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PASADENA, Calif. — Police initially considered Oscar Carrillo a victim of an armed robbery and rushed to the spot where Carrillo claimed one of two young men pointed a gun in his face. Now police are laying part of the blame for the fatal shooting of Kendrec McDade, whom officers believed was one of the armed thieves, on Carrillo, arresting him on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter. Prosecutors are weighing whether to file charges

Pasadena police ramp up for Occupy the Rose Parade PASADENA - In response to the planned demonstration by Occupy, the Pasadena Police Department has doubled down on the number of law enforcement agents that will patrol the streets and skies during the Rose Parade and Rose Bowl Game on Jan. 2, police Lt. Phlunte Riddle said. The exact number of additional police officers, sheriff's deputies, California Highway Patrol officers and federal agents remains secret. "We have partnered with federal, state and local agencies and have sufficient coverage for the Rose Parade," Riddle said. "We have increased staffing this year but...

Police and Occupy the Rose Parade demonstrators had a meeting of the minds this week, with protesters who plan a post-Rose Parade march down Colorado Boulevard promising not to disrupt the main event and police ensuring the demonstrators would be treated fairly as long as they keep their word. In a meeting Wednesday with Police Chief Phillip Sanchez and other department brass, Occupy the Rose Parade organizers agreed not to disrupt official Rose Parade proceedings. “We want to make sure this is completely non-disruptive to the main parade,” said Occupy the Rose Parade organizer Peter Thottam. “We’re going to work...

2011 may quickly be coming to an end, but the ‘Occupy’ movement said it plans on sticking with its same old strategy on New Year’s Day in 2012. KNX 1070′s John Brooks reports organizers announced plans Thursday to crash the Rose Parade in Pasadena. An organizer from the Los Angeles demonstration has launched the “Occupy The Rose Parade” website to rally supporters. The protest will reportedly focus on the role of banks and corporations in the political process as well as the militarization of the parade itself, said organizer Peter Thottam. Thottam is planning protests at at least three locations...

"Live Updates From Obama Eligibility Hearing At The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in Pasadena... Gary from GUL will be giving me periodic phone updates from the hearing in Pasadena, California. This post will be updated as news is forthcoming... 11:55(et): Gary just informed me that the hearing has been put at the end of the docket and will begin in about 1-2 hours after the original scheduling time of 9am California time. It is the the 4th case on the docket. Gary reports that ABC, CBS and CSPAN are in the courtroom. Atty Kreep informed Gary that CSPAN will...

PASADENA - The centennial celebration of Ronald Reagan's birthday begins New Year's Day, when a float dedicated to the 40th president will make its way down Colorado Boulevard. The 55-foot-long float is designed by Fiesta of Irwindale. It features a 26-foot-high bald eagle and 11 black-and-white photographs of Reagan, which will be decorated with onion seeds, poppy seeds and crushed sweet rice. "President Reagan always believed America's best days were ahead. At a time when many Americans look forward to a New Year with a similar optimism and pride, we at the Reagan Foundation are honored to be invited to...

PPD Reportedly 'not asking about anybody's legal status unless it is a matter of national security' WASHINGTON, July 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has filed an open records lawsuit against the Pasadena Police Department (PPD), and PPD Police Chief Christopher Vicino, to obtain documents related to the department's alleged illegal alien sanctuary policy. Chief Vicino reportedly indicated that the department prevents his officers from "asking about anybody's legal status unless it is a matter of national security," which may be a violation of federal immigration law....

The Revolution has started in Arizona and we here in California are ready to fight... join us in REBUKE THE ROSE PARADE AND BOWL! Pasadena and it's elected officials have sided with the ILLEGAL invasion of our sovereign lands. http://www.facebook.com/pages/REBUKE-the-ROSE-PARADE-and-BOWL/124933400866076

PASADENA - In a 5-2 vote, the City Council on Monday condemned Arizona's controversial new immigration law and called upon Congress for comprehensive immigration reform.

