Harold Stryker will serve as an interim member of the Laker Elsinore School District Board. Stryker, a longtime educator and union leader, was selected by the district’s trustees in a 3-1 vote, according to a report in The Press-Enterprise. Stryker replaces Tom Thomas, who died unexpectedly in June. The 52-year-old …
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Kristina M. Leslie has been named to CVB Financial Corp’s board of directors. Leslie, who was chief financial officer at DreamWorks Studios from 2003 until her retirement in 2007, was also named a director of Citizens Business Bank, a wholly-owned subsidiary of CVB Financial, according to a statement. Leslie began …
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Redlands Chamber of Commerce Gets New President As one Redlands Chamber of Commerce president prepares to step down, another one is stepping into his place. The Chamber’s new president-elect is Jill Riley, co-owner of Citrus Valley Plumbing, a 24-hour plumbing service based in Redlands. Riley has taken over for Geoff …
Read More »California leads in job growth
California added more jobs between July of 2014 and July of this year than any other state. The state, which has seen its unemployment rate drop six points since the worst part of the recession in February 2010, added 494,000 non-farm jobs during that period, according to the California Economic …
Read More »Economic conference scheduled
Citizens Business Bank will present its sixth annual Inland Empire Economic Forecast Conference Sept. 24 at Citizens Business Bank Arena. The conference, which is scheduled to be held from 7 a.m. to 10:15 a.m., will be hosted by the Inland Empire Center for Economics and Public Policy at Claremont McKenna …
Read More »California Government: More taxes on a shrinking Middle Class
In July of this year the State of California passed a total budget of $167 Billion including general fund, special funds, and bond fund expenditures. This is an all-time record funded primarily by increased revenue created by higher taxes on all Californians as well as improved revenues from wealthy taxpayers …
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