Politics, Government & Business in California's Inland Empire
Wednesday, September 30, 2015 – 05:00 p.m.
The Lou Desmond and Company Show is broadcasting from the Toyota of San Bernardino Recording Studios!
Tonight on the show, Lou is joined by Ken White to discuss the week in law enforcement. In the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, they talk about a soccer referee who brandished a gun on the field.
Published: Sept. 29, 2015 – Updated: 10:40 p.m.
The November 2016 ballot could be brimming with weighty ballot initiatives, including measures to legalize marijuana, overturn California’s new vaccine law, raise the minimum wage and restrict what bathrooms transgender people can use.
To read article by Jeff Horseman in The Press-Enterprise, click here.
By Kevin Smith, San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Posted: 09/29/15 – 6:13 PM PDT |
California’s economy has made significant strides in recent years with most regions of the state recovering all of the jobs they lost during the Great Recession.
Roelle also to challenge Lovingood in 1st District
By Rene Ray De La Cruz. Staff Writer
Posted Sep. 29, 2015 at 6:33 PM
HESPERIA — Hesperia City Councilman Bill Holland stepped into the ring Tuesday and announced that he plans to oppose incumbent San Bernardino County 1st District Supervisor Robert Lovingood in 2016
By Noah Bierman
September 29, 2015
When Kevin McCarthy spoke at a California Republican convention a few years ago, he regaled the crowd with stories about his tense relationship with Nancy Pelosi: The Democratic leader, he said, greeted him with a sneering “he-llo Kevin” every time she saw him, the way Jerry Seinfeld used to greet his nemesis, Newman.
By Charles Hurt
Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Washington Times
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
First they ignored him. Then they mocked him. Then they tried tearing him down.
Tuesday, September 29, 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 Lou is joined by Ryan Hagen, report at the San Bernardino Sun to discuss San Bernardino’s decision to raise a fee (tax) on sewage service in the city. Do San Bernardino residents need more taxes?
By City News Service
Posted: 09/28/15 – 4:32 PM PDT |
Housing in California — already considered unaffordable to many — will become even less affordable over the next two years, with construction unable to keep up with demand, according to a UCLA economic forecast released Monday.
By Sarah Favot, Los Angeles Daily News
Posted: 09/28/15 – 5:01 PM PDT |
Former Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca will not be immune from prosecution if he is called to testify in the corruption case against his former second-in-command and reveals any criminal activity that occurred in the jails under his watch.
By Karoun Demirjian
September 28, 2015 at 5:11 PM
The heir apparent for speaker of the House delivered his vision for America’s foreign policy future Monday afternoon and it boils down to this: America should be tougher.
Monday, September 28, 2015 – 05:00 p.m.
The Lou Desmond and Company Show is broadcasting from the Toyota of San Bernardino Recording Studios!
On a very special edition of the Lou Desmond and company show, Lou is joined by Tom Del Beccaro, Cliff Cummings and renowned economist Stephen Moore to discuss the state of the economy and what we can do to improve it. Tom also talks about his support of the flat tax and shares more information on that.
By Monica Langley And
John D. McKinnon
Updated Sept. 28, 2015 6:18 a.m. ET
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump plans to unveil an ambitious tax plan Monday that he says would eliminate income taxes for millions of households, lower the tax rate on all businesses to 15% and change tax treatment of companies’ overseas earnings.
By Jake Sherman and John Bresnahan
09/28/15 – 05:12 AM EDT
Rep. Kevin McCarthy has glided to victory in each of his leadership races — one for majority whip, and two for majority leader — by simply winning the support of more than half the members of the Republican Conference.
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
September 27, 2015
California’s Democratic politicians were jolted when voters – especially their voters – largely ignored last year’s elections.
By Jonathan Lansner / Staff Columnist
Sept. 28, 2015 – Updated 12:00 a.m.
The start of the year was very good for Orange County paychecks.
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
September 26, 2015
Federal officials released three major economic reports this month and together, they paint a dark picture of California.
By Ivan Penn
September 26, 2015
Tired of growing electricity bills, Miguel Espinoza decided to turn to the sun, rather than the grid, for power.
By Mike DeBonis and Kelsey Snell
September 26, 2015 at 9:18 PM
House Speaker John A. Boehner’s stunning resignation throws the congressional agenda into disarray, with short-term hope for passing crucial items offset by the long-term fear that old battles will only be repeated.
