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Last Tuesday's election showed that most of the San Gabriel Valley voted for Democrats--Governor-elect Jerry Brown and U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer. The majority of voters in Arcadia, Bradbury, Glendora, La Mirada, San Dimas and San Marino voted for the Republican candidates.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32225
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 7, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 7, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Elections--November 2, 2010
Item ID
32424AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Measure A would increase sales tax by .75% to bring local Arcadia sales tax rate to 10.25%. It will be placed on a June 4 mail-in ballot. If passed, Measure A would yield about $8.6 million annually, which would be dedicated to keeping city services at the levels residents have come to appreciate.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35441
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 5, 2019
Pages
p. A1, A5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
May 5, 2019
Pages
p. A1, A5
Subjects
Ballot measures
City of Arcadia Budget
Sales tax
Item ID
35633AN
Collection
Newspaper Index
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Asian-American group angry after Los Angeles Police Department revokes march permit. Arcadia Businessman Kin Hui, CEO of Singpoli Group, LLC and Singpoli Capital Corp. said LAPD's decision to revoke a permit that would have allowed about 1,000 people to march on Sunday in protest at Los Angeles City Hall sends the message that Asian voices and rights are less valuable than others in the community. The march was to be in support of New York City police officer Peter Liang, a rookie officer involved and indicted by grand jury, for fatal shooting of 28-year-old Akai Gurleyan, an unarmed Brooklyn man. LA Police say the rally permit was withdrawn because it would conflict with the planned Fiesta Broadway, which is expected to draw 30,000 to downtown LA this weekend.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34158
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 24, 2015
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
April 24, 2015
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Chinese American Equalization Association
Hui, Kin
Jiang, Zhi Gao
Protests
Item ID
34352AN
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Newspaper Index
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15-year-old Arcadia resident Erica Wu, a student at Westridge School, will compete in table tennis (ping pong) at the Pan American Games this month in Guadalajara, Mexico.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32560
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 9, 2011
Pages
p. A2
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 9, 2011
Pages
p. A2
Subjects
Pan American Games
Sports
Table tennis (ping pong)
Wu, Erica
Item ID
32759AN
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Newspaper Index
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Assembly Bill 2414 is a gambling bill that, as originally introduced, would have increased takeouts--the money race tracks make on given bets. The bill's original language would have permitted any California race track hosting the Breeders' Cup to spend the extra takeout money on promotion of the annual event. Supporters hope that portions of the bill would convince the Breeders' Cup to permanently settle in California. Late amendments inserted last week are stirring up controversy. These changes would make a form of gambling known as "exchange betting" legal in California, essentially allowing horse players to bet against one another by setting their own odds and potentially betting on horses to lose a race. MI Developments opposes the exchange betting portion of the bill.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32157
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 29, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
August 29, 2010
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Assembly bills
Gambling
Horses and horse racing
Item ID
32354AN
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Newspaper Index
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A parcel tax in Arcadia appears to pass. Voters appear to have narrowly approved a parcel tax measure that will raise $3.4 million for the Arcadia Unified School District each year for the next five years, according to preliminary results. If the outcome is finalized, property owners would pay $228 per parcel per year in an effort to stave off additional cuts in the classroom. Measure A, which required a two-thirds vote to pass, was approved by 67.61% of those who voted in the district's boundaries. The vote should be finalized tomorrow.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32889
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
March 15, 2012
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Pasadena Star News
Date
March 15, 2012
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Arcadia Schools
Arcadia Unified School District
Elections--Ballot measures--Measure A
Item ID
33086AN
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Newspaper Index
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Online company Expedia has pulled out of the Arcadia, CA marketplace because of the recently approved Measure D, which adds a 10 percent hotel occupancy tax to services provided by online travel companies.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33105
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 12, 2012
Pages
p. A13
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Pasadena Star News
Date
July 12, 2012
Pages
p. A13
Subjects
Ballot measures
Hotels
Occupancy taxes
Item ID
33302AN
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Newspaper Index
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Some residents call for Arcadia City Councilman John Wuo's resignation amid allegations that he used his position to influence local Chinese Americans to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars into a company called US Fine Investment Arts, Inc., which sells GemCoin, a digital currency, that some investors allege is fraudulent.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34312
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 17, 2015
Pages
p. A3
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Pasadena Star News
Date
September 17, 2015
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Gemcoin (company)
US Fine Investment Arts, Inc.
Wuo, John
Item ID
34506AN
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Newspaper Index
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Some residents call for Arcadia City Councilman John Wuo's resignation amid allegations that he used his position to influence local Chinese Americans to invest hundreds of thousands of dollars into a company called US Fine Investment Arts, Inc., which sells GemCoin, a digital currency, that some investors allege is fraudulent.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34313
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 17, 2015
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 17, 2015
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Gemcoin (company)
US Fine Investment Arts, Inc.
