Politics, Government & Business in California's Inland Empire
Friday, May 15, 2015 – 03:30 p.m.
Tonight on the show, Ed Hoffman joins Lou to talk about national headlines. But first, they start in San Bernardino, where the city’s plan to exit bankruptcy was released yesterday. In it, the city says it’s planning to pay its creditors 1% of what they are owed.
By Ryan Hagen, The Sun
Posted: 05/14/15, 4:49 PM PDT |
SAN BERNARDINO >> The proposed bankruptcy exit plan released to the public for the first time Thursday would pay 1 percent of the $50 million owed to pension obligation bondholders, slash retirees’ healthcare coverage, and contract out for services, including fire and waste disposal, among other changes.
Published: May 14, 2015 – Updated: 10:21 p.m.
Four cities in Riverside County still coping with a 4-year-old revenue hit could get relief in the revised state budget offered by Gov. Jerry Brownon Thursday, May 14.
To read story by Jeff Horseman in The Press-Enterprise, click here.
By Bay Area News Group
Posted: 05/14/15 – 9:26 PM PDT |
Digital First Media, the company that operates the Los Angeles News Group and its digital and newspaper properties, has decided not to seek a sale of the entire company, saying it “is not in the best interest of shareholders at this time.’’
By Larry Gordon, Teresa Watanabe and Carla Rivera
May 14, 2015
The big winners in Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan to sharply increase education funding are California undergraduates at UC, who will have their tuition frozen for two more years, and the millions of elementary, secondary and community college students who are likely to see more teachers and counselors hired on their campuses.
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
May 14, 2015
The state’s revenue system is, as we should all know by now, increasingly dependent on taxes from a relative handful of high-income Californians.
By Christopher Cadelago
ccadelago@sacbee.com
May 14, 2015
Rep. Loretta Sanchez, a Democrat from Orange County, rocked the political world nearly two decades ago when she narrowly ousted a sharp-tongued Republican congressman and then defended the seat in a rematch.
By Cindy Chang, Joel Rubin and Richard Winton
May 14, 2015
What began more than four years ago as a federal investigation into brutality and corruption by deputies in L.A. County jails reached the highest echelons of the Sheriff’s Department on Thursday, with two top officials indicted on charges of orchestrating an elaborate scheme to thwart the FBI.
By Shelby Grad
May 14, 2015
The widening scandal at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department has at its center a top-secret operation that federal prosecutors said amounted to an outrageous case of obstruction of justice.
By Dakota Smith, Los Angeles Daily News
Posted: 05/14/15, 8:46 PM PDT |
When Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca stepped down more than a year ago, his role and possible indictment in the ongoing federal investigation at the county jails was still in question.
By Joseph Serna
May 14, 2015
Like most judges, Kern County Superior Court Judge John Fielder did not necessarily carve out a reputation of being warm and cuddly on the bench.
Politics
By Jeremy W. Peters and John Koblin
May 14, 2015
WASHINGTON — Even after more than a decade as an analyst, anchor and public face for ABC News, George Stephanopoulos has never been able to shake the image that many Republicans have of him: Clinton hatchet man.