Riverside has given out its first Green Business Award. City officials, including representatives from Riverside Public Utilities, recently presented the award to UTC Aerospace Systems, according to a statement on the city’s website. With an assist from California’s Green Business Program, the city utility helped UTC Aerospace make changes to …
Read More »Inland Empire Company Hires Chief Executive
Polymer Logistics, which manufactures reusable plastic containers that look like wood, has a new chief executive officer of its North American operation. Fred Heptinstall, who has held executive positions with Chiquita Brands, IFCO Systems and Mars Inc., will start work with the Riverside-based company July 1, according to a statement. …
Read More »Inland Empire Foreclosures Drop Slightly
Foreclosures took a modest drop in the Inland Empire during March. The foreclosure rate among outstanding mortgages in Riverside and San Bernardino counties stood at 0.64 percent, down from 0.85 percent in March 2015, according to data released Tuesday by CoreLogic in Irvine. That was below the national foreclosure rate …
Read More »It’s Fair Game
By Ed Hoffman I opened my live broadcast on Saturday with a clip from the movie “The Contender,” wherein Jeff Bridges’ character (the President) says the line, “Napoleon once said when asked to explain the lack of great statesmen in the world, that ‘to get power you need to display …
Read More »Job Fair Scheduled
A job fair designed primarily to help out-of-work veterans is scheduled to be held Thursday at Ontario Convention Center. The “Honor a Hero Hire a Vet Job and Resource Fair” will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., with more than 130 employees expected to attend, said Don Froman, …
Read More »Supervisors Approve JPA Overhaul
The Riverside County Board of Supervisors Tuesday agreed to move forward with a plan that will refine and reorganize the March Joint Powers Authority, the agency that oversees March Air Reserve Base and is in charge of development there. In a 5-0 vote, the board declared that preserving and protecting …
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