Politics, Government & Business in California's Inland Empire
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Sunday, July 12, 2015 – 11:30 a.m.
In the past 72-hours the retail price of unleaded gasoline in the Inland Empire has spiraled out of control. It’s what happens when only four companies control the gasoline refining capacity for the entire state.
Saturday, July 11, 2015
SAN DIEGO (CN) – Major oil companies, including Chevron, ExxonMobil and Shell conspired to create false gasoline shortages in Southern California and gouge prices, an Escondido gas station claims in an antitrust class action.
By IE Business Daily
Saturday, July 11, 2015
The State of California just passed a $125 Billion State budget which increases funding for education, welfare programs, and expands Medi-Cal.
Sunday, July 12, 2015 – 10:40 a.m.
There’s a story of interest by Staff Writer Joe Nelson in the Sunday edition of The Sun newspaper.
To read the entire story, click here.
Published: July 10, 2015
Updated: July 12, 2015 10:27 a.m.
More than bullets are spent when a Riverside County sheriff’s deputy shoots a suspect.
Wrongful death lawsuits filed against the county Sheriff’s Department have cost taxpayers at least $8.39 million since 2003, a Press-Enterprise analysis found.
To read expanded story by Jeff Horseman in The Press-Enterprise, click here.
By Mike Reicher, Los Angeles Daily News
Posted: 07/11/15 – 3:23 PM PDT |
Walk the garage under Los Angeles County’s headquarters and you’ll see rows of practical Ford Tauruses and efficient Toyota Priuses — the ones with government seals on the front doors.
By Michael Finnegan
July 11, 2015
More than two decades have passed since Republican Gov. Pete Wilson aired a television ad showing Mexicans scurrying across the border as an announcer declared, “They keep coming: 2 million illegal immigrants in California.”
By David Siders and Ryan Sabalow
dsiders@sacbee.com
July 11, 2015
Amid long-standing controversy surrounding Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan to build two tunnels to divert water around the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to the south, one advantage the project appeared to hold was that Brown could forge ahead without a public vote.
By David Zahniser
July 11, 2015
Ten Los Angeles County Jail employees were relieved of duty pending further investigation following an incident involving an inmate who was allegedly “restrained” for 32 hours, Sheriff Jim McDonnell said Saturday.
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
July 11, 2015
Silicon Valley tycoon Tim Draper’s quixotic campaign to reassemble California into six new states didn’t go anywhere, so he shifted into soliciting ideas to “Fix California.”
By Veronica Rocha
July 11, 2015
Californians should brace themselves for one of the strongest El Niño events to hit the Pacific Ocean in years.
Bob Christie and Kim Pierceall, Associated Press
Saturday, July 11, 2015 – Updated 7:13 pm
PHOENIX (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump criticized U.S. immigration and trade policies on Saturday in speeches that veered from accusing Mexico of deliberately sending criminals across the border to professing respect for the Mexican government and love for its people.
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By Debra J. Saunders
Saturday, July 11, 2015
Donald Trump is the GOP’s Voldemort, the Dark Lord and villain of the Harry Potter children’s book series. To thinking Republicans who don’t want to go through another circle of hell like the 2012 presidential primary, Trump is He Who Must Not Be Named. When a partisan mistakenly utters his name, media dementors — soulless creatures who sail through the airwaves — pop out from nowhere and suck the oxygen out of the hapless offender. Helpless and filled with dread, some victims die, while others slip into nothingness. The dementors will not relent. They want to turn the primary into a pain-inducing referendum on the Dark Lord.
By Ron Fournier
July 11, 2015
The following is a faux memo, although its contents are based upon my interviews with people close to Hillary Clinton, including some I’ve known since my years covering the Clintons in Arkansas. These sources spoke on condition of anonymity because attempts to make their case directly to the Democratic front-runner and her campaign team were icily received. Like my December 2013 memo titled “You’re the Problem,” this represents their point of view.