Homelessness is apparently going up in San Bernardino County. There were 2,118 homeless people living within the county on Jan. 25, a 13.5 percent increase year-over-year, according to the annual Point-In-Time Count conducted on that date. San Bernardino had 646 individuals living without a permanent home, 313 in shelters and …
Read More »Factors that Influence the Value of Privately Owned Business
By Eugene E. Valdez AKA The Loan Doctor In my current walk as a banking & finance consultant more often than not many of my clients are seeking expansion financing to grow their businesses to increase their annual EBITDA, (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.) This is a common …
Read More »Registration open for Route 66 gathering
Vehicle registration is open for the 2018 Route 66 Crusin’ Reunion, scheduled to be held Sept. 21-22. Participation is limited to the first 2,000 approved vehicles, and all must have been built no later than 1988, according a statement released by the event’s creator and sponsor, the Greater Ontario Convention …
Read More »Toy store to shut down
Mattel Toy’s will close its San Bernardino store. The store, at 1456 E. Harry Shepard Blvd., is tentatively scheduled to close June 9, according to a statement on the company’s website. Stores in Ft. Worth Texas and Wilmot, Wis., are also slated to shut down, the El Segundo-based company announced. …
Read More »Airline returns to OIA
JetBlue is returning to Ontario International Airport. After a 10-year absence, the airline will offer nonstop flights between Ontario International and John F. Kennedy International Airport, the company announced Wednesday. Those flights, which will cost $99 per seat one way, are scheduled to begin Sept. 5. JetBlue also announced that …
Read More »Southern California home prices soar
Southern California’s median home price rose 8.4 percent in March, as too many buyers pursued too few new and existing houses and condominiums. The region’s median price, 519,000, was a $40,000 increase from March, 2017, according to Irvine-base CoreLogic’s monthly housing report, which was released Monday. That was also the …
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