.. about 50 minutes (!) to be exact.  The rationale behind it, according to chair Gino Sund, was that many council members were going to inauguration parties this evening, so if anything was to be done, it needed to be done quickly. (Town council member Dr. Sandra Thomas was actually in DC for the main event).

We'll file a rundown of the meeting tomorrow (nothing too urgent), but thought we'd point out some other Altadena connections to today's festivities:

Larry Wilson quotes former Altadenan D.G. Fulford in a an article we picked up from the SGV Trib; and Salon gets a quote from Glendar Haskins, who was freezing herself in DC today.