Proposition 52, “State Fees on Hospitals. Federal Medi-Cal Matching Funds. Initiative Statutory and Constitutional Amendment,” is fairly straightforward in its objectives but a bit complicated in its verbiage. Simply put, it aims to prevent the 2018 expiration of an existing hospital fee that helps fund Medi-Cal health care to low-income Californians, seniors, children and adults…
Editor: The Second Amendment to the Constitution states: “A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to bear Arms, shall not be infringed.” The Second Amendment has been supported by the United States Supreme Court as an individual right to own a gun. If a…
Dr. Martin Luther King would be very disappointed about the latest riots in Milwaukee. We’re going back in understanding and helping each other. Who are the rioters and what do they want? The dear Lord must’ve known why he made blacks black and whites white. Underneath the skin we’re all the same. I’ve been called…
Editor: It has come to my attention that a few other people, other than myself, have had problems with outrageous Idyllwild Water District bills. I am a part-timer. I work in Los Angeles. When I can, I enjoy time in my Idyllwild cabin. For over 50 years, the water bill averaged $28. And in this…
Editor: I am so lucky that I work for a water district who has a manager who is not afraid to tell the truth, and is not afraid to say, “I made a mistake” I get to witness how the customers are treated, how situations are handled and how everything that is done is done…
I often say we work as hard as we can to produce a quality newspaper only to have a printer off the Hill drop the quality as soon as it rolls the machine. We may end up with blotches of ink, poor color and generally bad-quality printing. And now, with the retirement a few weeks…
Last month, Covered California announced its rates for health insurance in 2017 with some health plans intending to expand into new areas this year. This will provide more competition for state health insurance consumers. The statewide weighted average change will be 13.2 percent, up from 4 percent in 2016 and 4.2 percent in 2015. Inland…
Before the Idyllwild Water District meeting ended last week, General Manager Tom Lynch gave the directors a report with the monthly flow from each well used between July 2015 through July 2016. This was in response to Director Steve Kunkle’s questioning. He was absent from this meeting. Earlier in the meeting, Lynch reported on the…
At the Idyllwild Water District last week, the directors approved expanding the salary schedule from 10 to 14 steps. No other action was taken, but General Manager Tom Lynch and the board did discuss water conditions. At the July meeting, the board had approved this salary action for just the wastewater supervisor’s position. At this…
Idyllwild Water District Director June Rockwell asked General Manager Tom Lynch during the public meeting of Aug. 16 whether he indeed had taken and failed the T2 exam three times. Lynch said he would not discuss the matter publicly. Even after the story has been published online by the TC and in print in its…
