The Yucaipa City Council has left intact a rent control ordinance that applies exclusively to the city’ 42 mobile home parks. By a 4-1 vote Monday, the council declined to change a provision in the ordinance that limits rent increases at those properties to 80 percent of the consumer price …
Read More »OIA Sees Large Drop in Traffic
Passenger traffic at Ontario International Airport dropped substantially in July. Overall traffic was down 4.49 percent last month, with nearly 17,300 fewer domestic and international passengers using the airport compared with July 2015, according to data released Tuesday by Los Angeles World Airports, the airport’s owner. Domestic traffic fell by …
Read More »Education Conference Scheduled
The Baldy View Chapter of the Building Industry Association of Southern California will host the Education Summit 2016. The event, which will be co-hosted by the San Bernardino County Superintendent of Schools, is scheduled to be held from 8 a.m. to noon Sept. 8 at the Chaffee College Chino Community …
Read More »QVC Opens Inland Empire Logistics Facility
QVC, the international video and e-commerce retailer, on Monday opened its Ontario distribution center with a ribbon-cutting and grand opening ceremony. The one-million-square-foot facility, QVC’s first distribution operation on the west coast, is expected to create 1,000 jobs by 2020, according to a company statement. The distribution center, which was …
Read More »There’s No Flip-Flop Here
By Ed Hoffman This week, everyone is still talking about Donald Trump’s supposed flip-flop on illegal immigration as if it’s the worst offense a presidential candidate could possibly commit. But my feeling is that there was no flip-flop at all. Let’s examine what his most noteworthy (and largely mischaracterized) statements …
Read More »Distressed Home Sales Continue to Drop
Distressed sales made up 9.6 percent of all home sales in the Inland Empire during May, according to data released Tuesday. That was above the national rate of 8.4 percent, but it also marked the largest improvement of any major metropolitan market in the United States from its distressed sales …
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