The Hill’s cable provider, Time Warner Cable, is merging with Comcast Corporation. The TWC board agreed to the sale on Feb. 12. This $45.2 billion transaction unites the nation’s two biggest cable providers. Comcast has 22 million customers and with TWC’s 11 million subscribers, the new firm will have 33 million cable subscribers. But Comcast…

Proposition 4, on the November ballot as an initiated state statute, authorizes the state to sell $1.5 billion in general obligation bonds for the construction, expansion, renovation and equipping of certain hospitals in the state that treat children. This is the third bond measure in 14 years dedicated to children’s hospitals in California. The previous…

At its Dec. 12, 2023, meeting, the county board of supervisors asked thechief executive and Cal Fire to develop a strategy to alleviate theshortage of firefighter II/paramedics vacancies in the Riverside CountyFire Department (RCFD). This was approved without any discussion and the board expected a reportwith recommendations for a solution to be given to its…