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Op-Ed | The South Pasadenan News
Mamma’s Backstage: Eclectic Fest pays tribute to Bob Stane’s Coffee Gallery Backstage
When Coffee Gallery Backstage impresario Bob Stane shuttered his venerated Altadena listening room last spring after a 25-year run, colleagues organized a sale of its contents. Lights, microphones, mic stands, cables, tables and chairs,...
OpEd | City Budget Problems: A Response to City Council
South Pasadena Resident Mr. Bray Addressing City Council & City Hall staff in writing about the budget information, logic, and pathway to resolution:
I can be talked out of this, but doesn't "a bizarre $1.6...
Op-Ed | The Best Benefit in South Pasadena
By Deborah Fox
Wednesday mornings are the best day of the week, playing golf at our own Arroyo Seco Golf Course right here in South Pasadena! Not only does our city have its own course,...
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...
Op-Ed | A More Perfect Union Requires Health Equity
By Bobby T. Rimas, Contributor
America has always strived for a “more perfect union.” But while much of our country is still in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the realities of our health care system...
OP-ED | Police Accountability Can Improve Actions and Protect Lives
By Lurdes Villalpando, Contributor
As we have witnessed Derek Chauvin being convicted for the murder of George Floyd, it is a start for other police officers to be held accountable for their actions. We are...
Op-Ed | Help Restore Our Earth with Your Electricity Choice this Earth Day
By Diana Mahmud, Mayor of South Pasadena and Chair of Clean Power Alliance’s Board of Directors
On April 22nd, the world will once again come together to commemorate Earth Day, with this year’s theme being...
Op-Ed | Thanks for a Job Well Done
By Matthew Sweeney, South Pasadena resident
Anteneh Tesfaye was rousted out of bed at 5:30 am this past Easter Sunday with the always dreaded emergency call. A busted 12-inch water main four feet under the...
Op-Ed | Learning to Care
By Bee Simpson
Deepest gratitude to Rick Thomas for A World Less Certain, the beautiful article on eating animals; and thanks to the South Pasadenan for publishing his work on 1/2/21.
We have been vegetarians since...
Op-Ed | Acceptance, Anticipation, and Hope
By San San Lee
Thanksgiving of 2020 has come and gone.
Black Friday and Cyber Monday also had their turns. It’s December. We are in the midst of yet another holiday season and spike in COVID-19.
Unlike...
Op-Ed | Coping with Uncertainty, an Unintended Gift
By San San Lee
To weather the corona storm and sociopolitical ugliness in the US, we left LA for Barcelona at the end of August. We will be here until the spring of 2021, perhaps...
OP-ED | ‘Leadership and Transparency Go Hand-in-Hand, Where is the Leadership in South...
By Alan Ehrlich
2020 has been a strange year for a number of reasons, not just nationally, but also here in South Pasadena. It is easy to call yourself a leader when the plane...
OP-ED | ‘Why This Single Mom POC Housing Advocate Supports the Fighter, the Hero,...
By Anne Bagasao
Last week, more than 150 yard signs for District 3 candidates Alan Ehrlich and Michelle Hammond went missing. For someone to round up these signs took a lot of work.
Alan and Michelle...
OP-ED | ‘We’ve Decided to Meet Bigotry with Bigotry’
By Chris Bray
South Pasadena is a model community: diverse, tolerant, open. But none of that is a given. We have to fight for it, and we have to say what we mean and what...
OP-ED: Care First South Pasadena | Community Coalition Calls for Fully Investigating any Improper...
By Care First South Pasadena
Amid growing national concern about connections between local police departments and religious and right wing extremist groups, the Care First South Pasadena coalition is insisting that the South Pasadena City...
Op-Ed | Councilmember Mahmud ‘s Perceived Apprehension Over Rossi’s Appointment
By Ron Rosen
On August 19, the City Council met to decide if and how they would fill the empty District 2 seat.
It was the consensus of three Councilmembers that this should be done as...
Op-Ed | ‘Understanding Why Hundreds of Residents Support Steve Rossi’
By Sheila Tully, Council District 2
Our city is in a financial crisis. No budget. No audit. No interim financial reporting. Five Finance Directors in the past three years. The sixth director is now on...
Op-Ed | ‘Important Moment in the City’s 132-Year Financial History’
By Josh Betta
Rogers, Anderson, Malody and Scott, LLP, Certified Public Accountants (or, RAMS) will make public statements at the City Council meeting of August 19, 2020. RAMS’ will do so cognizant of the requirements and...
Op-Ed | Want to Improve Police Relations? Start with the Public Safety Commission
By South Pasadena Youth for Police Reform
After some of the largest protests South Pasadena has ever seen after the killing of George Floyd, the question remains: what have we done?
Despite signals from leaders of...
Op-Ed | Hazardous Traffic Conditions on Pine St Still Pose a Threat
By Caitlin Lainoff
Saturday night, July 25th, illustrated yet again an extremely dangerous traffic situation in South Pasadena. At 1 am, a car came barreling off of Huntington and entered Pine St. However, on this...
Op-Ed | Corona Yo-Yo or Moderation
By San San Lee
Several years ago, I lost 50 pounds. After being diagnosed with high blood pressure, I realized it was time to take action.
It was hard.
It took me 11 months and I went...
