Tuesday, May 15, 2012
The candidates of the 25th Senate District discuss their platforms during Thursday’s forum.
In a newly formed 25th Senate district, two of the three candidates vying for a place on the November ballot championed a new order of representation in Sacramento during a candidate's forum in Glendora last Thursday. Republican Senate candidate Gil Gonzales and Democratic candidate Ameenah Fuller discussed their views on topics important to local voters, including education, taxation and redevelopment. Carol Liu, the Democratic incumbent for the current 21st Senate District and current representative of Altadena was in a budget meeting in Sacramento and could not attend Thursday evening’s forum, according to her assistant. The new 25th district includes Altadena, Pasadena and South Pasadena, and stretches both east and west along the …
Monday, May 14, 2012
See who’s running for offices representing Altadena in the June 5 primary election.
With the candidates on the June 5 primary election ballot finalized, campaigns and voter registration drives are underway. Recently drawn redistricting maps put previous representatives, Rep. Adam Schiff and Assemblyman Anthony Portantino in new districts, leaving Altadena residents voting for brand new representatives in the House of Representatives and Assembly. State Sen. Carol Liu, who currently represents Altadena, is running again in the new district representing Altadena. While Portantino originally said he would be running for Congress, he retracted that statement in a press release January. Races for the new districts representing South Pasadena include State Senator 25th District, U.S. Representative 27th District and State …
Thursday, May 10, 2012
It’s a different ballgame in the June 5 primary, with newly-drawn geographic boundaries for the 41st District and an open primary that erases party lines.
Five candidates for the 41st Assembly District lined up to share their views in a forum sponsored by Southern California Public Radio (KPCC) and the Pasadena Sun on Wednesday night in the Crawford Family Forum. Though they touched on a variety of issues, the climate for business in California and local transportation were recurring themes in their responses to questions from the audience. Bill Kisliuk, city editor of the Pasadena Sun, moderated the discussion. The newly-drawn district includes South Pasadena, Altadena, Sierra Madre, Monrovia, as well as Glendora and several other foothill cities in East Los Angeles County. A map of it can be viewed at right. The candidates are Michael Cacciotti, mayor of South Pasadena; Edward Colton, …
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Southern California Public Radio will host the Pasadena Sun for an election forum 6 p.m. May 9.
Monday, May 7, 2012
The PUSD Board will consider six alternatives to a task force's suggested map for introducing electoral districts for the board at a Tuesday hearing. Five of those alternatives would benefit incumbent board members.
A district report released just days prior to a Tuesday hearing on drawing new electoral subdistricts for the PUSD Board includes new map alternatives that benefit incumbents on the board, including four that haven't been seen before. At its Tuesday meeting, the Pasadena Unified School District board will hold its final hearing on a plan that would switch the district from at-large elections to seven geographic subdistricts that would each elect one school board member. The plan will go on the June ballot as Measure A for Pasadena, Altadena and Sierra Madre voters to consider. Tuesday's hearing will focus on seven potential maps for how to draw the new districts, all of which are variations on a map suggested by a task force appointed by …
Monday, April 30, 2012
The Pasadena Unified School Board will hold a May hearing on a June ballot measure to switch the district to electoral subdistricts and give Altadena two board members accountable to the town.
At its May 8 meeting, the Pasadena Unified School District board will hold its final hearing on a plan that would switch the district from at-large elections to seven electoral districts that would each elect one school board member. Since January, an appointed task force has been hold public meetings and working on developing maps of geographic sub-districts that would make board members accountable to specific geographic areas of Pasadena, Altadena and Sierra Madre. After initially looking at four different potential map scenarios, the task force released a 'consensus map' in March and approved it to be voted on by the board. That plan would give Altadena residents two districts where they would make up the majority of voters. The …
Monday, March 26, 2012
The Pasadena Unified School Board will discuss a plan that would switch the district to electoral subdistricts and give Altadena two board members accountable to the town.
At its regular Tuesday meeting, the Pasadena Unified School District board will hear a presentation of an new plan that would switch the district from at-large elections to seven electoral districts that would each elect one school board member. Since January, an appointed task force has been hold public meetings and working on developing maps of geographic sub-districts that would make board members accountable to specific geographic areas of Pasadena, Altadena and Sierra Madre. After initially looking at four different potential map scenarios, the task force released a 'consensus map' earlier this month and approved it to be voted on by the board. That plan would give Altadena residents two districts where they would make up the majority…
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Altadena's representative to the County Board of Supervisors is the only incumbent on the board to draw a challenger in the June election this year.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
South Pasadena Mayor Michael Cacciotti has 23 elected or former elected officials endorsing him as a candidate in the June 5 primary for the 41st Assembly District.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
The task force working on a plan to move PUSD to electoral districts has to decide on a couple of issues that would greatly affect incumbent PUSD board members' ability to run for a future district seat.
At a Saturday meeting of the task force that is drawing up a plan to move Pasadena Unified School District to electoral sub-districts, the group dealt with a delicate issue: how to schedule future elections in a way that would allow current board members to have a chance to run for a seat in the future. The plan that is being discussed by the PUSD Districting Task Force would change the current system where each PUSD board member represents all of the voters in the district, and split the area into seven sub-districts, each represented by its own board member. If the plan were passed it would cause two kinds of problems for current board members: first, in some cases more than one board member would live in the same district, making it …
reality check
5:59 pm on Friday, May 11, 2012
Chris Holden “a longtime proponent of finishing the 710 Freeway” (quote from previous interview of Mr. Holden) has been pushing for years to complete the 710 freeway for use by the LA/LB ports cargo trucks. He doesn’t care if it is a surface freeway or tunnel he just wants to get it done. Ask yourself: Why is he now fighting to build a toll freeway that will only clog our streets with diverted … more ›