For the second time in less than a week, a San Bernardino County Superior Court jury heard opening arguments in the Colonies corruption case. Last week, Deputy District Attorney Lewis Cope alleged that Jim Erwin, the county’s former assistant assessor, participated in a multi-million dollar bribery scheme in connection with …
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Riverside County is seeking volunteers to help conduct its annual Homeless Point-in-Time Count and Survey, which is scheduled to be held Jan. 24 in Palm Springs. The homeless count is a one-day street and service-based effort designed to calculate how many people in the county are homeless on any one …
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The two-county region has affordable residential land and, like just about every submarket, a population that’s aging. The task now is to identify the places where those kind of communities will work and secure the land. When Steve Cameron looks at demographic data, he sees mainly two things: millennials at …
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U.S. monthly apartment rents dropped an average of $4 in December. The average rent for an apartment unit nationwide last month was $1,210, a four percent year-over-year increase, according to Yardi Matrix, an apartment information service in Santa Barbara. The Inland Empire bucked the national trend. Apartment rents in Riverside …
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Local historian Katie Keyes has written a book about Perris. Keyes, who has lived in the Perris Valley for more than 70 years, recently published the 124-page “Images of America: Perris Valley,” according to a statement on Keyes’ website. Published by Arcadia Publishing in Charleston, S.C., the book takes a …
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Rep. Pete Aguilar, D- Redlands, has been named assistant whip for the House Democratic caucus. Aguilar was appointed by Democratic Whip Steny H. Hoyer of Maryland, according to a statement posted Wednesday on Aguilar’s house website. “As we begin the 115th Congress, we must ensure crucial issues like job creation, …
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