Sorry this blog posting is short but unfortunately, there was a huge power outage in part of the city late Thursday night caused by a truck that ran off the street and struck a brick and metal gated wall and a transformer which powered a huge section of a neighborhood and so the lights went out. The...

"I used to think I was a good person." ---Former Atlanta Police Department Officer Gregg Junnier at his sentencing hearing for convictions stemming from his actions in the shooting death of Kathryn Johnston, 92. He was sentenced to six years in federal prison. "If you've done that before that might ...

"The city manager is running the city not the city council and that needs to stop." ---Ward Four city council candidate Paul Davis at the Friday Morning Club. ****UPDATE**** Save Our Chinatown Committee seeks restraining order on Saturday Members of the Save Our Chinatown Committee stated through an...

It was a busy week in Riverside with two meetings that addressed the scope of investigative powers of two of the city's boards and commissions. And when the dust was settled by the end of the action-packed week, what was learned was the difference between a commission having its powers inscribed in ...

"Ralph Brown did away with that." ---The Group Chair Jennifer Vaughn-Blakely at the Governmental Affairs Committee meeting in response to the creation of a not-officially-an-ad hoc committee which will meet privately. The California "sunshine" open meetings law is named after Brown. The Governmental...

"Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain." ---L. Frank Baum The Press Enterprise Editorial Board is at it again. After chastising the Riverside City Council on numerous occasions over its attempts to dilute or to allow its direct employees to dilute the powers of the Community Police Review ...

The Community Police Review Commission met again for its only scheduled meeting this month and the first news of the day, was the sudden resignation of its Ward Four representative, Linda Soubirous who was appointed in early 2007. The official explanation is that she was hired by the Riverside Count...

"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages." ---William Shakespeare "The road to the City of Emeralds is paved with yellow brick." ---L. Frank Baum Last week, this ...

****UPDATE**** (from beloblog) A man standing in a roadway screaming at motorists became combative, assaulted a Riverside police officer and subsequently died at a hospital after police took him into custody Friday night, according to a Riverside police news release. Marlon Oliver Acevedo, 35, of Ri...

At Riverside's City Hall, the elevators which are brand new are often broken down. Yesterday, it was two that were broken with everyone working there, attending meetings or doing business sharing only one of them. But yesterday, that elevator kicked the bucket, forcing among other things the relocat...