Comments of the Week: 'If My Baby Cannot Have His Ba-Ba, Then You Don't Get My Moo-La'

No Eating or Drinking or Feeding Babies at July 4 Celebration

This story from South Pasadena Patch Editor Donna Evans about the severe restrictions at the South Pasadena High School July 4 celebration got a big reaction from many of our readers. Reader Just My Opinion gets our Top Comment of the Week prize of the week for the Johnnie Cochran-like use of rhyming:

Just My Opinion June 21, 2013 at 06:48 pm
If SPUSD doesn't want people on the field, then rope it off to visitors, force them to stay in the stands or on the track. If my baby cannot have his ba-ba, then you don't get my moo-la

Ron Rosen June 22, 2013 at 07:07 am
When I first read the headline, I thought this was an article from The Onion!

deborah June 22, 2013 at 08:05 am
Glad to know SPPD is taking care of business... Keeping us safe.. from baby formula. Hey, can we breast feed? Well, never mind...

Elias Baldwin June 22, 2013 at 08:40 am
You're also not aloud to smile, cheer loudly, or bring chairs with pointy legs. It's quite a police state there.

Monrovia Pays Local Firm $12,200 for New Website That Never Materializes

Monrovia Patch Editor Nathan McIntire brought us the news of the website that never was. It got plenty of people talking:

R. Ray Morford June 21, 2013 at 06:36 am
I know the City Council does not want to micro-manage City employees. But blowing $12,000 when the budget is so tight, is un-excusable. GET THE MONEY BACK.

Heather Mixon Stokes June 21, 2013 at 08:47 am
WOW!!!! That kind of money could build our kids an actual BALLPARK to play and practice on. What a waste.

Rich Altavista June 21, 2013 at 09:12 am
Wow! you people need to get a grip, I have done enterprise software development for the last 20 years and there is no way you can expect to deliver a feature rich site for that kind of money ($20K).

Chinese birthing houses

One of our biggest talkers of the week did not come from a Patch editor, but from Monrovia Patch reader genevieve, who posted a comment on our Opinion Board. We don't know the validity of the reader's accusations, but they included the following: Is anything being done re: Arcadia hotels, in particular The Santa Anita Inn which is dominant in backroom housing, receiving visiting nurses and LOTS of money, up to 20 thousand for Chinese women who overstay their visas. 

The board posting sure got folks talking, with 10 comments total, including:

rubberband June 19, 2013 at 10:29 am
Perhaps I am unclear on what exactly you would have done? Take away visas from Chinese only? Not allow anyone pregnant to cross our boarders even with a visa? Pregnancy tests at the boarder? 

Kate K. June 19, 2013 at 10:59 am
Are you all standing at the Arcadia City Council meetings, telling the City and Arcadia Police Dept. to crack down on these hotels that are turned into "birthing houses" ? If its not against any statute then YOU need to work to get a statute drafted and enacted as law to stop this. YOU are "We the People", and if you don't make the laws, someone else will. Complaining online may make us feel better, but it will resolve nothing.

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