G. Gabrielle Starr was inaugurated Saturday as president of Pomona College. Starr, who has been on the job for several months, was formally installed during a ceremony at Bridges Auditorium, according to a statement on the school’s website. Starr, who formerly ran Pomona College’s English department, is the school’s 10th …
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Alexis King, an English teacher at Ayala High School in Chino Hills, has received a 2017 Milken Educator Award. The award, which is considered the nation’s preeminent teacher recognition honor, includes a $25,000 check that King may spend however she wishes, according to a statement released by the Chino Valley …
Read More »Homes planned for Moreno Valley
KB Homes will build 159 homes in Moreno Valley. Bella Cortina will consist of one and two-story structures that will range from 1,700 to 3,000 square feet, according to a statement. Prices will start around $350,000. A timeline for development was not released. Bella Cortina will be built in the …
Read More »Report: state housing market to stay strong
California’s housing market should remain strong in 2018, although the state will still be plagued by not enough homes being built as well as an affordability problem, according to a report released Thursday. The state’s housing recovery is expected to continue through next year, but not at the pace it …
Read More »Marketers – Be Social Justice Warriors on Your Own Dime, Not Your Clients
By Lou Desmond At the recently-held Advertising Week New York event the Grand Poo Bayh’s that lead the advertising and marketing world gathered to offer each other great thanks for being so cool and to engage in serious amounts of self-congratulatory and gratuitous navel-gazing. Among the chief concerns to be …
Read More »Bank of America helps local nonprofits
Twenty-six nonprofit agencies in the Inland Empire have been given a boost by the Bank of America. The organizations, which address a number of economic development issues in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, collectively received $282,500 in economic mobility grants, according to a statement released Tuesday. The grants, which are …
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