V.P. Franklin, a professor of education and history at UC Riverside, was scheduled to attend a White House reception today honoring Black History Month. Franklin recently completed the first issue of the centennial volume of The Journal of African American History, which he edits from an office on the UCR …
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John Russo has been named Riverside’s city manager. Russo, who has been Alameda’s city manager for the past four years, previously served five years on the Oakland City Council and was Oakland’s city attorney for 11 years, according to a report in The Press-Enterprise. Russo, 56, will start May 4. …
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Darren Feldman has been named Cal Fire Unit Chief for San Bernardino County. Feldman, a 1983 graduate of Pacific High School, has worked for Cal Fire since 1985, when the agency was known as the California Department of Forestry, according to a report in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. Feldman, …
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A retired Municipal Court judge who worked in Ontario and Rancho Cucamonga was the Best in Show judge at this week’s Westminster Dog Show in New York. David Merriam judged the 139th annual competition – the winner was a beagle named Miss P, selected from a group of seven finalists …
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Gina Marie Lindsey will retire as executive director of Los Angeles World Airports, owner of Ontario International Airport. Lindsey, who has held the position since 2007, is stepping down in the middle of an $8.5 billion renovation of Los Angeles International Airport, which LAWA – a city of Los Angeles …
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A 20-year-member of the Mt. San Jacinto Community College governing board has announced his resignation. Eugene Kadow, who represented Trustee Area 1 – the San Gorgonio Pass, the San Jacinto Mountains and part of Temecula – leaves one year before his four-year term expires, according to a report in The …
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