Inland Women Fighting Cancer, the group that partners with Stater Bros. Charities to organize the Believe Walk in Redlands, has been named 2015 Volunteer Group of the Year by the Inland Empire chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. Officials with IWFC accepted the award at the chapter’s award luncheon, …
Read More »State Water Reduction Slows
California cut its urban water use by 22.2 percent in October, the first time the state has failed to meet its monthly goal of 25 percent since emergency drought regulations were implemented earlier this year. That effort was well below the 26 percent reduction the state achieved in September, according …
Read More »Doing Your Own Research
By Ed Hoffman If you watch the weekend news coverage of the election – specifically, the Sunday politics shows – then you already know that the front-running Republican candidates are being accused of “bending the truth” to fit their narratives. It would be great if Republican voters like me didn’t …
Read More »OIA Passenger, Cargo Count Both Up
Ontario International Airport posted a solid month in October. Passenger traffic was up 5.6 percent year-over-year, with 380,584 passengers serviced during that month, according to data released Monday by Los Angeles World Airports, the agency that owns the airport. Cargo was also up 10 percent in October, as 46,840 tons …
Read More »Purchasing Index Bounces Back
Inland Empire manufacturing is growing again, at least for now. The region’s purchasing managers index last month was 52.3, well above the 45.9 index that was recorded in October, according to data released Tuesday by the Institute of Applied Research and Policy Analysis at Cal State San Bernardino. Anything below …
Read More »Map deals with climate change
Esri, the Redlands-based geographical information systems company, has released an interactive map that shows how the earth’s natural and human systems have changed over time. Atlas for a Changing Planet is a story map that can be used to examine spatial information, data that can be used to adapt to …
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