Politics, Government & Business in California's Inland Empire
Friday, February 27, 2015 – 05:00 p.m.
Tonight The Lou Desmond & Company Show comes to you live from Bullseye Sports in Riverside. Vince, the owner of Bullseye Sports, joins Lou to discuss how he came to America from Cuba, and the nature of his firearms business.
Thursday, February 26, 2015 – 04:30 p.m.
Tonight on The Lou Desmond & Company Show, reporter Katy Grimes from Flash Report joins Lou to discuss the drought in California. Katy explains a recent article she’s written about the facts behind California’s drought.
Wednesday, February 25, 2015 – 12:00 p.m.
Lou Desmond will be doing a live show at Bullseye Sport in Riverside, on Friday, February 27 . Come by & meet your favorite characters from the show!
Tuesday, February 24, 2015 – 05:30 p.m.
Tonight on The Lou Desmond & Company Show, Lou’s favorite liberal Georgine Trujillo joins Lou to make sense of liberal policies.
Monday, February 23, 2015 – 05:00 p.m.
Today on The Lou Desmond & Company Show, economist Jay Prag and Financial Advisor Kraig Strom join Lou to discuss an array of topics.
By RENE RAY DE LA CRUZ
STAFF WRITER
Posted Feb. 19, 2015 @ 8:39 pm
HESPERIA — Controversial land developer and newspaper publisher Raymond Pryke has died.
Thursday, February 19, 2015 – 05:00p.m.
Tonight on The Lou Desmond & Company Show, Tom Del Beccaro, former Chairman of the California Republican Party joins Lou to discuss ISIS.
By Ryan Hagen, The Sun
Posted: 02/12/15, 8:10 PM PST |
It looks like Inland Empire host Lou Desmond landed on his feet, then jumped up.
Opinion
By Debra J. Saunders
Updated 9:00 pm, Wednesday, February 11, 2015
I work on a treadmill of shameless self-promotion. Most mornings, I’ve tweeted before 6 a.m. When I’m not working on my column, I’m often blogging, posting on Facebook, jabbering on the radio (less often on TV), or speaking at a venue like the Commonwealth Club.
Wednesday, February 11, 2015 – 04:00 p.m.
Tonight on The Lou Desmond & Company Show, Dr. Adrian Moore, Vice President at the Reason Foundation, joins Lou to discuss Brian Williams and John Stewart. The two dissect the media’s coverage of other reporters and the best practices for pulling people out of poverty.
Maureen Dowd
Sunday Review | Op-Ed Columnist
February 7, 2015
WASHINGTON — THIS was a bomb that had been ticking for a while.
NBC executives were warned a year ago that Brian Williams was constantly inflating his biography. They were flummoxed over why the leading network anchor felt that he needed Hemingwayesque, bullets-whizzing-by flourishes to puff himself up, sometimes to the point where it was a joke in the news division.
Opinion
By Debra J. Saunders
Saturday, February 7, 2015 – Updated 3:43 pm
Thursday morning’s “Building community trust” roundtable discussion in Oakland with Attorney General Eric Holder, local law enforcement, elected officials and community leaders was designed to “build trust between law enforcement and the communities they serve.” After brief remarks, Holder and company dismissed the press corps.
Friday, February 6, 2015 – 01:30 p.m.
Tonight on The Lou Desmond & Company Show, Adrian Moore, Vice President at Reason Foundation and San Bernardino County Supervisor Curt Hagman join the program.
Wednesday, February 4, 2015 – 04:30 p.m.
Tonight on The Lou Desmond & Company Show, Tom Del Beccaro, former Chairman of the California Republican Party and author of The Divided Era, joins Lou to discuss an array of topics.
Tuesday, February 3, 2015 – 05:00 p.m.
Tonight on The Lou Desmond & Company Show, Ralph Rossum, Salvatori Professor of American Constitutionalism at Claremont McKenna College, joins Lou to discuss ISIS and foreign policy.
Monday, February 2, 2015 – 05:00 p.m.
Tonight on The Lou Desmond & Company Show, economist Jay Prag and Producer Beth Baumann join Lou to discuss an array of topics.