By Drew Harwell and Danielle Paquette
September 26, 2015 at 8:12 PM
At a polished New York press announcement in 2001, Hewlett-Packard chief executive Carly Fiorina, then the most powerful woman in American business, unveiled an immensely risky mega-merger whose success she promised with her signature showmanship: “If you don’t believe it, watch.”
Arit John
September 26, 2015 — 10:58 AM PDT
Donald Trump is a “master brander,” former President Bill Clinton said Thursday during an interview set to air Sunday on CNN’s “Fareed Zakaria GPS.”
Saturday, September 26, 2015 – 10:00 a.m.
One would think exiting San Bernardino, California’s record-long municipal bankruptcy proceedings would be the priority for the beleaguered city’s elected officials.
Capitol Alert
By Jim Miller
jmiller@sacbee.com
September 25, 2015
Lawmakers miss votes for multiple reasons.
Sometimes they are not present because of illness or have been excused from session for legislative or personal business, such as campaign meetings. Sometimes lawmakers are present yet still don’t vote.
By Joel Gehrke
September 25, 2015
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) will be the next target of conservatives frustrated with party leadership, according to one of the conservative representatives who pressured House speaker John Boehner in the weeks leading up to his resignation.
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By Maeve Reston and Stephen Collinson, CNN
Sat September 26, 2015 | Updated 8:18 AM ET
(CNN) — As if Jeb Bush needed another problem.
By Amber Phillips
September 25 at 12:48 PM
Today is John Boehner’s day. Tomorrow could very much belong to Kevin McCarthy.
By Jake Sherman , Anna Palmer and John Bresnahan
09/25/15 – 07:28 PM EDT
Mike Sommers was the only one John Boehner trusted with the news.
Friday, September 25, 2015 – 05:00 p.m.
The Lou Desmond and Company Show is broadcasting from the Toyota of San Bernardino Recording Studios!
Friday, September 25, 2015 – 09:00 a.m.
No one expected this announcement on a low news Friday.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) will resign the end of October.
By Jim Steinberg, The Sun
Posted: 09/24/15 – 4:41 PM PDT |
SAN BERNARDINO >> With air traffic increasing dramatically, the Federal Aviation Administration has awarded San Bernardino International Airport a $1.3 million federal grant to improve its taxiway.
By Neil Nisperos, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Posted: 09/24/15 – 12:31 PM PDT |
ONTARIO >> Local economists say job growth in the Inland Empire and the regional economy are showing positive signs of recovery.
By Judy Lin, Associated Press
Sept. 25, 2015 | 12:38 a.m. EDT
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California regulators are poised to restore a first-in-the-nation climate change program that requires a 10 percent cut in carbon emissions on transportation fuels sold in the state by 2020, despite oil industry objections that it could drive up gas prices.
By Evan Halper and Melanie Mason
September 24, 2015
During a month in which some of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s biggest donors fretted, obsessed and second-guessed over her campaign, it wasn’t Clinton’s big policy speeches on healthcare or her vow to block the Keystone XL pipeline that helped ease nerves.
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
September 24, 2015
Redevelopment is dead. Long live redevelopment.
Thursday, September 24, 2015 – 05:00 p.m.
The Lou Desmond and Company Show is broadcasting from the Toyota of San Bernardino Recording Studios!
Dr. Adrian Moore of the Reason Foundation joins the show. Up first, he and Lou discuss a recent case of discrimination at USC that became a “national” story. So what happened, and why are things not as they seem?
Thursday, September 24, 2015 – 09:00 a.m.
The second GOP presidential primary debate is over and post-debate polling has been non-stop.
Here’s the latest rundown.
By Ryan Hagen, The Sun
Posted: 09/22/15 – 9:45 PM PDT |
SAN BERNARDINO >> As a citizen committee explained recommended changes to the city’s charter during a City Council meeting Monday, Councilman Benito Barrios was on Facebook, trying to sell his friend’s gun.
By Neil Nisperos, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Posted: 09/23/15 – 8:02 PM PDT |
RIVERSIDE >> A new Inland Empire-based research center for economic forecasting will open in October, the School of Business Administration at the University of California, Riverside, announced this week.
Wednesday, September 23, 2015 – 05:00 p.m.
The Lou Desmond and Company Show is broadcasting from the Toyota of San Bernardino Recording Studios!
