May is Motorcycle Safety Awareness month in California. Summer brings more motorcyclists on California roads, according to the California Highway Patrol. Accordingly, CHP and the California Office of Traffic Safety are working together to help reduce motorcycle fatality and injury collisions, and to promote roadway safety through education and awareness. “No matter how you travel…
Improvements but still major quality problems The American Lung Association’s “State of the Air 2017” report cited the Los Angeles region, which includes the Inland Empire, for recently achieving its lowest levels ever for unhealthy ozone days and year-round particle pollution. But the region remains among the most polluted in the country. “Our state’s…
The whole state Legislature was busy last week approving bills to move California’s presidential primary to March. Last week, both the Assembly and the Senate separately approved bills that would move the state primary earlier in presidential election years. The Senate bill would move the presidential primary to the third Tuesday in March and the…
Last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke to review all national monuments established since January 1996 and greater than 100,000 acres. The president has the authority, pursuant to the 1906 Antiquities Act, to protect and preserve public lands through the designation of national monument status. Trump…
In the tailwinds of Washington’s debate over repealing or replacing the Affordable Care Act, Covered California examined how these possible changes may affect premiums for health insurance in California. Not only would repealing the ACA increase costs to individuals insured through Covered California, but the private insurance market also will feel the effects of these…
The Hill is experiencing drift smoke from the 30-acre Opera Fire currently burning out of control in the hills north of the city of Riverside and south of the city of San Bernardino. The fire was reported at 3:34 p.m. Sunday, April 30. Air tankers are working the fire with ground agencies.
The 2018 election is 18 months away, but Democratic Congressman Dr. Raul Ruiz already has $1.3 million available to use. That is only $300,000 less cash than he had in September 2016, six weeks away from the election. The total includes money left over from his 2016 campaign. He has received about $365,000 from individuals…
Editor’s note: This was taken from a Riverside County news release. Riverside County Executive Officer Jay Orr will retire Aug. 31, five years after taking over as the county’s top administrator. Orr helped navigate Riverside County through the tail-end of the nation’s worst recession in more than half a century, and into a slow recovery…
Last week, California Secretary of State Alex Padilla testified in support of moving the California presidential primary back to the third Tuesday of March. Like a child seeking attention, California has been yo-yoing its presidential primary between June and earlier months in order to gain a stronger voice in the choice of the presidential candidates….
Higher sales tax will begin April 1 in several nearby cities where many Hill residents shop. Hemet, Indio, La Quinta, Menifee, Riverside and Temecula will begin applying an 8.75-percent sales tax this weekend, 1 percent more than the current 7.75 percent charge. This is not a Riverside Countywide sales tax increase. It applies only to…
