Politics, Government & Business in California's Inland Empire
By Leslie Parrilla, San Bernardino Sun
Posted: 05/03/14, 10:32 PM PDT |
FONTANA >> New City Manager Ken Hunt was disturbed when he overheard a couple sitting next to him at a Rancho Cucamonga restaurant in 1999 describing the city he worked tirelessly to change as too dangerous a place to go alone, even during the day.
By Leslie Parrilla, San Bernardino Sun
Posted: 05/03/14, 10:35 PM PDT |
FONTANA >> Each of the 44,000 metered customers in the Fontana division of the San Gabriel Valley Water Company could see a check for $240, and a retroactive rate decrease, according to the Office of Ratepayer Advocates.
By Jim Steinberg, The Sun
Posted: 12/13/13, 8:08 PM PST |
FONTANA — A Los Angeles Police Department detective sergeant has announced plans to run for mayor, challenging Mayor Acquanetta Warren as she seeks a second term in the November 2014 elections.
By Joe Nelson, The Sun
Posted: 12/12/13, 7:15 PM PST | Updated: 6 mins ago
FONTANA >> A woman has filed a $2 million claim against the school district, alleging one of its former police officers raped her in his office.
By Jim Steinberg, San Bernardino Sun
Posted: 10/19/13, 1:55 PM PDT |
FONTANA >> “I know it’s a race weekend. I see all the motor homes loading up groceries” in the parking lot of grocery stores, said Mayor Acquanetta Warren.
Area hotels and motels and restaurants were looking forward to a better-than-usual weekend as customers came in from out of town.
By Jim Steinberg, San Bernardino Sun
Posted: 08/25/13, 8:54 PM PDT |
FONTANA >> Fontana Unified School District Police Chief Scott Mesa feels he is in a lucky position.
By Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
jim.steinberg@inlandnewspapers.com l @FontanaNow on Twitter
Posted: 08/06/2013 09:04:06 AM PDT
Updated: 08/07/2013 09:20:55 PM PDT
FONTANA — This city has been ranked as the 15th safest in America, according to Business Insider, an Internet-only publication that used the FBI’s preliminary 2012 unified crime report data for 2012 to compile city rankings.
Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Posted: 07/28/2013 09:29:54 PM PDT
Updated: 07/28/2013 11:20:23 PM PDT
FONTANA — City Manager Ken Hunt is a survivor.
“He rides the economic waves in good times and bad times,” said Councilman Michael Tahan. “He maneuvers creatively.”
Last week, the City Council approved a five-year contract for Hunt to remain the city’s top administrator, a job he has held since 1999.
Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Posted: 07/16/2013 09:36:15 PM PDT
Updated: 07/17/2013 12:38:54 AM PDT
FONTANA – In a lopsided contest, Fontana Unified School District voters ousted Leticia Garcia and Sophia Green, two controversial board members who raised the hackles of Mayor Acquanetta Warren, many district employees and parents.
July 14, 2013; 08:47 PM
Rep. Mark Takano, D-Riverside, may have switched careers when he was elected to Congress last fall, but the former high school English teacher still wields a mean red pen.
To read column by Jeff Horseman, Imran Ghori, Craig Schultz and Jim Miller in The Press Enterprise, click here.
Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Posted: 07/13/2013 05:18:03 PM PDT
Updated: 07/13/2013 06:49:41 PM PDT
FONTANA — The two trustees at the center of Tuesday’s school board recall election defended their records in the final days of a campaign to oust them, even as volunteers fanned out to push for last-minute votes over the weekend.
Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Posted: 07/09/2013 10:38:39 PM PDT
Updated: 07/09/2013 11:49:57 PM PDT
FONTANA — There are five candidates vying for a spot in the Fontana Unified School District special recall election if voters decide to recall two board members Tuesday.
William Cutting,
Tuesday, June 18, 2013 – 03:00 p.m.
Someone forwarded a bunch of emails from a person by the name of Keith McCarter to me. In the first one, he announced he is running for State Assembly and asked for our vote in June 2014. He also ran for mayor of Fontana a little while back.
Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Posted: 05/26/2013 05:34:32 PM PDT
FONTANA — The Fontana Unified School District and two other school systems have sued the city alleging that its now defunct redevelopment agency owes them millions of dollars.
Joe Nelson, Staff Writer
Posted: 05/24/2013 05:57:24 PM PDT
Four Fontana Unified School District Police Department employees claim they were raped or sexually assaulted by an officer with a history of sexual misconduct, according to lawsuits filed in San Bernardino Superior Court.
Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Posted: 04/27/2013 05:20:37 PM PDT
Updated: 04/27/2013 06:24:37 PM PDT
FONTANA — A recall campaign for two school board members is heating up even though the election is more than two months away.
Mayor Acquanetta Warren has been busy posting on her Facebook page – and others – posters made by proponents of recalling Fontana Unified school board members Leticia Garcia and Sophia Green. The election is July 16.
By William Cutting
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 – 11:45 p.m.
When you have grown up and spent your entire life in the Inland Empire you sometimes forget how big it is. It doesn’t help that we lack our own media market and we constantly live in the shadow of moronic Los Angeles newscasters. Every now and then I come across a story and figure it is happening in some place hundreds and thousands of miles away.
Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Posted: 03/15/2013 08:25:55 PM PDT
County election officials on Thursday announced they validated the signatures collected for the recall of Fontana Unified School District Board members Sophia Green and Leticia Garcia.
Joe Nelson, Staff Writer
Posted: 01/23/2013 07:01:29 PM PST
A joint powers authority including San Bernardino County and the cities of Ontario and Fontana will meet Thursday to consider proposals to fix the county’s foreclosure crisis.
Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Posted: 01/23/2013 11:27:30 AM PST
Updated: 01/23/2013 07:18:31 PM PST
FONTANA – Fontana Unified School District police have bought 14 military-style rifles to protect students and faculty in the event of a shooter on campus.
Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Posted: 12/31/2012 10:23:07 PM PST
FONTANA – The recall effort against two school board members is in full swing, according to one of its principal organizers.
Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Posted: 12/10/2012 05:00:35 PM PST
FONTANA – Retail giant Walmart’s decision to build two supercenters here already is drawing some opposition – even though those stores might not open until 2016, or even later.
Company lays off 12 employees in Ontario and Fontana
Canan Tasci, Staff Writer
Posted: 10/31/2012 08:30:01 PM PDT
Officials at Kaiser Permanente are calling the laying off of 84 employees a “modest downsizing of staff” across Southern California.
The layoffs do not include physicians.
Staff Report
Posted: 10/24/2012 08:47:32 PM PDT
Updated: 10/24/2012 10:43:37 PM PDT
To assist voters in the Nov. 6 election, the Daily Bulletin has asked municipal candidates questions about issues concerning their respective cities.
In some cases, the responses have been edited for space.
To read entire story, click here.
Joe Nelson, Staff Writer
Posted: 10/22/2012 09:58:51 PM PDT
The third meeting of the Homeownership Protection Program Joint Powers Authority, composed of San Bernardino County and the cities of Ontario and Fontana to address the county’s foreclosure crisis, has been canceled due to a lack of quorum.
Liset Marquez, Staff Writer
Posted: 10/14/2012 07:12:47 AM PDT
Updated: 10/14/2012 08:00:29 PM PDT
ONTARIO – A new regional authority formed to manage L.A./Ontario International Airport will meet today for the first time.
The Ontario International Airport Authority is expected to take a series of actions to formalize the new multijurisdictional organization, which will run the airport if Ontario succeeds in gaining control.
Beau Yarbrough, Staff Writer
Posted: 10/09/2012 06:10:55 PM PDT
POMONA – Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom doesn’t know if he agrees with eminent-domain powers being used to buy up the mortgages of homeowners who owe more than their homes are worth – but he applauds the experiment.
Jim Steinberg,Staff Writer
Posted: 10/03/2012 10:15:43 PM PDT
FONTANA – School board members on Wednesday night defended their decision to issue a controversial class of bonds to stave off a likely state takeover.
Posted: 10/02/2012 06:29:21 PM PDT
Updated: 10/02/2012 07:54:34 PM PDT
Related story: School financing methods attracting attention
FONTANA – A Fontana Unified School District plan to finance a $106 million bond payment due in December to stave off a likely state takeover has drawn fire from the county’s top financial official and two county supervisors.
Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Posted: 09/21/2012 08:54:01 PM PDT
Updated: 09/21/2012 10:04:32 PM PDT
FONTANA – An effort to recall two School Board members has gained an ally – the mayor.
Beau Yarbrough, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Created: 09/14/2012 05:28:16 PM PDT
ONTARIO – If there’s one thing a high school community understands, it’s pep rallies.
Cheerleaders and mascots for the Chaffey Joint Union High School District’s 12 high schools on Thursday night marched down the aisles at Hill Auditorium to energize advocates for its $848 million bond that is on the Nov. 6 ballot.
