Pasadena city hall

Pasadena city hall

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Heritage Square

Heritage Square house from across the street
After reading Todd Ruiz’s posts about the Heritage Square development project (Of Struthionidae struthio, Change of heart), I wanted to know where the development site was. I looked up the address (the city’s Heritage Square web page lists it as 760 N. Fair Oaks Avenue) and went there [...]

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City Council Meeting

We stopped by tonight’s Pasadena city council meeting and heard a presentation about the affordable housing plan recommended by the city manager.

Media van outside the Pasadena Senior Center

Senior Center entrance

City council meeting in progress inside the Senior Center’s multipurpose room

Affordable housing recommendations

People with letter signs spelling something out–or perhaps getting ready to spell something out

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Pasadena politics: District 2 runoff links

Aaron Proctor: District 1 and District 2 Run-offs Heating Up!
Pasadena Pundit: Candidate Margaret McAustin Bangs the Table by Robert Pingel (I’m having trouble figuring out how to link to the permalink for this post – it’s dated March 6, though.)
Pasadena Star News: ELECTION07: A rush to stop: Council candidate Jim Lomako explains run-ins with the [...]

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Comments enabled at Foothill Cities!

Foothill Cities is now allowing comments. You go, guys/gals! Short of ad hominem attacks and spam*, I vote for leaving comments unmoderated and allowing people to argue vigorously. That’s my two cents. Open–even heated–conversations in comments often go interesting places and help us all think through ideas.
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*Update: Make that “Short of ad hominem attacks, spam, [...]

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Streaming videos of Pasadena city council meetings online

I’m guessing that a lot of people out there already know this, but I just discovered that you can watch videos of Pasadena’s city council meetings online. These are fascinating. They’re talking about what’s going on with our city! They’re making decisions. They’re arguing. The meeting agendas are available alongside the videos, and there’s a [...]

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L.A. Times on the Pasadena mayoral race

latimes.com: Pasadena mayor speaks softly — and wins: Bill Bogaard strives to be boring, a secret to his successful reelection, he says (by way of proctorformayor.com)
I love this city.
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Update: Kelly at West Coast Grrlie Blather on this article in her post Where the Boring Mayor Lives:
I’ve lived in Pasadena for over two decades, and I’m [...]

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Polls are still open

Polls will be open until 8:00 p.m. tonight. (Polling place info and sample ballot here: http://lavote.net/Locator/)

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Pasadena City Elections are tomorrow, March 6

You can find your polling place and see a sample ballot here: http://lavote.net/Locator/

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Aaron Proctor

I’ve been reading Aaron Proctor’s blog, Aaron Proctor for Mayor of Pasadena, for a few weeks now, and the more I read it, the more I hear myself thinking Yeah! Way to say that. Wow, this guy makes sense.

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