Proposition 46, the Medical Malpractice Lawsuits Cap and Drug Testing of Doctors Initiative, also known as the Troy and Alana Pack Patient Safety Act of 2014, is the result of a personal family tragedy in which two children, walking with their mother to get ice cream in their neighborhood after a Halloween party, were killed…
Bryan and Brandy Asch are celebrating REPS Training Mountain Center’s first anniversary on Oct. 15. Windean Dahleen’s Idyology restaurant opens at 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 15, in the former Creek House location in Fern Valley. The comfort cuisine with a global flair is served until 11 p.m. Tuesday to Sunday, with the bar open…
In a second report on truancy throughout the state, California Attorney General Kamala Harris repeats her admonition from last year’s findings that “a truancy crisis continues in California.” “California elementary school students continue to miss school at unacceptably high rates,” Harris said in a press release. “Improvements in education policy are moot if students are…
Proposition 47, alternatively the Reduced Penalties for Some Crimes Initiative or The Safe Neighborhood and Schools Act, seeks to “ensure that prison spending is focused on violent and serious offenses, to maximize alternatives for non-serious, nonviolent crime, and to invest the savings generated from this act into preventing and supporting programs in K–12 schools, victim…
Given the upcoming general election, while Democrats represent 44.3 percent of the registered voters in California, the local registration tilts toward Republicans. Total state registration is higher than four years ago. Republicans are 39.8 percent of total Riverside County registered voters but only 28.2 percent of the statewide electorate. Republican registrants have been declining for…
As expected by many, the governor signed the plastic bag bill on which the Town Crier reported last month. The law will go into effect July 1, 2015, or July 1, 2016, depending on the type of store. As the Town Crier reported, “full-line, self-service retail stores” selling “a line of dry groceries, canned goods,…
