The members of the Rosemead City Council will be interviewing candidates for city clerk starting at 4pm on Tuesday, December 18, in the city council chambers.  According the posted agenda, the members will then recess to closed session to discuss and deliberate their choice for city clerk.

The fcblog had a pointer to this story from yesterday’s San Gabriel Valley Tribune, about a serial suicide jumper in Duarte.

I’m sure it says something odd about me that the part that caught my eye was this line:

Letter from Barbara Murphy. (Sixth letter down on the Star-News website).

By they way, how do you guys like their new web design?  On the one hand, it's cleaner.  But it also loads much slower.  And it's more work to get to the blogs.

Roger Hernandez moves up to Mayor Pro-Tem in West Covina.

What a concept!  After an election, they can actually stop bickering for a while and get some work done?  I bet they don't start getting misleading flyers in the mail in West Covina, at least not until the next election. 

Not so in Rosemead, where the campaigning for March 2009 began almost before the ballots from 2007 were even counted.

This doesn’t upset me quite as much as the graffiti-related deaths of a few months ago, but it’s close: Street-racing death, at the corner of Rosemead and Las Tunas.

It's also a reminder of how arbitrary life's decisions can be.  If either of the cars involved had hit the road a few moments earlier or later, at least one, and, possibly, two lives would have been very different.