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As a parent with a child currently enrolled in a Pasadena Unified school, I read the district’s recent community survey carefully. What I found was not a neutral attempt to gather community input, but a series of questions that seem designed to steer responden... More »
It was wonderful to see the massive pool of water behind Devil’s Gate Dam in Hahamongna Watershed Park after the brief storm last Wednesday. It was a flashy storm. The flow in the mountain watershed of the Arroyo Seco climbed from six cubic feet per second to ... More »
In 1995, when Jesse Jackson visited John Muir High School, I was 17. Several months earlier, my mom and I had relocated from our apartment in Pasadena and from Rodney Glen King’s previous apartment on Sunset Avenue, behind King’s mom, to my grandparents’ home ... More »
This Thursday, February 26, United Teachers of Pasadena, along with families, students, community members, and other allies, will come together to insist on Safe, Stable, Fully-Staffed Schools at the Pasadena Unified School District Board meeting. Trustees wil... More »
The state Attorney General’s Office announced a civil rights investigation into the response to the January 2025 Eaton Fire last week, questioning whether race, age or disability discrimination contributed to delays in emergency notifications and evacuations i... More »
I oppose the proposed development at 1364 East Green Street — not because I oppose growth, but because growth must be compatible with the neighborhoods it enters. I have been a parishioner at St. Philip the Apostle for 27 years and serve on the St. Philip’s Sc... More »
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 »
