California’s pending home sales dropped for the third consecutive month in September. Compared with September 2016, pending sales of houses and condominiums were down six percent last month, according to data released by the California Association of Realtors. Compared with August, the news was a little more encouraging, as pending …
Read More »UC Riverside names provost and executive vice chancellor
Cynthia K. Larive has been named provost and executive vice chancellor of UC Riverside. Larive, a bio-analytical chemistry scholar, will assume her new duties Nov. 1, according to a statement. She has held those duties on an interim basis since February. Larive joined the UC Riverside faculty in 2005. She …
Read More »Rose Parade float volunteers needed
Riverside is looking for volunteers to work on the city’s 2018 Rose Parade float. Anyone interested is encouraged to sign up at www.RiversideFestivalofLights.com, according to a statement on the city’s website. Work will begin in mid-November with dry decorating at the Tournament of Roses’ float construction facility in Irwindale, which …
Read More »Moreno Valley is making an extra effort to land the much-coveted second Amazon headquarters
The city on Oct. 19th sent its “HQ2 Strike Team” to Amazon’s Seattle headquarters to let officials there know how serious Moreno Valley is about landing the project, according to a statement on the city’s website. The strike team delivered a “special edition” of the Washington Post to Amazon officials, …
Read More »Sales drop as home prices reach 10-year peak
Home sales in Southern California in September fell to a three-year low for that month, according to data released this week. A total of 20,956 new and resale houses and condominiums changed hands during that month, down 12.9 percent from August and 1.7 percent year-over-year, Irvine-based CoreLogic reported in its …
Read More »It’s the Little Things
By Tim Kolacz When you are out to dinner and the server is more attentive to you, it feels good. Making sure your drink of choice is monitored and is properly managed makes for the entire meal to be more enjoyable. Or when you are in the store and your …
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