Sunday, October 4, 2015 – 09:00 a.m.

We have are first example of just how much national political polls are meaningless at this point, other than to show basic trend. We can also see just how divergent they can be.

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Officials expected to OK hiring firm to review public safety spending.

Published: Oct. 2, 2015 – 5:18 p.m.

Riverside County is poised to spend $761,600 on a top-to-bottom review of public safety spending to ensure that the biggest part of the county’s budget is being spent wisely.

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

Brian Fountain at his bedroom window, yards away from where a new warehouse is being built in Riverside. He and other residents are concerned about future noise and exhaust from trucks once the warehouse opens.  (Kurt Miller / Staff Photographer)

Published: Sept. 18, 2015
Updated: Oct. 3, 2015 – 10:57 p.m.

• The city has concerns about a facility in nearby Moreno Valley, but now faces its own controversy.

When Riverside resident Brian Fountain opens his bedroom window, he looks out at his back fence, a temporary plywood barrier and a construction site that will become a 200,000-square-foot development of five warehouses with 23 loading docks.

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

California Gov. Jerry Brown speaks during the White House-organized U.S.-China Climate Leaders Summit in Los Angeles last month. (Nick Ut / Associated Press)

Patrick McGreevy
October 3, 2015

Gov. Jerry Brown on Saturday vetoed a trio of bills that would have prohibited civilians from flying aerial drones over wildfires, schools, prisons and jails, despite alarm over close calls with firefighting aircraft.

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