Saturday, November 15, 2104 – 12:00 p.m.
San Bernardino City Hall is once again making overtures in regards to the outsourcing of police services to the Sheriff’s Department.
Politics, Government & Business in California's Inland Empire
Saturday, November 15, 2104 – 12:00 p.m.
San Bernardino City Hall is once again making overtures in regards to the outsourcing of police services to the Sheriff’s Department.
By Mark Gutglueck
Posted on November 15, 2014
(November 10) — The once grandly touted Police Officer Standards and Training Cheating Scandal Prosecution, which entailed criminal charges against seven current and former Sheriff’s Department employees alleged to have defrauded taxpayers by falsifying training and pay records, was quietly closed out on Halloween when the figure at the center of the case, retired sheriff’s captain Hobart Gray, pleaded no-contest to a single count of “aiding in a misdemeanor.”
November 15, 2014
The City of San Bernardino has a long history of rejecting private investment opportunities within her boundaries. Opposition to private development both large and small have ranged from objections to minor land use changes to the adoption of strict foothill development codes to rejection of the reuse of existing railroad right of ways for an intermodal facility at former Norton Air Force Base.
By Vern Nelson
November 15, 2014
Sleazy old Newport Beach consultant Dave Ellis had a mixed week, last week.
Published: Nov. 14, 2014 Updated: Nov. 15, 2014 12:56 a.m.
Riverside County Supervisor Kevin Jeffries is getting a raise, whether he wants one or not.
In August, the county Board of Supervisors voted to give themselves raises along with other top elected officials. They extended a previously set formula that ties supervisors’ salaries to 80 percent of what a Superior Court judge makes.
To read story by Jeff Horseman in The Press-Enterprise, click here.
By From Staff Reports
Posted: 11/14/14, 1:09 PM PST | Updated: 1 min ago
Riverside’s former economic development manager has been appointed director of San Bernardino County’s Economic Development Agency.
By Liset Marquez, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Posted: 11/14/14, 1:28 PM PST | Updated: 54 secs ago
Admitting fault, attorneys for Ontario contended Friday that the Ontario airport never was sold to Los Angeles because the procedures followed by the local electors were flawed.
By Sandra Emerson, Redlands Daily Facts
Posted: 11/14/14, 9:29 PM PST | Updated: 1 min ago
Democrats Pete Aguilar and Norma Torres, the Inland Empire’s newly elected congressional members, will spend the next few days learning the ins and outs of Washington during the new member orientation.
November 14th, 201 – 9:25 am
Rep. Ken Calvert is headed back to Washington. And once again, he’s doing it as head of California’s Republican congressional delegation.
To read post by Jeff Horseman in The P-E Political Empire Blog, click here.
By Christopher Cadelago
ccadelago@sacbee.com
11/14/2014 9:52 PM
The state’s political ethics watchdog has launched an investigation into whether the California Republican Party violated campaign finance rules in the Central Valley’s 21st Assembly District.
By Paige St. John
November 14, 2014
Federal judges on Friday ordered California to launch a new parole program that could free more prisoners early, ruling the state had failed to fully implement an order last February intended to reduce unconstitutional crowding.
By Christopher Cadelago
ccadelago@sacbee.com
11/15/2014 8:20 AM
When all the ballots are finally tallied from last week’s election, the proportion of Californians voting by mail is expected to break the record set in 2012, the first time more than half of the state’s electorate voted absentee.
By Josh Richman
Friday, November 14th, 2014 at 2:43 pm
California was an exception to the Republican wave that swept the nation in Nov. 4’s low-turnout midterm election in part because Californians are happier than the rest of the nation with how things are going, according to a new Field Poll memo.
By Andrew Khouri
November 14, 2014
The Orange County Register is now asking its reporters and other staff members to deliver papers.
By Jonathan Horn
Nov. 14, 2014 – 01:47 p.m.
Whether it’s a scar from the Great Recession, being overwhelmed with student loan debt, or having the ability to move for a career, America’s generation of young professionals just aren’t buying homes the way their parents did, a UBS executive said in La Jolla Thursday.
By Jon Ortiz
jortiz@sacbee.com
11/14/2014 1:44 PM
CalPERS has dropped health coverage for nearly 9,000 people over the last year after a sweeping audit revealed they weren’t eligible for benefits received through state-worker and state-retiree health plans.
Post-election events help clarify internal White House debate on timing.
By Seung Min Kim and Carrie Budoff Brown
11/14/14 7:11 PM EST
An internal debate over the timing of President Barack Obama’s executive order on immigration has raged for months, with White House officials gaming out options to minimize the collateral damage yet failing to reach consensus on the best moment to act before their year-end deadline.