Archive for November, 2007
« Previous EntriesThe Anti-Caruso Marcheth On
Friday, November 30th, 2007[Westfield Mall, Arcadia Construction, Originally uploaded by KeithJ]
As the Westfield backed lawsuit against Caruso’s planned shopping mall in Arcadia grinds its way through the courts, Westfield is stabbing its minions in the back. It formed a “grassroots” organization, Arcadia First! (the exclamation point is part of the angry name), in order to marshal local […]
Morning Roundup
Friday, November 30th, 2007Thank the heavens above it’s Friday. An abbreviated roundup for the morning. If we’ve missed anything, drop a link in the comments.
Come under the jump for underage drinking, police on parade, Coliseum deathreats, and bacteria for breakkie.
Poaching in the Forest of the King
Thursday, November 29th, 2007This photograph (by Michael S. Quinton and published by National Geographic) doesn’t really look much like the coyotes I’ve had visits from in the San Gabriel Valley of California. That said, I would like to introduce an organization that came in and assisted when one of our local coyotes was discovered in a near-by yard. […]
Crime Scene
Thursday, November 29th, 2007The SGVT Crime Scene blog by Frank Girardot really deserves a shout out for many of the inventive things he’s done over there: from a developing local database of 2007 homicides to the utilization of Google Maps to geographically show the locations of area homicides, this is the kind of stuff that someone needs to […]
Duarte to Developer: Give Us Food!
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Speaking of Duarte, check out Emanual Parker’s article in the SGVT:
Duarte City Council members have put off a decision on a development plan that would bring three new restaurants to the northwest corner of Huntington Drive and Buena Vista Street, asking the developer to make a “best effort” to find restaurants as tenants for the […]
Duarte Dog Killed By Mountain Lion
Thursday, November 29th, 2007I saw this on ABC 7 last night (they were making quite a big deal of it); now its over the news. NBC 4 has a cool link to Google Maps showing where the dog done got ate:
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The city’s press release is here. If you live in Duarte, you will be […]
Morning Roundup
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Slothful Claremonsters, car-dependant Claremonsters, and teen female Claremonsters…whoops, make that Pasadenans. Morning roundup after the jump:
Daydream Believers in Pomona
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007David Allen tries really, really hard to do good by Pomona. (Heck, we here at the FC blog are always rooting for Pomona too). The problem is you can’t make gold out of straw.
I mean, it is so cool that the Monkees hit “Daydream Believer” comes from a Pomona man and a Pomona high school, […]
Emailing down the 210
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Quote of the day:
It’s cool being able to send email while flying down the 210-freeway at 85 miles per hour…oops.
The claim is that this can be done more safely than one might think.
Morning Roundup
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007Note: Not sure why this post disappeared so far down, originally. Sorry about that.
USC Trojans = Coliseum apostates. More morning sadness, including the execrable Virginia Hoge the jump:
Whoa
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007To quote 101 Dalmations:
“Crazy woman droivah.”
When Tolls Go Bad
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007
Only dimly FC-related, but continuing in the theme of misdirected transportation funding, New Jersey offers an example of why Old Towners can’t blithely assume that dollars from congestion pricing will, you know, be reinvested in relieving congestion.
Governor Jon Corzine finally explained that a key strategy to reduce New Jersey’s staggering $32 billion debt will […]
Staley on Congestion Pricing
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007In a bit of perfect timing, the New York Times has just published a fascinating piece on the costs of congestion and the merits of congestion (penned by Samuel Staley of the Reason Foundation). Staley warns against underestimating the costs of congestion:
…if congestion continues, eventually it will eat away at economic productivity in the region. […]
Comment of the Week
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007Thejay scores a Comment of the Week (ahem, intermittently awarded) for his remarks on transportation funding:
Does anyone really trust transit related groups to be in charge of funds from congestion pricing (or with any funding for that matter)?
Come on guys, read a little transportation history. Facts are facts. More money to transit agencies is like […]
Welcome, Fred Dock
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007A new Transportation Director has arrived in Pasadena (okay apparently he’s been around since July, but only as an “interim”), and it was the siren song of “smart growth” that drew him from the frozen north.
Fred Dock, a Minnesota-based transportation consultant, said Monday he was drawn from the private sector to Pasadena by the city’s […]