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 […]
Vote No on Measure PFD: Pasadena Should Have Budgeted for Its Firefighters
Vote No on Measure PFD: Pasadena Should Have Budgeted for Its Firefighters Sep 30, 2026 · @Victor Caballero Nobody in Pasadena is against firefighters. The men and women of the Pasadena Fire Department run toward the emergencies the rest of us run from, and they deserve modern stations, enough colleagues on every shift, and equipment […]
Public Health Reports Highest Number of West Nile Virus Cases in Nearly a Decade
Public Health Reports Highest Number of West Nile Virus Cases in Nearly a Decade Public Health Urges People to Take Immediate Steps to Prevent the Spread of Mosquito-Borne Illness The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is reporting 100 cases of West Nile virus infections so far this year, marking the highest number […]
The Insider’s Guide to Evening Parking at Pasadena City Hall
The Insider’s Guide to Evening Parking at Pasadena City Hall If you are planning an evening trip to Pasadena City Hall—whether to get involved in local government or just to admire the gorgeous Mediterranean Revival architecture—you might be wondering about the parking situation. The good news? It is a lot easier (and cheaper) than you […]
The Quorum Crisis: How Pasadena’s Legislative Delays Threaten Effective Governance
The Quorum Crisis: How Pasadena’s Legislative Delays Threaten Effective Governance In municipal governance, showing up is more than a professional courtesy—it is a baseline constitutional requirement. For a city council or standing committee to legally deliberate, vote, or enact policy, a quorum must be present. When leaders fail to appear, the gears of local government […]