More than 800 people attended the business leadership conference, “Made in Ontario,” on March 18, 2015 at the Ontario Convention Center.

By Grace Wong, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Posted: 03/18/15 – 12:01 AM PDT

ONTARIO >> The spotlight glistened off of Paul Dateh’s violin as he played pop songs, and with a whoosh the black curtain behind him was sucked into a vacuum and suspended from the ceiling, revealing the main stage at 2015 State of the City, illuminated by purple and blue lights.

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Pomierski

By Liset Marquez, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Posted: 03/17/15, 8:07 PM PDT

UPLAND >> Less than a year after being released from federal prison for bribery charges, former Mayor John Pomierski finds himself in the spotlight again.

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The State Worker
Jon Ortiz chronicles civil-service life for California state workers
By Jon Ortiz
jortiz@sacbee.com
03/18/2015 – 4:27 PM

Unions lined up Wednesday to oppose Gov. Jerry Brown’s proposal to offer high-deductible medical coverage to state employees, suggesting it could hurt workers’ health instead of improving it.

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Ben Adler
Wednesday, March 18, 2015 | Sacramento, CA

California employers would be required to pay their employees double for working on Thanksgiving or Christmas under a bill advancing at the state Capitol. The measure passed its
first committee vote Wednesday.

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Six potential culprits for the former vice president’s sudden reappearance as a rumored presidential candidate

David A. Graham
Mar 18 2015 – 7:00 AM ET

Al Gore, just like the planet, is getting hotter by the hour these days.

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Hillary Clinton speaks after being inducted into the Irish American Hall of Fame in New York, on March 16, 2015. (Brendan Mcdermid/Reuters)

By Anne Gearan and Robert Costa
March 18, 2015 at 5:15 PM

Hillary Rodham Clinton is already running her presidential campaign — against the Republican Congress. And the GOP is only happy to oblige.

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Wednesday, March 18, 2015 – 04:30 p.m.

Tonight on the Lou Desmond & Company Show, Lou is joined by Ryan Hagen, writer for the San Bernardino Sun, to discuss San Bernardino’s financial woes.

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Republican candidate for state Senate Sharon Runner, center, chats with supporters in 2011. (Gina Ferazzi / Los Angeles Times)

By Patrick McGreevy
March 17, 2015

Voters on Tuesday sent Republican Sharon Runner back to the state Senate three years after she underwent a double lung transplant. She was the only candidate on the ballot for a special election in a district representing parts of Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties.

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By Bettina Boxall
March 17, 2015

With California heading into another parched year, state officials Tuesday beefed up emergency drought regulations, directing urban agencies to limit the number of days residents can water their yards.

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Cracked tarmac is seen in the parking lot of a largely abandoned shopping mall in San Bernardino, California in this January 23, 2015 file photo. (Reuters/Lucy Nicholson/Files)

By Tim Reid
Tue Mar 17, 2015 – 10:52pm EDT

Los Angeles —

(Reuters) – The southern California city of San Bernardino has defaulted on nearly $10 million in payments on its privately placed pension bond debt since it declared bankruptcy in 2012, according to documents seen by Reuters.

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Observations on California and its politics
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
03/17/2015 – 9:56 PM

California’s unfortunate evolution into a society of haves and have-nots has many root causes, but a highly distorted housing market looms very large.

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The California Public Employees’ Retirement System’s headquarters is in Sacramento. (Carl Costas / For The Times)

By Melody Petersen
March 17, 2015

As millions of private employees lost their pension benefits in recent years, government workers rested easy, believing that their promised retirements couldn’t be touched.

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By Pete Carey
Posted: 03/16/15, 2:55 PM PDT |

The giant private equity fund Apollo Global Management is the front-runner in negotiations to buy Digital First Media, publisher of this newspaper, according to reports.

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By Gregory J. Wilcox, Los Angeles Daily News
Posted: 03/17/15, 9:43 AM PDT | Updated: 1 min ago

Southern California’s consecutive streak of year-over-year home price increases zeroed in on three years during February while the home sales slide moderated, a market tracker said Tuesday.