Lou is joined by Father Josiah, from St. Andrew, to discuss the canonization of Father Junípero Serra today. Should Serra be a saint, or is he a mass-murdering criminal? After that, Ken White joins the show to round up the week in law enforcement with The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.
Published: Sept. 22, 2015 – Updated: 11:23 p.m.
The number of legal challenges filed against the World Logistics Center has climbed to seven — including one from former Moreno Valley Mayor Tom Owings.
To read article by Imran Ghori in The Press-Enterprise, click here.
By Joel Grover and Matthew Glasser
September 22, 2015
Tucked away in the hills above the San Fernando and Simi valleys was a 2,800-acre laboratory with a mission that was a mystery to the thousands of people who lived in its shadow. In a place called Area IV of the Santa Susana Field Laboratory (SSFL), there was a secret collaboration between the U.S. government and private companies to test the limits of nuclear power.
Capitol Alert
By David Siders
dsiders@sacbee.com
September 22, 2015
Four years after approving legislation that ended the anti-blight redevelopment program in California, Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday signed a bill giving local agencies a way to pay for similar projects.
Capitol Alert
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
September 22, 2015
California’s state and local governments collected nearly $412 billion in taxes, fees, interest, federal grants and other payments in 2012 and spent nearly $449 billion, according to a new Census Bureau report.
Reid Wilson | September 22, 2015
A strong performance in last week’s Republican presidential debate has raised former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina’s public profile, but not nearly enough to cut into real estate mogul Donald Trump’s lead over the rest of the GOP field.
Margaret Talev and Arit John
September 23, 2015 — 3:00 AM PDT
One quarter of Americans who are registered Democrats or lean that way say Vice President Joe Biden is now their top choice for president. The findings of a national Bloomberg Politics poll released Wednesday represent a notable achievement for an as-yet undeclared candidate, suggest concerns about Hillary Clinton’s candidacy, and raise the prospect of a competitive three-way race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
By Ken Thomas and Katherine Lucey
Associated Press
September 23, 2015
Des Moines, Iowa (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton said Tuesday she opposes construction of the Keystone XL pipeline, breaking her longstanding silence over a project criticized by environmentalists as a threat to the planet’s climate.
Tuesday, September 22, 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: Ralph Rossum, constitutional scholar, and Lou discuss Ben Carson’s Muslim comments. Ryan Hagen, reporter for the Sun, talks with Lou about last night’s 9-hour council meeting in San Bernardino. Finally, Lou’s Favorite Liberal Georgine Trujillo joins the show to discuss the Army’s allowing Iraqis to sexually assault children.
Tuesday, September 22, 2015 – 10:00 a.m.
Make that two of seventeen candidates that have now dropped out of the very large field GOP presidential hopefuls.
Published: Sept. 22, 2015 – Updated: 9:28 a.m.
Riverside County District Attorney Michael A. Hestrin will address the county’s 2015 increase in crime in a discussion at UC Riverside.
To read article by Ali Tadayon in The Press-Enterprise, click here.
Published: Sept. 21, 2015 – Updated: 9:27 p.m.
Shooting at a suspect from a helicopter, as a San Bernardino County sheriff’s sharpshooter did Friday during a wrong-way chase on I-215 north of San Bernardino, presents such great risks to the public that it should be attempted only as a “last resort” when people’s lives are threatened, an expert said Monday.
To read article by David Downey and Brian Rokos in The Press-Enterprise, click here.
Frank Stoltze
September 21, 07:49 PM
A Friday incident involving a San Bernardino County Sheriff’s deputy shooting from a helicopter above the 215 Freeway is raising eyebrows in law enforcement.
By Scott Schwebke / Staff Writer
Updated: Sept. 22, 2015 7:36 a.m.
Police shootings from helicopters, like what happened Friday when San Bernardino deputies opened fire during a freeway chase, are unusual but not unheard of in Orange County.
By Shea Johnson
Staff Writer
Posted Sep. 21, 2015 at 5:55 PM
VICTORVILLE — The Securities and Exchange Commission’s investigation into an allegedly fraudulent 2008 municipal bond offering also uncovered that the city’s bond underwriter may have taken an unauthorized fee of about $3.5 million for managing four hangars at Southern California Logistics Airport, federal court records show.
