Larry Walker (Staff file photo)

By Doug Saunders, The Sun
Posted: 01/13/16 – 3:30 PM PST |

San Bernardino County Auditor-Controller Larry Walker is retiring.

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By Sarah Favot, Los Angeles Daily News
Posted: 01/12/16 – 9:26 PM PST |

After hearing comment from dozens of activists in opposition, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors decided Tuesday that retired law enforcement officials may be eligible to sit on a commission that will oversee the Sheriff’s Department.

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Surrounded by staff, Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, center, listens as The Orange County Board of Supervisors meets with Robert Gerard and other authors of the Orange County District Attorney Informant Policies & Practices Evaluation Committee Report at The Orange County Hall of Administration in Santa Ana on Tuesday. Joshua Sudock ?Staff Photographer)

By Meghann M. Cuniff / Staff Writer
Updated Jan. 13, 2016 8:34 a.m.

The Orange County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday told the district attorney and sheriff to estimate how much it will cost to implement an outside legal committee’s reform recommendations in the wake of the county’s jailhouse informant controversy.

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San Bernardino County First District Supervisor Robert Lovingood has tapped Fred Aguiar to be his policy advisor.

Wednesday, January 13, 2016 – 10:00 a.m.

San Bernardino County First District Supervisor Robert Lovingood’s hiring of Fred Aguiar as his policy advisor is an intelligent move by the first-term politician.

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Wednesday, January 13, 2016 – 09:00 a.m.

It’s time for California taxpayers to float bonds to construct and lease, at a minimum, two mega-gasoline refineries within the state.

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Wednesday, January 13, 2016 – 08:45 a.m.

The Los Angeles Daily Journal has penned another article on an ongoing long-running high-profile San Bernardino County criminal prosecution.

Daily Journal is California’s largest legal news provider.

To read the story, published Monday, click the following link:

Daily Journal: Judge considers motion to dismiss in long-running public corruption case

Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Palm Desert

Published: Jan. 11, 2016 – Updated: 3:11 p.m.

The National Republican Congressional Committee is calling on Rep. Raul Ruiz, D-Palm Desert, to donating $17,600 in campaign donations he received from actor Sean Penn to heroin treatment clinics in Ruiz’s district.

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

More than $47 million could be used for one payment in the L.A.-Ontario airport deal

Published: Jan. 12, 2016 – Updated: 5:33 p.m.

A chunk of existing money, more than $47 million in the coffers of Los Angeles World Airports, may be used to satisfy a $50 million payment scheduled as part of the agreement to transfer Ontario International Airport to Inland control.

To read article by Richard K. De Atley in The Press-Enterprise, click here.

By Aaron Wilson and Rachel Swan
January 12, 2016
Updated: January 13, 2016 – 7:22am

HOUSTON — Oakland, the city with no stadium plans and a halfhearted effort to hang on to the Raiders, gets to keep the team anyway — for now.

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Capitol Alert
By David Siders
dsiders@sacbee.com
January 12, 2016 10:46 AM

• Effort to extend Proposition 30 taxes changed to include reserve account funding

Less than a week after Gov. Jerry Brown criticized a ballot measure to extend temporary tax increases for containing the “fatal flaw” of circumventing California’s budget reserve requirements, proponents of the initiative said Tuesday that they have amended the proposal to address his complaint.

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