Dr. Thomas Kluzak, a retired physician from Wichita and former head of the University of Kansas Medical School’s Pathology Department, spoke Saturday at the Idyllwild Library about a single-payer health insurance system. Kluzak is passionately in favor of a single-payer system. A single-payer system is often referred to a “Medicare for All.” A single public…

The Idyllwild Water District lost two of its five directors in September. Former President James Billman and Director Mike Freitas resigned unexpectedly within the same week. The remaining directors have not been able to appoint replacements because Vice President John Cook prefers to wait and hold an election in March 2017. Regardless of the victors,…

Hearings set for next month Riverside County Executive Officer Jay Orr submitted what may be his final budget recommendation to the Board of Supervisors at its May 9 meeting. In order to fund several major, unplanned and costly issues for fiscal year 2017-18, Orr imposed a 6.5-percent reduction on most county agencies, but not public…