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  • Crime Watch Update-Neighborhood Watch

    By Alix Reeves (For a listing of recent crime incidents please scroll to the end of the article) Lowering neighborhood crime is an objective most of us can agree on. Keeping ourselves informed of recent crimes and knowing which types of crimes are most likely to occur where we live is vital information if we…

  • A few people can change a lot in a community

    The radical community organizer Saul Alinsky, whose insights are used today as much by those on the right as on the left, once wrote: “If people don’t think they have the power to solve their problems, they won’t even think about how to solve them.” At a time when apathy and defeatism seem so rampant,…

  • Local Neighborhood Assns Sue the City of Pasadena over NFL use of Rose Bowl

    On January 3rd, the Coalition for Preservation of the Arroyo, a newly–‐formed public  interest group, joined by the East Arroyo Neighborhood Protection Committee, the Linda-‐Vista Annandale Association, and the San Rafael Neighborhoods Association, sued  Pasadena in Los Angeles Superior Court on environmental grounds.  The case number is BS141038. The lawsuit contends that Pasadena violated the…

  • REALTORS® Join Fight Against 710 Tunnel

    The Pasadena-Foothills Association of REALTORS® has joined the fight against the proposed 710 tunnel now under environmental review. Citing major concerns with impacts on residential neighborhoods from increased air and noise pollution as well as untenable cost estimates, the Board of Directors voted to add its voice to the hundreds of residents and community leaders…

  • Neighbors Plan to fight the NFL

    Neighbors plan to fight NFL approval Council voted to raise cap on large events at the Rose Bowl to temporarily host a pro football team. Pasadena residents who live near the Rose Bowl were on hand during Monday’s… (Photo by Mike Mullen ) November 24, 2012|By Joe Piasecki, joe.piasecki@latimes.com As city officials move ahead with…

  • Ron Kaye: The MTA is child’s play

    September 29, 2012| 3:08 p.m. In the climactic scene of director Ivan Reitman‘s 1993 political satire “Dave,” President Mitchell (Kevin Kline) tells a joint session of Congress he lost his way, forgot his job was to make people’s “lives a little better…care more about you than I do about me…care more about what’s right than I do…

  • LA City Council approves a resolution to OPPOSE all surface & tunnel fwy & hwy routes

    Today the Transportation Committee of the Los Angeles City Council approved a resolution of Councilman Jose Huizar (resolution no. 12-0002-S82) to OPPOSE ALL SURFACE AND TUNNEL FREEWAY AND HIGHWAY ROUTES currently being studied by Metro, including the H-2, H-6, F-2, F-5, F-6, and F-7.  THE F-7 WAS ADDED DURING THE MEETING, AND WAS APPROVED UNANIMOUSLY…

  • Metro Staff recommends no further action on 710 routes through San Rafael

    Metro staff has issued a recommendation that the H-2 (Avenue 64 highway) and F-5 (San Rafael freeway tunnel) routes be eliminated from further study. The recommendation also will eliminate all other highway and freeway routes EXCEPT the “F-7” tunnel running from Alhambra to Pasadena (emerging near Huntington Hospital). Thus, per the staff’s recommendation, no freeways or highways…

  • SPECIAL MEETING: Aug 22nd 7:00pm Church of the Angels

    Save the Date! For a San Rafael Neighborhoods Association special meeting to discuss the possible closure of the San Rafael School and 710 freeway extension proposals. Wednesday, August 22   7:00PM   Church of the Angels   1100 Avenue 64, Pasadena Special guest speakers include:  PUSD Board Member Scott Phelps on the future of the…

  • City Council Votes NO on 710 Extension Proposals

    Last night the Pasadena City Council unanimously adopted a resolution opposing any further consideration by Metro of three proposed SR-710 extension alternatives: H-2 (Avenue 64/Colorado highway), F-5 (tunnel freeway surfacing through San Rafael neighborhood), and H-6 (Huntington Drive and Fair Oaks highway).   WHAT’S NEXT   The City Council will send a letter to Metro…