Over the past week, the Tribune's Montebello beat writer sure has been busy. Stories out of Montebello included:

Claims that police officers were assigned quotas for arrests and citations.

The new police chief, and the interim city manager that hired him both appear to have been fired.

Don Bosco is coming to Rosemead. Literally. He'll be spending the night at St. Joseph's Selesian Youth Center, immediately south of Don Bosco Tech.

Here's his touring schedule.

It is accepted as fact by most serious scholars of urban planning, public policy, and environmental policy that suburban sprawl is bad for the environment--more water to keep individual lawns green, more energy for heating and cooling, more air pollution and traffic congestion because everyone needs to drive a car to get anything they need.

The council that claims to care about events that bring the city together just killed one of two events that actually does that. It's being replaced by "an event to be named later."