Politics, Government & Business in California's Inland Empire
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.
By David G. Savage
September 12, 2013, 2:29 p.m.
WASHINGTON — Journalists and bloggers who report news to the public will be protected from being forced to testify about their work under a media shield bill passed by a Senate committee Thursday.
By JAMES HOHMANN | 8/16/13 5:01 AM EDT Updated: 8/17/13 7:20 AM EDT
BOSTON — The Republican National Committee passed a resolution Friday to bar NBC and CNN from hosting GOP primary debates in 2016 if the networks move forward with their Hillary Clinton projects.
But the vote was not just about Clinton.
Aug 15, 2013, 12:12pm PDT
Annlee Ellingson
Time Warner Cable customers are mad as hell, and they’re not going to take it anymore!
By William Cutting
Wednesday, August 7, 2013 – 04:15 p.m.
The train wreck that is ObamaCare is still hurtling down the tracks. It used to be “out of sight, out of mind” but now its approach is growing closer. We still can’t see it…but we are starting to hear the rumble echoing through the canyons in the distance.
Sunday, August 4, 2013 – 12:00 p.m.
Here’s some news of interest flowing across the transom this week. In case you missed it!
Cummings reportedly running for San Bernardino Mayor
Cliff Cummings, owner of Toyota of San Bernardino, is reportedly running for Mayor of bankrupt San Bernardino.
Greg Cappis, Staff Writer
Posted: 07/29/2013 10:19:17 PM PDT
Redlands Mayor Pete Aguilar has been named one of “50 Politicos to watch 2013″ by the Washington-based news organization, Politico.
By DYLAN BYERS |
7/28/13 7:59 PM EDT
In a major shakeup for the radio industry, Cumulus Media, the second-biggest broadcaster in the country, is planning to drop both Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity from its stations at the end of the year, an industry source told POLITICO on Sunday.
By Anthony York
June 19, 2013, 7:12 p.m.
SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown indicated that he would support protecting public access to government records in a constitutional amendment to be voted on next fall, but still supports temporarily weakening the law that ensures public access to official documents.
Brown’s comments, which came in a statement released Wednesday evening, capped a wild day at the state Capitol, which had lawmakers scrambling to cope with the fallout of last week’s vote to water down the law. At Brown’s urging, both houses approved a measure making local compliance with part of the state’s public records laws optional.
To read entire story, click here.
By Susan Heavey; Additional reporting by David Ingram in Washington and Liana Baker in New York
WASHINGTON | Fri Jun 14, 2013 2:17pm EDT
(Reuters) – A CBS News investigative reporter’s computer was remotely accessed by an unauthorized party several times late last year, the news organization said on Friday, citing an analysis by an outside cyber security firm.
By David G. Savage, Washington Bureau
May 31, 2013, 10:34 p.m.
WASHINGTON — Atty. Gen. Eric H. Holder Jr. and his top Justice Department deputies met with journalists and their lawyers Friday and pledged they would not seek to prosecute reporters under the Espionage Act for reporting and writing stories that may disclose classified information.
By Mark Hosenball
WASHINGTON | Tue May 28, 2013 11:32pm EDT
(Reuters) – Attorney General Eric Holder personally approved a decision to subpoena Fox News telephone records as the Justice Department investigated an unauthorized leak regarding North Korea, officials said on Tuesday.
By AMY CHOZICK
Published: May 26, 2013
News Corporation said on Sunday that it had no record of being notified by the Justice Department nearly three years ago of a subpoena for the telephone records of a reporter at its Fox News cable channel.
May 24, 2013First
Posted by Ryan Lizza
The Obama Administration fought to keep a search warrant for James Rosen’s private e-mail account secret, arguing to a federal judge that the government might need to monitor the account for a lengthy period of time.
Connor Simpson
May 25, 2013
The New York Times reports the Department of Justice investigated national security leaks given to Times reporter David Sanger over his story last year about the Stuxnet virus by pulling all the email and phone records of government officials who communicated with the reporter.
WASHINGTON | Fri May 24, 2013 5:00pm EDT
(Reuters) – The Justice Department said on Friday that senior officials including Attorney General Eric Holder vetted a decision to search an email account belonging to a Fox News reporter whose story on North Korea prompted a leak investigation.
By Ken Dilanian, Washington Bureau
May 20, 2013, 9:15 p.m.
