Derry

Jason Abbott, Staff Writer
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 – 10:35 a.m.

In a San Bernardino Sun story filed by reporter James Rufus Koren, the newspaper reports that “The (SEBA) board is split right now.”

Koren refers to the San Bernardino County Safety Employees Benefit Associaton.

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Jason Abbott, Staff Writer
Sunday, May 21, 2011 – 09:36 p.m.

If there was ever a case where a candidate’s campaign has gone disastrously off message, consider the debacle that is the James Ramos For Supervisor Campaign roll-out.

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Jason Abbott, Staff Writer
Monday, May 2, 2011 – 10:00 a.m.

While the world celebrates the death of terror mastermind Usama bin Laden, questions remain about the reliability of our ally Pakistan.

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Jason Abbott, Staff Writer
Friday, April 1, 2011 – 04:30 p.m.

Defense attorneys representing a defendant targeted by San Bernardino County District Attorney Mike Ramos and California Attorney General Kamala Harris are issuing a wave of subpoenas today to witnesses who will be expected to testify at an April 25th preliminary hearing on their knowledge of the 2006 Colonies Civil Case settlement that saved county taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars.

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Willis

Jason Abbott, Staff Writer
Thursday, March 3, 2011 – 01:51 p.m.

Worth repeating: On the day the City of Upland was disgraced by having the indignity of a federal raid on its City Hall and the private residence of the then-mayor, here are the words of Upland City Councilmember Ken Willis which appeared in the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin:

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Jason Abbott, Staff Writer
Thursday, March 3, 2011 – 01:44 p.m.

With the unveiling of the federal indictment against ex-Upland Mayor J.P. Pomierski and his business partner now public, many county residents are absolutely stunned to see the alleged criminal activity apparently undertaken by senior elected public servants in Upland, the community known as the City of Gracious Living. Although this blog highlighted Pomierski’s graft as early as last June, many – including Pomierski’s allies on the Upland City Council – refused to believe the accusations against J.P., the self-proclaimed “King of Upland.’

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By Jason Abbott, Staff Writer
Friday, February 18, 2011 – 05:00 p.m.

The work of California’s Citizen redistricting Commission just cleared a major hurdle as the United States Department Of Justice issued a “pre-clearance” allowing the body to proceed with its work. The commission is entrusted with the task of re-drawing Calfiornia’s state legislative and federal Congressional districts this year, for use in the next ten years.

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Ramos and Brown at a February 10, 2010 news conference.

By Jason Abbott, Staff Writer
Thursday, February 10, 2011 – 08:30 p.m.

Remember February 10, 2010?

It was exactly one year ago that San Bernardino County residents heard the news that a former board of supervisors chairman and an ex-top county official were charged in a wide-ranging conspiracy surrounding the 3-2 board of supervisors decision to settle a long-standing lawsuit stemming from a dispute over flood control easements surrounding the construction of the Colonies Crossroads shopping center and housing development in north Upland.

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Lewis

Jason Abbott, Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 8, 2011 – 08:00 p.m.

Is Republican Congressman Jerry Lewis looking to retire?

According to Washington, DC-based website Politico.com, the 17-term member of the House of Representatives from Redlands may indeed be on his way out of Congress.

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