Mary Pimentel receives Excellence Award   The Hemet Unified School District Board of Trustees held its annual meeting at Idyllwild School last week. While no major agenda items were debated during the meeting, Dr. Alex Ballard, director of assessment and accountability, did provide a report to the board on the HUSD results of the spring…

U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, with support from fellow Democrat Sen. Barbara Boxer, last February introduced the California Desert Conservation and Recreation Act of 2015, a bill that amends and updates the historic California Desert Protection Act of 1994. The bill would expand protection for more of the California desert. Besides additional wilderness acreage, wild and…

The boundaries of Riverside County’s five supervisorial districts have been challenged in litigation filed June 14. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed the suit on behalf of Inland Empire United (IEU) and six individuals. The first hearing about the litigation will be Aug. 15 in Riverside. The suit alleges that the redistricting plan the…