Wednesday, February 3, 2016 – 10:00 a.m.
So much for Rialto Real Estate Broker Scott Beard shaking up San Bernardino City Hall from the inside.
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Archive for February 3rd, 2016
Supervisor Marion Ashley presents 16-point plan to address financial challenges, which the board agrees to have staff look more into.
Published: Feb. 2, 2016
Updated: Feb. 3, 2016 – 8:04 a.m.
Employee furloughs, Friday office closures and a hiring freeze are among the ideas suggested by a Riverside County supervisor Tuesday, Feb. 2 to deal with the county’s ongoing financial challenges.
To read article by Jeff Horseman in The Press-Enterprise, click here.
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
February 2, 2016 – 3:37 PM
- California’s governor wants new taxes for health care, highways
- Republicans oppose any new levies
- The two proposals, however, are different
Within the Capitol – and the media that cover it – there’s a tendency to conjoin Gov. Jerry Brown’s two tax-increase proposals.
Joel Rubin
February 2, 2016
A federal jury found two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies guilty Tuesday of falsifying records about the beating of a jail inmate but deadlocked on whether the deputies used excessive force.
Filed under: County of Los Angeles, Courts, In the News, Law Enforcement, Legal, U.S. District Court
A screen grab of VoterPros, part of a new crop of web-based platforms that allow candidates to design and send their own campaign mailers.
Capitol Alert
By Christopher Cadelago
ccadelago@sacbee.com
February 2, 2016 – 1:09 PM
- Website from California consultants is latest in growing field
Campaign mailers promoting candidates, a staple of political races even in an age of social media appeals, are getting a reboot of sorts.
Congressional candidate Sean Flynn. (Sean Flynn for Congress)
Javier Panzar
February 2, 2016
Another Republican has entered the race to challenge Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-Redlands), a first-term congressman whose Inland Empire seat is considered vulnerable this fall by both national Democrats and Republicans.
The State Worker
By Jon Ortiz
jortiz@sacbee.com
February 2, 2016 – 5:38 PM
At 11,459 pages, the political action committee finance statement filed by the California Correctional Peace Officers Association Monday night is a hefty tome and quite possible a record-setter for the largest disclosure ever filed by a PAC.
Filed under: Campaigns, Elections, In the News, Law Enforcement, Politics, State of California, Unions
Water & Drought
By Ryan Sabalow, Phillip Reese and Dale Kasler
rsabalow@sacbee.com
February 2, 2016 – 10:12 AM
- State regulators, urging caution, extend conservation mandates through October
- Latest tally shows Sierra snowpack above normal
- Sacramento water officials sought more leniency on conservation
The snow keeps piling up, but the rules requiring water conservation aren’t going away.
Police Officer Edward Lee, a member of the San Bernardino Police Department, at a wall that a robber reportedly climbed. (Credit Jenna Schoenefeld for The New York Times)
By Michael Wines
Feb. 2, 2016
SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. — Detective Ryan Wicks trained the headlights of his Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor on a young man spotted fleeing local gang members and climbed out of his car, a battered black-and-white cruiser of mid-2000s vintage. The odometer stood north of 95,000 miles. A rear fender was scarred by the belt buckles of hundreds of suspects who had been spread-eagled against it.