Op-Ed | The South Pasadenan News
Op-Ed | Imminent Sale of Surplus Caltrans Properties Neighborhood Impacts: URGENT
BY: Save our South Pasadena Neighborhoods
Dear Neighbor:
As you may or may not be aware, the process to sell the remaining 68 Caltrans‐owned surplus properties within the City of South Pasadena is underway. The City...
Is South Pasadena Ready to Become Pasadena? | It Starts with Building Height Limits...
By Joanne Nuckols
Two years ago and in recent months, the issue of South Pasadena's 45' height limit is being discussed and the possibility of the City Council putting the limit on the ballot to...
Op-Ed | $5 Million for South Pasadena – What Say You
By Care First
The City of South Pasadena has an amazing opportunity—in the form of $5 million from the federal government—to make significant improvements in its residents’ lives. Yet, it is unnecessarily rushing through the...
Op-Ed | When the Chips are Down…
Publishers Note: Alison Smith made a claim and subsequently filed a lawsuit against the City of South Pasadena in connection with a January 2018 sewage spill that flooded the backyard of her home on...
Op-Ed | South Pasadena Leaders Showed Common Sense with a “No” Vote on Banning...
By Bob Aujla
While Californians wait on the chance to vote in November on whether the State can ban the sales of flavored tobacco products, local governments across the state are haphazardly passing ordinances that...
OP-ED | What Will It Take for a Former Sundown Town to Be Anti-Racist?
By Care First South Pasadena
Despite the swell in community demands for racial justice in South Pasadena starting in the summer of 2020, City Councilmembers and City Hall officials have met these demands with silence...
Op-Ed | A Break: Living through the Pandemic (A Journal)
Op-Ed | by San San Lee, Contributor
The nurse who administered my shot was a young man in his early 30’s. Though there was a long line, he asked if it was OK to jab...
Op-Ed | South Pasadena Was Right to Say No to the 710, It’s Time...
By OP-ED | Brandon Yung
It would be hard to imagine how different South Pasadena would be if the 710 freeway cut across the city today.
By fighting the freeway, South Pasadena avoided harms that other,...
Op-Ed | Pawn-dering High School
By Louisa Petrillo, SPHS Class of 2021
It’s your opening move. You’re playing white so you have the advantage. Do you start with your pawn? And if so, do you jump right in moving it...
Op-Ed | Maskless Wonder: The Top Ten Things I’ll Miss About Masking Up
By Elizabeth Cavanaugh
My mask has become my security blanket. Despite the relief and freedom brought by waning Covid-19 cases and less rigid CDC guidelines, removing that little strip of fabric proves complicated. Oddly, there...
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