Week in Review: Top Pasadena Stories of The Week

The Editors of Pasadena Now go through over 100 articles published this week on our site and cull the top 38 most newsworthy, informative, and readable.

Top Stories:

City Officials Will Outline What Comes Next, Hear From Public After DA Clears Police Officer in Fatal Shooting

Police Oversight Commission Hears Members of the Public Outraged The DA Won’t Charge Officer Who Killed Anthony McClain

Pasadena Heritage Wants City to Issue Apology For 1885 Riot That Forced Out Chinese Residents

District Attorney Will Not Charge Pasadena Police Officer Who Shot and Killed Anthony McClain

Time to Clear the Brush Away

City Manager Recruitment Underway

Commission Approves Plaque’s New Language Marking Spot Where Pasadena Mob Destroyed Chinese Business in 1885

Heat Advisory Called For Today, Temps to Climb Into 90’s

County Supervisors Honor Armenian Culture in L.A. County

Council Says Moving Comments to End of Meeting Will Provide More Voices For Matters on The Agenda

City Council Names Almost-Completed Downtown Park ‘Playhouse Village Park’

Agreement Reached In Grocery Workers’ Contract Negotiations

Council Will Hear Public Comments at Regular Start-of-Meeting Time Tonight

Playhouse District Park, Stage Set to Get Permanent Name Monday: Council to Consider Octavia Butler Park and Van Halen Stage

Pasadena Assemblymember’s Bill Requiring Corporate Boards Include Member of “Underrepresented” Community Ruled Unconstitutional

Government:

Madison Appoints Verette to Oversight Commission

Child Camp Safety Bill, Driven By Drowning Death of Pasadena Girl, Passes Committee

Portantino Live Theater Support Bill Passes Senate Business and Professions Committee

City Council Approves Crafting of Ordinance Requiring All-Electric Powered New Buildings

Housing Task Force to Look at Housing Element

Senator Portantino Introduces Legislation to Eliminate Cancer Care Inequity

Council Chamber Needs Improved Audio Video System for Better Virtual Meetings, City Department Says

Education:

Transportation For All Students Across California Passes Committee

New Pasadena Boarding School On Track to Welcome About 150 Students for First Academic Year

Community News:

BA.2 Variant of COVID Now Believed to be Dominant Strain in LA County

LA Alliance to Move Forward with Suit Against County in Homelessness Case

Pasadena Media’s ‘Arroyo Live’ Wins 2022 Wave Award

LA County Seeking Comments on Updated Plan for Administering Elections

RAND Report Calls for Adaptive Reuse to Help Address LA County’s Housing Shortage

County Supervisors Urge Congress to Continue COVID Funding

LA County Moves to Ban Single-Use Plastics in Food Service

Heat Advisory Called for Wednesday Through Friday

Pasadena Courthouse Lifts Mask Mandate

Judge Rules Sheriff Villanueva Must Testify Under Oath About Deputy Gangs

City Would Soon Require New Buildings to be All-Electric Instead of Natural Gas-Powered

New Text on Old Pasadena Plaques Would Add Role of Racism in 1885 ‘Night of Terror’ Against Local Chinese Residents

Public Safety:

Police Oversight Commission to Discuss Youth Programs

Non-Profits News:

Pasadena Tournament of Roses Announces Eight 2022 Rose Scholars and Awards $20,000 in Scholarships