Thursday, November 5, 2015 – 05:00 p.m.

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

On the Lou Desmond and Company Show, Cliff Cummings joins the program to discuss the ongoing political corruption and trust issues here in San Bernardino County. Also, San Bernardino had an extremely low turnout at the city elections on Tuesday. More on that.

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Thursday, November 5, 2015 – 09:00 a.m.

If San Bernardino County leaders want a reason to push back at union demands for salary and benefit increases they now have it.

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Thursday, November 5, 2015 – 08:30 a.m.

The 2015 off-cycle election offered nothing significant in terms of results or surprises.

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By Josh Richman
Wednesday, November 4th, 2015 at 3:14 pm

Sacramento–

The state’s political watchdog agency is mulling a rules change that would mean dropping elected officials’ economic disclosures and “behested payments” reports from its website after seven years – effectively removing them from public view.

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Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday told federal judges that California needs to change how it sets prison sentences. (Paige St. John / Los Angeles Times)

Paige St. John
November 4, 2015

Gov. Jerry Brown used a forum for federal judges Wednesday to make the case in strong terms that California’s crime laws have gone too far and inmate behavior should play a greater role in determining the length of a prison stay.

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By Sean Emery and Jonathan Lansner / Staff Writers
Nov. 4, 2015 – Updated 8:11 p.m.

The owner of the Los Angeles Times made a surprise offer Wednesday to lend $3 million to the owner of The Orange County Register and The Press-Enterprise in what may be a precursor to a bid to buy the two newspapers out of Freedom Communications’ bankruptcy.

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Capitol Alert
By Alexei Koseff
akoseff@sacbee.com
November 4, 2015

• More than 94 percent of voting members give union permission to call strike in salary dispute with university

Amid a contract dispute, the California State University faculty union announced Wednesday that it has overwhelmingly authorized a strike for the fourth time in eight years.

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