WASHINGTON — The FBI obtained a sealed search warrant to read a Fox News reporter’s personal emails from two days in 2010 after arguing there was probable cause he had violated espionage laws by soliciting classified information from a government official, court papers show.
In an affidavit, an FBI agent told a federal magistrate that the reporter had committed a crime when he asked a State Department security contractor, Stephen Jin-Woo Kim, to share secret material about North Korea in June 2009.
The affidavit did not name the reporter, but Fox News identified him as its chief Washington correspondent, James Rosen. He was not charged, but Kim was indicted on espionage charges in August 2010 and is awaiting trial. He has denied leaking classified information.
The case marks the first time the government has gone to court to portray news gathering as espionage, and Fox News officials and 1st Amendment advocates reacted angrily Monday after the secret warrant was reported by the Washington Post.
“We are outraged to learn today that James Rosen was named a criminal co-conspirator for simply doing his job as a reporter,” said Michael Clemente, Fox News executive vice president of news. “In fact, it is downright chilling. We will unequivocally defend his right to operate as a member of what up until now has always been a free press.”
The development emerged days after the Justice Department notified the Associated Press that the agency used a subpoena last year to obtain phone company records for 20 telephone lines used by more than 100 reporters and editors in three cities. The subpoena was pursuant to a grand jury investigation of an alleged leak of classified information about an Al Qaeda plot to bomb a U.S. aircraft.
Neither Fox News nor the Associated Press was told in advance about the government actions or had a chance to challenge them in court, the usual practice. The government ordered Google not to disclose that it had given the FBI access to Rosen’s Gmail account, and Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia confirmed in a September 2010 ruling that the government did not have to notify Rosen.
To read entire story, click here.
By David G. Savage, Washington Bureau
May 19, 2013, 8:41 p.m.
WASHINGTON — Three years ago, the Obama administration brought criminal charges under the Espionage Act against Thomas Drake, an Air Force veteran and intelligence expert at the National Security Agency in Maryland.
Friday, May 17, 2013 – 11:30 a.m.
Well it’s finally started!
Local newspapers trying to create distance from San Bernardino mayor Pat Morris and company.
By Sean Sullivan
Published: May 14, 2013
More than four dozen media organizations joined forces Tuesday to sharply rebuke the Justice Department for secretly gathering the phone records of Associated Press journalists, calling on the department to promptly return the records and disclose all other pending subpoenas related to the news media.
Shane Goldmacher
May 14 2013, 4:39 PM ET
As three separate scandals – the IRS targeting the tea party, the Justice Department’s phone-records grab from the AP, and Benghazi – erupt simultaneously, congressional Republicans are hoping to fold them into a single narrative of an unaccountable and overreaching White House that cannot be trusted.
As Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., put it colorfully during a Fox News appearance, “This sounds like a president somewhat drunk on power.”
By Chris Megerian
May 13, 2013, 7:11 p.m.
California unions are increasing their opposition to any sale of the Los Angeles Times and other Tribune Co. newspapers to the Koch brothers, urging the City Council to oppose such a deal and planning a protest for Tuesday.
Government secretly probed AP phone records
By Richard A. Serrano, Washington Bureau
May 13, 2013, 9:33 p.m.
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors secretly obtained telephone records from more than 20 lines belonging to the Associated Press and its journalists in an attempt to learn who leaked information on how the CIA thwarted an apparent terrorist plot hatched in Yemen.
By Patrick McGreevy and Chris Megerian
May 8, 2013, 8:21 p.m.
SACRAMENTO — California legislative leaders and 10 public employee unions announced opposition Wednesday to any sale of the Los Angeles Times and other Tribune Co. newspapers to a pair of wealthy brothers who fund conservative causes throughout the country.
By ADAM NAGOURNEY and CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY
Published: May 8, 2013 104 Comments
LOS ANGELES — An effort by two conservative billionaires to take over The Los Angeles Times and seven other newspapers is setting off a firestorm of opposition here. Public employee unions, the leaders of the State Legislature and liberal advocacy groups are moving to block the sale, denouncing it as a threat to public workers and Democratic Party issues.
By DYLAN BYERS
5/5/13 8:42 PM EDT
The Rush Limbaugh Program is considering ending its affiliation agreement with Cumulus Media at the end of this year, a move that would bring about one of the biggest shakeups in talk radio history, a source close to the show tells POLITICO.