Pasadena City Council 13. CONSIDERATION OF POSSIBLE CITY COUNCIL ACTION IN REGARD TO STATE OF ARIZONA SENATE BILL 1070 RELATING TO THE ENFORCEMENT OF FEDERAL IMMIGRATION LAWS (Vice Mayor Gordo) 139k ATTACHMENTS 1 thru 3 5285k ATTACHMENTS 4 thru 6 1253k ATTACHMENTS 7 thru 9 1972k

Another by-product of the Obama nanny government. The city of Pasadena in California is exploring the possibility to ban a legal substance inside your home: City council members will consider next month the possibility of an outright ban on smoking in city limits. On Monday, the council's Public Safety Committee discussed a long-proposed ban on smoking in apartment buildings, and Councilman Steve Haderlein asked the staff to find out whether the city has the legal authority to put a full smoking ban into place.Pasadena passed a ban on outdoor smoking in most public areas in 2008, and at the time...

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Twelve years ago, the idea of a giant mudslide barreling down the Arroyo Seco in Pasadena was considered only a distant possibility. Nevertheless, the Devil's Gate Dam underwent a major enhancement that took two years to complete and enabled one of the oldest dams in Los Angeles County to withstand a potential massive debris flow. At the time, engineers thought the improvements might be overkill because conditions would never be extreme enough to test the dam's strength, at least not in their lifetimes. "Not a chance," recalled Brad Boman, engineering manager of water services at Pasadena Water and Power. But...

Imagine your city is located next door to a valley water district with enough surplus water to meet your needs but instead your city imports about two-thirds of its water hundreds of miles from the Colorado River and the Sacramento Delta, and pays a premium price for it, resulting in environmental degradation in the process. Do you think this is wise policy for water rate payers in a city that praises itself for its Green City Action Plan? Moreover, as your city conserves more water due to a purported drought, municipal water rates go up because of a decline in...

The Pasadena Star News reports on a religious "vigil" held Monday night at the Pasadena City Hall by a group of about 100 health care reform advocates reportedly from various churches in the area (All Saints, Cavalry Chapel, Altadena Baptist, Jewish synagogue, etc.) propounding a big lie that there are medical "uninsured" in California who do not receive medical treatment. Read here: http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_13594645 This propaganda should not go unchecked. For the record, there are no people living in California who are denied medical treatment. Everyone is potentially eligible for Medi-Cal, which is partially subsidized by the Federal government. We already...

Below read a post by Hans von Spakovsky at "The Corner" blog at NationalReviewOnline about how the Eric Holder-run U.S. Department of Justice has reportedly established a disinformation unit at DOJ. The Most Transparent Administration Ever? Not at DOJ [Hans von Spakovsky] Is the Department of Justice engaging in fraud, or is it simply trying to hide its propaganda? Those of you wondering how DOJ uses your tax dollars to enforce our nation’s laws might be interested to learn that Eric Holder has apparently hired former Democratic campaign bloggers to work at the department in what appears to be a...

The great Roman ruler Caesar Augustus (63 BC to 14 AD) was quoted by historian Suetonius as saying "I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble." Tim Brick, the Chairman of the Board of The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and Pasadena's representative on the MWD Board, seems determined to reverse Augustus's statement to "I found Pasadena a city of marble fountains and left it a city of bricks." According to the Orange County Register, MWD is poised to use a recent mandated 20% regional water rate hike to increase MWD employee pensions...

A Pasadena police officer was killed this morning in a shootout in which the suspect also was seriously wounded. Officer Jesse Hamilton, 29, was flown to Memorial Hermann Hospital-Texas Medical Center, where he died of a head wound. Four Pasadena police officers responded to a disturbance call made at 6:09 a.m. from a trailer park near the intersection of Shaver and Queens before 6:30 a.m., Assistant Police Chief Bud Corbett said. Hamilton was the first officer to arrive. The suspect, 24-year-old Sergio Robles, arrived at his mother's trailer home around 5 a.m. after his wife and child spent the night...

The online Urban Dictionary humorously defines "stimulus bill" as "the money owed to a hooker." Joke: Robbie: Hey can i borrow some money? Joe: Why? Robbie: I have to pay my stimulus bill from last night. But it's no joke that the Obama Administration has allocated "another" $6 million to "cash-strapped" Pasadena according to the Pasadena Star News. Read: "Cash-Strapped City of Pasadena Receives Another $6 Million in Stimulus Funding" - here http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/ci_12581182 However, the reportage of the Pasadena Star News, which has been making a comeback of late, is disappointing to say the least on this topic. First of...

