Monthly Archives: January 2008

Plagiarism that beats even Percy Clark’s

Rewriting someone else’s stories is one thing. Simply stealing them word for word is another. We all know that the one-man-band news site Pasadena Now doesn’t have much staff, whether in Bangalore or Pasadena. That’s why they can’t cover the … Continue reading

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Thorny Rose take on the State of the City

Wayne Lusvardi, chairman of the anti-Measure D group Citizens for Responsible Government, which opposes the measure on Pasadena’s Feb. 5 ballot, didn’t show up at the Doo Dah Parade Sunday to take his turn as the city’s annual Thorny Rose, … Continue reading

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The lion and the Lab

This photo, forwarded by lawyer and trails advocate Paul Ayers, was apparently taken Wednesday by a Jet Propulsion Lab employee from the bridge that goes from the JPL parking lot in the Upper Arroyo Seco to the Lab itself. In … Continue reading

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A ‘spoiled sport’

What proponent of one side of a political issue going on a ballot would turn down an opportunity to literally parade his views before over 10,000 people just days before the election? Not a guy who cares a lot about … Continue reading

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PUSD All-Star Band in London town, Jan. 1, 2008

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But they’d just as soon do without the rain

In a memo this morning to county supes, Donald Wolfe, public works director in the big Alhambra office, reports 4. 4 inches of rain since Friday in the San Gabriel Valley, vs. just 1.9 inches in the San Fernando Valley. … Continue reading

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Rosing to the occasion

Word on the Doo Dah street is that the Pasadena Doo Dah Parades 2008 Thorny Rose Selection Committee, a highly confidential and eclectic panel of community observers, has narrowed its choices for this year’s award to a short list of … Continue reading

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