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Friday, May 9th, 2008Look, I don’t consider myself a journalist. But I do contribute a lot to this site and try to stay as informed as you would expect of an above-average politically-interested citizen. Every day, I read through dozens, if not hundreds of articles to find things interesting to the Foothill Cities and share them. And then, […]
Friday Linkfest: 10 Reasons to Remember
Friday, May 9th, 2008There’s a million things I’d love to write about. Sadly, the sun goes down (and comes up) much too quickly. So, here’s 9 (count ‘em, 9!) links you really should take a look at…
Market Dynamics and Police Resources: A Lesson for Monrovia
Thursday, May 8th, 2008At Tuesday night’s City Council meeting, a well known, tremendously active member of the community asserted, basically, if Monrovia’s police officers don’t like their pay, they can just go somewhere else. “I’m sure we’ll have no trouble finding qualified police officers.”
If only that were true. Fact is, every police department in Southern California is hurting […]
The graphics RCJP wanted you to see
Thursday, May 8th, 2008Here are the graphics RJCP wanted to post with his “Hay=Bad Boy…” post the other morning. He sent them to me as his own computer was not enabled to upload these graphices. They are very relevant still and out line nicely how the same computer was used for different message. My apologies for not getting […]
Scott Ochoa, Comedian
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008In preparing my analysis of the Hay/Bad Boy / Tom Edwards comments and emails that originated from Adams & Barnes’ Escrow, I didn’t have much time to review other matters of Monrovia. Oddly enough, my boss expects me to work, from time to time.
So, it wasn’t really until this evening that I could stop and […]
Hay = Bad Boy = Tom Adams, Anti-Cop Monrovia City Councilman?
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008For the last several weeks, this blog has been sullied by the rude rantings of two commenters who variously identified themselves as “Hay” and “Bad Boy.” These comments attacked me personally, but, more importantly vilified and offended the officers of the Monrovia Police Department, including making jokes about the shooting of Sergeant Dan Verna […]
Pasadena City Councilmembers About to Lose Single Greatest Power
Monday, May 5th, 2008Spiderman without his webs? Superman without the power of flight? Ironman without his suit? All such cases pale before the prospect of members of the Pasadena City Council losing their ability to give out huge numbers of Rose Bowl and Parade tickets:
Pasadena City Council members could soon find themselves woefully short of the hundreds of […]
The Most Controversial Billboard Monrovia Has Ever Seen
Monday, May 5th, 2008Well, I can’t confirm that 100%, but it’s certainly not going to make the other “Mayberry-esque” city in the foothills any less rancorous. See what I’m talking about after the jump…
The Sweetheart Deal That Only Gets Better With Time
Friday, May 2nd, 2008The city manager’s “housing assistance package” is a story that won’t die. The more I dig into and separate rumor from fact (and the latter tends to support the former) and think I have covered it all, one more bit shows up. This week went like this: Email from a commenter, “I have […]
City of Claremont to Establish Secret Ganja Vendor for Police Chief
Thursday, May 1st, 2008Or at least that’s what I got out of reading the first two grafs of this story:
The city released a draft today of the ordinance that would allow one tightly regulated medical marijuana dispensary to open in the city.
The ordinance would allow dispensaries to sell marijuana only to Claremont residents, establish strict security controls, and […]
Survey says “YES” to Recall in Monrovia
Thursday, May 1st, 2008We’ve all been hearing the rumors. Monrovia City Watch has reported that MPOA ran a phone survey and found the citizens support a recall election.
What the MCW post doesn’t elaborate for us is what was the questions asked in the survey. I wasn’t in the loop for that one so I can’t state for a […]
Jacque Robinson Holds District Meeting…But Not in District
Monday, April 28th, 2008Thanks to WCGB for the heads up:
It pains me to state the obvious, but sometimes the little things matter. Sometimes the things that seem little are actually more important than one would think.
The good news? Councilmember Jacque Robinson is hosting a District 1 Community Meeting on Thursday, May 8, 2008 at 6:30 p.m.
The bad […]
Monrovia Sweetheart Deals Final Edition…I Hope.
Thursday, April 24th, 2008Still debated hotly in Monrovia is the “sweetheart deal” given to the City Manager in the form of a second mortgage on his home funded by the City of Monrovia. Hopefully, this post will wrap up the subject.
[Lots, lots more after the jump]
If you missed Monrovia V Mayberry RFD check out the new blog in the ‘hood…
Thursday, April 24th, 2008The latest blog digging into and exposing the issues of the day in Monrovia walked into town and kicked city hall in the nuts. Monrovia City Watch has just left me gobsmacked thinking “you go boy just back it up with documents.” I can just envision our city hall on the ground retching. Seriously, if […]
The Monrovia PR Game: News, Rumor or None of the Above
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008Sometimes, things can best be evaluated by what they neglect, rather that that which they accomplish. Take, for example, the Mayor of Los Angeles. Full of promise and energy is he, yet, also the man is plainly and profoundly vacuous on delivery.
In a similar light, one might consider the City of Monrovia PR […]