State Senator Anthony J. Portantino (D – La Cañada Flintridge) has introduced SB 805, which prevents school employees from having to use their sick, vacation, or other paid leave in the event there is a natural disaster and the employee faces evacuation threat... More »
A Pasadena property owner is appealing a Code Enforcement Commission panel decision ordering he require a cannabis business to cease operating on property he owns. In a 2-1 decision last month, the Code Enforcement Commission formally ordered the closure of Ku... More »
As the new year begins, a small but significant handful of new State laws will begin to take effect in Pasadena. The new state laws effectively supersede local zoning laws and have generated considerable concern in City Council. Mayor Terry Tornek has called t... More »
Two women left a town hall featuring Mayoral Candidate Major Williams on Saturday after Williams affirmed his support for President Donald Trump. “I do support Trump,” Williams said. “I am a registered Republican. But Williams also pointed out that the mayoral... More »
Sierra Madre Mayor John Harabedian, who is challenging incumbent Kathryn Barger for the 5th District seat on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, picked up the endorsement of U.S. Congressman Tony Cárdenas last week. Cárdenas (D-California, 26th Congre... More »
Pasadena City Councilmembers will receive staff recommendations on the Julia Morgan YWCA building and a former Water and Power site later this month. “We are excited to share our recommendations based on the interviews with the City Council on January 27th,” s... More »
Pasadena Congresswoman Judy Chu spoke out Friday in favor of a Congressional briefing before any further military action involving Iran is taken. “The President must brief Congress on his Iran policy before taking any further actions,” Chu said in a statement.... More »
Assemblymember Chris Holden hired Willie Armstrong as his new Chief of Staff. Robbin Lewis-Coaxum who previously served in the role since Holden’s election to the 41st Assembly District in 2012 is retiring after nearly 40 years in the California State Assembly... More »
There won’t be any mail carriers on local streets Monday, and most banks will be closed, but besides those two signs of the federal Columbus Day holiday, little else will change in Pasadena. A Pasadena City official said that all City departments, including th... More »
This week the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors permanently prohibited its departments from using glyphosate-based products, including the herbicide Roundup. Last March, Pasadena Now and the Pasadena Weekly revealed that the County’s Public Works Dept. h... More »
[Updated] It was probably more a matter of “when” than “if” one or more spurned cannabis license applicants would sue the City of Pasadena over the process by which they were not picked, and that “when” might be soon. Damian Martin, an attorney, cannabis cons... More »
[Updated] Three of the six winning applicants for cannabis retail licenses in Pasadena got the submission of their conditional use permit (CUP) request right and the City now knows where they’d like to put their shops, according to officials. The three propos... More »
