Quick Hits

Today Will Bigham reports in the Daily Bulletin on the continuing medical marijuana dispensary drama. According to the Bigham piece, Mayor Peter Yao says he gets occasional calls and emails about the issue, but no one apparently is contacting him after seeing the "Poorman's Bikini Beach" show on Channel 33 KJLA. (Maybe nobody wants to cop to watching the show.) The ad is also on You Tube and on the Foothill Cities blog, which has been having great fun with the whole issue.

Scroll down a little the Bulletin article, and you see that Bigham also reports that the new Sprouts grocery store on Foothill Blvd. at Mountain Ave. is scheduled to open in June. We hope the shopping center there gets a lift. It's been looking pretty sad since the Ralphs closed.

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Pomona may have some bigger problems to deal with than the Claremont land grab. Foothill Cities has been buzzing about the retirement of Pomona City Manager Doug Dunlap. Why couldn't he just go quietly into the desert like some other people we know?

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Glendora must have a lot in Claremont: small foothill town run for too long by patrician types, dysfunctional city council, official power wrongly directed against people trying to participate in the election process. Now that the L.A. District Attorney has declined to press charges against the teens he was targeting, we wonder what will Glendora Councilmember Gary Clifford do?