Editor’s note: This is from a press release Jose Arballo Jr., senior public information specialist, Riverside University Health System-Public Health, provided last week. Thomi Clinton is not surprised when she hears that three-quarters of those who responded to a survey of transgender individuals in the Inland Empire have seriously considered suicide. “The pressure on those…

Two unions — Laborers’ International Union of North America, Local 777, and Service Employees International Union, Local 721 — represent about two-thirds of Riverside County’s 22,000 employees. Their agreements with the county expired in 2016. Negotiations between the county and the two unions have not resulted in mutually acceptable agreements. Last week, the Board of…

While the light at the end of the tunnel will continue to glow and flicker in 2018, incandescent light bulbs will cease to be the source of that brightness. As of Jan. 1, light bulbs — the screw-based bulbs — must meet a new minimum, energy-efficient standard. The California standards, which apply to the common…

Congressman Dr. Raul Ruiz will likely have to face at least three challengers in the June primary and one of them in the November 2018 election. Last week, soap opera actress Kimberlin Brown Pelzer announced her entry into the Congressional race. She was a featured speaker at the 2016 Republican Convention. She was in “The…