Recently, our City received a lifeline from the federal government in extraordinary funds pursuant to the American Rescue Plan Act (“ARPA”) — $26 million this year and $26 million next year. The federal guidance for expending these funds specifically states “... More »
[Editor’s Note: We received this email on Tuesday from former Pasadena resident Kathleen Clary Miller. At Pasadena’s Public Safety Committee today, designs for suicide mitigation fencing and barriers will be considered.] When I read that Pasadena’s Department ... More »
Dear Superintendent McDonald and Board President Phelps, The district needs to do more to protect our employees and students. While Governor Newsom’s recent public health order, requires district employees and contractors to identify their COVID vaccination st... More »
On Sunday on Meet the Press, the president of the second largest teachers union in the United States, American Federation of Teachers, Randy Weingarten came out in support of a vaccine requirement for teachers. She explained, “Circumstances have changed…It wei... More »
Pasadena’s current cannabis ordinance represents one of the worst, and most easily avoided, public policy failures in Pasadena history. This now three-year-old poorly crafted and implemented law has exposed the City to multiple lawsuits (in the latest fiscal ... More »
[UPDATED] Over the past several days, I have spoken to several community members that I have some degree of respect for regarding the COVID-19 vaccine. The conversations can be lumped into three categories, people who believe they are being tracked by the vacc... More »
To Political Candidates, Ballot Measure Campaigns, the Democratic Party, and Labor Unions in California: From major criminal justice reform ballot measures to electing a new district attorney in Los Angeles County, in the past several election cycles, Black wo... More »
Dear Assembly Members Holden, Friedman, Rubio, Chau, Rodriguez, Chen, Calderon and Garcia, We, the undersigned representatives of cities in the San Gabriel Valley, write in firm opposition to Senate Bill 9 (Atkins), which would end single-family residential zo... More »
With the agreement of California’s new budget, families and child care providers can breathe a sigh of relief. The budget includes historic investments for Early Childhood Education (ECE), funding several reforms that activists have pursued for years. These re... More »
The Time is Always Right to do What is Right Martin Luther King Legal cannabis has become big business in 33 states and the District of Columbia. There are an estimated 55 million Americans that regularly use cannabis. The total U.S. economic impact from marij... More »
The long-awaited draft of the Housing Element has finally been released by City Hall. Every eight years, cities are required to update their Housing Elements (which are a part of each City’s General Plan). The most controversial part of Housing Elements is t... More »
Dear Pasadena City Council members and staff: Increasingly nature is sending us a message and fortunately some are listening. The message involves protecting the natural world and all the vital elements that foster life — the water, the animals and varied spe... More »
