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The Changing Of The Guard
LA MESA -- There is a reason presidents bring great poets to…
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Winds Of Change On Allison Avenue
By Chris Lavin
La Mesa Today Editor
LA MESA -- It has been almost a…
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Perhaps History Will Be Kinder To Madrid
LA MESA – If politics were truly like boxing,…
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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
City Opens Its Books Permanently
LA MESA -- Amid an otherwise long but routine meeting, the City of La Mesa took a large step into the direction of more open government Tuesday.
The city's…
Added by La Mesa Today on September 24, 2014 at 5:52am — No Comments
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
City Employee Raises Are Approved, 4-1
LA MESA -- La Mesa's city employees will be getting their first raises in seven years.
The council voted 4-1 Tuesday evening to approve new, two-year contracts that will give city workers 3 percent raises each of the next two …
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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…
Added by La Mesa Today on April 1, 2014 at 9:30am — 17 Comments
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…
Added by La Mesa Today on March 30, 2014 at 11:30am — 23 Comments
Of Chickens, High Heels And Liberty
LA MESA -- Watching the La Mesa government machine is truly a tale of two cities these days.
Professional city staff quietly goes about pretty sophisticated operations in efficient, laudatory ways, while the elected oversight can look more and more…
Added by La Mesa Today on March 26, 2014 at 12:30am — 15 Comments
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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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…
Added by La Mesa Today on January 14, 2014 at 7:00pm — 4 Comments
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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Group Forms To Pursue Term Limits
LA MESA -- An alliance of La Mesa political activists and politicians will band together to try and force a referendum on term limits in La Mesa in next November's election.
Bill Baber, a political campaign manager (photo right), City Councilwoman…
Added by La Mesa Today on November 5, 2013 at 9:30am — 7 Comments
Council Votes 3-2 To Delay Term Limit Decision
LA MESA -- For the second meeting in a row, the City Council moved quietly through a routine agenda until the subject of term limits once again stirred oratory, political posturing and philosophical jousting.
Council member Kristine…
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