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By Jeff McDonald
March 16, 2015 – 5:41 p.m.

State lawmakers grilled the new California Public Utilities Commission president Monday, asking why utility customers are being charged billions of dollars for the failure and premature shutdown of the San Onofre nuclear power plant.

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State Senate Minority Leader Robert Huff (R-Diamond Bar), right, stands next to Gov. Jerry Brown, center, at a Capitol news conference. Huff has filed papers to raise money for a campaign for a seat on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. (Rich Pedroncelli / Associated Press)

By Jean Merl
March 16, 2015

State Sen. Robert Huff (R-Diamond Bar) has filed a statement signaling his interest in running for a seat on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors next year.

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By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
03/16/2015 – 9:12 PM

Do as we say, not as we do.

Over the decades, the California Legislature has passed numerous “sunshine laws” to bolster government transparency.

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District Attorney Tony Rackauckas interviews a witness during the preliminary hearing into Kelly Thomas’ death in 2012. (FILE: Joshua Sudock, Staff Photographer)

March 16, 2015
Updated March 17, 2015 8:23 a.m.
By Tony Saavedra, Kelly Puente and Tom Berg / Staff Writers

One thing about District Attorney Tony Rackauckas: He’s a street fighter who can take a punch.

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By Chris Megerian
March 16, 2015

California tax revenue continues to outpace expectations, Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration announced Monday.

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By Dale Kasler
dkasler@sacbee.com
03/16/2015 7:52 PM

Defending its plan to fully repay its debts to CalPERS, the bankrupt city of San Bernardino has asked a judge to dismiss a lawsuit by creditors demanding equal treatment.

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Monday, March 16, 2015 – 03:30 p.m.

Lou has left the bunker for the next two days to celebrate his birthday. Those of you who came out to see us at Bullseye Sport last month may remember that tomorrow is Lou’s birthday.

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Published: March 13, 2015
Updated: March 15, 2015 10:42 p.m.

Riverside County has spent more than $6 million on outside lobbyists since 2004, records show.

To read story by Jeff Horseman in The Press-Enterprise, click here.

By Ryan Hagen, The Sun
Posted: 03/15/15, 8:08 PM PDT | Updated: 2 hrs ago

SAN BERNARDINO >> It’ll cost double what we said, and if you don’t agree you’ll be thrown out of bankruptcy court.

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Capitol Alert
The go-to source for news on California policy and politics
By Jim Miller
jmiller@sacbee.com
03/15/2015 – 11:18 PM

Printers churned out tens of millions of dollars’ worth of campaign mailers and signs. Media buyers locked up pricey political airtime at dozens of TV and radio stations around California. Digital marketing companies helped campaigns target ads and videos at voters surfing the Web.

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By Daniel Borenstein, Staff Columnist
Posted: 03/15/2015 – 04:00:00 PM PDT

Public employee unions repeatedly insist that workers’ pension funds need not be fully funded, that a target of 80 percent is fine.

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The United Nations last week. Credit Spencer Platt/Getty Images

Maureen Dowd
March 14, 2015

WASHINGTON —

SINCE open letters to secretive and duplicitous regimes are in fashion, we would like to post an Open Letter to the Leaders of the Clinton Republic of Chappaqua:

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By Ed Mendel
March 16, 2015

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling in January weakens the “vested rights” protection of retiree health care based on a labor contract, potentially making it easier for government employers to cut a growing cost.

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Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas said it’s clear that deputies’ testimony was “inconsistent” with statements they made in previous hearings. (SAM GANGWER, FILE PHOTO)

March 14, 2015
Updated March 15, 2015 – 8:22 a.m.
BY KELLY PUENTE / STAFF WRITER

Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas conceded Saturday his office made mistakes prosecuting the county’s deadliest killer, but disagrees with a judge’s decision to remove the agency from the case.

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By Roberta Rampton and Jeff Mason
Sun Mar 15, 2015 – 12:09am EDT

Washington —

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama took aim at his Republican opponents and his gaffe-prone vice president on Saturday in a satirical speech that included a roast of his former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton over her recent problems with email.

