The Burbank Follower, Vol. 2, No. 15

Now, for a bit of catching up on all news Burbank...

WHOLE FOODS GIVEN THE WHOLE FOOT
The Burbank City Council voted 3-2 Tuesday (told ya I was catching up) to put the kibosh on the natural foods grocery. Sunland now wants a piece. I'm a bit disappointed, since I care more about food than horses, as the later only makes my butt sore. Oh well. Leader. LAist. Daily News. Curbed LA.

DAILY NEWS TRACKS CAMPAIGN FINANCE
Numbers, but not much in the way of analysis... Much like this blog. Eugene Tong, of the Daily News, also fails to note that Gary Bric is receiving a heck of a lot of independent expenditure support from the Working Californians PAC. C'mon guys. Daily News.

EMBATTLED COMMISSIONER DEFENDS SUPPORT OF FELON
Bob Hope airport Commissioner Don Brown, whose pre-sentencing testimony in support of Scott Schaffer reportedly helped the former Glendale official receive a lighter sentence, got verbally roughed up by four Burbank cops Tuesday. Schaffer was convicted earlier this month of trading guns for drugs to the Vineland Boyz, a gang implicated in the 2003 shooting death of Burbank Police Officer Matthew Pavelka. Leader.

WOMAN BITES DOG SHELTER
Kimi Peck, director of Chihuahua Rescue, filed suit against 10 of her former volunteers, claiming they forced her out of Burbank in 2005 with their slanderous lies of squalid conditions. (Peck was charged in June of that year of having unsanitary conditions, but was not convicted.) Leader.