Thursday, January 29, 2015 – 04:30 p.m.
Tonight on The Lou Desmond & Company Show, Cliff Cummings, President of Toyota of San Bernardino, joins Lou to discuss happenings in the City of San Bernardino, National School Choice Week and the overall health of the Inland Empire economy.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 – 05:30 p.m.
Tonight on The Lou Desmond & Company Show, Tom Del Beccaro, former Chairman of the California Republican Party and Georgine Trujillo, Lou’s favorite Democrat, join the program.
Bloomberg is reporting that two private equity firms are taking a close look at a possible buyout of the parent company of The Sun, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin and Redlands Daily Facts newspapers.
Monday, January 26, 2015 – 05:00 p.m.
Tonight on The Lou Desmond & Company Show, Jay Prag, Clinicial Associate Professor at the Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, joins Lou.
Thursday, January 22, 2015 – 05:15 p.m.
Tonight on The Lou Desmond & Company Show, Georgine Trujillo, Lou’s favorite Democrat, joins the show to discuss the State of the Union and the new findings at Ontario International Airport.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Tonight on The Lou Desmond & Company Show, Phil Naman, host of The Firing Line on AM590, will join Lou to discuss Obama’s State of the Union. The two will make comments on the economy, the Affordable Care Act and foreign policy.
Monday, January 19, 2015 – 09:00 p.m.
Monday, January 19th marks the first broadcast of the new Lou Desmond & Company Show. Cliff Cummings, the former Chairmen of the San Bernardino County Republican Central Committee and President of Toyota of San Bernardino, joins Lou as he discusses today’s top local, regional and national events.
Freedom Communications, parent of The Press-Enterprise and Orange County Register ceased printing another of its publications in December.
Friday, January 16, 2015 – 06:00 a.m.
Local publication Inland Empire Business Journal has shut down.
Saturday, December 27, 2014 – 11:00 a.m.
The customary dull holiday news cycle was pleasantly interrupted on Saturday.
Tuesday, December 9, 2014 – 10:30 a.m.
In San Bernardino County’s pocket?
Saturday, December 6, 2014 – 11:00 a.m.
The sad steady decline in newspaper circulation continues to pressure publications nationwide, and in the Inland Empire.
Freedom Communications lays off 100 employees
By Tiffany Hsu contact the reporter
Freedom Communications, the parent company of the Orange County Register and the Riverside Press-Enterprise, is laying off about 100 non-newsroom employees Wednesday.
By Ben Kamisar, Jesse Byrnes and Justin Sink
11/19/14 – 06:19 PM EST
Three major networks will not air President Obama’s prime-time address Thursday outlining his executive actions on immigration.
By Andrew Khouri
November 14, 2014
The Orange County Register is now asking its reporters and other staff members to deliver papers.
Monday, November 10, 2014 – 08:45 a.m.
More troubles emerge in a local Inland Empire newsroom.
Once again, pressure is being exerted to kill or undermine stories affecting certain politicos.
By JOHN HOWARD
Posted 10.27.2014
Californians’ reliance on TV for their political news is declining, while an increasing number of people are using the Internet for political coverage, according to a report from the Public Policy Institute of California.
By Kyle Smith
October 25, 2014 | 5:12pm
Sharyl Attkisson is an unreasonable woman. Important people have told her so.
When the longtime CBS reporter asked for details about reinforcements sent to the Benghazi compound during the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attack, White House national security spokesman Tommy Vietor replied, “I give up, Sharyl . . . I’ll work with more reasonable folks that follow up, I guess.”
By CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY
OCT. 19, 2014
Ever since the entrepreneur Aaron Kushner bought into the newspaper business two years ago, he has generated a steady stream of headlines — about himself.
By Shan Li
October 14, 2014
The Los Angeles Times filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the Orange County Register, accusing the embattled newspaper of breach of contract and failure to pay more than $2 million in delivery fees.
By Andrew Khouri
September 22, 2014
The Los Angeles Register, which launched in April as part Aaron Kushner’s bold bet on print newspapers, will cease publication, effective immediately.
