California’s unemployment rate fell to 5.3 percent in April, as the state added 59,600 non-agricultural jobs to its payrolls. That figure was essentially unchanged from March but was a 1.2 percent drop year-over-year, according to the California Employment Development Department’s monthly jobs report, which was released Friday. Between April 2015 …
Read More »City Hires ITD
Corona has a new information technology director. Chris McMasters, who spent more than 20 years working in the private sector with Honeyville, Inc., was hired from 166 potential candidates after a national search, according to a statement posted Thursday on the city’s website. McMasters, who began his new duties last …
Read More »People on the Move
Kimberly Davidson has been named Corona’s Economic Development Manager. Davidson, who started work Monday, held the same position in Murrieta for more than seven years before moving to Corona, according to a statement on the city’s website. Before working in Murrieta she owned a small marketing business that provided consulting …
Read More »Mayor Comments on Scandal
Beaumont is pledging its full cooperation with the Riverside County District Attorney’s office in that office’s investigation into the city’s corruption scandal. City officials are also taking action to make sure such a scandal never happens again, Mayor Mike Lara said in a statement. “We have been cooperating with all …
Read More »Home Cash Sales Inch Down
The number of cash sales in the Inland Empire housing market dropped slightly in February. Cash transactions accounted for 26.4 percent of all the homes sold in Riverside and San Bernardino counties during the second month of the year, according to data released Thursday by CoreLogic in Irvine. That was …
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Tune in to The Main Event this Saturday morning at 9:30 on AM590 with host Ed Hoffman as he discusses national current events and politics, with a few mortgage tips along the way. Ed delivers intelligent, entertaining radio that makes hard news easy to understand! This week, Ed is broadcasting …
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