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Security Facility Expanded

Changes are in store for the March Joint Powers Authority

The U.S. Customs and Border Protection Air and Marine Operations broke ground Wednesday on an expansion of the Air and Marine Operations Center at March Air Reserve Base in Riverside. The facility, a multi-domain law enforcement operation that detects and observes suspicious air and ocean activity, will be enlarged by …

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Esri Partners with IBM

ESRI Gets New Grant

Esri is making its data and technology available on the IBM cloud. The Redlands-based company, a world leader in geographic information system technology, announced Tuesday that IBM customers can now use Esri maps, data and analytical services “in a secure cloud environment,” according to a statement. Esri and IBM technology …

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Halloween Boosts Local Economy

Party Plus in Redlands

While many people think of Halloween as the spookiest holiday of the year, the scariest thought for the local economy would be what would happen without this widely celebrated holiday. Here in the Inland Empire, there are dozens of Halloween costume retailers, and we interviewed one of the largest. In …

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SolarMax Wins Award

SolarMax

Riverside-based SolarMax Technology, the renewable energy company, has won a 2016 Global Innovation Award from a consortium that includes the College of Business and Public Administration at Cal State San Bernardino. The company, which installs solar panel systems, was honored recently for its work with educational clients, according to a …

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Little Local Impact Seen From Proposed AT&T Deal

AT&T

AT&T’s proposed purchase of Time Warner Inc. for $85.4 billion isn’t likely to have much of an impact on the Inland Empire if it’s ultimately approved by federal regulators, one of the region’s preeminent economists said Monday. Mergers of any companies, especially two of such size and scope, usually lead …

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Former Inland Empire Banker Likes his Career Change

Eugene E. Valdez

Gene Valdez left Citizens Business Bank so he could start a consulting business for business executives. So far, the move is paying off.  In May, Gene Valdez left Citizens Business Bank to start a new career: running a consulting business aimed at high-level business executives. It was a risky move. Not …

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