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LA MESA – This was a year of new and renewal in La Mesa. There was the big political shakeup, of course, but profound change came in subtler, more incremental ways as well.
The streets of the symbolic heart of the city were being redesigned in a project…
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The Changing Of The Guard
LA MESA -- There is a reason presidents bring great poets to…
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After The Election, Routine Returns
LA MESA -- It was the calm after the storm.
The City Council gathered for the first time since the election redrew the lines on the local political map, but the business was routine and the news was tension free and largely good.
Revenues continue…
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Council's First Lame Duck Session Today
LA MESA -- Because of Tuesday's Veterans Day holiday, the City Council meets Wednesday at 4 p.m. for the first of the lame duck sessions following last Tuesday's elections.
The meeting agenda is fairly routine, but the transition from long-sitting…
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Entering Election's Black Hole
LA MESA -- Elections are the black holes in the government universe. The closer election day comes, the stronger the political gravity. It starts pulling on everything, eventually drawing all activity to a standstill.
Tuesday's council meeting had some…
Added by La Mesa Today on October 14, 2014 at 8:00pm — 5 Comments
Council May Mull Driveway Flyer Limits
LA MESA -- The City Council meets Tuesday afternoon, but the agenda suggests this could be a relatively short meeting.
Councilwoman Ruth Sterling has brought up a subject that should warm the hearts of many homeowners. She is asking that the city attorney investigate the city's authority to regulate the distribution of free and…
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A Quiet Night In The Local League
LA MESA -- Local government, as a sport, would be baseball. It's a long season and not every game can be exciting.
Tuesday evening, the La Mesa city council moved through a routine agenda that was more about the details of governing than resolution of…
Added by La Mesa Today on July 23, 2014 at 6:30am — 2 Comments
Filings Show November Slate Growing
By Chris Lavin
La Mesa Today Editor
LA MESA -- As the summer moves on, slowly the November election season is starting to take shape with new candidates emerging and some older…
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Mark Arapostathis Will Run For Mayor
LA MESA -- Mark Arapostathis, a school teacher, theater director and City Council member,…
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Ewin Won't Seek Re-Election In November
LA MESA -- Ernie Ewin, the long-serving City Councilman, who had two different stints in La Mesa leadership, has chosen to step aside.
Ewin Tuesday morning told the Union-Tribune that he would not seek re-election in November, clearing the way for…
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By Chris Lavin
La Mesa Today Editor
LA MESA -- After more than three decades in public service to La Mesa, Art Madrid is recognized wherever he goes. Old friends, constituents, the sons and daughters of former campaign workers, residents who sought help from or sometimes fought with City Hall.
They come up and…
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Survey Suggests Desire For Leadership Change
The First of A Two Part Report On The La Mesa Poll.
Click On Any Graphic For A Larger, More Easily Read Version.…
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Ten Questions For La Mesa's Future
LA MESA -- Heading into another election year in the Jewel of the Hills, we thought it would be good to gauge the mood of the electorate.
While…
Added by La Mesa Today on March 9, 2014 at 7:14am — 18 Comments
Fielding Concerns Big And Small
LA MESA -- The City Council's second Town Hall meeting moved from the west to northeast La Mesa and found a large audience with many more concerns and a bit more vitriol than encountered recently in Rolando.
A two-hour meeting at Northmont Elementary…
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Another Skirmish Leaves Madrid Spurned
LA MESA -- At its last regular meeting, the City Council let die without a second a proposal by Mayor Art Madrid to seek national All-American City status for this city.
At Tuesday night's meeting, council members learned the effort is going on…
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A Tranquil 'Town Hall' Greets Leaders
LA MESA -- The La Mesa City Council took its annual Town Hall meet and greet away from City Hall and out among the neighborhoods on Thursday evening. Considering the relative warmth and amiability they encountered at Rolando Elementary School, the civic…
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3-2 Vote Strips Madrid Of SANDAG Post
LA MESA -- 2014 is an election year for the La Mesa City Council and that was immediately clear in the first meeting of the year.
Tuesday night's council meeting began with a warm and heartfelt proclamation for Ron and Mary Alice Brady, honoring the…
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2013: Prologue To A Key Political Year
By Chris Lavin
La Mesa Today Editor
LA MESA -- John Steinbeck knew the truth about real change. "Men do change,'' he wrote, "and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it…
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Not Exactly Terms Of Endearment
LA MESA -- Two weeks after calling for a 60 day delay in any decision on a "term limit" referendum, City Councilman Ernie Ewin suddenly returned the issue to the council's agenda Tuesday. But if term limit supporters were hoping Ewin suddenly saw the issue…
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City To Oktoberfest: Tighten Up Security
LA MESA -- City Police Chief Ed Aceves addressed the City Council Tuesday and made it clear that the large gatherings of unsupervised teenagers at Oktoberfest is threatening the safety and security of the event.
Describing scenes of as many as…
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