Tom Torlakson, California’s superintendent of public instruction, toured Arroyo Valley High School Monday and declared that the state has entered a new era in how it pays for education. Torlakson, the state’s top-ranked educator, was referring to Gov. Jerry Brown’s Local Control Funding Formula, which was put in place two years ago, …
Read More »On The Move
A Moreno Valley blogger has won a libel suit against another blogger from that city. Debra Craig alleged that Gordon Tucker made disparaging comments about her on his Facebook page that were intended to get her fired from her teaching job, according to a report in The Press-Enterprise. The comments have since been …
Read More »Cadiz forms partnership to improve water quality
Cadiz Inc., the publicly held water resources company in eastern San Bernardino County near 29 Palms, is working with two other business to reduce the amount of chromium-6 in its drinking water supplies. Seattle-based ATEC Systems Associates Inc. and CH2M, an international engineering firm in Englewood, Colo., have partnered with …
Read More »Local Control No Miracle Cure for Ontario Airport
Let’s get some facts out from the very beginning. The Airline industry has been running on shoe-string budgets for decades. Airlines go out of business every year. Competition and demand determine where and how many flights any airline makes. The cost of flying a plane is fixed based on aircraft …
Read More »State housing affordability slips
Buying a house in California is becoming more difficult. Thirty percent of the state’s households could afford to purchase a median-priced home of $485,100 during the second quarter of this year, down four percentage points from the first quarter, according to data released Tuesday by the California Association of Realtors. …
Read More »Tune in to The Main Event this Saturday Morning at 9:30 on AM590
Tune in to The Main Event this Saturday morning at 9:30 on AM590 with host Ed Hoffman as he discusses national current events and politics, with a few mortgage tips along the way. Ed delivers intelligent, entertaining radio that makes hard news easy to understand! This week, Ed is still …
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