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With the June 2026 election closing in, we face a defining moment: whether to approve the Essential Services Restoration Act, a half-cent sales tax hike that would push our countywide rate to 10.25%—and combined local rates in Pasadena and many other cities to... More »
The City Council got it right on local hiring on Monday. The electeds voted 6-2 Monday night to delay approval of a $177.5 million construction contract for the Central Library seismic retrofit until PCL Construction Services Inc. produces a written local hire... More »
Pasadena is at a defining moment in how it delivers public benefit from public investment. Now is the time for the City Council and City staff to reaffirm that local hiring is operational, not aspirational—by requiring workforce utilization plans at project ap... More »
The federal Census Bureau annually announces new population numbers for the country and its 50 states based on calculations of how births, deaths and migration have changed the numbers from July 1 to June 30 of the previous year. The state Department of Financ... More »
The City scored victory in its battle against UCLA when a judge ruled against UCLA’s motion to take the City’s lawsuit to arbitration. The college wants to take its ball and play at SoFi Stadium despite 19 years remaining on its 44 year contract. The City unsu... More »
The fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Minneapolis — coming just weeks after the killing of another U.S. citizen, Renée Good, by an ICE agent — is not merely an act of violence but part of a wider pattern that threatens the moral fo... More »
Technology has revolutionized the classroom and Pasadena Unified School District has met the challenge. The latest advancement in education technology is the Interactive Flat Panel or as most of us refer to them, the smart board. Pasadena Unified School Distri... More »
Hours before Monday’s City Council meeting, former Pasadena Mayor Bill Paparian said in correspondence to the City Council that scent-tracking dogs are not reliable. The City Council is set to approve the donation of a tracking dog to the Pasadena Police Depar... More »
The deployment of thousands of federal immigration agents into U.S. cities, including our own — often operating in plainclothes or masks, with vague mandates and limited local oversight — resembles practices more common to authoritarian regimes than to a const... More »
Today, our community and our nation once again mourns a life lost under circumstances that demand truth, justice, and accountability. We grieve the tragic and senseless killing of Alex Pretti, a dedicated ICU nurse, a neighbor, a friend, and a compassionate m... More »
Watching the President attack science and hold federal funding for research hostage over the past year has been unnerving to say the least. Consensus on what have historically been bipartisan issues has evaporated before our eyes as the Trump administration ha... More »
While delivering his final State of the State address and proposing his final state budget last week, Gov. Gavin Newsom clearly sought to neutralize an issue that has haunted his political career for more than two decades and could torpedo his hopes of becomin... More »