By Andrew Khouri
September 12, 2014
Digital First Media, the owner of the Los Angeles Daily News and other newspapers across the country, said it will explore the sale of its publications.
By Aaron Blake
September 9, 2014 at 6:00 AM
A majority of Americans and even many Democrats consider President Obama’s tenure to be a “failure,” according to a new poll from the Washington Post and ABC News.
By DAVID CARRAUG. 10, 2014
A year ago last week, it seemed as if print newspapers might be on the verge of a comeback, or at least on the brink of, well, survival.
By JENNIFER AGIESTA
Associated Press
Aug 7, 2014 – 3:04 AM EDT
WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest Associated Press-GfK poll finds the nation dissatisfied with what Congress and President Barack Obama have done lately, and few expect much more after the midterm elections. Here’s a look at five things to know from the poll.
Monday, July 21, 2014 – 09:30 a.m.
Here’s some news flowing across the transom Monday morning. In case you missed it!
Jerry Brown for President?
We’ll start off with this morning’s humor.
Sunday, June 22, 2014 – 01:00 p.m.
It would appear local Inland Empire newspapers need to make a choice.
Either adopt the true purpose of a newspaper and be a public watchdog, or become a sock puppet!
Friday, June 20, 2014 – 09:00 a.m.
Here’s some news flowing across the transom Friday morning, in case you missed it!
Romney tops New Hampshire straw poll
With the Presidential Election a little more than two years off, the finger-in-the-water polling has started.
Stuart Pfeifer
June 9, 2014
Dozens of veteran journalists have applied for voluntary buyouts at the Orange County Register, and those who haven’t are bracing for layoffs in the latest sign that the daily paper’s expansion is faltering.
BY MARY ANN MILBOURN / STAFF WRITER
Published: June 3, 2014 Updated: 5:27 p.m.
The owner of the Orange County Register on Tuesday announced a major restructuring that includes staff furloughs, voluntary newsroom buyouts, layoffs and the consolidation of the company’s Long Beach newspaper with the Los Angeles Register six days a week.
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
Published: Sunday, Jun. 1, 2014 – 12:00 am
CNN, the television news network, offers a handy website calculator that allows a user to compare the cost-of-living differentials among the nation’s towns and cities.
Friday, May 30, 2014 – 01:30 p.m.
Conservative Democrat Veronica Franco (D) lashes out on Congressman Mark Takano (D-Riverside) on The Lou Desmond Show, broadcast on San Bernardino-based KTIE-AM 590, Thursday evening (5/29/14).
To hear the interview in the second segment of the podcast, click the following link: The Lou Desmond Show
Sunday, May 25, 2014 – 03:00 p.m.
We don’t don’t take a much stock in the endorsments and opinions of the local editorial pages.
But one has to wonder about the state of, and reasoning behind, current local political endorsements.
Posted on Thursday, May 15 at 11:13pm | By Carla Marinucci
Maybe it was fitting that California’s two Republican gubernatorial candidates, Neel Kashkari and San Bernardino County Assemblyman Tim Donnelly, held their first and only debate in the equivalent of a clown car — a shock jock radio show.
Wednesday, May 14, 214 – 09:00 a.m.
As previously discussed here. Los Angeles news outlets have started coverage of the unfolding investigation into deputy-on-prisoner abuse allegations at San Bernardino County jail facilities.
To view the news feed from Los Angeles-based KNBC TV-4, click the following link:
Federal Lawsuit: San Bernardino County Deputies “Tortured” Inmates
Thursday, May 1, 2014 – 08:20 a.m.
San Bernardino County Deputy District Attorney and candidate, Grover Merritt, was a guest on the Lou Desmond Show on KTIE-AM 590, Wednesday evening (4/30).
The 30-minute segment was fast paced. Also participating in the discussion was Ralph Rossum, Professor of Criminal and Constitutional Law at Claremont McKenna College.
To listen to the podcast, click the here.
Corina Knoll
April 30, 2014, 7:50 p.m.
Months after it unsuccessfully sought to stop the Los Angeles Times from publishing information gleaned from officers’ personnel files, a union representing Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies has been ordered to pay the newspaper more than $41,000 in legal fees.