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Orange County Superior Court Judge Thomas Goethals has been the focus of 57 disqualification requests from prosecutors since February 2014. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times)

By Christopher Goffard
March 13, 2015

For years, Thomas Goethals has weighed the fates of some of Orange County’s most violent criminals. But since the judge began presiding over heated hearings probing the misuse of jailhouse informants, dozens of prosecutors have steered criminal cases away from his courtroom.

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Conservative radio personality Hugh Hewitt in his California studio. (Slav Zatoka)

Why Hugh Hewitt is suddenly the Republican establishment’s go-to pundit.
By Shane Goldmacher
March 14, 2015

Before Hugh Hewitt would answer my questions, he had a condition: Through the producer of The Hugh Hewitt Show—his 15-year-old radio program that touts 2 million weekly listeners—he informed me that I would need to first answer his questions, on air.

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By Jim Puzzanghera
March 13, 2015

The Treasury Department has started taking steps to extend the federal government’s borrowing ability as the U.S. hits its debt limit again Monday, Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew told lawmakers Friday.

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Friday, March 13, 2015 – 04:00 p.m.

Tonight on the Lou Desmond and Company Show, Lou is joined by Ed Hoffman, president of Wholesale Capital Corporation, to discuss the story of the week – Hillary Clinton’s email scandal. Is she still a viable candidate?

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By Neil Nisperos, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Posted: 03/12/15, 8:12 PM PDT

RIVERSIDE >>A judge will have to reconsider her decision requiring Los Angeles to release 399 documents sought by Ontario in its suit to gain control of L.A./Ontario International Airport.

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By Christopher Goffard
March 12, 2015

In a stinging rebuke, a criminal court judge removed the Orange County district attorney’s office from one of its highest-profile murder cases, saying prosecutors had violated mass shooter Scott Dekraai’s rights by repeatedly failing to turn over important evidence.

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Picketers outside the Tesoro refinery in Carson. The USW union said Thursday it reached a tentative contract with Shell. (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times)

By Tiffany Hsu
March 12, 2015

The United Steelworkers reached a tentative contract with Shell Oil Co. on Thursday after more than a month of contentious talks and strikes, union officials said.

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By Melody Petersen
March 12, 2015

The founder of Prime Healthcare Services Inc. defended his decision to pull out of a deal to buy six Catholic hospitals, saying critics were wrong to suggest that he placed profit over patients.

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By Joe Nelson, The Sun
Posted: 03/11/15, 8:08 PM PDT

The San Bernardino Public Employees Association will mail out ballots today so members can vote on whether the county’s largest labor union should affiliate with the International Brotherhood of Teamsters.

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By SHEA JOHNSON
STAFF WRITER
Posted Mar. 12, 2015 at 10:55 AM

The state’s 21st Senate District special election Tuesday is likely to cost taxpayers in San Bernardino County between $200,000 to $300,000, despite only one candidate appearing on the ballot, Registrar Michael J. Scarpello said this week.

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California Supreme Court Justices Leondra Kruger, center, and Mariano-Florentino Cuellar, right, provided the necessary votes to rehear a death penalty case. (S. Todd Rogers / Associated Press)

By Maura Dolan
March 11, 2015

Gov. Jerry Brown’s two newest appointees to the California Supreme Court provided enough votes Wednesday for reconsideration of a death penalty case, the first example of the impact Brown is having on the state’s highest court.

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Thursday, March 12, 2015 – 04:00 p.m.

Tonight on the Lou Desmond and Company Show, Lt. Rich Lawhead, public information officer for the City of San Bernardino joins Lou to discuss the ongoing search for a missing woman who disappeared near CSUSB after two violent attacks against women there.

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Opinion
By Debra J. Saunders
Wednesday, March 11, 2015 – Updated 3:54 pm

As Hillary Clinton took questions from the media about the personal e-mail account she used as secretary of state, I felt a flashback coming on. She said she simply chose to use a personal account with a personal server “for convenience.” I felt I had traveled back in time to 1998 Washington was screaming across the aisle. First lady Hillary Clinton charged that a “vast right-wing conspiracy” was behind stories that her husband had an affair with Monica Lewinsky. President Bill Clinton denied that he ever had “sexual relations” with the former intern.

