Pasadena Calls Road Safety a Top Priority. City Hall Isn’t Acting Like It
Pasadena Calls Road Safety a Top Priority. City Hall Isn’t Acting Like It Fatal crashes are up, the motor unit is short, and DOT keeps offering reasons it can’t act. Here’s what the city should do now. On Wednesday night, the City Council’s Municipal Services Committee sat through a “Citywide Traffic Safety Update” from the […]
Prioritizing Core Responsibilities: Why Pasadena Taxpayers Deserve Budgetary Discipline Over Measure PFD
Prioritizing Core Responsibilities: Why Pasadena Taxpayers Deserve Budgetary Discipline Over Measure PFD When Pasadena homeowners opened their mailboxes over the past few weeks, many were greeted not by neutral, factual notices, but by glossy literature making an urgent case for Measure PFD. To many residents, the tone of this outreach feels less like administrative transparency […]
A Step Backward: Why Pasadena’s 5–3 Vote for Synthetic Turf at Villa Parke and Robinson Park Is the Wrong Call
A Step Backward: Why Pasadena’s 5–3 Vote for Synthetic Turf at Villa Parke and Robinson Park Is the Wrong Call In a narrow 5–3 vote, the Pasadena City Council approved replacing worn synthetic fields at Villa Parke and Robinson Park with brand-new artificial turf. While city staff framed this as an easy choice to maximize […]
Latest Updates Ahead of CicLAvia Pasadena’s November Return
Latest Updates Ahead of CicLAvia Pasadena’s November Return PASADENA, Calif. – The City of Pasadena invites everyone to join CicLAvia—Pasadena on Sunday, November 15, from 9am to 3pm, in partnership with the nonprofit CicLAvia and funded in part by Metro. The event will temporarily convert sections of our city streets into vibrant, car-free zones for […]
Overnight Mosquito Treatments in Altadena and Monterey Park
Overnight Mosquito Treatments in Altadena and Monterey Park If you heard a slow-moving truck on your street in the middle of the night this week, it wasn’t the trash crew. The San Gabriel Valley Mosquito and Vector Control District (SGV Mosquito) is running truck-mounted mosquito treatments in parts of Altadena and Monterey Park in the […]
Vote No on Measure PFD
Vote No on Measure PFD on November 3. Nobody in Pasadena is against firefighters. But Measure PFD is the City asking residents for $22.1 million a year in new money because City Hall won’t make fire protection a priority inside the budget it already has. Pasadena families are already paying some of the highest sales […]