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
September 21, 2015
Toni Atkins probably would prefer to remain the Democratic speaker of the state Assembly indefinitely, but she can’t.
By Stuart Pfeifer
September 20, 2015
Hospital operator Prime Healthcare Services Inc. is suing California Atty. Gen. Kamala Harris for imposing strict restrictions that caused the Ontario company to back out of its attempted purchase of six Roman Catholic hospitals earlier this year.
Capitol Alert
By Christopher Cadelago
ccadelago@sacbee.com
September 21, 2015
A group of health and youth advocates on Monday introduced a ballot initiative to expand and make permanent the Proposition 30 income tax increases on the state’s highest earners.
By Evan Halper and Noam N. Levey
September 21, 2015
Democrats facing tough elections have been running away from Obamacare in their campaigns almost since the law was passed, but Hillary Rodham Clinton is taking a different approach. She is embracing it.
By Debra J. Saunders
Published: Monday, September 21, 2015 – 3:46 pm
Democratic partisans have been rubbing their hands with glee as billionaire Donald Trump’s antics have dominated the Republican primary. I hope they’re enjoying themselves, because they soon may find themselves in their own world of hurt.
Monday, September 21, 2015 – 05:00 p.m.
The Lou Desmond and Company Show is broadcasting from the Toyota of San Bernardino Recording Studios!
First on the show tonight, Beth Baumann, writer for Politichicks, joins the show to give the inside story on Scott Walker’s withdrawal from the presidential race. Then Estimable Economist Jay Prag joins the program. He and Lou take some lessons from sports and apply them to business.
By Eric Bradner, CNN
Monday, September 21, 2015 | Updated 8:21 AM ET
Washington (CNN) — Hillary Clinton’s lead in the Democratic presidential primary race has grown — and if Vice President Joe Biden decides to stay out of the race, her numbers would rise even higher, a new CNN/ORC poll shows.
By Cathleen Decker
September 20, 2015
The Republican presidential campaign came to California en masse last week for the debate at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, and when it ended the candidates largely beat it for more productive environs.
By Ed Mendel
September 21, 2015
After the CalPERS staff gave the board a correction last week for providing misinformation about private equity fees, the board member who has been grilling staff on the issue walked out of a private staff meeting because he was not allowed to record it.
By John Wagner
September 20, 2015 at 8:17 PM
DURHAM, N.H. — Presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders drew an estimated 3,000 people to a boisterous rally here Sunday night at the University of New Hampshire, about five times as many people as Democratic rival Hillary Rodham Clinton attracted to an event two days ago at the same campus.
By John Lapinski and Allison Kopicki
September 20, 2015
More than a third of Republican voters say that Carly Fiorina performed best in the Wednesday night debate on CNN. But debate performances don’t translate into vote preference overnight, and Donald Trump maintains his position at the top of the Republican pack, according to the latest NBC News online survey conducted by SurveyMonkey from Wednesday through Friday.
By Brian Bennett
September 19, 2016
After days of scorching criticism, Donald Trump defended his decision to let stand a comment disparaging Muslims, and told a conference of conservative Christians Saturday evening that he would fight to protect their right to practice Christianity inside the U.S.
Capitol Alert
By Christopher Cadelago and David Siders
ccadelago@sacbee.com
September 19, 2015
In its latest attempt to heal political divisions with Latinos, the California Republican Party is moving to alter its platform on immigration and social issues, a rebranding maneuver some activists believe better reflects new norms and rapidly changing demographics.
Saturday, September 19, 2015 – 09:30 a.m.
Newsflash from the GOP establishment and pundit corp: Donald Trump’s finished!
By Eugene Scott, CNN
Saturday, September 19, 2015 | Updated 12:01 PM ET,
Washington (CNN) — Donald Trump on Saturday said it is not his job to correct supporters’ claims about the President, defending his decision not to take issue with a man who disparaged Muslims and said President Barack Obama is not an American.
By Martin Wisckol, Staff Reporter
Updated Sept. 19, 2015 – 8:37 a.m.
California Republicans, just 28 percent of the state’s voters, are plotting a comeback.
By Matt Wilhalme
September 18, 2015
The brain disease chronic traumatic encephalopathy, believed to be caused by repeated head trauma, has been found in 87 of 91 deceased former NFL players tested, according to researchers.
