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I got a call back from the Glendale Public Works Engineering Office yesterday, and learned that one other permit has been issued for a cellular antenna installation in a residential zone – the Glen Knolls area on Sunshine Drive north of Kildonin. This is in addition to the first T-Mobile permit, which was issued for [...]

Steven Pearlstein’s editorial in The Washington Post today imagined an alternative universe in which a top Wall Street executive took control of a 2006 investors’ meeting, decrying the company’s excessive risk taking, warped loan underwriting standards, and the credit bubble. Pearlstein argues that a business leader who had taken these steps might have suffered in [...]

To discover if other cellular telephone antennae have been approved for installation in Glendale neighborhoods, I contacted the Planning Department and spent a long time on the phone with a staff member who could find no information on file whatsoever.
He finally asked around and found out that permits were being issued by the City Engineer’s [...]

Federal law prohibits banning cellular antenna installation on the basis of possible health effects, a clear restriction of free speech that affected neighborhoods need to keep in mind as they mount local protests to antenna proliferation.

West Tower Communications, contractor for T-Mobile, left vague notices on four or five doorsteps the Monday before Veterans’ Day, notifying residents near the 500 block of Cumberland Road that a construction project would begin November 17 and last through mid-December. The notice offered no information about what was being constructed, or who to call for [...]