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By Tim Kolacz You can control the cost of your Worker’s Comp insurance. No really, you can. Many companies that I work with, and by “many” I mean all, are concerned about the small fortune they pay every year in Worker’s Comp premiums. “How do I pay less?” is a …

Retail sales nationwide were a mixed bag last week. Year-over-year sales were up 2.3 percent for the week that ended Saturday, but they were down 0.3 percent compared with the previous week, which ended April 5, according to the International Council of Shopping Centers and Goldman Sachs Weekly Chain Stores …

Stater Bros. Charities has raised more than half a billion dollars for the American Heart Association and the American Stroke Association. The supermarket chain’s Heart Month Campaign in February, in which shoppers were asked to donate as they made their purchases, raised $543,488, said Susan Atkinson, president and chief executive …

The housing market continued to struggle during March, both regionally and locally.   In Southern California, 17,638 single-family homes were sold last month, a 14.3 percent drop year-over-year, according to the monthly housing report released today by DataQuick Information Systems in La Jolla.   They were also the lowest sales …

A federal mediator has been summoned to help solve the ongoing labor dispute between the United Food & Commercial Workers Union and three of the largest supermarket chains in Southern California.   A spokesman for the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service confirmed that someone from that organization will participate in …

By Ed Hoffman Racism, racism, racism. There were many stories in the media last week where people were throwing out the race card. If people question one’s leadership, then the person questioning must be a racist. If you don’t have the answers to questions people pose to you then I …