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The Fight To Save Glendora's Foothills
Mod: Residents of the City of Glendora are working hard to preserve their remaining foothill areas. Teaming up with their local branch of the Sierra Club, they are fighting an attempt to build 5,000...
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The SMPD Will Get Its Raise Tuesday Evening
They may not be able to patrol the city streets after the sun goes down, and once they eventually do get back up to speed a frighteningly large percentage of them will be rookies straight out of the...
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710 Tunnel Advocate Bob Huff Now Trails In His Race for the 5th District Los...
The Pasadena Star News has an article up today that talks about what has become a very close race for the 5th District Los Angeles County Supervisor seat. With tens of thousands of ballots still to be...
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Fair Political Practices Commission: Update On The Sworn Complaint Against...
Mod: You may recall this sputtering and only marginally literate article ("Both men have been opposed to proposed all UUT measures ..") that was released unedited in the often mind numbing Mountain...
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The City Council Will Look At The Sober Living - Group Homes Issue Tomorrow...
I wouldn't get too excited about this if I were you. People with drug and alcohol addictions are considered disabled under various state and federal laws, and therefore are a special class of folks...
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The Fix: California Law Attacks Rehab Facilities
Mod: The following is an article that deals with the sober house issue from an entirely different perspective than what you might have been reading here lately. According to The Fix rehab facilities...
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Is the City Council Powerless to Stop Sober Living Homes?
Dedicato TCIt went pretty much as we predicted it would. Sober Living Houses and those who live in them are a protected species that cities such as Sierra Madre are powerless to do anything about. The...
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Letter to the Editor: The Emergency Medical Services (EMS) Dispatch Fee and...
Mod: For some there has been a sense of growing buyer's remorse over their support for the passage of Measure UUT. The following letter from a Sierra Madre resident is a good example.Emergency Medical...
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Pasadena Politics: A Highly Censored Free Speech Zone?
This may very well fall into the "who cares" file for most people, but at least I find it amusing. There is this Facebook discussion board that had been fairly popular for awhile with some of the more...
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Pasadena Star News: Former developers in ill-fated El Monte Transit Village...
John Leung and Bart Doyle. Two bros back in the day.Long time readers of The Tattler will know all about this story. Back in the earliest days of this blog we closely covered the story of El Monte's...
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Your Father's Day News and Review
It is Father's Day. That one moment out of this entire arduous year where the remote and disinterested working stiff who pays everyone's bills gets dragged off to an Olive Garden at some godforsaken...
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City Staff Tax Laugh: Potential Los Angeles County Park Funding Measure 2016
"Staff didn't say they had a problem with a parks tax. They said they just weren't getting enough of it. This is business as usual." - reader commentThe City of Sierra Madre, its voters, and those just...
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What the Community Services Commission Did Last Night
Here is what City Staff had recommended the Community Services Commission do last night:The Los Angeles County Regional Park and Open Space District (RPOSD) is proposing that the Los Angeles Board of...
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LA Daily News: LA County should consider lower tax to fund parks
Mod: If you are still trying to figure out the Parks Bond / Parcel Tax measure that Los Angeles County is trying to impose on the people living under its mighty thumb, then this LA Daily News editorial...
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Transparent California Posts 2015 Salary Numbers
The salary and other compensation numbers for 2015 are in, and as far as Sierra Madre goes it is a mixed bag of results. While many city employees saw salary increases, overall compensation numbers for...
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CNN Money In Arcadia: "You may not have heard of this Beverly Hills"
Brand new CNN Money news video that is all about Arcadia: "Forty-five minutes north of Los Angeles is a place referred to as the Chinese Beverly Hills. CNNMoney's Vanessa Yurkevich tours the booming...
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Sierra Madre City Council Meeting Consent Calendar Item 1c. Can You Make Any...
"If you want a real big headache try reading the staff report on the city council agenda for next Tues., consent calendar item 1. c. I do not understand a single word, but this must be costing us...
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Were They Stealing Local Planning Rights? The California Assembly Bill That...
I received the following interesting email from a reader a few days back. It had to do with a California Assembly bill being pushed by the campaign cash obsessed local political irritant, Assemblyman...
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California Eminent Domain Report: After 15 Years, Not Even A Thank You
Mod: The world can be an ungrateful place, and there really isn't too much that you can do about it. Take Don Murphy, present owner of Sierra Madre's previous City Hall. After inadvertently paying the...
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Will The Results Of Tonight's Sierra Madre City Council Meeting Really Be...
Yes, probably. I mean, what other possible results would you expect?The budget will be appreciated and processed, despite the fact that it is so much more expensive than what was called for the last...
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