Politics

Rise of the insured

GLENDALE — While a recently released city report shows a dramatic drop in the number of Glendale residents without health insurance between 1997 and 2007, health-care experts say the recession has likely pushed that figure back up.

Business

Americana, Galleria take different holiday tacks

By Zain Shauk

Last Updated
Friday, November 6, 2009 4:25PM PST

DOWNTOWN — The Americana at Brand and Glendale Galleria have taken dramatically different approaches in marketing themselves as holiday shopping destinations, with one focusing on cheer and the other on value.

Public Safety

Car burglaries hit northwest

NORTHWEST GLENDALE — Residents and police are on the lookout after a spate of 16 vehicle burglaries hit here Tuesday.

Columns

Verdugo Views:
Picking olives in the foothills

Memories of picking olives in the foothills came back to Mike DeSantis of Montrose when he read a Verdugo Views column about the Charles Bathey homestead at the top of Briggs Avenue.

Entertainment

Say cheese!

It’s a California Cheesehead’s dream come true — a spacious bar jammed with Green Bay Packers fans all pledging to bleed green and gold, right here, in sunny Burbank.

Opinion

Mailbag: Americans will miss out on health care

Both the Senate and House are finally getting ready to debate and vote on separate versions of health-care reform. Both bills fall short of what President Obama promised and the American people voted for last year.

Mailbag: Residents owed answer on taxis

This paper’s Oct. 31 editorial, “Council did no one any favors,” questioned, quite properly in my view, whether the City Council acted in the public interest in refusing to grant a taxi license to a new applicant.

From The 818

Burbank responds to FAA denial