By IE Business Daily
May 24, 2014
Leadership requires many virtues. The first and foremost of those is competence, or at least the public perception of it.
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By Mark Gutglueck
Posted on May 23, 2014
(May 22)– While the $180 million federal lawsuit filed on behalf of six of the county’s detention facility inmates by a legal team headed by highly respected former Superior Court judge has put the issue of violence against San Bernardino County’s incarcerated population into the limelight as perhaps never before, the abuse of inmates within the county’s jail system is not a new issue.
Candidates for a state Senate seat in Riverside County and a congressional district in San Bernardino County get the most help
Published: May 23, 2014 Updated: 6:28 p.m.
As the June 3 primary election nears, two Inland races are becoming money magnets attracting special committees with distant addresses and deep pockets.
Independent expenditure committees have spent almost $800,000 as of Wednesday to help or hinder two feuding Republican candidates in the 28th state Senate District, which will represent southwest Riverside County and the county’s desert communities.
To read story by Jeff Horseman in the P-E Political Empire Blog, click here.
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By Leslie Parrilla, San Bernardino Sun
Posted: 05/23/14, 7:47 PM PDT |
SAN BERNARDINO >> Unprecedented cuts during unparalleled times are hovering over leaders in this bankrupt city, possibly forcing them to close all three branch libraries, shut down two fire stations and wipe out half of one department’s employees in an effort to balance a $124 million budget and shore up a $22.8 million deficit.
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Construction is underway at the new Magnolia Heights neighborhood at the Colonies in Upland earlier this month.
By Neil Nisperos, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Posted: 05/23/14, 7:56 PM PDT |
UPLAND >> One of the final pieces of the Colonies development has opened for business.
The new 97-home Magnolia Heights neighborhood has homes ranging in size from 1,829 to 2,331 square feet.
May 23, 2014 5:12 PM
STAFF REPORTS
SACRAMENTO — The California State Board of Equalization has announced that local governments will collect $1.075 billion in tax revenue in the upcoming fiscal year.
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By Dakota Smith, Jack Wang, and Mark Medina
Los Angeles Daily News
Posted: 05/23/14, 9:11 AM PDT | Updated: 10 hrs ago
Embattled Clippers owner Donald Sterling is attempting to turn his stake in the basketball team over to his wife Shelly, who will then negotiate a sale with the NBA.
Michael Finnegan
May 24, 2014
If there’s one thing Republican Neel Kashkari needed this week to stay in the running for governor of California, it was money.
And he got it. Big donors have started spending more than $650,000 promoting the Laguna Beach newcomer to California politics.
An artist’s rendering of a California high-speed rail train. (Associated Press)
Ralph Vartabedian
May 24, 2014
A state appellate court panel on Friday zeroed in on technical and procedural issues that could signal trouble for Central Valley groups fighting California’s proposed bullet train project.
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