Riverside County Sheriff Stan Sniff’s re-election effort is encountering strong opposition from several within his department. The first opposition was Lt. Chad Bianco’s announcement of his intent to re challenge Sniff. He had been easily beaten in the 2014 race; but that result did not deter him from entering the race this year. The 2014…

Editor’s note: This is from a Riverside County press release. If you paid a smaller tax bill in recent years because the Riverside County Assessor lowered your property value to match slumping real estate prices during the recession, you might see more than the typical 2-percent maximum increase on this year’s bill. Under Proposition 13,…

Proposition 45 proposes to give the California insurance commissioner the right to approve changes to health insurance rates or “anything else affecting the charges associated with health insurance,” according to the proposition. It provides for public notice, disclosure and hearings on health insurance rate changes as well as subsequent judicial review. It also requires sworn…

Both propositions 65 and 67 deal with the subject of plastic bags but in opposing ways. If both pass, depending on which proposition receives the highest number of votes, both measures could either coexist or one could render the other moot. Prop 65, called the Environmental Fee Protection Act, proposes to redirect money from 10-cent…