Passenger traffic was up at Ontario International Airport last year. The Los Angeles-owned airport served 4.1 million passengers in 2014, up from 3.9 million passengers in 2013, according to Los Angeles World Airports, the agency that owns and operates the facility. That’s an increase of nearly four percent, a noticeable …
Read More »Teachers settle contract dispute
Teachers in Hemet have reached a tentative contract agreement with their school district. The contract, which must be ratified by the Hemet Teachers Association, calls for an eight percent salary increase and puts a cap on class sizes, according to a report in The Press-Enterprise. The agreement, which was announced …
Read More »Are You Being Misled on Your Rate of Return?
By Kraig Strom As I’ve explained before in this column, I am not a fan of financial entertainers: those media figures who lure otherwise intelligent Americans into following their patented “financial health” programs at conferences, on TV or the radio by representing themselves as financial advisors, whether or not they …
Read More »Organized labor holds its own
Union membership essentially held its own last year, although total union membership remains historically low nationwide. Total union membership was 11.1 percent in 2014, down 0.2 percent compared with 2013, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The total number wage and salary workers who belonged to a union …
Read More »Pomona denies electronic recycler
The Pomona City Council has denied a permit for a electronic waste collection and transfer facility. By a 4-3 vote, the council decided Monday to leave in place the planning commission’s decision to deny the proposed facility a conditional use permit, according to a report in the Inland Valley Daily …
Read More »Summarizing the State of the Union
By Ed Hoffman It’s been one week since the President delivered a State of the Union address that rivals a campaign speech in terms of promises he can’t possibly fulfill. Free college, free childcare, mandated paid leave laws for all 50 states, a minimum wage high enough to support a …
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