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Friday, May 9th, 2008[IMG_9045.JPG, Originally uploaded by The Real Zajac]
Damn. I step away from the blog for a few days to tend to personal matters and WOW. Y’all go bats*** insane.
First up, I deliver on what I promised: an overview of the wildfires we just had, along with my own personal story to go with it. […]
Give. Me. A. Break.
Thursday, May 8th, 2008To all the peeps out there complaining about the IP address issue, let me make something very, very clear. An IP address is like caller ID. If you don’t like the fact that when you leave a comment from certain networks, you leave a trace (unless, like most of us, you comment from […]
Norma Torres is More Important Than Me and You
Sunday, May 4th, 2008Pomona Mayor Norma Torres is a Democratic Super Delegate. She was chosen by the Democratic National Committee as an “at large” Super Delegate. What does that mean? It means that as a party worker and member of the DNC, she applied and was chosen for one of those coveted spots. Did she get it because […]
Special from the Desk(top) of the Photo Editor
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008To be perfectly honest, none of us contributors actually know anything about the owners of the FC Blog, Publius and Centinel. They stand in the tradition of a number of Americans, taking their very pseudonyms from the pen names of the writers of the Federalist Papers and the Anti-Federalist Papers. When the U.S. […]
10,000 Comments: Thanks!
Thursday, April 17th, 2008CONTEST IS CLOSED.
The FC Blog has been in existence for just under a year (well, at this domain, anyway) and in that time, we’ve written 1,615 posts, which seems like a lot. But it pales in comparison to the number of comments that have followed those posts: almost 10,000. In the very near future, we’ll […]
Blog News: Additional Content on City Pages
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008As part of the perpetual upgrading of this site, we’re working on a couple new features:
You can now find additional content at the city pages. Previously, the city tags functioned solely as a way to sort content on the blog. Now, we’re going to go ahead and have additional posts under each city. There’s lots […]
Around The Town With Sir Eric Maundry
Monday, February 11th, 2008“The price of democracy is eternal vigilance.” - Thomas Jefferson
The more you look into this mess, the more troubled the state of Sierra Madre’s mismanaged finances begin to appear. Of course, there is a limit to exactly what it is that we can find out about such matters as our inefficient and non-transparent city government […]
Photo Of The Day on Vacation
Friday, February 1st, 2008We’re upgrading a few things over on the back-end of the website, so we are going to stop running the Photo Of The Day for about a week (or until our tech guys give us the all clear). To hold you over, I went and set up a new blog: The Arcadia Avocado, dedicated […]
5 More Things You’d Like to See Changed
Thursday, January 31st, 2008Note: This post periodically bumped to the top. Regular blogging continues below.
Two items of blog housekeeping:
Thanks to everyone who commented on what they’d like to see more or less of here at the blog (if you forgot to, you still can). It sounds like the top item on most folks’ wishlist is better coverage of […]
Well Done, Sierra Madre Commenters
Saturday, January 26th, 2008Since it’s the weekend, it’s prime time for a subset of the Sierra Madre posters to go hog wild and contaminate the comments section. Several quick points:
Congratulations! You forced us to end comments on one of the posts. Well done.
We had to yank several comments that were just personal attacks. I don’t care if the […]
The 5 Things Readers Want Most
Friday, January 25th, 2008[Note: We’re keeping this post at the top of the page to solicit your feedback. Scroll below for continuing updates.]
Actually, this is a post I can’t write. We here at the blog don’t instinctively know exactly what we ought to write about or what you are interested in. As it is, we focus on the […]
Lessons from the Sierra Madre
Monday, January 21st, 2008We allow Sir Eric and others to post here because they help kickstart conversation. For instance, his post on the proposed Sierra Madre Utility Tax was a substantive contribution to a conversation that Sierra Madreans ought to be having—a conversation that residents of other foothill cities could profit from. Also, to be quite […]
On Partisanship, Sierra Madre & Jim Snider
Saturday, January 19th, 2008I’d like to break the usual weekend silence to note several things.
The first is the passing of Jim Snider, the one-time publisher of the Sierra Madre Cumquat. From the emails we’ve received and the comments left on the blog, it’s apparent that Snider, beyond being merely prone to enjoying himself to excess, struggled with much […]
Return of the “Photo-Head”
Tuesday, January 15th, 2008[The Gold Line, Originally uploaded by Muzzlehatch]
First off, no I have not forgotten about the Photo of the Year contest I’m sponsoring: the winner will be announced tomorrow morning (and yes they will get a gift card to Hyper Coffee).
Recent Comments Enabled
Tuesday, January 8th, 2008Hey folks. Still playing around with it, but we’ve enabled a Recent Comments section over on the lefthand side (you gotta scroll down a little). Now you can keep track of all your favorite debates and see who is nosing around old posts and getting the last word in. Don’t let ‘em! Unless, of course, […]
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