Sunday, January 18, 2015 – 11:00 a.m.
We’ve written about it here before. If you want to be a county supervisor, be prepared to do your job.
Archive for January 18th, 2015
By Mark Gutgkueck
Posted on January 17, 2015
(January 14) — In local Democratic Party circles there is already peripheral discussion of the need to mount a challenge of Marc Steinorth in the 40th Assembly District in 2016.
Filed under: Campaigns, Democrats, Elections, In the News, Politics, Republicans, State Assembly, State of California
Customers enter the newly opened Chili’s restaurant in the Colonies Crossroads shopping center in Upland on Friday. Sales tax from the 1 million-square-foot “power center” rose from $1.6 million in 2012-13 to $2 million in 2013-14. (Will Lester — Staff Photographer)
By Neil Nisperos, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Posted: 01/17/15, 9:11 PM PST | Updated: 25 secs ago
UPLAND >> The Colonies Crossroads, one of the largest shopping centers in San Bernardino County’s West End, continues to expand and increase revenue for the city.
Then-Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa greets customers at Pink’s Hot Dogs as part of a farewell tour before leaving office in 2013. His next move could be to run for a U.S. Senate seat in 2016. That would require him to defeat Attorney General Kamala Harris, an ally in previous campaigns. (Nick Ut/Associated Press-file)
By Christopher Cadelago
ccadelago@sacbee.com
01/17/2015 11:12 PM
Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa planned to use the year to, as he put it recently, continue on a journey of reflection.
Filed under: Campaigns, Democrats, Elections, In the News, Politics, State of California, U.S. Senate
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
01/17/2015 5:32 PM
Gov. Jerry Brown exudes pride that voters approved Proposition 2, which creates California’s first meaningful budget reserve, hailing it as a bulwark against periodic flirtations with fiscal insolvency.
Local cities still face significant pension risks
Jan. 17, 2015
Updated 10:44 p.m.
By TERI SFORZA
Things might be looking a bit better, but let’s not let it go to our heads.
Anaheim is still staring down a public pension hole more than half a billion dollars deep.
Filed under: Brea, Budget, Cities, Finance, Fullerton, In the News, Irvine, Laguna Hills, Newport Beach, Pension Funds, Pensions, Rancho Santa Margarita, Santa Ana, Tustin
By Charles Krauthammer, Opinion writer
January 15, 2015
On Sunday, at the great Paris rally, the whole world was Charlie. By Tuesday, the veneer of solidarity was exposed as tissue thin. It began dissolving as soon as the real, remaining Charlie Hebdo put out its post-massacre issue featuring a Muhammad cover that, as the New York Times put it, “reignited the debate pitting free speech against religious sensitivities.”
FILE – In this Dec. 3, 2014 file photo, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks in Gaston Hall at Georgetown University, in Washington. Neither Hillary Rodham Clinton nor Mitt Romney have yet said they’re running for president. But within a few hours on Friday, the likely candidates previewed a 2016 campaign that appears headed to a debate over who is best able to boost the paychecks of every day Americans. (Carolyn Kaster/AP Photo)
By DAVID SCOTT and STEVE PEOPLES Associated Press
01/18/2015 9:27 AM
CORONADO, Calif.
Not yet in the presidential race, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Mitt Romney already are previewing the likely focus of the 2016 campaign, a competition over who’s better able to boost paychecks for working Americans.