The Moreno Valley Employment Resource Center has been renovated. The program, a partnership between the city and the Riverside County Workforce Development Center, has two new computers that were purchased with a $53,000 grant from the Western Regional Council of Governments, according to a statement on the city’s website. Renovation …
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Cati Porter, executive director of the Riverside-based Inlandia Institute, and Frances J. Vasquez, the organization’s president and chief executive officer, have donated copies of Empire by Lewis deSoto to the San Bernardino Public Library. Both women presented five copies of the 108-page book, which details de Soto’s growing up in …
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Arthur Bergmann has left Ontario-based Citizens Business Bank. Bergmann will be a senior vice president with Los Angeles-based California United Bank and will oversee the company’s commercial lending office in Irvine, according to a recent statement. “Arthur is a seasoned lender with more than 15 years of relationship-based banking experience …
Read More »UC Riverside Conference Paints Rosy Economic Picture
Despite what you might see on the news or read online, California is not worst state in which to do business, and the state’s economy is not about to slide into the Pacific Ocean. That was the message delivered Thursday by economist Chris Thornberg at the 7th Annual Inland Southern …
Read More »OIA Traffic Down
Passenger traffic at Ontario International Airport dropped slightly in August, according to data released this week. Overall passenger count last month was 357,854, a 2.9 percent decline compared with August of 2015, Los Angeles World Airports reported. Domestic traffic was essentially flat – 344,676 passengers a year-over-year drop of 1.82 …
Read More »Distressed Sales Continue to Fall
Distressed sales accounted for 7.8 percent of all home sales in the United States during June, while real estate-owned sales accounted for 4.9 percent of those transactions, according to data released Thursday. Bank-owned sales were 23.9 percentage points below their peak of 27.9 percent in January 2009, Irvine-based CoreLogic reported …
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