Signs of the times

More than a few candidate yard signs were missing last week in Pasadena's first district. More than the usual casualties of "aggressive counter-campaigning."

There appear to be fewer signs for erstwhile candidate Gordon Treweek, who announced last week he would stop campaigning after the Star-News ran a story about a 2002 settlement with neighbors of a former property he owned.

Gordon even went a step further -- he returned at least one campaign supporter's contribution with a note explaining why he was deactivating his campaign.