Tuesday, August 11, 2015 – 05:00 p.m.

The Lou Desmond and Company Show is broadcasting from the Toyota of San Bernardino Recording Studios!

On the show today, Paul Chabot and Cliff Cummings join the show to talk about an idea floating in California: a per-mile gas tax to pay for infrastructure upgrades. Couldn’t the money come from somewhere else? (Like the Bullet Train.)

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Published: Aug. 10, 2015 – Updated: 2:06 p.m.

Two familiar names who once held high-profile offices are on the Nov. 3 election ballot as they seek seats on the Chaffey Community College District Governing Board.

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

By Joe Nelson, The Sun
Posted: 08/10/15 – 8:15 PM PDT |

The Chemehuevi Indian Tribe has filed a federal lawsuit alleging San Bernardino County sheriff’s deputies are racially profiling tribal members and targeting them for traffic citations on their reservation, without the jurisdictional power to do so.

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By Liset Marquez, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Posted: 08/10/15 – 10:05 AM PDT |

RIVERSIDE >> Attorneys for Ontario and Los Angeles were in court Monday morning. But this time they weren’t there to do legal battle over local control of L.A./Ontario International Airport.

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By Jeff McDonald
Aug. 10, 2015 – Updated –  5:07 p.m.

• State office says customers are not getting fair shake from utility commission judge

Another consumer group that negotiated the $4.7 billion settlement of San Onofre shutdown costs backed away from the agreement Monday, withdrawing support from the deal that charges customers 70 percent of the tab for the nuclear plant’s failure.

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By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
August 10, 2015

• California has nation’s second-worst pavement conditions
• New coalition wants $6 billion a year for maintenance
• Republicans hold key, generally oppose added taxes

Special legislative sessions aren’t bound by the time limits of regular sessions, so one on financing road maintenance could run another 15-plus months.

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The Olympics last came to Los Angeles in 1984, when the city refused to sign a guarantee that it would cover financial overruns. (Ken Hively / Los Angeles Times)

By Peter Jamison
August 11, 2015

Los Angeles is close to reaching an agreement with the U.S. Olympic Committee to be America’s candidate for the 2024 Summer Games, pledging to host the event at a projected cost of approximately $4 billion and offering a guarantee that the city would cover any financial overruns, officials involved with the bid said Monday.

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This undated photo released by the Oregon Department of Transportation shows a display device on the dashboard that indicates how many and what kind of miles a driver has driven. Proponents of a California transportation funding approach excluded mileage-tracking systems from its suggested revenue sources. AP

Capitol Alert
By Jim Miller
jmiller@sacbee.com
August 10, 2015

• California budget includes $10.7 million for mileage tracking pilot study
• Some say motorists should pay by miles driven, not gasoline pumped
• Backers of Monday’s $60 billion plan say such a system still years away

Higher gas and diesel taxes, revenue from the state’s cap-and-trade program, and increased vehicle license and registration fees are among the possible sources of new revenue included in a transportation-funding package of principles put forward Monday by a coalition of local government, business and labor groups.

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By Alan Rappeport
Tuesday, August 11, 2015 – Updated: 8:04 a.m. |

Donald J. Trump’s feud with Fox News came to a close on Tuesday morning when the billionaire tycoon called into the network for a friendly interview, declaring “we’ve always been friends.”

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