Politics, Government & Business in California's Inland Empire
Tuesday, July 15, 2014 – 11:00 a.m.
Here’s some news flowing across the transom Tuesdy morning. In case you missed it.
Brandt to end council service
Upland City Councilman Brendan Brandt has announced he will not seek another term.
SHEA JOHNSON
STAFF WRITER
Posted Jul. 15, 2014 @ 8:11 am
Updated at 8:40 AM
Three weeks before an inmate at West Valley Detention Center was reported dead Thursday from an apparent medical emergency, the family of an inmate who died there in June 2013 filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the jail, which they said ignored repeated calls for the inmate’s immediate medical attention.
By Dale Kasler
dkasler@sacbee.com
Published: Tuesday, Jul. 15, 2014 – 12:00 am
Last Modified: Tuesday, Jul. 15, 2014 – 12:13 am
Continuing to claw their way back from the 2008 market crash, California’s two giant public pension funds said Monday they each earned more than 18 percent on their investments in the just-ended fiscal year.
Tuesday, July 15, 2014 – 10:00 a.m.
The preliminary hearing in the criminal case involving for Upland City Manager Robb Quincey has been continued again.
July 14, 2014
Pete Aguilar and Paul Chabot each are making the case for favored candidate status in the race for a San Bernardino County congressional seat.
To read post by Jeff Horseman in the P-E Political Empire Blog, click here.
By Jim Miller
jmiller@sacbee.com
Published: Monday, Jul. 14, 2014 – 3:47 pm
Election officials in Kern and Imperial counties continued hand recounts Monday of thousands of ballots in the state controller’s race, with a new survey by the secretary of state’s office suggesting that the recount could last well beyond the Nov. 4 election if it covers all of the 15 counties sought by former Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez.
Monday, July 14, 2014 | Sacramento, CA
The strange bedfellows’ society was definitely in session at a recent Assembly Public Safety Committee hearing.
By E. Scott Reckard and Jim Puzzanghera
July 14, 2014
With Citigroup Inc. agreeing to pay $7 billion for issuing toxic mortgage securities, the Justice Department now turns to settling its case against what analysts call the biggest mortgage miscreant of all: Bank of America Corp.
By Cade Metz
07.14.14 | 6:30 am
Chris Lattner spent a year and a half creating a new programming language—a new way of designing, building, and running computer software—and he didn’t mention it to anyone, not even his closest friends and colleagues.