Riverside has adopted mandatory water restrictions. Lawns and any other landscaping may be watered only four days a week and from 6 p.m. to 10 a.m., and restaurants may provide water to customers only if they ask for, according to a report in The Press-Enterprise. The city’s goal is to …
Read More »Colonies hearing continues
Arguments continued today in San Bernardino County Superior Court in the Colonies corruption case, with defense attorneys arguing that what prosecutors allege were bribes were in fact legitimate political contributions. Judge Michael A. Smith heard presentations from David Goldstein, attorney for former Supervisor Paul Biane, and Paul Grech, attorney for …
Read More »For one week, retailers get an “A”
Back-to-school shoppers gave U.S. retailers a large boost last week. National retail sales were up 4.6 percent for the week ending Saturday compared with the same week in 2013, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers and Goldman Sachs Weekly Chain Stores Sales Index. Sales were up a modest …
Read More »No remedy in handouts
Nancy Pelosi last week in yet another effort to justify allowing the droves of illegal immigrant children to remain within our borders reminded us that baby Jesus was a refugee as are these children from South America. I take offense with her overreaching parallelism. We don’t have the resources in …
Read More »Colonies judge rules for prosecution
Prosecutors in the Colonies corruption case won another round today when a Superior Court Judge ruled that they did provide evidence favorable to the defense to a grand jury, as required by law. Attorneys for the four defendants – developer Jeff Burum, former Assistant Assessor Jim Erwin, former Supervisor Paul …
Read More »LLUMC is still top dog
Loma Linda University Medical Center has been named the top hospital in the Inland Empire. This is the fifth consecutive year that the hospital was ranked number one in Riverside and San Bernardino counties in U.S. News & World Report’s annual ranking of the best hospitals in the country. Loma …
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