 9 of its 20 officers ran for the hills thus requiring it to be a “daylight hours only” police...
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Is Democracy Dead In Sierra Madre?
Every once in a while someone leaves a comment on this blog that gives me much to think about. Not that a lot of the comments people leave on this blog are not thought provoking and important, because...
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Would A Community-Wide Lottery For Selecting City Council Members Work Better...
And the winner is ...Mod: With the Sierra Madre City Council election coming up next Tuesday it might be as good a time as any to ask this question. Would we be better off choosing a City Council...
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Are "Yes On Measure UUT" People Paranoid Lunatics?
Anti-government political militants?There is a howlingly large amount of paranoiac fear tactics being pushed by the Pasadena political consultant managing the "Yes on Measure UUT" efforts for...
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