Californians have reduced their water use by 26.3 percent since emergency regulations were implemented in June of last year. That means state residents and businesses are meeting Gov. Jerry Brown’s mandated reduction of water use by 25 percent per month, according to data released Monday by the state water resources …
Read More »Home Prices Up
Single-family home prices increased six percent in the Inland Empire in November year-over-year, according to data released Tuesday. Compared with October 2015, home prices in Riverside and San Bernardino counties were down 0.2 percent, Core Logic reported in its monthly Home Price Index and HPI Forecast. Both of those numbers …
Read More »Inland Empire Charity Receives Major Donation
Ontario-based Niagara Bottling Company has donated $100,000 to Stater Bros. Charities to help sponsor this year’s Believe Walk. The walk, scheduled to be held Oct. 2 in Redlands, attracts about 12,000 participants annually and has raised more than $3 million to fight cancer since it began in 2008, according to …
Read More »Manufacturing Index Drops
The Inland Empire’s purchasing managers index took a dramatic fall in December, dropping to its lowest point since 2009. The 42.1 index – down from 52.3 last month – is exactly one point below the benchmark for a shrinking economy if the index were to stay that low, – or …
Read More »Office Building Changes Hands
An office building in Redlands has been sold. The two-story structure at 1901 Orange Tree Lane sold for $3.5 million, said Rick Lazar, senior vice president with Coldwell Banker Commercial Sudweeks Group, which occupies about 10 percent of the structure. The buyer was a private investment group in Ontario. Coldwell …
Read More »More Gun Control Won’t Work
By Ed Hoffman Supposedly as a New Year’s resolution, President Obama announced he would unveil an executive action on gun control this week. For those who are unaware, executive actions are laws executed by the President to fulfill his personal agenda (that might be hyperbole but in Obama’s case, it’s …
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