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San Marino City Hall refurb put on hold
SAN MARINO — The San Marino City Council was expected to award a contract to refurbish City Hall on Wednesday, but after one of the project's bidders raised concerns that another bidder did not list the name of a second-tier subcontractor who...Tags: San Marino
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Public comment should matter in master plan
On Oct. 29, City Engineer Dan Rix remarked during a discussion with the Pasadena City Council that the environmental impact report (underway since Oct. 17, 2011 at a cost of $389,000) for the Hahamongna Multi-Use/Multi-Benefit Project will be restarted....Tags: Endangered Species, Wildlife, Conservation
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Housing should be kept back from freeway
Pasadena’s draft General Plan proposes focusing future residential growth in the city around “transit villages,” including three Gold Line stations on the 210 Freeway. Although encouraging transit-oriented development is generally a good...Tags: Family, Environmental Pollution, Heart Disease, Autism, Health
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Pasadena hammers 710 tunnel, stops short of opposing it
Pasadena City Council members on Monday stopped short of opposing plans for a 4.5-mile tunnel to connect the Long Beach (710) and Foothill (210) freeways, but city leaders will go on record with a litany of questions and concerns about the project. After...
Tags: Politics, Environmental Pollution, Elections, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, California Department of Transportation
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Neighbors plan to fight NFL approval
As city officials move ahead with plans to bridge a $30-million funding gap for renovations at the Rose Bowl, the next hurdle for bringing professional football to the stadium may be a legal one. Following more than five hours of debate, Pasadena City...
Tags: Rose Bowl Game, Finance, Environmental Pollution, College Football, UCLA Bruins
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San Marino students' chat with astronauts is out of this world
San Marino students who helped design a science experiment conducted in space participated Thursday in the video conference of a lifetime — a chat with astronauts aboard the International Space Station. “My jaw kind of dropped a little bit...
Tags: Renewable Energy, NASA, San Marino, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Science and Technology
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Remodeled Caltech lab turned green
Caltech students and professors looking to create green energy now have a sustainable central hub. Over the past 18 months workers gutted the 1971 Earle M. Jorgensen Laboratory and renovated it into a modern glass building to house the Resnick...
Tags: Renewable Energy, Energy Saving, Science, Science and Technology, Computer Science
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Locals seek to sack Pasadena plan to bring NFL to Rose Bowl
Traffic, noise, environmental damage and the displacement of Arroyo Seco runners and hikers topped a laundry list of concerns voiced during a Tuesday hearing about plans for the Rose Bowl to temporarily host professional football games. The stadium could...
Tags: Rose Bowl Game, College Football, AEG, Football, Automotive Equipment
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Legislators praise their bills
With the annual deadline for signing legislation upon Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday, local state lawmakers this week claimed success in seeing several of their proposals become law. Assemblyman Anthony Portantino (D-La Cañada Flintridge), in his final...
Tags: Health and Safety at School, Executive Branch, Mike Gatto, Lobbying, Regional Authority
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Pasadena nears the last of its stimulus money
With a reputation as a hangout for gangs and drug users, a few years ago La Pintoresca Park wasn’t a place for teens. But the restoration of an abandoned charter school at the Northwest Pasadena park has helped change that. A teen center, which...
Tags: Rose Bowl Game, Personal Income, Finance, Energy Saving, Water Supply
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Op-Ed: What the numbers really look like
Regarding a recent claim of “devastating reductions” to the Pasadena Unified School District: Over the three years from 2007-08 to 2010-11 that coincide with a national recession and fiscal crisis, our state base revenue did decrease by more...Tags: Consumers, Layoffs and Downsizing, Teaching and Learning, Students, Teachers
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At JPL, it's all in a Martian day's work
Monitoring the NASA rover Curiosity as it settles in on Mars is easy for Jet Propulsion Laboratory scientists. The hard part is living on Mars time. A day on Mars, called a sol, is about 40 minutes longer than a day on Earth. The orbiters that...
Tags: Energy Saving, Google+, NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Science and Technology
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