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By Philip Rucker and Paul Kane
March 11, 2015 at 7:38 PM

Senior Democrats are increasingly worried that Hillary Rodham Clinton is not ready to run for president, fearing that the clumsy and insular handling of the nine-day fracas over her private e-mails was a warning sign about the campaign expected to launch next month.

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Wednesday, March 11, 2015 – 05:00 p.m.

Tonight on the Lou Desmond and Company Show, Greg Doyle, former law enforcement officer here in the Inland Empire, joins Lou to talk about the recent attacks on two women at CSUSB and the disappearance of a third. How can you protect yourself in situations like these?

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Cost for Riverside County facility increases almost 40 percent from 2012 estimate of $237M.

Published: March 10, 2015 – Updated: 9:41 p.m.

Ground has yet to be broken on the long-awaited expansion of the Riverside County jail in Indio. But the estimated cost continues to grow.

To read story by Jeff Horseman in The Press-Enterprise, click here.

By David Siders
dsiders@sacbee.com
03/10/2015 11:14 AM

In the latest sign of California’s improving budget outlook, tax revenue last month beat estimates by about $1 billion, the state controller said Tuesday.

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By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
03/10/2015 11:59 PM

There were once bright lines that separated the state’s general fund budget from its special funds.

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Freedom sold the Register’s 173,000-square-foot headquarters office for $27 million in September. (Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times)

By Chris Kirkham
March 10, 2015

When Aaron Kushner bought the Orange County Register and announced his plans to double down on print journalism, media experts asked: Could he save the newspaper industry?

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By Melody Petersen
March 11, 2015

Prime Healthcare Services Inc.’s proposed deal to buy six financially struggling Roman Catholic hospitals has collapsed, raising questions about how the nonprofit chain will keep its doors open.

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Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton speaks to the media March 10 about recent allegations of an improperly used e-mail account during her tenure at the State Department. (Yana Paskova/Getty Images)

Dan Balz
By Dan Balz, Chief correspondent
March 10, 2015 at 5:39 PM

Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to quash the controversy over her use of a personal e-mail account as secretary of state with a strategy that can be reduced to two words: “Trust me.” It is one of the biggest issues that will confront many Americans if and when she asks them to vote for her for president in 2016.

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Tuesday, March 10, 2015 – 04:30 p.m.

Tonight on The Lou Desmond & Company Show, Dr. Adrian Moore, vice president of policy at the Reason Foundation, joins Lou to talk about the sudden ousting of San Bernardino’s financial director in the midst of the city’s financial woes.

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Hillary and Bill Clinton at the Midwestern Ball on Jan. 21, 1993. (AP)

By Karen Tumulty
March 10, 2015 at 3:56 PM

The circus is back in town.

Hillary Rodham Clinton has not yet even announced that she is running for president, but the spectacle of the Clinton years is unfolding again, touched off by the controversy over her practice of using a private e-mail account, rather than an official one, while she was secretary of state.

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Tuesday, March 10, 2015 – 10:15 a.m.

We’re back on Gas Price Watch.

The price of Crude Oil has resumed its slide. But Inland Empire gas prices haven’t.

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Tuesday, March 10, 2015 – 09:45 a.m.

We’re hearing it all on the Hillary Clinton e-mail debacle, which has essentially taken over the near-term national media cycle.

Let’s get up to speed.

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By Ryan Hagen, The Sun
Posted: 03/09/15, 6:09 PM PDT

SAN BERNARDINO >> The city’s finance director is on administrative leave after just months on the job, with next week projected to be his last according to City Manager Allen Parker.

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By Liset Marquez, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Posted: 03/10/15, 12:23 AM PDT |

UPLAND >> The decision to allow three medical marijuana dispensaries in the northwest part of the city will not go to the voters until the general election in 2016.