PASADENA - Dozens of people gathered on the steps of Pasadena City Hall Friday to advocate for lower taxes, government spending, and stand up against what they view as a burgeoning socialist threat. There was also a local bent to the protest, with protestors focusing on Proposition 1A, the state proposition that would add $16 billion in new taxes over the next two years. It would also put in a spending cap designed to keep expenditures low. Ventura County Supervisor Peter Foy, who attended the rally, claimed the spending cap is a sham. "It's not a real cap. All they...

How might the following seemingly unrelated events have anything to do with the City of Pasadena becoming poorer, and doing so faster? * City acquisition of 20-acres of open lands zoned for 24 housing units in Annandale Canyon for open space preservation * State Assemblyman Anthony Portantino's usurpation of local single family zoning by cto re-designating the homes along the future surface route of the Long Beach Freeway Extension to low income multi-family housing * The continued decrease in enrollment in Pasadena's public schools and continued failure rate * The closure of new car dealerships along Colorado Boulevard * The...

Saturday April 11 at 12:30 pm the Pasadena Republican Club, in consort with the Howard Jarvis Taxpayer's Association, sponsored a rousing anti-tax rally on the steps of the citadel of heavy taxation in Pasadena - Pasadena's City Hall which was used in the TV series "Mission Impossible." See here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pasadena_City_Hall I didn't see one Pasadena public official present at the rally. As of 7 pm tonight no local online major local media coverage of the event has been posted - a possible testament of how superfluous the mainline media has become. The entire rally was organized through the Internet and...

A joke this writer has thought of spreading around town is that Pasadena ’s dependence on imports of so-called *dirty coal* power from Utah and Rose Parade fans from everywhere has now been upstaged by the importing of an economic stimulus from D.C. Which raises the more serious question, *what or which stimulus package would be best for Pasadena ?* The amount, timing, and millstones that will be involved with any Federal stimulus package that might filter down to Pasadena have not been definitively decided upon yet. Hopefully, what will trickle down to Pasadena will be in the form of...

“Momentum for Success or Momentum to Depress?” Synopsis: �City Budget up whopping 8.5% despite Depression (2008 inflation only 3.5%) �Mayor fails to report City reserves are equal to 14% of all household income at onset of Depression -- $13,469 per household equal to $1,125 per household per month �City has failed to post Comprehensive Annual Financial Report for 2008 The theme for the Mayor Bill Bogaard’s State of the City (SOCk) report to be held at the Pasadena Conference Center on Thursday night January 22, 2009, was "Momentum for Success." It might as well have been “momentum to depress.” How...

Former City of Pasadena Development Administrator Marsha Rood, in a recent letter to the local newspaper cited the need for *The Pasadena Way* to resolve local conflicts currently raging in the city. She defines the *Pasadena Way* as *Good Will, the Will to Truth, Respect for Diversity, and Civility.* But does the *Pasadena Way* – the official public culture – in Pasadena include *civility?* To the contrary, the official public culture in Pasadena oozes with incivility and intolerance in its political and theological rhetoric, its public rituals, parades, and art, and its newspaper writers and letters to the editor. It...

As California’s economy falls into a deep recession from the bursting of the global real estate bubble, it would behoove everyone to understand how local policies also contributed to the bubble in the first place. To liberals the recent real estate bubble was caused by Wall Street financial deregulation; to conservatives by over-regulation from anti-red lining lending laws of the Community Reinvestment Act which forced banks to make sub-prime loans to former renters who could not otherwise qualify for conventional loans. Both point fingers at each other over the 1999 bipartisan repeal of the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act II which separated...

