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Clearing the Hurdles of Business Lending

Michael K. Menerey

By Michael K. Menerey Throughout the Inland Empire, business owners are struggling to obtain credit. Regulations like Dodd-Frank have made it difficult for banks to relax their underwriting criteria; even community and regional banks are beholden to a firm set of government-imposed rules. Furthermore, uncertainty about the economy remains despite …

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The Value of a Personal Touch

Jeff Brannon

By Jeff Brannon In the early 2000s, Americans became familiar with the concepts of outsourcing and offshoring (although both had been around for roughly two decades at that point). As overseas call centers gradually became the norm, we grew more accustomed to speaking with customer service representatives in other countries, …

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Library Receives Grant

Stater Bros. Charities

Stater Bros. Charities has donated $2,500 to the San Bernardino City Library Foundation. The grant will be used to add titles to the San Bernardino Public Library’s Overdrive eBook and Audiobook collection, according to statement on the city’s website. “We are very grateful to Stater Bros. for its grant to …

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Inland Empire Delivery Company Demonstrates Smartphone App

Inland Empire Delivery Company Demonstrates Smartphone App

EZER, the Pomona-based company that employs private drivers to transport goods, showed its smartphone app yesterday and will again today at Apps World North America in Santa Clara. By noon yesterday, more than 80 people had visited EZER’s booth in the section of the conference reserved for start-up businesses, said …

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City Installs Solar Technology

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Rancho Cucamonga has installed solar panels at five city facilities. Central Park, Epicenter Stadium and Sports Complex, Banyan Fire Station, Day Creek Fire Station and the city’s animal complex will all be fitted with the energy-saving devices by this summer, according to a statement on the city’s website. The SolarRC …

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Housing Affordability Improves

Inland Empire Housing Market Stays Strong

Forty eight percent of Inland Empire households could afford the median price of a single-family home in the region – $297,850 – during the first quarter of this year, according to data released Tuesday. That was a three percent improvement compared with the fourth quarter of 2015 but was essentially …

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