Pasadena’s City Manager reported Feb. 7, that 128 applications had been submitted to Pasadena’s commercial cannabis program. Applications were priced at $13,654 each by the City. The total collected, less refunds to applicants whose documentation was incomple... More »
[Updated] Pasadena voters overwhelmingly want the City Council to increase the city’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by July 1, 2020, according to a poll commissioned by a local activist group which supports the increase. That is the finding of a telephone poll ... More »
The next phase of Pasadena’s Minimum Wage Ordinance will be considered Monday after the City Council reviews two commissioned studies of the economic impact the ordinance has exerted on the City’s businesses and residents. Following discussion of both reports,... More »
Here is a list of City committees meeting this week, with the agenda items each will discuss: Tuesday, February 12 Senior Commission 2 p.m. Jackie Robinson Center, 1020 N. Fair Oaks Ave. On the agenda: Agenda not available at press time Municipal Services Co... More »
A local activist group which traces its beginnings to the successful recent crusade to raise Pasadena’s minimum wage released a statement signed by 30 local faith leaders urging Pasadena’s City Council to vote Monday to amend a City ordinance and mandate ... More »
In an agenda short on action items but long on discussion, the Pasadena Unified School Board Thursday looked at a proposal to alter the Board’s committee structure, perhaps even to eliminate its committees entirely. This would mean all discussions on all gover... More »
[Updated] There’s a new Super PAC in Pasadena and, while it is required to register with the Federal Elections Commission in Washington D.C., its politics, like most politics, are local. The force behind the Business Leaders for Better Government (BLBG) Super ... More »
Sports fans no longer argue about what they saw during a game, they go to the videotape to see it over and over and parse their version of the justice (or injustice) meted out by the referee’s call. The same as is happening with the Pasadena Police Department’... More »
An ongoing $2 billion, 300- to 400-year project and the surtax to pay for it, designed in the 60s to relocate City overhead power lines to underground ones, remains on course unchanged after City Council debate Monday did not result in any action being taken. ... More »
The Pasadena City Council Feb. 4 approved a request by the Pasadena Fire Department for authorization to join a new government agency dedicated to training firefighters on a regional basis. The department had proposed joining what is known as the Los Angeles R... More »
The Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a motion by Supervisors Kathryn Barger and Hilda L. Solis that urges the State of California to apply for a Section 1115 Medicaid waiver that would expand coverage for inpatient mental health treatment. “Medicaid is ... More »
The South Pasadena City Council will consider naming five residents to South Pasadena’s new Arts Commission, among other items on the agenda for Wednesday, February 6. The Arts Commission is part of the City’s public arts initiative adopted by the Council last... More »
