Tuesday, April 19, 2016 | 8:41 pm
The Star-News has run commentary by Superintendent McDonald that is terribly misleading to the public about the current contract stalemate between Pasadena teachers and the school district. Here are the facts. Pasadena Teachers are at a contract negotiations i... More »
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 | 12:44 pm
The Community Bank Board of Directors has appointed Lyle R. Knight as a Board Member effective immediately. Mr. Knight has held executive positions at various financial institutions such as Caliber Bank (an affiliate of Bank of America), Norwest Bank (merged w... More »
Tuesday, April 19, 2016 | 5:09 am
A consultant firm’s study of police oversight which recommended the creation of a police auditor and commission for Pasadena met with decidedly mixed and at times hostile responses at a Monday night joint City Council and Public Safety Committee meeting at Cit... More »
Monday, April 18, 2016 | 10:03 pm
Pasadena Unified School District’s mantra is “Good to Great.” Sounds good, right? Except, that while the teachers at Daniel Webster School are a highly qualified, dedicated group of educators who are passionate about the work they do with their students, they ... More »
Monday, April 18, 2016 | 9:49 pm
Teachers at Washington Elementary STEM Magnet school are angry over PUSD’s unfair compensation for teachers. Over the past eight years, Pasadena teachers have received a 3% pay raise, yet, in terms of salary rank, PUSD teachers are in the lowest 10% among unif... More »
Monday, April 18, 2016 | 9:02 pm
We, the teachers of San Rafael Elementary in Pasadena, are extremely disappointed in the current bargaining of the salary and contract negotiations taking place between the Pasadena Unified School District and the United Teachers of Pasadena. The Dual Language... More »
Monday, April 18, 2016 | 8:38 pm
During the ongoing contract negotiations between the Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD) and the United Teachers of Pasadena (UTP), most of the public focus has been on the divide in salary compensation. It is an easy topic to explain; Teachers want more m... More »
Monday, April 18, 2016 | 7:41 pm
The Pasadena Unified School District has failed to treat its teachers with the respect we deserve. We are told that teachers are the most important variable in the quality of the education provided to students. Yet, teachers have been offered a paltry 3% salar... More »
Monday, April 18, 2016 | 7:25 pm
Brian McDonald’s public announcement of PUSD’s “Last, Best, and Final Offer” is misleading and self-serving. McDonald’s commentary is an effort to market a non-competitive three year salary proposal and deliberately leaves out any reference to the District’s f... More »
Monday, April 18, 2016 | 3:35 pm
Farrow and Ball, a British manufacturer of paints and wallpapers largely based upon historic color palettes and archives, will be opening its newest showroom in Pasadena’s historic Old Town district on Monday, April 25.. This will be Farrow and Ball’s second s... More »
Monday, April 18, 2016 | 8:33 am
Police arrested a 19-year-old man Sunday night after he was allegedly involved in an armed robbery case at the Mobil station in the 400 block of North Fair Oaks Avenue in Pasadena, where a cellphone was forcibly taken. Pasadena Police Lt. Mark Goodman said the... More »
Monday, April 18, 2016 | 5:49 am
A Pasadena Superior Court judge has sentenced a man to 30 years of life in prison for murder and assault with a deadly weapon almost three years after he was involved in a Christmas Day 2012 crash in Pasadena that killed an 11-year-old boy from Daly City and h... More »