A shaky economy and a short shopping season are keeping expectations down, and seasonal hiring is expected to match last year’s numbers Will 2013 turn out out to be a not-so-merry Christmas for U.S. retailers, another solid but unspectacular shopping season like the past few years have …
Read More »The Inland Empire’s newest city might not be a city for long
Jurupa Valley, which became a city less than three years ago, might be forced to return to being a county-run community, although its battle is far from over For Jurupa Valley, incorporation might end before it really got started. Two days before it officially became a city, on June 28, …
Read More »Bank expands in Inland Empire
AmericanWest Bank has completed its purchase of eight Pacific Trust Bank offices in the Inland Empire. The transaction, which was announced Oct. 4, includes two offices in Riverside and one in Temecula, according to a report originally published in The Press-Enterprise. The sale was valued at $6.3 million. AmericanWest agreed …
Read More »Airport passenger traffic continues to drop
Advocates of local control of Ontario International Airport just got more ammunition for their cause: passenger numbers there dropped dramatically in August. The rate of passenger traffic dropped 14.6 percent compared with August 2012, a worse decline than board members of the Ontario International Airport Authority were told to expect …
Read More »Brown signs minimum wage increase
Gov. Brown has signed a bill that raises the state’s minimum wage. The legislation, which Brown signed Wednesday during a ceremony in downtown Los Angeles, will raise the current minimum wage of $8 an hour to $9 an hour as of July 1 of next year, according to a published …
Read More »Water is a critical issue for Inland Empire
Annual San Bernardino County Water Conference attracts a variety of officials, all of whom agree that water will be the premiere factor in determining future economic growth. Passing the state water bond next year would be a major boost. In November of next year, California voters will decide the fate …
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