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 53 most newsworthy, informative, and readable.

Top Stories:

Gordo Declares Victory in Mayor’s Race

Pasadena School Officials Ecstatic About Passage of Measure O

12 New COVID-19 Cases Reported in Pasadena Adds to Steady Uptick in Infections, But No Deaths Reported in Nearly a Month

Gordo Maintains Lead Over Tornek in Mayor’s Race After Latest Vote Count Update

Latest Vote Tallies: Lead in School Board Races Unchanged

Pasadena Reports 1st Case of Rare But Serious Coronavirus-Related MIS-C in a Child

Gordo Leads Tornek in Mayor’s Race

Lee Declares Victory; Cahalan and Fredericks Lead in PUSD Board Voting

Pasadenans List Top Issues in Local Election

Law Enforcement On Heightened Alert For Election Day

Pasadena Early Voting Surpasses Primary

On Election Day, Businesses Step Up As Life Goes On

Pasadenans Feeling Anxiety Ahead of Election

3rd Federal Civil Rights Lawsuit Filed Over Police Shooting of Anthony McClain

Pasadena Republicans Rally for Trump in South Pasadena

Government:

Pasadena’s Measure P Seems Headed for Easy Passage

Council Can Appoint District 5 Rep If Gordo Wins Mayor’s Race

Hearing Officer To Discuss Conditional Use Permit For Playhouse District Pocket Park

Slow Week for City Government Meetings

Education:

Cahalan, Wu Fredericks, Hall Lee Still on Path to School Board Victories

Amid Pandemic and Distance Learning, Pasadena Unified’s Special Education Dept. Presents Action Plan to School Board

PUSD Conducting Survey for Spring Semester

School Board Candidate Tina Wu Fredericks Claims Victory in District 6

Pasadena Unified Board to Discuss Special Education Action Plan

Polytechnic Becomes 5th School OK’d by City Health Department to open for PreK-2nd Grade Students

Voters Overwhelmingly Support Measure O

St. Philip the Apostle School Added to List of Pasadena Schools Cleared to Reopen for PreK-2nd Grade Instruction

Community News:

618,200 L.A. County Votes Remain to be Counted

Voters Overwhelmingly Support Congressmembers Schiff and Chu

20 New COVID-19 Cases Detected in Pasadena as Community Transmission Increases

Hearings Set to Review Metro’s Draft EIR on Proposed Bus Rapid Transit System Between Pasadena and North Hollywood

Supervisor Representing Pasadena Now Part of All-Women L.A. County Board of Supervisors

Gascon Leads Hotly Contest Race For LA County District Attorney

Public Health Officials Urge L.A. County Residents to Avoid Election-Related Gatherings Amid Increase in COVID-19 Spread

New Program to Highlight the Arroyo

Turnout Looks To Be High Across the County As Election Day Finally Arrives

COVID-19 Deaths Decline, But Infections Trend Upward Across L.A. County

Pasadena Apartment Building Preserved as Affordable Senior Housing

Pasadena Police Join “No-Shave November” to Fight Cancer

County Reports 1,590 New Cases of COVID-19

Seven New Coronavirus Cases Reported in Pasadena

Business Top Story:

Pasadena Coworking Spaces ‘Climbing Back’ to Pre-COVID Levels

Public Safety:

Home, Car Struck by Gunfire in Pasadena; No Victims Found

San Marino Man Charged in Weapons Case After Allegedly Driving Through Protesters in Pasadena to Be Released on $10 Million Bond

L.A. County Voters Seem Ready for Measure J’s ‘Care First’ Public Safety Plan

Court Documents Outline Plotting, Weapon Stockpiling by San Marino Man Accused of Driving Truck Into Protesters in Pasadena

Police Write 118 Tickets During Pedestrian and Bike Safety Campaign

Department of Justice to Monitor Compliance with Voting Laws on Election Day in L.A. County

Non-Profits News:

Union Station Seeking Food Donations for Modified ‘Dinner in the Park’ Event

People:

Hahn & Hahn’s Laura Farber and Christianne Kerns Nominated for Los Angeles Business Journal’s Leaders in Law Award

PCC Instructor Wins NYC Big Book Award

Caltech Mourns Passing of Professor Whose Work Fostered the Development of Earthquake-Resistant Buildings

Councilmember McAustin to be Honored by the Commission on the Status of Women