Last Week, Rep. Raul Ruiz, M.D. (CA-36) introduced legislation to ensure public servants do not use their position to make a profit off the people they serve. The Ruiz Ethics Package includes three separate bills — the Campaign Spending Integrity Act, the Public Service Spending Integrity Act and the Public Service Transparency Act. “People…
Hemet Unified School District’s S.A.F.E. and Zone Middle School Expanded Learning Program (formerly known as After School Program), announces the registration window for the 2017-18 school year. The S.A.F.E. program operates at all elementary sites and “The Zone” at middle schools in HUSD. All HUSD Expanded Learning programs operate each day school is in session…
During 2016, the state Legislature passed and Gov. Jerry Brown signed hundreds of new laws. While some were effective immediately and some will not go into effect until 2018 or 2019, most were effective Jan. 1, 2017. Below is a small sampling of the new laws and rules with which we have to comply. Minimum…
In 2012, voters approved Proposition 30, a temporary rise in California sales tax to fund education initiatives. With voter approval, the sales tax rose from 7.25 percent to 7.50 percent. That temporary sales and use tax imposed by Prop 30 expires on Saturday, Dec. 31, 2016. As a result, effective Sunday, Jan. 1, 2017, the…
Cal Fire is now reporting a fire near Fobes Ranch Road in Garner Valley. EDITED 2016-11-14: The “Wildfire” turned out to be merely a campfire.
The U.S. Forest Service is reporting a 1/4-acre fire along the Webster Trail, about 150 yards west of Red Hill Truck Trail, not far from Acorn Lane in the southwest corner of Pine Cove. USFS transmissions indicate there is an unoccupied vehicle at the fire location, and law enforcement units have been requested. The vehicle,…
About 940,000 sample ballots and information pamphlets have started going out to Riverside County voters for the general election on Nov. 8. The initial sample-ballot mailing process began late last week and will be complete by Oct. 11. The Registrar of Voters recommends that voters review the materials before casting an official ballot. These will…
The need to modify the U.S. Forest Service’s budget process so that the cost of fighting wildfires does not jeopardize funding for other programs has reached another level. On Oct. 4, White House Director of the Office of Management of Budget, the federal budget czar, was at the Angeles National Forest to share in a national…
For the fourth time in five years, California voters are being asked to weigh in on the earlier release of certain prisoners, in this case, those convicted of “non-violent crimes.” Proposition 57, titled “The Public Safety and Rehabilitation Act of 2016,” would consider certain state-prison inmates convicted of non-violent felony offenses for release earlier than…
Alarmed at the occurrence of hundreds of earthquakes last week, only three greater than 4.0 in magnitude near the Salton Sea, state and federal geologists and seismologists issued a warning of an increased possibility of a bigger quake on the San Andreas Fault. A swarm of nearly 300 quakes occurred near the southern terminus of…
