A special election next Tuesday, May 12 will decide who will represent the 28th district in the state senate in Sacramento. Democrat Elizabeth Romero, who is a Riverside County Board of Education Member, is facing Republican Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez in the run off election. Both candidates say coronavirus has redefined the election. “I’ve never been
Continue ReadingA senior campaign aide has announced that Pete Buttigieg is dropping out of the 2020 presidential primary race. His decision to drop out of the race comes after former Vice President Joe Biden won a crushing victory in the South Carolina primary. Saturday night’s results are re-energizing a Biden campaign that had flagged in the
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Voters may elect a new state senator next week in a special election for the 28th senate district comprising the Coachella Valley and a large chunk of Western Riverside County. Five candidates are in the race and if anyone of them gets 50 percent of the vote plus one, that person will be elected to
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Proposition 13, put on the ballot by the California Assembly, would authorize the state to borrow $15 billion to spend on the state’s public schools. According to the Voter Information Guide, the interest on the bond measure would total $11 billion, for a total taxpayer-funded spending package of $26 billion. The money raised would go
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The first trailers owned by the Federal Emergency Management Agency have already been delivered to the cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco. Now, some of the units are on the way to Riverside County. “Every homeless Californian living on a boulevard of broken dreams is a casualty of institutional failures — a person who
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Desert Hot Springs City Council members today are expected to put the finishing touches on a significant bump in pay for themselves. The council on Jan. 21 voted to more than double the monthly base salaries for council members, representing what would be their first pay raise in 18 years. The ordinance will be read
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A community meeting will be held at the Palm Springs Convention Center Wednesday to give residents an opportunity to suggest how $10 million in state funds for homeless assistance will be spent. “This is the one and only chance for residents to share their input on how these important funds should be spent before the
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New laws signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom taking effect today address topics including minimum wage, hairstyles, taxes on diapers and gun violence. Following are some of the new laws and what they do: Under AB 1482, communities without rent control will now be covered by statewide rent control protections. Rent increases will be limited to
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