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Accounting firm OK’s statements in annual audit.

By SHEA JOHNSON
STAFF WRITER
Posted Mar. 9, 2015 at 5:46 PM

VICTORVILLE — The accounting firm hired to audit the city’s financial statements recently offered a clean bill of health for fiscal year 2014, also noting vast improvements to how the city tracks its finances.

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An American flag and an Army windsock fly at a home in Walla Walla, Wash. (Michael Lopez / Associated Press)

By Patrick McGreevy
March 9, 2015

Outraged by an attempt to ban the United States flag from a lobby at UC Irvine, Republican state legislative leaders on Monday proposed a constitutional amendment that would protect Old Glory from being banished from state-funded colleges and universities.

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By Patrick McGreevy
March 10, 2015

Citing inflation, the state’s campaign finance watchdog agency is considering a proposal to raise the fundraising thresholds at which campaigns must report their financing, drawing some concerns from an advocate for fuller disclosure.

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By Sam Farmer and Nathan Fenno
March 10, 2015

After investing five years and $50 million in an attempt to bring an NFL team back to Los Angeles, AEG is abandoning plans for its Farmers Field football stadium downtown.

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker signs a right-to-work bill into law Monday in Brown Deer, Wis. (AP Photo/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, Mike De Sisti)

By Philip Rucker
March 9, 2015 at 9:22 PM

President Obama, in a rare move that inserted himself directly into Republican presidential politics, issued a statement Monday night sharply criticizing Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker for signing a right-to-work bill into law that marks a major blow to organized labor.

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Monday, March 9, 2015 – 04:30 p.m.

Tonight on The Lou Desmond & Company Show, estimable economist Jay Prag joins Lou to discuss what it takes to be a leader in a business setting.

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Regional agencies are studying the idea of expanding passenger rail service to the San Gorgonio Pass and Coachella Valley.

Published: March 6, 2015 – Updated: March 8, 2015 11:02 p.m.

A longtime idea to expand passenger rail service to the Coachella Valley and the San Gorgonio Pass is picking up speed.

To read story by Erin Waldner in The Press-Enterprise, click here.

Gov. Brown’s office declines to release any details about who applied for Riverside County Board of Supervisors post.

Published: March 8, 2015 Updated: 11:39 p.m.

It took three months for Gov. Jerry Brown to fill a vacancy on the Riverside County Board of Supervisors created when Jeff Stone was elected to the state Senate in November.

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By Carla Marinucci
Sunday, March 8, 2015 – Updated 7:53 pm

Republicans are down on their luck in California. They don’t hold a single statewide office, and their image isn’t getting any help from their colleagues in Washington, who seem unable to get anything done in Congress.

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By Ed Mendel
Monday, March 9, 2015

Something that rarely happens in California could result from Gov. Brown’s proposal to contain growing state worker retiree health care costs — benefits received by current government retirees might be reduced.

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By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
03/08/2015 9:05 PM

Let’s assume – at least for this missive – that two years hence, Kamala Harris will have begun her new job: U.S. senator.

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Former President Bill Clinton and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton speak to guests at the Clinton Global Initiative.(Scott Olson/Getty Images)

There are not two Clinton controversies. There is one big, hairy deal.

By Ron Fournier
March 8, 2015

“Follow the money.” That apocryphal phrase, attributed to Watergate whistle-blower “Deep Throat,” explains why the biggest threat to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s presidential dreams is not her emails. It’s her family foundation. That’s where the money is: corporate money, foreign money, gobs of money sloshing around a vanity charity that could be renamed “Clinton Conflicts of Interest Foundation.”

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Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said Hillary Clinton’s silence on the controversy over her e-mail use is likely to “hurt her” going forward.

By Sean Sullivan
March 8, 2015 at 11:15 AM

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) called Sunday on Hillary Clinton to “step up and come out” to explain in more detail why she used a personal e-mail account to conduct government business during her time as secretary of state.