June 17, 2008, 3:11AM Grand jury could decide on Horn case this week By BRIAN ROGERS Copyright 2008 Houston Chronicle TOOLS Email Get section feed Print Recommend (15) Comments (1065) Yahoo! Buzz Joe Horn, the Pasadena man who shot and killed two burglars after they emerged from his neighbor's home last year, regrets that decision, his attorney said Monday as a Harris County grand jury began hearing evidence in the case. "Was it a mistake from a legal standpoint? No. But a mistake in his life? Yes," said defense lawyer Tom Lambright. "Because it's affected him terribly. And if he...

Activists planning protest at Rose Parade By: North County Times wire services PASADENA - Peace activists said Sunday they plan to protest and unfurl signs during the Rose Parade on Tuesday, and then march down Colorado Boulevard as the parade ends, calling for an end to the Iraq war and for the impeachment of the president and vice president. A group calling itself the White Rose Coalition said its members plan to demonstrate in front of the TV camera platforms at the Norton Simon Museum starting at 6 a.m. New Year's Day. Pasadena police said Sunday they had just heard...

GLENN: Now, in Pasadena, just a suburb outside of Houston, there is a guy named Joe Horn. I've talked about him on the air before and everything I have heard about Joe Horn is that he's a decent human being, that he's a good guy. All of his neighbors say he's like the grandfather of the neighborhood. There is a law in Houston where a guy can protect his own property. You come onto his property; he can shoot you. Well, a friend said, would you watch my house. He was watching the house. Two guys crawl out of a...

Pasadena Doesn't Need Phone/Internet Tax Citizens for Responsible Government - Pasadena, CA Wayne Lusvardi - Chairman The City of Pasadena has the highest General Fund revenues per household of all large cities over 100,000 in population in Southern California according to an informal study conducted by Citizens for Responsible Government who are opposing the City’s Measure D which will impose a Utility Users Tax on phone bills and, for the first time, on the internet. See table at http://www.pasadenapundit.com The General Fund is the common pot of money from which municipal operations are funded, such as police, fire, libraries, parks...

PASADENA, Calif. -- It was a lovely day at the Tournament of Roses House, as the grandstands for the 119th Annual Rose Parade were already being erected nearby while Dodgers vice chairman and president Jamie McCourt helped unveil to the media the design for the organization's first float in this "tradition-rich New Year's Day spectacle." "This will be a great kickoff," said McCourt, referring to the organization's 50th anniversary celebration of its move to Los Angeles... McCourt also listed the various Dodgers players and organization members, past and present, who will ride on the float that day. They include Hall...

Like Pasadena, Los Angeles is Exposed to "Utility Math" Jack Humphreville Neighborhood Council - DWP Oversight Committee Like Pasadena, we in Los Angeles are being exposed to utility math. DWP has proposed to raise our power rates on January 1 and July 1, 2008, and July 1, 2009. They have been characterized as "fairly modest" and only "$1.75 a month" and 8.5% over 3 (years) the rate hikes and they are vital to improve our power reliability. Unfortunately, when you take in the "pass thrus," our rates are going up 23%. That is not fairly modest, that is RATE SHOCK!...

Bargaining With the Open Space Devil Makes Us All Greenies Now http://www.CaliforniaRepublic.org by Wayne Lusvardi 9/12/07 American newspaper journalist H. L. Mencken once wrote: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." This is no more exemplified than with what is conventionally called "open space preservation" in California. In a German legend, a character named Faust (German for "fist" or Latin for "lucky") traded his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge or power....

The Loss of Shaming and the Rise of Youth Crime - with Implications for Schools (and ceremonial events) The Pasadena Pundit - August 31, 2007 Excerpted from John Braithwaite, Crime, Shame and Reintegration, 1989. 1. Crime is committed disproportionately by males. 2. Crime is perpetrated disproportionately by 15-25 year old males. 3. Crime is committed disproportionately by unmarried people. 4. Crime is committed disproportionately by people living in large cities (or highly impersonal downtown settings). 5. Crime is committed disproportionately by people who have experienced high residential mobility and who live in areas characterized by high residential mobility (where there...

