Business

A proposed ballot initiative would reinstate California’s redevelopment agencies. Supporters of the measure have received donations from cities, including $50,000 from Ontario and $25,000 from Anaheim, according to a report that was first published in The Press-Enterprise. The “Jobs and Education Development Initiative,” filed by the Rutan & Tucker law …

Proposed legislation that would restore benefits to the long-term unemployed cleared a major hurdle in the Senate Thursday, but the proposal still has a long way to go before it becomes law. The 65-34 procedural vote in favor of the measure is the first step toward formal Senate approval, which …

Some Inland businessmen have formed the Inland Chinese Chamber of Commerce. Daryl Lee, owner of Abacus Management Group in Riverside, is the head of the new organization, according to a report originally published in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. The growing number of businessmen of Chinese descent in the Inland …

Assemblyman Mike Morrell has won the special election for the State Senate’s District 23 seat. Morrell, R-Rancho Cucamonga, held commanding leads late Tuesday in Riverside and San Bernardino counties of 60 and 64 percent of the vote respectively, according to multiple published reports. Morrell defeated four other candidates and avoided …

A nursery that supplies plants and flowers to commercial clients has reached an agreement with the Western Municipal Water District that could save the company up to $300,000 a year in water costs. Altman Specialty Plants, which operates a 375-acre facility in Lake Mathews in unincorporated Riverside County, will capture, …

A follow-up on the jobs report released Friday by the California Employment Development Department: Nearly 37,000 more people were working in the Inland Empire last month than were working in February 2013, the highest employment level for the two-county region since the start of the recession, according to the report. …