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Riverside Councilman and Congressional candidate Steve Adams conducts a listening tour of small businesses and learns what he already knew: businesses believe they’re over taxed and have to deal with too much regulation. Riverside City Councilman Steve Adams, candidate in the 41st U.S. Congressional district, toured 10 small businesses in …

A man who ran a wire fraud operation out of a Coachella Valley home has been sentenced to 51 months in prison. Steven Pitchersky 65, used a mortgage financing scheme to steal $5.3 million from Ally Financial Inc. in Detroit, according to a report published in The Press-Enterprise. Pitchersky pleaded …

The union that represents store workers in Southern California’s three largest supermarket chains has reached a contract agreement with those entities. An estimated 60,000 employees of Vons, Ralphs and Albertsons, all of them members of the United Food & Commercial Workers Union, are scheduled to vote Wednesday on the proposed …

The California Horse Racing Board has postponed its discussion on a proposal to move thoroughbred horse racing from Fairplex in Pomona to Los Alamitos Race Course. The board was expected to hear the proposal today when it met at Santa Anita Park in Arcadia and possibly take action, but the …

General Motors announced today that it will recall another 2.4 million vehicles in the United States for safety reasons. The automaker has now recalled approximately 13.6 million vehicles this year, according to an Associated Press report. The latest recalls include 1.3 million older-model crossovers with defective front seat belts, one …

A report says many of those regulations are keeping people poor by killing blue-collar jobs, especially in the Inland region. The study’s author says the AQMD is largely responsible for the trend, but an official with the agency says that’s not the case. It’s been repeated so often that it …