The Editors of Pasadena Now go through over 100 articles published this week on our site and cull the top 65 most newsworthy, informative, and readable. Top Stories: Angry Parents Greet New PUSD Board Administration City Leaders React After Governor Concedes A... More »
[Updated] The wounds from four planned school closings are apparently still fresh, as the first PUSD Board of Education meeting of 2020 under new President Patrick Cahalan got off to a shaky start Thursday. District parents complained of problems with open and... More »
Over the past two years, local leaders have railed against laws passed in Sacramento taking local control away from City Hall to help build more housing. During that time, Gov. Gavin Newsom justified those laws with a claim that the state needed to be 3.5 mill... More »
Finalists’ proposals for the City’s dilapidated YWCA building will have to include an affordable housing element to their proposals. On Monday, City Manager Steve Mermell reported that the Council gave him that direction during a closed session meeting on the ... More »
[Updated] A majority of the City Council told Pasadena Now they have no problem with the City releasing a report on an outside investigation that cleared city employees of wrongdoing in the City’s cannabis process. Mayoral Candidate Victor Gordo, Tyron Hampton... More »
More than a hundred workers from labor organizations as far away as Texas, Oregon, and New York, demonstrated at two Pasadena work sites Saturday to protest separate cases of reported wage theft. The actions were organized by Pasadena-based National Day Labore... More »
[Updated] The Huntington Hospital said in a statement Friday it has no patients under treatment for a virulent virus responsible for a fast-moving outbreak that has spread from China to a half-dozen other countries, including the U.S. The respiratory illness i... More »
A woman who said she rose from the rank of housekeeper to registered nurse during more than three decades of service at Huntington Memorial Hospital and alleged she was discriminated against because she is a Latina dropped her lawsuit against the Pasadena medi... More »
Pasadena Now has learned that Pasadena is under a citrus quarantine and state officials are telling local residents not to take home-grown or non-commercial citrus fruit out of the area due to a slow-moving bacteria that has caused millions of dollars of loss ... More »
[Updated] In response to new laws that diminish the City’s power to control local housing, applications for Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs), also known as granny flats, have dramatically increased according to information obtained by Pasadena Now. The new laws... More »
Pasadena Vice Mayor Tyron Hampton Monday issued a lengthy statement in which he said Pasadena’s cannabis permitting process has proven to be a failure and should be stopped and overhauled for three principal reasons. First, Hampton’s statement said, the applic... More »
[smooth=id:1863;] Nearly 100 people, including Mayor Terry Tornek, Councilmember John J. Kennedy, State Senator Anthony Portantino, state Assemblyman Chris Holden, congressional candidate Christian Daly, and Congresswoman Judy Chu, attended the Metropolitan Ba... More »