By Andrew Edwards
Created: 08/16/2012 11:44:52 AM PDT
The special agency that helped start a national debate over a controversial eminent domain-for-mortgages plan aimed at helping San Bernardino County’s underwater homeowners soon will be able to accept formal proposals.
By Alejandro Lazo
July 27, 2012, 4:36 p.m.
One of California’s highest-ranking politicians, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, has told an investor group to “back off” and allow San Bernardino County to explore a controversial plan that would employ its eminent domain powers to seize and restructure troubled mortgages.
Andrew Edwards, Staff Writer
Posted: 07/26/2012 05:30:00 PM PDT
A founder of a San Francisco company behind a proposal for local government to use eminent domain to take control of underwater mortgages predicted other companies may follow them and take the plan national.
Mortgage Resolution Partners co-founder and chief strategic officer John Vlahoplus said in an interview Thursday that he believes the controversial plan will survive legal challenges and may be emulated by other firms in areas heavily affected by the post-2007 housing market bust.
Point of View
David H. Stevens
Posted: 07/22/2012 07:04:38 AM PDT
California, once ground zero of the housing crisis, is and will continue working its way back to a stable real estate finance market.
However, the radical use of eminent domain to take over underwater mortgages could cause a spiraling effect of withdrawal of mortgage credit, declining home values and a threat to local economic recovery. Rather than taking actions which increase uncertainty, reduce the availability of credit and focus on the problems from the past, policymakers should look to homebuyers of the future and do what they can to efficiently get the process moving again.
BY IMRAN GHORI
STAFF WRITER
ighori@pe.com
Published: 17 July 2012 06:15 PM
A banking industry group continued to press its opposition to a proposal to use eminent domain to seize underwater mortgages, claiming the tactic would not withstand legal scrutiny and could end up costing San Bernardino County.
The Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, a Wall Street trade group, released a legal memo from its law firm on Tuesday, July 17, that attacked the proposal as impermissible under the federal and state constitutions and the county charter.
Andrew Edwards, Staff Writer
Created: 07/13/2012 11:23:10 AM PDT
Leaders of the newly formed Homeownership Protection Program have yet to decide how they will try to solve San Bernardino County’s lingering foreclosure woes, but the potential use of eminent domain to take over mortgages continued to arouse objections from industry groups when the group convened its first meeting on Friday.
Andrew Edwards, Staff Writer
Posted: 07/06/2012 06:15:26 PM PDT
FONTANA – A fresh source of money totalling close to $14 million means construction of a long-stalled freeway interchange project may begin before year’s end.
That, in turn, could facilitate the construction of thousands of homes as well as new office and retail space.
Eminent domain raises legal concern
Joe Nelson, Staff Writer
Created: 07/04/2012 11:15:06 PM PDT
Legal analysts are giving conflicting views on whether a proposed program in San Bernardino County to help homeowners with negative equity stay in their homes could withstand a legal challenge.
San Francisco-based investment firm Mortgage Resolution Partners has proposed the county use eminent domain to seize control of underwater loans and then modify them for homeowners at affordable rates.
Andrew Edwards, Staff Writer
Created: 07/01/2012 05:51:46 PM PDT
San Bernardino County may be the site the nation’s next big debate over eminent domain.
A trio of of local governments – San Bernardino County, Fontana and Ontario – have created a Joint Powers Authority (JPA) in an effort to help “underwater” homeowners that may result in the use of seizure powers to buy mortgage-backed securities.
BY IMRAN GHORI
STAFF WRITER
ighori@pe.com
Published: 18 June 2012 07:48 AM
Six years after Cathy Piper purchased her 1,100-square-foot Rancho Cucamonga home for $420,000, she has seen its value drop to $232,300.
But like millions of homeowners across the country with underwater mortgages, she struggles to meet her $2,475 monthly mortgage payment even as she is stuck with a loan that is more than the property is worth.
BY IMRAN GHORI
STAFF WRITER
ighori@pe.com
Published: 14 April 2012 06:22 PM
With drag racing at the Auto Club Speedway in Fontana halted due to a court order, racing enthusiasts are lobbying the county to get the racetrack reopened.
Supporters have formed a group called Save Auto Club Dragway, created a Facebook page and signed petitions. More than two dozen of them spoke at the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors meeting last week, urging the county to help the speedway get the approvals it needs.
