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Is It Dump Truck Diner Time At The City of Sierra Madre?
Would you like some fries with that tax increase?Since Sierra Madre residents have been dragooned into voting on a utility tax increase for an unprecedented third time in the last four years tomorrow,...
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So Sierra Madre, Did You Vote Yet?
If you are voting write-in today, and obviously you really should do that, above is the screenshot of a tip that you will not want to ignore. In addition, a comment posted here yesterday also lays the...
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Suckers After All
You? Yeah probably.So let's see. The rejection of the 12% UUT in 2012 saved Sierra Madre taxpayers $500,000 each year for 2012, 2013 and 2014.The 2014 defeat of the 10% attempted UUT cash grab saved...
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Did Development & Real Estate Interests Play A Last Minute Race Card In...
Yesterday's Pasadena Star News almost call of the Arcadia City Council race (link) has apparently been put on hold, at least for the moment. But with substantial leads for April Verlato and Peter...
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Is A Teacher Strike Coming to Sierra Madre Elementary?
Your kids might be getting a few unplanned days off from their classes, and soon. The reasons for so scary a prospect coming to our local public schools? Apparently labor negotiations have pretty much...
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Are Pasadena Unified Teacher Salaries Out Of Line With The Communities They...
Forehead sticker = dignity.Yesterday I got some gruff guff from certain unhappy folks over my comparison of PUSD teacher total compensation numbers and the median resident income figures of Sierra...
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The Most Recent E-Mail Blast From Preserve Sierra Madre
(Mod: The following email blast went out from Preserve Sierra Madre recently. I thought I should post it here as well. As is usually the case in this town, there are a number of things that most...
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Tony Brandenburg: Contemplating the Focus Point Academy (part 1)
Mod: I thought I should add an introduction to Tony Brandenburg's post because a lot of people are not going to be familiar with this topic. Focus Point Academy, which serves as a kind of...
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More News Than You Would Ever Know What To Do With
Call City Hall for viewing information.(Mod: People keep e-mailing me interesting news articles. The problem is we never seem to have the space to put them. So today I decided to post a whole bunch of...
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Robert Fellner: Four Los Angeles retirees collected $1 million-plus pension...
(Mod: As crazy as the City of Sierra Madre's $9 million dollars in unfunded CalPERS pension debt might be, it hasn't gotten to quite Los Angeles level here. At least not yet. But that doesn't mean...
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Sierra Madre Weekly: Lew Watanabe Bravely Battling Pancreatic Cancer
Mod: I have had a number of people contact me about Lew Watanabe. Terry Miller at the Sierra Madre Weekly put together the following for his paper, and I thought it would be right to post it here as...
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Arcadia City Council Vote Recount: Unofficial But Final Numbers Are In
1:45pm Update: Officials results are in. This from the City of Arcadia website (link):11:30am Update: The final Arcadia unofficial vote count now exists. With all of those hundreds of late arriving...
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A Development Dirty Money Trick That Failed In Arcadia
Money can't buy you love.At long last the final results are in and, despite the thousands of dollars in secretive outside development campaign money that flooded into Arcadia during the last few weeks...
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Pasadena Now: PUSD – Cheating is a Problem to Hide, Especially in Sierra Madre
(Mod: The following "guest editorial" appeared on the Pasadena Now news site last February, and deals with what its authors believe is the cover-up of a cheating scandal at Sierra Madre Elementary...
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Sierra Madre City Hall's Continuing Slap Happy Water Bond Shenanigans
It is kind of an ongoing story, but one that City Hall can never quite bring itself to talk about. Not that you can blame them, of course. And they do have to mention it from time to time. After all,...
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Most People In Sierra Madre Have No Idea They Are Paying Almost $15 Million...
Yesterday (link) we talked about a City Council meeting agenda item Sierra Madre's Mayor is apparently trying to slip in under the radar.One clue is the title of this stealthy little number has...
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Preserve Sierra Madre: Major Battle in Glendora
(Mod: Some key information that was sent out yesterday by Preserve Sierra Madre.) Dear Supporters: While our normal focus is on events in Sierra Madre, yesterday's Pasadena Star News had a front page...
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A Tattler Milestone Of Sorts
What we have been calling The Sierra Madre Tattler blog since late 2008 crossed the 4 million page views (AKA "hits") mark yesterday, which is a significantly large number for a local muckraking news...
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Dedicato Treatment Center: Mayor Pro Tem Arizmendi & Planning Commissioner...
A different kind of money pit.I don't know how this happens. Something controversial moves into a Sierra Madre neighborhood and there is complete silence from City Hall. Not a peep is emitted from the...
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It Is Just Like Old Times Down At Sierra Madre City Hall
"Those patches are silver and black. Like the Raiders." - Reader comment and an unfortunate correlation. Happy days are here again. With the 10% UUT back in place thanks to some of the most easily...
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