Did L.A. Times Trigger Erroneous Media Crime Wave of Gang Killings in Pasadena? The Pasadena Pundit - August 24, 2007 Misinformation: There is No Crime Wave of Gang Killings in Pasadena The Pasadena Weekly is out with an article "Slain teen was one of many youngsters drawn to troubled club" which contains this sentence: There have been 11 gang-related homicides in Pasadena this year according to the Pasadena Police Department, not 19, as reported recently in the Los Angeles Times. According to Police Chief Bernard Melekian in the Star News of August 11, since 1996 when he was elected chief:...

Inclusionary Housing is Sociological Suicide The Pasadena Pundit - August 11, 2007 Inclusionary housing is a recipe for sociological suicide in the City of Pasadena. What is inclusionary housing? It is a law which forces every four new condo buyers or apartment renters to subsidize the price or rent of one low income housing unit in Pasadena. Developers do not pay for inclusionary housing units - they just pass through the costs to new owners and renters. Recipients of inclusionary housing are typically drawn from a pool of applicants often steered to the new inclusionary developments by the politically well-connected....

Why City Government, Nonprofits, or Business Are Not Enough to Hold Pasadena Together The Pasadena Pundit - August 9, 2007 http://www.pasadenapundit.com Who is showing the most leadership in our community when it comes to the challenge presented by the rising number of gang killings and shootings? Is it the Mayor with his policy of multiplying city commissions and nonprofits tied to city-funding? Is it Councilwoman Margaret McAustin with her inclusionary and affordable housing programs which will only move the problem around or eclipse more neighborhood associations? Is it the Pasadena Education Foundation (PEF) with its base of nonprofits funded by...

Pasadena Gang Killings Not Due to Poverty, Racism or Unaffordable Housing The Pasadena Pundit - July 29, 2007 "Man does not live by bread alone." -- Matthew 4:4 The recent tally by the L.A. Times that there have been 18 gang-related murders in Pasadena in the past 18 months has brought about shock, outrage, and finger pointing as to why the uptrend in such violence has come about. To Diane Segura of the Pasadena YWCA it is because there is an income "disparty" between the rich and the poor. Community activist Shirley Smith has been often heard saying the reason...

Just How Green is Pasadena's Green City Action Plan? The Pasadena Pundit - 7-22-07 Pasadena has already started implementing a "Green City Action Plan" modeled after the United Nations Urban Environmental Accords which cover seven environmental categories that cities can address to enable sustainable urban living and improve the quality of life for city dwellers: energy, waste reduction, urban design, urban nature, transportation, environmental health and water. It also includes 21 recommended actions for cities to take by 2012 to contribute to global efforts. Pasadena has already implemented 7 of these 21 action items. To review City's Green City Action...

Firefighters weren't sure what was causing the smoke rising from a former discount store in this Baltimore suburb. The place had been abandoned for years, the interior stripped to the walls. When they got inside July 2, they found only one thing burning: a 41-year-old man who became engulfed in flames and died after cutting through a high-voltage line. Sean Phelps became another ghastly casualty of what authorities say is a deadly national trend: copper wiring thefts. High copper prices in recent years have thieves breaking into power plants and abandoned factories to rip out the wiring. Vandals are even...

Pasadena is About to Push the Inclusionary Housing Camel's Nose Through the Back Door of the Rent Control Tent The Pasadena Pundit - June 12, 2007 http://www.pasadenanow.com Excerpt: In the next week or so the City of Pasadena will be pushing to expand its Inclusionary Housing Ordinance from new residential developments to condominium conversions of older existing apartment stock as well, mainly in the City's "urban village" core. If the City can cross the line from new housing to condominium conversions how long will it be before it can mandate the same for all existing apartment and condominium housing; or...

Un-Memorial Day in Pasadena - No Elected Officials Present Mary Dee Romney - PUSDGreatSchools@GoogleGroups.com http://www.pasadenapundit.com There were forty-four (44) names read at the Memorial Day service this morning in Pasadena's Memorial Park, all San Gabriel Valley casualties from Afghanistan and Iraq. There was no notice in the Pasadena Star-News this morning. No elected officials were present.

