California’s pending home sales were essentially unchanged in January compared with the previous year. The state’s pending home sales index was 107.2 in January, down from 107.4 in January 2016, according to the California Realtors Association in Los Angeles. Compared with December, pending sales – in which a contract has …
Read More »Fred Latuperissa spreads the gospel of international trade
The head of the U.S. Commerce Department’s trade office in the Inland Empire wants all local businesses to know about the potential of overseas markets. Although he tends to keep a low profile, Fred Latuperissa probably belongs on any list of the most influential people in the Inland Empire. Latuperissa …
Read More »Inland Empire job market a mixed bag
The Inland Empire registered an unemployment rate of 5.6 percent in January, up from a revised 5.1 percent in December but down from 5.9 percent exactly one year earlier, according to data released Friday. California recorded a 5.5 percent unemployment rate during the first month of 2017, the state Employment …
Read More »On The Move
Inland Valley Daily Bulletin columnist David Allen will discuss his latest book Getting Started, which is a retrospective of his first four years as a columnist for the newspaper Allen, who is marking his 20th anniversary at the Daily Bulletin, will speak from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday at the Carnegie Library, …
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Dr. Deborah Deas, dean of the medical school at UC Riverside, has received the 2017 Giving Back Award from INSIGHT into Diversity magazine, the oldest diversity and inclusion publication in higher education. Deas and 38 other recipients will be featured in INSIGHT’s April edition, according to a statement on UCR …
Read More »OIA traffic up
Passenger traffic at Ontario International Airport increased 8.5 percent in January compared with the first month of 2016, according to data released this week. The airport, which was recently returned to local control after being owned by the city of Los Angeles, served 339,083 passengers in January compared with 312,413 …
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