Posted: 04/16/14, 4:48 PM PDT |
Four Los Angeles News Group staff members were honored with two prestigious Sigma Delta Chi awards Wednesday for excellence in journalism.
By Kevin Roderick | April 14, 2014 1:10 AM
The Orange County Register on Sunday published a staff photo from this week’s new addition to the Los Angeles County newspaper scene — the LA Register, due Wednesday — and a story detailing some of the plans: 50-60 pages weekdays, 80-90 pages on Sundays, with Register sports coverage and a staff of 40 covering news in the Los Angeles area. The paper will be sold in 5,500 retail locations, the OCR story says, “including grocery and convenience stores and on news racks. The paper will cost $1.50 weekdays and $2 on weekends. Home delivery is expected to begin in May.” The story is outside the pay wall — as I have to assume LA coverage will be, at least at first.
By Walter Hamilton and Jim Puzzanghera
April 11, 2014, 10:42 p.m.
Tribune Co.’s newspaper unit will pay a dividend of up to $275 million to its parent when it is spun off later this year, according to a government filing.
March 18, 2014
Got something you want to ask Democratic congressional candidate Eloise Gomez Reyes? MSNBC wants to help you out.
The cable network with a liberal-leaning reputation is seeking questions for Gomez Reyes, one of four Democrats in the 31st Congressional District race.
To read entire story by Jeff Horseman in The PE Political Empire Blog, click here.
March 02, 2014 3:37 PM
Staff Reports
NEW YORK • The Daily Press, the Desert Dispatch and a handful of local weekly newspapers have been sold to New Media Investment Group, the largest owner of newspapers in the country.
By Catherine Saillant
February 22, 2014, 7:35 p.m.
NBC correspondent Maria Shriver said she sees no need to step down from her news job while campaigning for her brother, Bobby Shriver, a candidate for the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors.
Wednesday, Fenruary 19, 2014 – 04:15 p.m.
Riverside-based Attorney Rajan Maline, one of the criminal defense lawyers in the well-publicized Colonies case, will be a guest on the Lou Desmond Show, this evening from 06:30 – 07:00 p.m.
By Gregory J. Wilcox, Los Angeles Daily News
Posted: 02/13/14, 9:19 PM PST | Updated: 10 hrs ago
The $45.2 billion merger of Comcast Corp. and Time Warner Cable, the nation’s two biggest cable providers, will likely draw an intense review from federal regulators, while TWC customers could see new technology and improved service, officials said Thursday..
Tuesday, February 4, 2014 – 10:15 a.m.
Salem Broadcasting owned and operated radio station KTIE-AM 590 (San Bernardino) has picked up the Rush Limbaugh Show.
January 15, 2014; 10:35 PM
The new owners of The Press-Enterprise announced plans Wednesday to lay off 39 back-office, newsroom, information technology and production workers as part of a restructuring of Inland Southern California’s largest daily newspaper.
To read storyby Mary Ann Milbourn in The Press-Enterprise, click here.
December 27, 2013, 07:49 am
By Peter Sullivan
A new CNN poll finds that New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton are essentially tied in a potential 2016 presidential matchup.
December 26th, 2013 – 09:00 AM ET
Posted by CNN Political Editor Paul Steinhauser
Washington (CNN) – Democrats have lost their advantage and Republicans now have a slight edge in the battle for control of Congress, according to a new national poll.
Sunday, December 22, 2013 – 12:00 p.m.
The holiday news cycle slow down is in full swing.
By Andrea Chang
December 12, 2013, 8:32 p.m.
Freedom Communications Inc., the owner of the Orange County Register, is crossing the northern border once again, this time to launch the Los Angeles Register sometime next year.
UTC | NJ Congressional Connection Poll Coverage
By Peter Bell
December 6, 2013
A majority of Republican and Republican-leaning men, 53 percent, would be “very pleased” or “somewhat pleased” if legislation requiring universal background checks on all gun sales was passed by Congress and signed by the president, according to the latest United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll.
By Ryan Faughnder
December 5, 2013, 10:00 a.m.