Pasadena's NIRPY Electricity Integrated Resource Plan 1. NIRP - Variation of acronym for NERP, Nefarious Nonprofit Evil Resident Politick A fascist organization bent on the destruction of the human race! "Integrated Resource Plans (IRP's) are a compromise of failed policies. Ours will not fail." ~The NERP doctrine 2. NIRP - Nonprofit Integrated Resources Plan 3. NERP - Non Energy Reporting news Papers Paraphrased from The Urban Dictionary - http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=nerp Sum: Will Pasadena's new proposed electricity Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) be a product of NERP - the Nefarious Nonprofit Evil Resident Politick (NERP)? Find out below. Pasadena Water and Power (PWP)...

Intermountain Power Plant Expansion Threatens Tourist "Views," Not Health - Serves Burbank, Glendale, Pasadena Preface: A proposal to extend the energy contracts for Burbank, Glendale, and Pasadena from 2025 to 2050 to accommodate expansion of the Intermountain Power Plant in Delta, Utah for a third coal-fired module has met with stiff resistance by the National Resources Defence Coucil (NRDC), the Sierra Club and other environmental organizations who have cited this as a "moral cause." The power plant's 710 foot stack, which is a technological marvel, removes 99.75 percent of all the particulates that would have gone into the atmosphere in...

PASADENA - Caught between carboniferous rock and a hard place, city power officials will ask Sacramento next week for compromise on a pending coal-energy ban. The negotiations come as Pasadena decides whether to extend its contracts for imported coal-generated power to 2044 - a deal that will be prohibited from Jan. 1 under state law. The issue will not be discussed as planned Monday at City Council, where it likely would have died. "My feeling is if Sid \ is with us on this issue, they're not going to get five votes to push this thing forward," said Jim Stewart...

Mars Patrol, Please Phone Home NASA Loses Contact With Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter By NED POTTER Nov. 13, 2006 — - Ten years ago -- 10 years last week, in fact -- a little ship named Mars Global Surveyor was launched from Florida, designed to spend two years in Martian orbit. It hasn't been heard from in a week now, and the engineers at the Jet Propulsion Lab in California are finally getting worried. Something on the ship apparently went awry when it sent a signal that it was having trouble orienting one of its solar panels to face...

Pasadena -- With the campaign season in full swing, a liberal church is locked an escalating dispute with the IRS over an anti-war sermon — delivered two days before the 2004 presidential election — that could cost the congregation its tax-exempt status. Religious leaders on both the right and left are watching closely, afraid the confrontation at All Saints Church in this Los Angeles suburb will compromise their ability to speak out on issues of moral importance such as abortion and gay marriage during the midterm elections. Under federal tax law, church officials can legally discuss politics, but to retain...

Liberal Calif. Church Will Decide Soon Whether to Fight IRS Summons By The Associated Press Mon, Sep. 18 2006 11:10 AM ET[-] Text [+] SUBSCRIBE TO NEWSLETTER PRINT E-MAIL MORE FROM SECTION LOS ANGELES (AP) - A liberal church at the center of a dispute with the Internal Revenue Service over a 2004 sermon will decide this week whether to fight an IRS summons. Related IRS Investigating Liberal Calif. Church (September 17, 2006) The IRS is requesting a number of documents be produced by Sept. 29 and that the church's rector, Rev. Ed Bacon, testify before an IRS agent on...

The Internal Revenue Service has ordered a prominent liberal church to turn over documents and e-mails it produced during the 2004 election year that contain references to political candidates. The IRS is investigating whether All Saints Episcopal Church in Pasadena violated the federal tax code when its former rector, Rev. George F. Regas, delivered an anti-war sermon on the eve of the last presidential election. Tax-exempt organizations are barred from intervening in political campaigns and elections, and the church could lose its tax-exempt status. Rev. Ed Bacon received a summons Thursday ordering the church to present any politically charged sermons,...

PASADENA, Calif. - Mr. T has given himself a makeover. The former television action star shed the piles of gold chains that were his signature look after witnessing the destruction from Hurricane Katrina. "As a spiritual man, I felt it would be a sin against my God for me to wear all that gold again because I spent a lot of time with the less fortunate," the actor said Thursday at the Television Critics Association's summer meeting. "I saw some, I call it `sorry celebrities.' They'll go down there and hook up with the people to take a photo-op. I...