By Shan Li
September 18, 2015
California’s employers kept up their hiring run in August, adding 36,200 nonfarm payroll jobs and pushing down the unemployment rate to 6.1%.
Friday, September 18, 2015 – 05:00 p.m.
The Lou Desmond and Company Show is broadcasting from the Toyota of San Bernardino Recording Studios!
Lou is joined by Ken White, founder of Brothers of America. They discuss Draft Kings. How did sports betting become legal for them? Turns out, a powerful lobby created an exemption for them.
Published: Sept. 17, 2015
Updated: Sept. 18, 2015 – 6:31 a.m.
Developer Iddo Benzeevi is pursuing and funding ballot initiatives that could thwart legal challenges to his World Logistics Center as the number of lawsuits mount.
To read article by Imran Ghori in The Press-Enterprise, click here.
By Ryan Hagen, The Sun
Posted: 09/17/15 – 11:00 PM PDT |
RIVERSIDE >> In a decision she acknowledged “puts a bunch of marbles on the road to reorganization” for San Bernardino, Judge Meredith Jury ruled Thursday the city hadn’t met its legal obligation to bargain with the fire union before outsourcing the Fire Department.
By Patrick McGreevy
September 17, 2015
The state’s campaign finance watchdog agency on Thursday adopted new requirements that nonprofit groups that contribute through a federal political action committee to support or oppose ballot measures or candidates in California must disclose their donors.
By Jim Puzzanghera and Don Lee
September 17, 2015
Cautious Federal Reserve policymakers on Thursday held a key interest rate at near zero, opting to wait longer to remove the unprecedented easy-money stimulus to determine whether recent global financial market volatility has slowed the U.S. economy.
Business & Real Estate
By Elliot Spagat, Associated Press
September 17, 2015
San Diego–
California’s summer housing rally cooled in August, a research firm said Thursday, as tight supplies kept a lid on sales and more buyers found prices out of reach.
Capitol Alert
By David Siders
dsiders@sacbee.com
September 17, 2015
SIMI VALLEY–
In her first debate against Democrat Barbara Boxer in California’s Senate race five years ago, Carly Fiorina waited all of one minute to broadside the incumbent Democrat in her opening remarks.
Thursday, September 17, 2015 – 05:00 p.m.
The Lou Desmond and Company Show is broadcasting from the Toyota of San Bernardino Recording Studios!
Lou is joined by Matthew LePlante, assistant professor of journalism at University of Utah to discuss the crime and murders in El Salvador. In a single day, 51 people were murdered. So what’s the answer to the problem?
Thursday, September 17, 2015 – 09:00 a.m.
The second GOP debate, hosted by CNN on Wednesday evening, was nothing more than embarrassing entertainment, than showcasing candidates.
By Matea Gold
September 16, 2016 at 3:00 PM
When Silicon Valley entrepreneur Jim Heerwagen decided to invest in an effort to reduce the influence of big money on politics, he considered a push for a constitutional amendment to overturn the Supreme Court’s Citizens United decision.
Ben Adler
Wednesday, September 16, 2015 | Sacramento, CA |
California tax revenues continue to stream in. The state is nearly half a billion dollars above budget projections just two months into the new fiscal year – though there’s one big caveat.
By Brenda Gazzar, Los Angeles Daily News
Posted: 09/16/15 – 9:15 PM PDT |
Local poverty rates remain stubbornly high despite lower unemployment, census figures show.
More than one in five people were living in poverty in San Bernardino County last year while the poverty rate in Los Angeles County didn’t lag far behind, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey.
Wednesday, September 16, 2015 – 05:00 p.m.
The Lou Desmond and Company Show is broadcasting from the Toyota of San Bernardino Recording Studios!
Ken White, founder of Brothers of America, joins the show with a new regular segment – The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. This week, Lou and Ken take a look at three stories from law enforcement.
Wednesday, September 16, 2015 -09:00 a.m.
It’s time to start thinning out the crowd.
Tonight’s second GOP debate, hosted by CNN (a.k.a. Clinton News Network), will begin the painful process of weeding out the empty suits in the current filed of 16 candidates.
Updated: Sept. 16, 2015 – 7:28 a.m.
Riverside County supervisors have voted to sue Moreno Valley over the World Logistics Center, saying plans for the massive warehouse complex don’t adequately address traffic concerns.
To read article by Jeff Horseman in The Press-Enterprise, click here.