Joe Nelson, Staff Writer
Posted: 04/11/2012 07:05:54 PM PDT
San Bernardino County and the cities of Ontario, Fontana and Hesperia are joining forces to establish a program to assist homewoners who are underwater on their mortgages.
It is part of the county’s “Vision” plan – a roadmap to the county’s future that establishes clear-cut goals to achieve optimum quality of life for the people who live in its 24 cities and unincorporated areas.
Southern California home prices slipped in January
Andrew Edwards, Staff Writer
Posted: 02/15/2012 03:32:14 PM PST
New Southern California homes are selling at the slowest paces on record, but the wood frames of new houses under construction at the Rosena Ranch development near Fontana are a sign that builders are still willing to invest in the Inland Empire.
Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Created: 01/26/2012 11:35:17 AM PST
FONTANA – Mayor Acquanetta Warren on Thursday vowed to join forces with Ontario city leaders in the quest to wrestle ownership of L.A./Ontario International Airport from Los Angeles’ control.
That pledge was part of broad strategy focused on regional cooperation as Fontana moves forward with 2012 and in the succeeding years.
By Jim Steinberg Staff Writer
Posted: 01/24/2012 08:43:11 PM PST
The Fontana and Rialto city councils scrambled on Tuesday night to approve measures paving the way for a Feb. 1 deadline for the dissolution of their redevelopment agencies.
Meanwhile, because of the complexity of what needs to be accomplished in a short time frame, two bond-rating agencies have taken negative actions toward billions of dollars in California bonds secured by redevelopment tax increment revenue.
By Jim Steinberg Staff Writer
Created: 01/02/2012 06:05:05 PM PST
FONTANA – School board member Leticia Garcia is flying to New York City on Wednesday for an interview with Anderson Cooper related to the stigma associated with women professionals married to convicts.
Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Created: 12/15/2011 04:06:53 PM PST
FONTANA – Leticia Garcia quietly stepped aside as vice president of the Fontana Unified School District Board on Wednesday night, nominating longtime board member Gus Hawthorn.
Previous to that action, Hawthorn had nominated BarBara Chavez for a second term as the board’s president.
Both measures were unanimously approved.
Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Posted: 11/17/2011 06:36:41 PM PST
FONTANA – Despite a warning that the current school year is likely to end up with a $2.6 million deficit, the Fontana Unified School District Board on Wednesday night voted to bring back 10 laid off locker room attendants at a cost of $285,000.
Neil Nisperos, Staff Writer
Posted: 11/11/2011 04:37:50 PM PST
Members of Occupy Wall Street-inspired groups from throughout region will protest together today as Occupy Inland Empire for the first time in a rally in San Bernardino.
Sandra Emerson, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin
Created: 11/06/2011 05:53:46 PM PST
RIVERSIDE – After nearly an hour and a half of group discussion in the human microphone fashion, members of several Occupy Wall Street movements in the Inland Empire raised their hands, wiggled their fingers and a consensus was reached – a committee will be formed to propose future activities bringing all their movements together.
Garcia
Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Created: 10/19/2011 09:39:28 PM PDT
FONTANA – In a sparsely attended meeting, Fontana Unified School District board member Kathy Binks called for fellow board member Leticia Garcia to step aside until the District Attorney’s Office Public Integrity Unit can investigate whether Garcia violated any election code when she concealed her marriage to a convicted murderer who was in prison.
Ryan Carter, Staff Writer
Posted: 10/17/2011 06:47:45 PM PDT
FONTANA – School board member Leticia Garcia apologized Monday for not telling the public that she is married to a man convicted of murder, even as the mayor called for her to step down from her leadership position on the board.
Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Created: 10/16/2011 08:53:22 PM PDT
FONTANA – The vice chairwoman of the Fontana Unified School District board has admitted she has been married to a convicted murderer since 2002, but on her application to run for the school board last year, she said she was divorced.
By Jim Steinberg Staff Writer
Created: 08/18/2011 05:37:08 PM PDT
FONTANA – The Fontana Unified School District restored personnel and services to the tune of about $6.5 million this week.
Warren
By Jim Steinberg Staff Writer
Created: 06/23/2011 09:31:02 PM PDT
FONTANA – In action that city officials say will halt progress in the city, a group of business and property owners unleashed a two-pronged attack on the City Council this week.
On Thursday, a group calling itself Fontana United filed a notice of intent with the City Clerk’s Office to file a recall petition for Mayor Acquanetta Warren and the entire City Council.
