Editor’s note: A separate story discusses the Assembly District races and the Idyllwild Water District Board election. The polls have been closed for two weeks. Most final results are known, but about 46,900 ballots remain to be counted in Riverside County as of 6 pm, Saturday, Nov.16. About 1,100 ballots were counted since Friday. As…
Editor’s note: A separate story discusses the turnout in the November 5 election and the Congressional District 41 race. For the second consecutive election, the race for Assembly District 47 is very close. As of Saturday evening, Nov. 16, incumbent Republican Gregg Wallis leads his Democratic opponent Christy Holstege by 3,900 votes. Wallis took the…
Late Friday, Nov. 9, after a nearly 12-hour meeting, the California Air Resources Board approved changes to the Low Carbon Fuel Standard. While the vote was 12-2, this was a controversial decision, especially in the wake of Gov. Gavin Newsom’s call of a Special Legislative Session to address increasing gasoline prices in the State. The…
Last week, the Riverside County Department of Planning issued a public notice announcing that the application process for Tier 2, Short Term Rental certificates was open for Idyllwild and the Wine Country. The two-page application is available online (https://planning.rctlma.org/sites/g/files/aldnop416/files/2024-11/Riverside%20County%20STR%20Tier%202%20Application.pdf) and must be submitted online by midnight, Sunday, Dec. 1. Tier 1 certificates were awarded last…
Less than 36 hours after the polls closed on the Presidential Election and less than 24 hours after Vice President Kamala Harris conceded the race to former President Donald Trump, on Thursday, Nov. 7, Gov. Gavin Newsom called a Special Session of the State’s Legislature to convene on Dec. 2. Its purpose is to prepare…
The polls have been closed for a week. The preliminary and most final results are known for many races. But many ballots remain to be counted. As of 6 p.m., Saturday, the Riverside County Registrar of Voters reported that 732,722 ballots had been counted, which represents 53.4% of registered voters in the County. However, another…
On Friday morning, Nov. 8, someone sent a message indicating the presence of a bomb in the office of the County’s Registrar of Voters. This office is in Moreno Valley. The Riverside County Sheriff’s Department was immediately notified, and the building was swiftly evacuated. The evacuation, which included both the public and staff, was completed…
On Wednesday, Oct. 30, Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order intended to mitigate utility rate increases and possibly find ways to reduce these rates. In his order, Newsome directed four different agencies, all of whom have some role in overseeing state utilities, to investigate possible efforts to help utility customers save money in the…
At their Sept. 10 meeting, the Board of Supervisors approved the creation of an Ad Hoc Committee to encourage and to aid continuous improvement of the Transportation and Land Management Agency’s Planning Department. The Committee met on Sept. 26 and a month later the whole Board supported their recommendation for additional staff. At the Board’s…
Renovating and improving the facilities at the County’s Ben Clark Training Center opened an extended discussion on the larger funding needs that the County will encounter in the near future. The specific action item was approval of $5 million for the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department to undertake the next step in identifying the appropriate improvements…
