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Pasadena City Council Sends Its “Wish List” to Metro. A recap of City Council's meeting on Jan. 29,...

As the future races forward, the past is a resource that continues to guide and to inspire. By Garrett Rowlan Such was the general impression after reviewing...

Taking the bull by the horns was the theme of Monday night’s meeting of the Pasadena City Council. By Garrett Rowlan The elephant in the room (to continue the...

What happened at the Pasadena State of the City...

Judging by the excitement of a few teens and pre-teens gathered at the Allandale branch of the Pasadena Public Library, prior to the arrival of the 2018 Royal...

Editor’s note: Link to video of the entire council meeting has been added below. Normally at 6 pm, a half-hour before the meeting of the City Council...

“The past is a foreign country,” H.E. Bates wrote at the beginning of his novel, The Go-Between, “they do things differently there.” By Garrett Rowlan...

Pasadena Football and Affordable Housing: A recap of Pasadena City Council meeting on Monday, Dec. 11,...

While Monday night’s short session of the Pasadena City Council—clocking in at a few ticks past 90 minutes—might have been short, it was not without...

GUEST OPINION Book signings are usually a placid event with a sparse crowd of fans, invitees, and the author’s friends gathered in numbers that—it is...

As the New Year approaches, Monday night’s meeting of the Pasadena Design Commission shows clearly how Pasadena is a Janus-headed city, both looking toward...

To update the old proverb, if the mountain won’t come to rent control, then the rent control must go to mountain—therefore, members of the Pasadena Tenants...

The Monday night meeting of the Pasadena City Council was a mixed bag, beginning with two poems* about homelessness and ending, 2 ½ hours later, with the...

Resolutions, Auld Lang Syne sentiments, parties, and football games, these are some of the reasons why many New Year’s start out on a high note, and with the...

The cloudy night skies over Pasadena, on Halloween Eve, portended a change in the air, and with it a change of seasons. By Garrett Rowlan And yet, as events in...

The fate of a parcel of currently vacated land just below the 210 freeway was the subject of Wednesday nights’ meeting of the Pasadena Planning Commission. By...