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Hello, I am writing to you about Eddie Rivera’s article on Feb 23, 2016 entitled “Council Adopts EIR for non-potable water project”. http://www.pasadena.buzz/main/council-adopts-eir-for-non-potable-water-project/#.VtYraUZ0ZH4 I am the Marie Levine quoted in th... More »
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We weren’t the first to recognize that Pasadena Unified School District test cheating has similarities to the Atlanta, Georgia, testing scandal that sent 11 educators to jail. Yesterday’s Pasadena Now op-ed titled “Student testing cheating – Does PUSD have Geo... More »
This month, we’re excited to announce that Planned Parenthood Pasadena and San Gabriel Valley is now part of the Every Woman Counts program. This vital program provides cancer prevention screenings, including breast exams, mammograms, pelvic exams, and Pap tes... More »
[Please note: Pasadena Now publishes guest opinions as a service to the community, to allow freedom of expression and diverse points of view the opportunity to reach the public. The authors are solely responsible for the content. Pasadena Now does not edit opi... More »
Pasadena Unified School District’s flagship elementary school is Sierra Madre Elementary School. The Sierra Madre school has regularly been seen as PUSD’s highest performing school – #1 when the API scores used to come out and #1 again when the new SBAC testin... More »
For some students, especially those who will be the first in their families to go to college, the choice is simple. The SAT is the only test. It’s the test students hear about and the test students think they “need to take to go to college.” Some students, how... More »
After secretive and opportunistic public policy-making for six years on whether police officers will be advantaged compared to other witnesses by getting an early look at video of their shootings, Pasadena under interim City Manager Steve Mermell is moving to ... More »
Hearings before the Pasadena Public Safety Committee on Tuesday, February 16 and Monday, March 21 will deal with the policy for disclosing forthcoming body-camera video, which includes questions such as the following: Should police officers who kill civilians ... More »
The Pasadena City Council is likely to adopt a policy this Monday night that would gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2020. But proposal that the City staff submitted to the City Council includes a number of serious loopholes that could serious... More »
By a 4-0 vote Wednesday night, the City Council’s EDTech Committee forwarded the staff recommendation for a minimum wage to the full Council. Pasadena now is on the verge of enacting Monday night a City minimum wage ordinance with a path to $15 per hour by 202... More »
The Pasadena Chamber of Commerce and our local business community recognize there is momentum among local political leadership to raise the minimum wage in Pasadena. While raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour by 2020 may seem to be a simple solution to man... More »
