Today's the filing deadline at Riverside City Hall if you intended to run for office in the even-numbered wards in a mail-in election that takes place in June. If you still haven't gotten your papers filed with the city clerk and you really want to run, better get a move on. If there are multiple ca...

Another month, another letter in the Press Enterprise by retired Riverside Police Department Det. Granville "Bud" Kelley who despite despising the Community Police Review Commission and calling it a variety of colorful metaphors in his letters and calling for its disbandment has applied to serve on ...

Coming soon will be a new and separate Web site on the Riverside Community Police Review Commission, including information on the complaint filing, investigation and review process as well as more information about the CPRC's history including the exercising of the different powers it has which are ...

“Well, the requirement is to cooperate with the investigation. She was the victim of a crime. She needed to document as other officers do information, narrative information for a crime report.� ---Riverside Police Chief Russ Leach (in a deposition given in 2004) about former Officer Tina Banfill...

“I have never, in my experience, seen a research design [treatment plan] that included an explicit and detailed plan to justify the disposal of artifacts even approaching what is in this plan. This is clearly a plan for disposal rather than a plan for preservation.� --- Dr. Scott Fedick, Profess...

"They want a better quality of life, which includes more time with their family and friends. You have people working there almost 24-7. How long are you going to last doing that? Not long." ---Former Supervising District Attorney Brian Sussman, who retired. "It is a brain drain. You lose your experi...

The Riverside City Council held its weekly meeting and voted to freeze its salaries, keep Greyhound downtown until June 30 and to enforce zone changes in one city neighborhood upsetting property owners there. The budget picture in the city of Riverside has looked pretty bleak during the past several...

"If someone was actively resisting, which it appeared this guy was, the device to use would be the Taser, to overcome his resistance. The Taser is a great controlling device. But if you grab the wrong device, you kill somebody." ---Former BART Sgt. Don Cameron "It was scientifically and ethically ir...

More rain and snow at possibly as low as 1,500 according to the forecast. Interesting weather in the holiday season this year. An interesting discussion over the future of Greyhound Bus Services is taking place here about whether or not another location will be found in Riverside to house the transi...

The Riverside City Council will be meeting again for both afternoon and evening sessions on Dec. 16 and among other things will be setting a public hearing for next month to determine whether or not the elected officials will be getting pay hikes. It's very unlikely that anyone currently sitting on ...