Politics, Government & Business in California's Inland Empire
Wednesday, June 18, 2014 – 10:30 a.m.
Here’s some news flowing across the transom Wednesday morning, in case you missed it!
U.S. revenues hit all-time record, still running deficit
The amount of money the U.S. Government took in, through the month of May, has hit a new record of $1.93 trillion.
Published: June 17, 2014 Updated: June 18, 2014 8:35 a.m.
Riverside County may be forced to lay off dozens of workers from its regional hospital and information technology department, the county’s budget chief said this week.
To read story by Jeff Horseman in the Press-Enterprise, click here.
June 17, 2014
Paul Chabot has Rancho Cucamonga to thank for his win and southwest Riverside County came through for Jeff Stone, according to a detailed breakdown of results from the June 3 primary.
To read post by Jeff Horseman in the P-E Political Empire Blog, click here.
By Beau Yarbrough, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Posted: 06/17/14, 8:28 PM PDT | Updated: 57 secs ago
RIALTO >> Deputy Superintendent James Wallace will earn $170,501 in the 2014-15 school year for the same job he’s done since Sept. 14: staying home.
By Josh Richman, jrichman@bayareanewsgroup.com
Posted: 06/17/14, 9:04 PM PDT |
Gov. Jerry Brown in a steamy political scandal? Unlikely.
Another national economic collapse? Also a long shot.
After this month’s primary election, the real question is: Does a rookie Republican like Neel Kashkari have any chance of toppling a popular governor in an ultrablue state?
By Ryan Hagen, The Sun
Posted: 06/16/14, 10:34 PM PDT | Updated: 1 min ago
SAN BERNARDINO >> The nonprofit group behind the Waterman Gardens Affordable Housing Project will build 75 affordable units at Ninth Street and Valencia Avenue, replacing that number of low-income apartments at Waterman Gardens with ones sold at market rate.
The switch follows a 6-1 vote at Monday’s City Council meeting, with Councilman John Valdivia opposing the plan.
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
Published: Tuesday, Jun. 17, 2014 – 10:17 pm
The Legislature kept Gov. Jerry Brown’s pet bullet train project alive by allocating $250 million from “cap-and-trade” greenhouse gas fees on business in the new state budget.
By Ed Mendel
Wednesday, June 18, 2014
Full funding of the troubled California State Teachers Retirement System was approved by the Legislature last weekend, with most of the additional $5 billion coming from school districts that get no offsetting money from the state.
By Dale Kasler
dkasler@sacbee.com
Published: Tuesday, Jun. 17, 2014 – 10:25 pm
CalPERS’ health care premiums are going up again for hundreds of thousands of public employees and their families, although 40 percent of CalPERS members will see their rates decline.