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This year’s assessment of property values in Los Angeles County is expected to rise by 5% over last year, reaching nearly $2 trillion, according to a forecast released Tuesday by county Assessor Jeff Prang. “It has been a challenging couple of years as the loc... More »
Lower home prices and slightly lower interest rates improved the outlook for both Los Angeles County and L.A. city homebuyers in the first quarter of 2023, as the state’s housing affordability rose to the highest level in a year, the California Association of ... More »
Members of the City Council called on the Pasadena Police Department to review some of its policies in line with the recommendations of a well-regarded consulting firm that specializes in the independent review of police practices after the firm’s report was r... More »
The Rose Bowl Operating Company (RBOC) is set to hold an in-person-only session on Tuesday continuing and voting on the proposed Brookside Golf Course Improvements Project. The session starts at 5 p.m. in the East Locker Room of the historic Rose Bowl Stadium.... More »
I commend the Rose Bowl Operating Committee (RBOC) for the decision at their last meeting to postpone a vote they were asked to improperly take on a proposed multi-million-dollar development in the Arroyo Seco. They wisely saw that there were many unresolved q... More »
As part of the consent calendar, the City Council on Monday adopted the Road Repair and Accountability Act project list for Fiscal Year 2024. The consent calendar is a list of items, typically approved by the Council with a single roll call vote. Monday’s con... More »
The City Council on Monday voted to hold a public hearing next Monday, May 22 about the adoption of the Fiscal Year 2024 schedule of taxes, fees and charges. Every year, as part of the annual budget process, the City Council reviews and adopts the schedule of ... More »
The City Council on Monday approved the second reading and adopted an ordinance amending the Pasadena Municipal Code to reduce the maximum annual transfer from the Light & Power Fund to the General Fund from 16 percent to 12 percent of the electric utility’s g... More »
Hoping to relieve the overload of seriously mentally ill inmates in its jail system, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors will consider Tuesday converting space at the Twin Towers downtown jail into a 16-bed unit specifically intended to handle inmates ... More »
Two recent studies by researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena used contrasting approaches to measure drops in human-caused emissions of the potent greenhouse gas methane in recent years in the Los Angeles region. In the first study, publish... More »
The events of the past inevitably shape the present. In this column, we present Pasadena Now feature news stories published on our front cover precisely one year ago today: Pasadena Homeless Count Continues to Fall, Shows Slight Decrease From Last Year Council... More »
Pasadena Fire officials are set to present the Fire Department’s recommended Fiscal Year 2024 operating budget to the Public Safety Committee on Wednesday. The presentation outlines an 11% budget increase of $6.51 million from the previous year, citing rising ... More »
