February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004
Sunday, February 6, 2011 – 11:25 a.m.
Here is the tribute to Ronald Reagan to be aired during today’s Super Bowl.
Reagan was America’s 40th President.
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Archive for February 6th, 2011
Sunday, February 6, 2011 – 11:15 a.m.
Last Friday’s release of January unemployment figures by the U.S. Department of Labor was a disgrace.
Over the past two months the “unemployment rate” has purportedly fallen from 9.8% to 9.0%, with the “underemployment” rate currently at 16.1%.
Desjardins
Sunday, February 6, 2011 – 10:50 a.m.
San Bernardino City Councilman Jason Desjardins will likely be forced to leave office because of recent scrutiny surrounding dealings between the city and his towing service business.
To put it simply, Desjardins towing service has a position on the city police tow rotation. A very lucrative benefit to Desjardins livelihood.
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Sunday, February 6, 2011 – 10:30 a.m.
I never really gave much thought to the technology behind the production and distribution of the blog until the recent switch by InlandPolitics.com from Yahoo Small Business to a dedicated service provider.
What I learned was amazing. The service improvement was dramatic. The increase in daily hits was shocking.
Filed under: Administration of the Blog
11:50 PM PST on Saturday, February 5, 2011
By DUANE W. GANG and ALICIA ROBINSON
The Press-Enterprise
On a recent day, the sun glimmered off the new pool at the Jurupa Aquatics Center on Mission Boulevard. Construction crews worked on the still-unpaved parking lot and put the finishing touches on a pirate ship in a children’s play area.
The $22.7 million center, funded through the Riverside County Redevelopment Agency, has three water slides, a man-made river, a wave machine and an 11,500-square-foot building with offices, lockers and a community room.
Filed under: Budget, Cities, Counties, Economy, Finance, In the News, Local Government, Politics, Redevelopment, State of California
Loveridge
11:16 PM PST on Saturday, February 5, 2011
By ALICIA ROBINSON
The Press-Enterprise
How do you measure a city’s progress? Flash back to 2005, and one way Riverside Mayor Ron Loveridge counted it was by the number of Starbucks stores.
The mayor has used various measures of success over the years, as recorded in his annual State of the City addresses, given each January. He also traditionally uses the speeches to set goals for the city.
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11:29 PM PST on Saturday, February 5, 2011
By GAIL WESSON
The Press-Enterprise
Special Section: San Jacinto Corruption Probe
Three of the new San Jacinto City Council members were among the top spenders in the November election, but the fourth won his seat with a low-budget campaign.
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The six say the city promised to cover their legal defense
By Kelly Thornton, Watchdog Institute
Friday, February 4, 2011 at 5:41 p.m.
The law
Governments can choose to cover legal fees for criminal prosecution of employees if the employee acted within the “scope of his employment,” “without malice,” in the “apparent interests of the public entity” and if “the public entity determines that such defense would be in the best interests of the public entity.”
Thomas Himes, Staff Writer
Created: 02/05/2011 07:10:46 AM PST
Anschutz Entertainment Group President and CEO Tim Leiweke confidently proclaims he is the man who can bring the National Football League back to Los Angeles by building a state-of-the-art, multi-use stadium downtown, near Staples Center.
But despite Leiweke’s bravado, building a 64,000- to 72,000-seat stadium won’t come cheap. Leiweke knows that. And that may explain why the stadium’s reported price has more than doubled since November.
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Filed under: Business, Cities, City of Industry, Economy, Finance, In the News, Los Angeles, Politics, Redevelopment
By Mark Z. Barabak, Los Angeles Times
February 5, 2011, 4:16 p.m.
For years, Sacramento lawmakers worked to give California voters a bigger say in national politics by scheduling the state’s presidential primary as early as they could.
The series of moves culminated in 2008 with a Feb. 5 vote, the earliest in state history. But now a legislative effort is underway to move the California primary back where it started — to June, on the last day of the 2012 nominating season — as a way to save tens of millions of dollars. “That’s a lot of money,” said the bill’s sponsor, Assemblyman Paul Fong (D-Cupertino), “at a time when every penny counts.”
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Filed under: Budget, Campaigns, Economy, Elections, Finance, In the News, Politics, State of California
Though few have paid attention, the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission’s conclusions clearly point out the failures by regulators — and the (un)regulated — to rein in excesses that predictably led to ruin.
By Michael Hiltzik
February 6, 2011
The public reaction to major man-made disasters always follows the same life cycle: First come shock and outrage, then demands for investigation and retribution against the guilty, and finally resignation about God’s mysterious ways, fatigue and ennui.
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