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Historic Palm Springs theater gets management group

Palm Springs affordable housing project gets state grant

The company that manages the 11,000-seat Acrisure Arena in Palm Springs will soon have another property in the city to oversee. Denver-based Oak View Group, a worldwide developer and manager of sports and entertainment venues, has agreed to oversee day-to-day operations at the Palm Springs Plaza Theatre, according to a …

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San Bernardino scrambles to repair potholes

Traffic Cones in Inland Empire

San Bernardino has repaired more than 3,000 potholes that were caused by the storms that drenched Southern California earlier this month. The city’s Public Works Department has deployed six to eight crews every day to repair nearly 14,000 square feet of damaged roads, with some crews working morning and evening …

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UCR will use grant to help teachers

UCR receives Carnegie designation

UC Riverside has received a $1 million grant that it will use to help address California’s teacher shortage, and the state’s need to diversify the teachers it does have. The donation, from the Inland Empire Regional K-16 Education, will also help pay for a program that studies poor academic performance among …

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Riverside offers Spanish translation of council meetings

Redlands to redraw council districts

Riverside has begun translating its city council and council committee meetings into Spanish. The city’s effort to raise its profile in the Latino community is being undertaken by the Office of Communications, the city clerk’s office and RiversideTV, which broadcasts the meetings, according to a statement on the city’s website. …

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SoCal housing prices, sales go in opposite directions

Housing rents continue to rise

Southern California’s median home price was $720,000 in December, a 5.1 percent year-over-year increase, according to data released this week. Those numbers include new and resold houses and resold condominiums in Riverside, San Bernardino, Los Angeles, Orange, San Diego and Ventura counties, CoreLogic in Irvine reported Feb. 13. All six counties recorded …

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Retail performs well in January

Money Growth Chart

U.S. retail sales are off to a good start in 2024. Total sales, not counting automobiles and gasoline, in January were essentially unchanged month-over-month and were up 2.3 percent compared with January 2023, according to the National Retail Federation. “January sales continued the strong performance of retail sales in December, …

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