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President Obama speaks at the White House in Washington on March 1, 2013. (Associated Press)

By Stephen Dinan – The Washington Times
Updated: 11:33 a.m. on Monday, March 9, 2015

Obamacare exchange customers could see a significant spike in their premiums over the next few years as insurers face pressures from both the government and the marketplace, the Congressional Budget Office said Monday in a new analysis finding Obamacare is both cheaper and less comprehensive than predicted.

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The Inland Empire is rapidly becoming the next low-wage warehouse mecca.

Sunday, March 8, 2015 – 12:00 a.m.

We’ve been hearing it for the past few years. All of those great warehouse jobs coming to the Inland Empire, an area with the nation’s highest poverty rate, will be the driver for the local economy.

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Published: March 6, 2015 – Updated: 4:12 p.m.

The pick of Chuck Washington to be Riverside County supervisor comes with the support of a major public employee union.

To read post by Jeff Horseman in The P-E Political Empire Blog, click here.

By Phil Willon and Melanie Mason
March 8, 2015

A U.S. Supreme Court case that could force California to redraw its congressional districts has stirred up fears of a return to partisan gerrymandering, a divisive process that has been criticized for both cementing and crushing political careers.

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By Patrick McGreevy
March 8, 2015

Voters will soon cast ballots in special elections to fill three state Senate seats vacated by lawmakers who were elected to Congress last fall.

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By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
03/08/2015 12:01 AM

It’s customary to attach the honorific “leader” to those who hold high political office, implying that they are drum majors at the head of the civic parade.

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By Mike Reicher, Los Angeles Daily News
Posted: 03/07/15, 12:01 AM PST | Updated: 1 day ago

The last time Los Angeles County prosecutors charged a police officer for shooting someone was in 2001.

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Saturday, March 7, 2015 – 10:30 a.m.

An estimated 295,000 jobs were created in February, according to the U.S. Department of Labor on Friday.

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Council seats in Wards 1, 3, 5 and 7 are up for election, but few candidates have surfaced.

Published: March 6, 2015 – 6:10 p.m.

Two Riverside city councilmen won’t have opponents and one will face a challenger in the June 2 election.

To read story by Alicia Robinson in The Press-Enterprise, click here.

By Ryan Hagen, The Sun
Posted: 03/06/15, 12:01 AM PST |

SAN BERNARDINO >> Before Mayor Carey Davis said a word at his first State of the City speech Friday night, audiences heard a message from nine other residents.

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Hillary Clinton signs her new book “Hard Choices,” at the Common Good Books store in St. Paul, Minn., Sunday, July 20, 2014. (Jerry Holt/Minneapolis Star Tribune/MCT)

By David Lightman
McClatchy Washington Bureau
March 6, 2015

WASHINGTON — Hillary Clinton’s troubles are costing her politically, as potential Republican presidential rivals have inched closer to her in 2016 matchups, a new McClatchy-Marist poll found Friday.

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By Lesley Clark
McClatchy Washington Bureau
March 7, 2015

URBANDALE, Iowa — Jeb Bush made his Iowa debut Friday night, pitching himself as a conservative governor, while taking a swipe at President Barack Obama and his “former Secretary of State” Hillary Clinton.

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By Martin Crutsinger
AP Economics Writer
03/06/2015 – 4:41 PM

WASHINGTON — Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew told Congress on Friday that he will start using the package of emergency measures he has used in the past to keep the federal government from going over the debt limit next week.

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They know they can outlast the media’s attention, even with the email scandal.

By JACK SHAFER
March 06, 2015

The second-guessing of Hillary Clinton’s email hygiene while secretary of state has produced hundreds of news stories and a slew of compelling questions.

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Friday, March 6, 2015 – 05:30 p.m.

Tonight on The Lou Desmond & Company Show, Ed Hoffman, President of Wholesale Capital Corporation, joins Lou to discuss his business and why he operates in the Inland Empire.

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Published: March 5, 2015 – Updated: 6:17 p.m.

Chuck Washington has yet to sit for his first meeting as a Riverside County supervisor and he already faces at least two challengers in next year’s election.

To read story by Jeff Horseman in The Press-Enterprise, click here.