One special district — Idyllwild Fire Protection District — is guaranteed an election on Aug. 27. Fern Valley Water District may need one, but the residents in the other two Hill water districts — Idyllwild and Pine Cove — will not need to cast a vote to fill the expiring seats. Only IFPD Commission President…

Add funding for Sheriff and DA The Riverside County Board of Supervisors last week approved a tentative budget for fiscal year 2018-19, which starts July 1. With some debate, no acrimony and a spirit of optimism, the board unanimously approved, with slight changes, the budget, which County Executive Officer George Johnson presented. Expenses still exceeded…

Refunds over caps to payors, including insurance companies Proposition 8 on the November ballot as an initiated state statute seeks to place caps on dialysis treatment costs, requiring dialysis clinics to issue refunds over set caps to treatment payers — insurance companies or patients. The measure has the distinction of being the most expensive on…