Recently, Facebook critic Jason wrote on our Business Leaders for Better Government page: “Wealthy Beverly Hills elitists crying about their *Pasadena* business taxes, which Pasadena voters approved on a ballot measure. If you don’t like democracy, then unlike... More »
Thank you for publishing the article in today’s Pasadena Now about the David Binder Research poll on the minimum wage https://pasadenanow.com/supporters-of-raising-minimum-wage-to-15-by-2020-say-81-of-pasadena-voters-agree/#.XGGedlVKgnQ However, I was very dis... More »
Contrary to the current polarizing rhetoric, an increase in the minimum wage is supported by Pasadena business leaders as well as by many workers. Without exception, all the business leaders we have spoken to and met with support a minimum wage increase. The i... More »
Tonight the Pasadena City Council will review the Pasadena Minimum Wage Ordinance that was voted into law in February 2016. The arguments are extremely compelling and passionate on both sides of the issue. The Pasadena Minimum Wage Ordinance followed the lead ... More »
Two academics have written and now twice rewritten a study, A TALE OF TWO CITIES III, describing Pasadena as “one of California’s most unequal cities”… “now characterized by a widening income gulf, low wages for many, and high rents.&#... More »
“That’s the beauty of Pasadena. Everyone does their own thing.” This was a comment made by a neighbor chatting at a recent curbside meeting held on my street to discuss a pilot project change to an intersection. She said “____ (private school) parents have the... More »
Pasadena Now received this letter in connection the following article: City Considers Removing Tree near New Kaiser Permanente School of Medicine: With what we now know about the relentless march of Climate Change, we must protect every tree in our community a... More »
As a new school year commences this week, and given your robust coverage of the first day of school throughout PUSD campuses, I thought this was an important time to share my perspective. Our public schools need our support and our enrollment, perhaps now more... More »
Proposition 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act (“Prop 64”) legalized the cultivation, possession, and use of marijuana/cannabis by adults (age 21+) for nonmedical purposes. Approved by CA voters in November 2016, this law allows adults over the age of 21 to gr... More »
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is preparing a permit for County Flood Control’s Devil’s Gate Sediment Mining and Trucking program, aka the Big Dig. The public notice they issued indicates some of the provisions that will be in the final permit and invites th... More »
[Editor’s Note: Far-reaching events are unfolding which will shape the future of Pasadena’s public schools. School Board Member Scott Phelps walks us through some of these issues in a series of Opinion pieces he has written to help the public better understand... More »
On November 9, 2017, Pasadena police officers violently attacked 21-year-old Christopher Ballew at an Altadena Mobil Gas Station after allegedly stopping him over tinted windows and a missing front license plate. The beating—captured on a bystander’s cell phon... More »
