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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 …

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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 …

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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, …

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Sales drop as home prices reach 10-year peak

Home Sales Decline

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 …

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It’s the Little Things

Tim Kolacz

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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Local universities recognized for helping low-income students

Two Inland Empire universities are among the best in the United States at enrolling low-income students and graduating them into well-paying jobs. UC Riverside and Cal Poly Pomona were in the top of the 2017 Social Mobility Index, which was released Tuesday. The index is compiled by CollegeNET, a Portland, …

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