Fontana voters reject effort to restore funds
Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Created: 06/22/2011 06:31:20 PM PDT
FONTANA – Measure E, the parcel tax initiative that would have brought $16 million in additional funding to the Fontana Unified School District, was defeated in a special election Tuesday.
Voters to decide school district’s Measure E
Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Created: 06/19/2011 09:05:31 PM PDT
FONTANA – The deadline for the area’s first parcel tax vote is 8 p.m. Tuesday.
And many in surrounding cities are going to be watching how it does during this era of rising hostility against government taxation.
James Rufus Koren, Staff Writer
Created: 05/17/2011 09:34:54 PM PDT
The revised state budget plan released Monday provides about $3 billion more to public schools, but local school officials say even if that money materializes, it won’t mean reversing the deep cuts districts have had to make.
With tax extension talks off, area educators worried
Canan Tasci, Staff Writer
Posted: 04/02/2011 07:06:34 AM PDT
Gov. Jerry Brown’s promise not to cut school budgets will soon be broken.
The governor’s budget proposal earlier this year to close a $25 billion budget gap without cutting funding to K-12 schools was contingent upon voters approving a five-year extension of temporary taxes in a special election in June.
By James Rufus Koren, Staff Writer
Created: 03/31/2011 11:44:13 AM PDT
Local school district leaders say it looks like they’ll have to implement their worst-case-scenario budgets because no deal is in place for the state to bring in more tax revenue.
City, fearing state cash grab, sets redevelopment spending
Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Created: 03/23/2011 08:59:24 PM PDT
FONTANA – The city’s Redevelopment Agency funneled $19 million into 17 projects at a public meeting Tuesday night.
The action to put money to work comes at a time when there is uncertainty about the future of redevelopment agencies in California.
Fontana election to decide $50 million plan
Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Posted: 03/21/2011 10:26:59 PM PDT
FONTANA – On a 3-2 vote, the Fontana Unified School Board on Monday night approved a special election for a new property tax to prevent or delay some $50 million in cuts approved in recent years.
By Jim Steinberg Staff Writer
Created: 03/17/2011 05:14:02 PM PDT
FONTANA – The school board will hold a public hearing Monday on the possibility of developing an emergency educational tax to help soften the effects of the crisis in education.
R.C., Fontana spurred growth
James Rufus Koren, Staff Writer
Created: 03/12/2011 11:09:52 PM PST
Growth in those areas and across the Inland Empire came largely because of affordable homes sold in the first half of the decade, said Brad Kemp, director of regional research at Beacon Economics.
Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Created: 03/09/2011 06:51:31 PM PST
FONTANA – Gullit Acevedo, 17, credits school counselors with steering him away from gangs. So he was shocked when the Fontana Unified School District board on Tuesday reversed a decision from last week and voted to warn all 68 of the district’s counselors they might not have a job next school year.
Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Posted: 03/08/2011 11:37:48 PM PST
FONTANA – The Fontana Unified School District board, by a 4 to 1 vote, has potentially eliminated all 68 of the district’s counselor jobs, reversing a decision made last week to save those jobs from budget cutting.
By Jim Steinberg Staff Writer
Created: 03/03/2011 09:48:51 PM PST
FONTANA – School district employees and board members are working on ways to carve money from the district’s budget after the board on Wednesday night voted against a recommendation to potentially fire all 68 of the district’s counselors.
Jim Steinberg, Staff Writer
Posted: 02/09/2011 11:18:21 PM PST
FONTANA – The City Council has unanimously passed a resolution in opposition to Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan to abolish redevelopment agencies in California, joining a growing number of cities lining up against the plan.
By Michael J. Sorba Staff Writer
Posted: 01/28/2011 06:57:03 PM PST
FONTANA – The Fontana Unified School District would be forced to cut more than $25 million from its budget if voters don’t approve five-year extensions of several tax increases the Legislature imposed two years ago, officials say.
Ryan Hagen, Staff Writer
Created: 01/26/2011 06:16:40 PM PST
The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors voted this week to add another $13.2 million in redevelopment funds to widen and modernize the interchange of Cherry Avenue and the 10 Freeway in Fontana.
Saturday, January 22, 2011 – 11:00 a.m.
The month of January has proven to be a very entertaining month in San Bernardino County government circles.
The highlight, so far, was the election of Fifth District Supervisor Josie Gonzales as Chairwoman of the Board of Supervisors.
Gonzales Warren Rutherford
Tuesday, January 4, 2011 – 12:55 p.m.
The behind-the-scenes maneuvering for the upcoming election for chair/vice-chair of the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors is apparently getting ugly.
