Politics, Government & Business in California's Inland Empire
Thursday, January 29, 2015 – 04:30 p.m.
Tonight on The Lou Desmond & Company Show, Cliff Cummings, President of Toyota of San Bernardino, joins Lou to discuss happenings in the City of San Bernardino, National School Choice Week and the overall health of the Inland Empire economy.
By Liset Marquez, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Posted: 01/27/15, 12:01 AM PST | Updated: 1 day ago
ONTARIO >> Annual passenger traffic at LA/Ontario International Airport is up for the first time since 2007, according to passenger figures released by Los Angeles World Airports on Tuesday.
Published: Jan. 28, 2015 – Updated: 8:49 p.m.
The union representing Riverside County sheriff’s deputies has asked a judge to prevent the county from requiring deputies to use body-mounted video cameras, asserting that officials failed to negotiate the use of the new equipment.
To read story by Brian Rokos in The Press-Enterprise, click here.
By Joe Nelson, The Sun
Posted: 01/28/15, 8:44 PM PST |
Authorities have no legal basis to block public access to dozens of search warrants filed in San Bernardino Superior Court in the McStay family murder case, according to a motion filed Wednesday by an attorney representing 18 news organizations.
BROOKE SELF
STAFF WRITER
Posted Jan. 28, 2015 @ 7:37 pm
Updated Jan 28, 2015 at 7:42 PM
ADELANTO — Geo Group Inc., a global for-profit prison operator, has decided to vacate plans to construct a 1,050-bed facility in the city, officials said Wednesday.
By Jim Puzzanghera
January 27, 2015
Federal Reserve policymakers kept their benchmark interest rate near zero and reiterated a plan to be patient about future hikes, even though they issued a more upbeat assessment of the U.S. economy.
By Karen Tumulty
January 28, 2015 at 6:21 PM
They’re over her.
Sarah Palin’s odd, rambling speech last weekend before an audience of committed conservative activists in Des Moines has many influential voices on the right saying that the time has come to acknowledge that the romance has gone cold and the marriage is dead.
By Carla Marinucci
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 – Updated 9:40 am
The billionaire Koch brothers’ intention to spend nearly $900 million on conservative candidates and causes in the 2016 election cycle will unleash a tidal wave of cash that will swamp the political landscape even in solidly blue California, experts said Tuesday.
SAN FRANCISCO — Jan 27, 2015, 5:56 PM ET
By BRANDON BAILEY AP Technology Writer
Associated Press
Apple had another blowout quarter thanks to its new plus-sized iPhones, which helped the company smash sales records for the holiday season.
By Jim Puzzanghera
January 27, 2015
The regulator for bailed-out housing finance giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac told lawmakers Tuesday that new programs to back mortgages with down payments as low as 3% had enough safeguards to make them as safe as loans with higher down payments.
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
01/27/2015 10:39 AM
Although California’s unemployment dropped fractionally to 7 percent in December, the state stands alone with the nation’s second-highest rate, exceeded only by Mississippi’s 7.2 percent.
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
01/27/2015 12:50 PM
Although California’s industrial sector has been declining for decades and today employs just 8 percent of the state’s workers, it still generates a very large portion of the state’s economic output, a new Census Bureau report indicates.