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Monthly Archives: August 2010
Footnotes on the city clerk salary story
Since I had already gone running and screaming out the door for my week long summer vacation by the time my city clerk salary story was published in the newspaper, here are some footnotes on the story that I can … Continue reading
Weekend Review: Top News = I’m Back!
My vacation is but a distant abstract in the rear view window of my life and the busy catch-up of this week awaits me. I hope you all missed me. If not, thanks for the web hits! This story is … Continue reading
Irwindale City Council earns $160 in two minutes
During the course of our reporting on city finance, reporter Daniel Tedford found out an interesting quirk about Irwindale. During their City Council meetings, the council convenes two other governing bodies: the city’s redevelopment agency and it’s housing authority. The … Continue reading
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Best mustaches in the SGV
Click this link if you want to see a City Council that exudes manliness. I know we don’t write much about Irwindale, but we should. A town with staches like these should have its own newspaper. I know only three … Continue reading
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Vacation time
Just a little head’s up for those of you who get your late night (news) snack from us (Get it, it is called Leftovers? it was a food pun? never mind). I am going to be out of the office … Continue reading
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(UPDATED) Montebello embraces the red tape before divulging employee’s salary
Whittier Daily News reporter Bethania Palma Markus told me a neat little story today (it was surprisingly not cat/kitten related*). In our continued effort to give a broad look at city employee salaries, I am writing a piece on City … Continue reading
Monterey Park council salaries
Monterey Park was one of the few cities that we weren’t able to get into our story about council salaries in the San Gabriel Valley. Today we change history! Council members bring in a whopping (sarcasm) $500 a month, plus … Continue reading
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Two-week leak finally gets plugged in West Covina
Reading the paper today (online), I missed this story about how a West Covina water leak lasted two weeks before crews were able to fix it and I thought maybe you missed it too. In a time when cities, water … Continue reading
Can a seed really grow inside your body? Haha, of course not. (wait…what?)
Remember when you were a kid and that kid with the slicked back black hair despite being 8 years old told you that if you eat a watermelon seed you would grow watermelons in your stomach? You laughed him off … Continue reading
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Elderly woman, daughter of former Rosemead mayor, and her husband found stabbed in their home
We are investigating the stabbing death of a Rosemead couple found in their home Monday night. It appears that one of the victims, Susan Bezner, was also the daughter of former Rosemead Mayor Stuart Maude and the couple was well-known … Continue reading