The City of Pasadena is dedicating the entire month of May to celebrating cycling through its annual Bike Month initiative. Bike safety is a key topic. The City partnered with a local bike shop to embrace cycling as a healthy and sustainable mode of transportation. “Number one, we always recommend wearing a helmet,” advises Mario Galeano, owner of Empire Bike Shop at 41 E. Orange Grove Blvd. “It’... More »
 The newly announced Tournament of Roses® Royal Court. Left to right: Princess Ashley Thaxton, Princess Kinsey Stuart, Princess Katherine Hernández, Princess Michelle Van Wyk, Princess Natalie Innocenzi, Princess June Ko, Princess Lauren Rogers The seven members of the 2010 Tournament of Roses Royal Court were announced today at Tournament House from a group of 26 finalists. As ambassadors of ... More »
The Tournament of Roses revealed today that the heroic pilot who masterfully landed US Airways Flight 1549, Captain Chesley B. “Sully†Sullenberger, III, will serve as the Grand Marshal for the 2010 Tournament of Roses festivities. Themed 2010: A Cut Above the Rest, the 121st Rose Parade will pay tribute to everyday heroes and the effort to always improve and enhance. As Grand Marshal, Sul... More »
When Juan Ruelas was its principal in 2011, Roosevelt Elementary School lost its Blue Ribbon School nomination because it was caught cheating on student testing. Pasadena Unified School District Superintendent Brian McDonald justified ignoring the Madison Elementary School community by appointing Ruelas as Madison’s Principal because of Ruelas’ supposed solid educational accomplished in improving ... More »
Residents, businesses and institutions play a major role in helping Pasadena meet its sustainability goals, as outlined in the 2010 Green City Report. For example, the city’s water use dropped by 15 percent with the help of Pasadena ’s residents, workforce and visitors. The report has plenty more to share.  Pasadena reduced its annual peak power demand by 4.45 megawatts, or the energy consu... More »
On January 3, 2010, retired Deputy Sheriff Charlene “Charlie” Rottler, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, died from injuries she sustained while working on patrol at Altadena Sheriff’s Station. Most people are unfamiliar with Charlie’s story. This is unfortunate but not surprising. She and her training officer were involved in a traffic collision with a drunk driver on November 5, 1972. That... More »
The 2010 Mercedes Benz G550 is huge. It’s like a pit bull :all steel and muscle. I honestly thought I wasn’t going to like driving it. Boy was I wrong. Even my tree-hugging friend had to admit she was smitten with it when we went out for our weekly lunch. And what really turned my head was when I went to retrieve it from the valet at a black tie event and found out they’d parked it front and cente... More »
The Pasadena-based Community Bank, an independent business bank with 15 business centers in Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Riverside and Orange Counties, today reported a 12.2% increase in net income to $6.8 million for the third quarter of 2011 compared to $6.1 million for the similar quarter in 2010. For the nine months ended September 30, 2011, the Bank reported a net income of $18.5 million comp... More »
Changes in Australia’s mass as reported by data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites from June 2010 to February 2011. Areas in greens and blues depict the greatest increases in mass, caused by excessive precipitation. The contour lines represent various land surface elevations. A new study co-authored and co-funded by NASA finds extensive flooding in Australia, co... More »
A new NASA study finds that global sea level, which dipped sharply in 2010-11 due to a strong La Nina event, has recovered and resumed its long-term upward climb. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/CNES For most of the past two decades, the NASA and European Topex/Poseidon, Jason-1 and Jason-2 satellites have tracked the gradual rise of the world’s ocean in response to global warming. In August 2011, ... More »
