Monday, November 29, 2010
Nomination period extended until Wednesday Today at 5 p.m. was supposed to be the deadline for all nomination documents for the 2011 Municipal Elections to be turned into the Burbank City Clerk’s Office. However, that deadline has been extended. A notice of the deadline change to Wednesday, December 1, 2010, appears on the city website. Interestingly, it includes Mayor/City Council member […]
Monday, November 15, 2010
Sewer pipe drama over Traffic and parking are back to normal in the 500 block of South Beachwood Drive in Burbank. I visited the site yesterday afternoon. The repair equipment was gone and the excavation site had been paved over. A very different scene from earlier this month, a few days after a pipe burst on Tuesday, November 2—spilling thousands of gallons of sewage […]
Thursday, October 28, 2010
We’re heading into the big fright weekend when ghosts, monsters, and other creatures of the night will be walking among us. Halloween is great fun for kids and adults, but you need to play safe. The Burbank Police Department today issued some Halloween safety tips, which are from the American Academy of Pediatrics. CARVING A PUMPKIN: Small children should never carve pumpkins. Children can […]
Tuesday, October 12, 2010
A chance to make a change in Burbank Burbank city officials are out to appease voters now that the Primary Nomination Election is coming up soon. Last week, the Burbank City Council gave final approval to the election set for February 22, 2011, and the General Municipal Election on April 12, 2011. There is a countdown on this blog, […]
Friday, October 1, 2010
In light of the controversial shooting death of an alleged knife-wheeling suspect, Los Angeles Police Chief, Charlie Beck, made a promise to his community in an opinion piece he wrote that appeared on the Los Angeles Times website today. In the op-ed piece, Chief Beck says he’s “… committed to providing as much detail as I am able to release about the facts of […]
Sunday, September 12, 2010
Two suspects. Both accused of sexually victimizing a child. The Burbank Police Department chose to release the mug shot of one suspect — while refusing to do so in the second case. Did the BPD apply its policy fairly? I don’t think so. Here are the details. The male suspect is 35-year-old Manuel Retana. He was arrested last Tuesday, September 7, and accused of […]
Sunday, August 22, 2010
A full house at the public forum After all the hoopla, debates, agenda re-writes, and months of delays, the first public forum held by the Burbank Police Commission in recent memory went off with only a few minor glitches. First, additional chairs had to be brought out to accommodate the crowd that showed up last Wednesday night, August 18, in the Community […]
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Burbank celebrated National Night Out with around 20 block parties throughout the city earlier this month on August 3. The nationwide event encourages neighborhood spirit and a strong partnership between the community and police in the fight against crime. A block party on Verdugo Avenue Major block party on East Verdugo Avenue in the hillside area of Burbank attracted more than a […]
Sunday, August 15, 2010
City budget cuts terminate after school program Monday, August 16, is back to school day for the Burbank Unified School District. For some David Starr Jordan Middle School students and their parents, there might be more than the usual degree of anxiety that goes along with the first week of school. Recently, I got an e-mail from a very upset parent who felt […]
