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The Pasadena Unified School District has failed to treat its teachers with the respect we deserve. We are told that teachers are the most important variable in the quality of the education provided to students. Yet, teachers have been offered a paltry 3% salar... More »
Brian McDonald’s public announcement of PUSD’s “Last, Best, and Final Offer” is misleading and self-serving. McDonald’s commentary is an effort to market a non-competitive three year salary proposal and deliberately leaves out any reference to the District’s f... More »
Farrow and Ball, a British manufacturer of paints and wallpapers largely based upon historic color palettes and archives, will be opening its newest showroom in Pasadena’s historic Old Town district on Monday, April 25.. This will be Farrow and Ball’s second s... More »
Police arrested a 19-year-old man Sunday night after he was allegedly involved in an armed robbery case at the Mobil station in the 400 block of North Fair Oaks Avenue in Pasadena, where a cellphone was forcibly taken. Pasadena Police Lt. Mark Goodman said the... More »
A Pasadena Superior Court judge has sentenced a man to 30 years of life in prison for murder and assault with a deadly weapon almost three years after he was involved in a Christmas Day 2012 crash in Pasadena that killed an 11-year-old boy from Daly City and h... More »
Editor’s Note: In this report, Pasadena Chief of Police Phillip Sanchez reviews noteworthy incidents which occurred or were concluded in recent weeks in Pasadena. On March 28, at about 10:34 a.m., Pasadena Police officers responded to the Target Store at 777 E... More »
What to tell her handsome young son when his classmates assured him his days at “their” school were just about over because Donald Trump would make sure he was on the other side of The Wall to be built by the Mexican Government. Mom wasn’t a person known for... More »
Approximately half of Pasadenans believe that the Pasadena Police Department treats whites better than minorities and the wealthy better than the poor. Pasadena’s ostriches – the police unions, some City Council Members, some residents – continue to hide their... More »
Gunshots struck and wounded two men around 9:15 p.m. Saturday night in the 1000 block of North Summit Avenue. Both are expected to survive. Police officers in the area heard the shots and, pinpointing the scene with help of multiple 911 calls, responded quickl... More »
[Updated Friday, April 15, 2016 | 7:30 a.m.] The city released a report Thursday night recommending a police oversight plan for Pasadena created by a consulting firm it hired late last year as a precursor to possibly creating such a mechanism for the Pasadena... More »
The Pasadena Police officers’ tactics in the shooting of the 20 year old Latino may well have been best practices, but we won’t ever know for sure if the PD gets away with looking only narrowly at the moment of shooting as it did in the McDade case. The Pasade... More »
To Whom It May Concern, We, the teachers of Sierra Madre Elementary School, feel very strongly that our school board does not appreciate how hard we work. If they did, we would be getting a fair raise- one that reflects the cost of living increases in our area... More »