By Kathleen Miles
Posted: 04/30/2013 7:03 am
At a Los Angeles Times in-house awards ceremony a week ago, columnist Steve Lopez addressed the elephant in the room.
Speaking to the entire staff, he said, “Raise your hand if you would quit if the paper was bought by Austin Beutner’s group.” No one raised their hands.
By William Cutting
Monday, April 22, 10:30 p.m.
You all are undoubtedly familiar with the Harris Poll/Harris Interactive polling company. They have been around for over 50 years I believe and conduct numerous well known polls. From presidential elections and other assorted public policy issues to the weekly college football poll every fall, they do it all.
By AMY CHOZICK
Published: April 20, 2013 325 Comments
Three years ago, Charles and David Koch, the billionaire industrialists and supporters of libertarian causes, held a seminar of like-minded, wealthy political donors at the St. Regis Resort in Aspen, Colo. They laid out a three-pronged, 10-year strategy to shift the country toward a smaller government with less regulation and taxes.
Posted by Scott Clement
March 27, 2013 at 4:27 pm
A growing number of Americans are not just dissatisfied, but angry at Washington after repeated standoffs over taxes and the deficit have pockmarked the start of President Obama’s second term.
“I’m mad as hell….”
Tuesday, March 26, 2013 – 09:30 a.m.
Did Press Enterprise Columnist Cassie MacDuff get her chain jerked by newspapers editors over her initial column on the arrest of San Bernardino International Airport Developer Scot Spencer?
By Dan Walters
dwalters@sacbee.com
Published: Friday, Mar. 22, 2013 – 12:00 am | Page 3A
The conviction of five former officials of the small Southern California city of Bell on corruption charges this week is a victory for governmental integrity.
By BRIAN STELTER
Published: March 18, 2013
With shorter stories and scarce coverage of politics and government, local television newscasts in the United States, like local newspapers before them, are suffering from “shrinking pains,” according to the Pew Research Center.
By Jill Lawrence
Updated: January 27, 2013 | 12:48 p.m.
January 26, 2013 | 9:23 a.m.
The news that Sarah Palin will no longer be a paid contributor to Fox News puts an exclamation point on the end of an era, or at least a chapter, in U.S. political history. She could land somewhere else, and she still has her Facebook friends, but it’s hard to imagine she’ll find a more visible or influential platform than Fox.
November 27, 2012; 05:50 PM
Capping a long-running battle between open-space advocates and a local broadcaster, San Bernardino County supervisors voted Tuesday, Nov. 27, to allow a radio tower to be built near Wildwood Canyon Park in Oak Glen.
To read story by Imran Ghori in The Press Enterprise, click here.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012 -11:45 a.m.
Undecided voters appear to now be laying down the gauntlet in the race to decide who will be the next President of the United States.
Former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney looks to be consolidating his lead over President Barack Obama in two highly-respected national polls.
Posted by Aaron Blake on October 19, 2012 at 3:03 pm
The presidential race appears to be getting closer just two and a half weeks before voters will cast the deciding ballots.
And more and more, political analysts are suggesting that it’s a very real possibility that nobody will win on Election Day — i.e. the Electoral College vote will wind up knotted at 269.
Saturday, October 20, 2012 – 10:15 a.m.
Here’s some news of interest flowing across the transom this weekend.
Unemployment claims rise sharply
First-time claims for unemployment benefits climbed sharply last week.
Monday, October 15, 2012 – 03:30 p.m.
The shock of the first Presidential Debate has apparently worn off.
Remember that debate where Republican Nominee Mitt Romney performed well and President Barack Obama didn’t show up.
Friday, September 28, 2012 – 06:00 p.m.
It’s becoming quite embarassing for the cable news networks these days.
FoxNews is continuing to build its viewership at the expense of CNN and MSNBC.
September 23, 2012
By DANIEL HALPER
Tonight, CBS aired a 60 Minutes interview with President Obama. But curiously enough, the news magazine show did not air a clip of Obama admitting to interviewer Steve Kroft that some of his campaign ads contain mistakes and that some even “go overboard.”
Official portrait of Barack Obama
Wednesday, August 8, 2012 – Noon
Fox News is set to hit the vast over-the-air Spanish language market August 13.
MundoFox will roll out to a nationwide market covering an estimated seventy-five percent of Spanish speaking television viewers.