A look ahead
Mediha Fejzagic DiMartino, Staff Writer
Posted: 12/26/2010 09:47:44 PM PST
FONTANA – In the new year, Mayor Acquanetta Warren said she wants to forge county, state and federal ties to bring about economic recovery and jobs to her city.
Michael J. Sorba, Staff Writer
Posted: 12/22/2010 08:12:37 PM PST
FONTANA – Two new members have been appointed to the City Council, former Planning Commissioner Matthew Slowik and former Parks and Recreation Commissioner Lydia Salazar-Wibert.
Slowik and Salazar-Wibert were among 12 people the council considered to fill two open seats.
Josh Dulaney, Staff Writer
Posted: 12/09/2010 02:01:15 PM PST
FONTANA – The new City Council made its first big decision on Wednesday night when it unanimously set in motion the process to appoint two vacant seats on the dais.
“We need to hit the ground running Jan. 1 with all council members present,” Mayor Acquanetta Warren said.
New mayor, council members sworn in
Josh Dulaney, Staff Writer
Created: 12/08/2010 08:12:37 PM PST
FONTANA – There was a lot of swearing and a little bit of blushing at the City Council meeting Wednesday night.
A record crowd seeking to witness history filled Steelworkers Auditorium to watch the swearing in of the city’s first black mayor and a new council.
Josh Dulaney, Staff Writer
Posted: 12/07/2010 09:28:03 PM PST
FONTANA – Outgoing mayor and former police chief Frank Scialdone will see a near 40-year career in the public sector come to a close tonight when the new City Council is sworn in.
Janice Rutherford
Sunday, December 5, 2010 – 09:30 a.m.
Last Updated: Deceember 5, 2010 – 01:00 p.m.
Incoming county supervisor Janice Rutherford, who will be sworn into office Monday at noon, has an early test coming her way next month.
The test being whether or not she will support former colleague Josie Gonzales for chairperson of the board. A two-year irrevocable term.
Cities defend redevelopment strategies
Josh Dulaney, Staff Writer
Created: 12/01/2010 08:27:29 PM PST
The Fontana Redevelopment Agency ranks sixth in California in terms of long-term outstanding debt, according to the most recent data from state Controller John Chiang’s office.
With more than $650 million in such debt, Fontana is outranked only by Industry and the state’s biggest cities – San Jose, San Diego, San Francisco and Los Angeles.
Josh Dulaney, Staff Writer
Posted: 11/04/2010 05:01:45 PM PDT
FONTANA – Ask the Election Day winners, and they will say voters here delivered a clear message to City Hall when they sent a councilwoman to the mayor’s office, re-elected a veteran councilman, and elected a newcomer endorsed by both of them.
Despite cries to the contrary from their political opponents, those elected should continue with the fiscal policies and public safety programs touted by the City Council for more than a decade.
Michael J. Sorba and Ryan Hagen, Staff Writers
Posted: 11/03/2010 06:16:02 PM PDT
Anti-incumbent sentiments that reverberated across the nation on Election Day weren’t as strong locally, but still present as mayors and city council members in several cities across the region were unseated by challengers.
Budget deficits, high utility bills and joblessness weighed on the minds of voters as they headed to the polls Tuesday to decide on what course is best for their respective cities.
Acquanetta Warren
Josh Dulaney, Staff Writer
Created: 11/03/2010 06:44:18 PM PDT
FONTANA – She’s a history maker.
Councilwoman Acquanetta Warren became the first black mayor and the first female mayor of this city, with a blowout victory over five opponents on Tuesday. Warren took 54.72 percent of the vote.
Paul Biane
10:00 PM PDT on Thursday, October 28, 2010
By IMRAN GHORI
The Press-Enterprise
A heated campaign between San Bernardino County Supervisor Paul Biane and Fontana Councilwoman Janice Rutherford has intensified in the months since June’s primary election.
Because neither received more than 50 percent of the vote in the primary, they must face each other in a runoff election Tuesday. The 2nd District includes Fontana, Rancho Cucamonga, Upland, Lytle Creek and Crestline.
James Rufus Koren, Staff Writer
Posted: 10/26/2010 06:03:29 PM PDT
Supervisorial candidate Janice Rutherford raised more campaign funds than incumbent Supervisor Paul Biane in the first half of this month, pulling together about $36,000 more then her opponent between Oct. 1 and Oct. 16.
Rutherford said her fundraising strength – she also raised more cash than Biane in July, August and September – is a good sign in the campaign’s final days.