Rush Limbaugh’s radio tirades will have a new home on Los Angeles airwaves next year.
By Jim Romensko
Tuesday, December 3, 2013
In late November, Aaron Kushner’s Freedom Communications bought the Riverside Press-Enterprise from A.H. Belo. The new owner on Monday dismissed P-E editor Nels Jensen, who tells his Facebook friends that “I understand his decision” and “I am oddly at peace with this.” Mike Coronado, an Orange County Register editor and former P-E reporter, replaces Jensen.
To read the post, click here.
Surveillance
Defends paper’s role in publishing Edward Snowden leaks
By Denver Nicks – @DenverNicks
Dec. 03, 20133 Comments
The Guardian has published only one percent of the leaked documents it received from former NSA contractor and famed leaker Edward Snowden, the newspaper’s editor said Tuesday.
By Alex Roarty
December 2, 2013
More than anything else, voters would be happiest if Congress and President Obama focused on creating jobs, according to the latest United Technologies/National Journal Congressional Connection Poll. And they don’t care if lawmakers use Republican or Democratic ideas to do so.
Monday, December 2, 2013 – 08:45 a.m.
In Monday’s Inland Valley Daily Bulletin:
Ya think?????
By Noel Sheppard | December 1, 2013 | 12:04
A really funny thing happened Sunday morning when the folks at CNN’s New Day tried to open a health insurance account at the newly upgraded ObamaCare website.
To read entire post, click here.
November 22, 2013
Mike Burns, senior vice president of sales at the Orange County Register, has been named publisher of The Press-Enterprise, Freedom Communications owner Aaron Kushner announced.
To read story by Debra Gruszecki in The Press-Enterprise, click here.
Saturday, November 23, 2013 – 10:30 a.m.
The deal for Freedom Communications to purchase The Press-Enterprise newspaper, from A.H. Belo, finally closed this week, following a short delay.
November 21, 2013
The sale of The Press-Enterprise to the company that owns the Orange County Register, a deal that appeared to have bogged down as recently as a few days ago, has been completed, representatives of both sides said.
To read story by Jack Katzanek in The Press-Enterprise, click here.
November 18, 2013; 05:09 PM
The sale of The Press-Enterprise to the Orange County Register’s owner, which was expected to be completed Friday, has still not closed and the company that owns Inland Southern California’s largest newspaper announced it could be exploring other options.
To read story by Jack Katzanek in The Press-Enterprise, click here.
By Ken Bensinger
November 5, 2013, 8:18 a.m.
A deal to sell the Riverside Press-Enterprise to the owner of the Orange County Register may be in jeopardy less than a month after it was announced.
Valleywide publisher accused of ‘explicit’ comments, advances
October 24, 2013 5:59 PM
Shea Johnson, Staff Writer
VICTORVILLE • Two lawsuits allege that the publisher of the Valleywide Newspaper group made sexual advances toward an employee and punished another who spoke out, court records show.
Sunday, October 20, 2013 – 10:30 a.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, October 24, 2013 – 09:10 a.m.
Would a local newpaper interfere with story content, in order to shill for a local politico?
It sure sounds that way!
Thursday, October, 17, 2013 – 08:45 a.m.
Inland Empire politicos have to be choking over their breakfast this morning.
Why you ask?
October 10, 2013 7:14 AM
By MARY ANN MILBOURN, ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER
Freedom Communications Inc. on Thursday announced an agreement to purchase The Press-Enterprise in Riverside, a daily newspaper owned by Dallas-based A.H. Belo Corp., for $27.25 million. The deal is expected to close by mid-month.
Saturday, October, 5, 2013 – 09:00 a.m.
FOX News has, once again, dominated cable news in the latest ratings sweeps. CNN’s somewhat ideological shift, from the left to the middle, has not helped the struggling network.
CABLE NEWS VIEWERSHIP
Thursday, October 3, 2013
Tuesday, October 1, 2013 – 09:30 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, Octobr 2, 2013 – 08:45 a.m.
The emails and calls were flying Tuesday morning, following a major revision by The Sun newspaper, of a story penned by Reporter Joe Nelson, and published in Tuesday’s edition.