Wuo, John
Item ID
34506AN
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Newspaper Index
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Santa Anita Park-based colt American Pharoah, the Triple Crown champion, takes the Breeders' Cup with ease yesterday at Keeneland in Lexington, Kentucky.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34356
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
November 1, 2015
Pages
p. A1, B1, B9
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Pasadena Star News
Date
November 1, 2015
Pages
p. A1, B1, B9
Subjects
American Pharoah (race horse)
Breeders' Cup
Horses and horse racing
Item ID
34549AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia voters consider extending hotel-room tax in the ballot Measure D. It is meant to close a loophole in a city ordinance on the transient tax. Currently, the city imposes a tax rate of 10% of the rent paid by guests to occupy a room up to 30 consecutive days. If the measure passes by a majority vote, the occupancy tax would be imposed the first 90 days of a stay.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32909
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 5, 2012
Pages
p. A5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 5, 2012
Pages
p. A5
Subjects
Elections, April 2012--Ballot Measure D
Hotel room tax
Item ID
33106AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia residents may vote again on street lighting fees. Under the new proposal, single family homes on arterial streets would pay about $17 a year, while those not on arterial streets would pay about $27 a year, making the assessments more fair. Voters in 2008 rejected a proposal to fund the lighting and now the city is considering another mail-in vote.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper31898
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 12, 2010
Pages
p. A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 12, 2010
Pages
p. A4
Subjects
Mail-in ballots
Street lights
Street lighting assessment districts
Item ID
32095AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia City Council today will once more reconsider whether to allow customer-requested address changes in light of concerns about a Chinese superstition involving the number four. Since the number four sounds like the word for death in Mandarin and is considered unlucky, some realtors and residents have argued that addresses that end in the number four are more difficult to sell and affect home prices. The cost of processing an address change would be about $2600.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33079
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 3, 2012
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
July 3, 2012
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Arcadia City Council--2010-2019
Chinese culture
House numbers
Luong, Daniel (photo)
Property values
Real Estate
Street addresses
Item ID
33276AN
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Newspaper Index
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In a letter sent to Mayor Tom Beck, the HQH Chinese American Equalization Association demands district voting in Arcadia. The association claims at-large system dilutes influence. According to 2010 U.S. Census, Asians represent 60% of the city's population of 56,364 and about 46% of its registered voters. The letter points out that no more than 2 Asian Americans have served on Arcadia City Council at the same time. Beck said Arcadia doesn't have the problem of Asians being underrepresented.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper34702
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 31, 2016
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
October 31, 2016
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Arcadia City Council
Asian Americans
Beck, Tom
Elections
HQH Chinese American Equalization Association
Item ID
34894AN
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Newspaper Index
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The American Red Cross chapter in Arcadia has laid off 10 of 11 employees, citing a large budget deficit. Chapter officials say all services will continue, with help from staff from the Los Angeles and San Gabriel/Pomona Valley chapters. Most of the laid off staff were trainers who taught first aid and cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32178
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 18, 2010
Pages
p. A6
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 18, 2010
Pages
p. A6
Subjects
American Red Cross--Arcadia chapter
Item ID
32377AN
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Newspaper Index
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Arcadia certifies city council election victories for John Wuo and Gary A. Kovacic. The results were certified this week after election officials were able to verify and count 661 of the remaining 681 ballots of the April 10 election. There were 105 ballots that had to be disqualified because voters selected more than 2 candidates in the all-mail election. At least some of those were caused by an error in the ballots' Chinese-language instructions that directed voters to select no more than 3 instead of 2 candidates, prompting the city to send out correction notices. Gene Glasco was elected City Clerk. Measure D, the hotel room tax, passed.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32942
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 18, 2012
Pages
p. A1, A4
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
April 18, 2012
Pages
p. A1, A4
Subjects
Ballot measures
City Council Elections--April, 2012
Kovacic, Gary A.
Wuo, John
Item ID
33139AN
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Newspaper Index
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Rio Hondo School's American flag, which once flew at American bases in Iraq, will be deployed with troops in Afghanistan. Students Johnny Luong and Stephanie Li fold the flag before presenting it to Army Major Williams Darwin.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper33156
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 14, 2012
Pages
p. A3
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
September 14, 2012
Pages
p. A3
Subjects
Flags
Li, Stephanie
Luong, Johnny
Rio Hondo School
Item ID
33353AN
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Newspaper Index
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Photo caption: American Mirai Nagasu staggers after a jump competing in the women's single skating short program at 2018 Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35090
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 21, 2018
Pages
p. B1
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 21, 2018
Pages
p. B1
Subjects
Athletes
Figure skating
Ice skaters
Nagasu, Mirai
Olympic Games-2018 Winter Olympics
Sports Figures
Item ID
35279AN
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Newspaper Index
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Axel-ent Nagasu gives U.S. Bronze medal in Winter Olympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea. Arcadia native Mirai Nagasu becomes first American woman to hit triple jump in Olympics in figure skating event. See hard copy in VF.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper35082
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 12, 2018
Pages
p. B5
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
February 12, 2018
Pages
p. B5
Subjects
Athletes
Figure skating
Ice skaters
Nagasu, Mirai
Olympic Games-2018 Winter Olympics
Item ID
35271AN
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Newspaper Index
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Honorary degrees were awarded to Japanese-American former Pasadena City College students who had their educations cut short by internment during World War II. Japanese-American "nisei" students at what was then Pasadena Junior College never got the chance to graduate with the Class of 1942. One honorary graduate, Fusae Hamane (died in 1997), born and raised in Pasadena, was told to report to Santa Anita Park race track before being sent to a camp in Gila Bend, AZ. The graduation came 68 years later.

https://arcadiahistory.andornot.com/en/permalink/newspaper32090
Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 19, 2010
Pages
p. A6
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Newspaper
Pasadena Star News
Date
June 19, 2010
Pages
p. A6
Subjects
California Nisei College Diploma Project
Hamane, Fusae
Kuromiya, Yoshito
Santa Anita Assembly Center for the Japanese
Utsunomiya, Wade
Yoshihashi, Tokuji
Item ID
32287AN
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Newspaper Index
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