Archive for June, 2008
Rancho Cucamonga Featured on PBS Program Thursday Evening The News Hour with Jim Lehrer
Jeffrey Kaye reports on how one California community, Rancho Cucamonga, is feeling the impact of problems in the national economy.
If you missed the program last night on the plight of the economy in Rancho Cucamonga click on the image to play a streaming video of the program.
Rancho locals featured in the program are; JOHN [...]
Posted: June 27th, 2008 under At Large, City RC.
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AB 2076 Passed the Assembly, What Next No Drivers Licenses Allowed?
AB 2076 Opposed by Sen. Dutton of Rancho Cucamonga. Prohibiting the use of the only verification system available to employers to check for fraudulent documentation.
This is hard to believe that on the one hand we want to hold employers responsible for only hiring document workers and at the same time prohibit them from using [...]
Posted: June 26th, 2008 under State Govt.
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Mark Leggo contributed $5,000 to Mayor Kurth Campaign in 2007
Campaign contributions and expenditures for political campaigns are public record, reported regularly in California on Form 460. The financial reporting requirement for political campaigns is detailed on the California Form 460 found here:
Reports state the preceding six months activity.
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Diane [...]
Posted: June 23rd, 2008 under City Council, City RC.
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McCain Addresses the Price of Oil and Gasoline Head On
Will anyone listen to straight talk if it’s not what they want to hear? McCain addresses the price of oil and gasoline head on.
McCain has taken the brave but dangerous path of telling us what we need to know. Oil may well be $200.00 a barrel, with gasoline at $7.00 a gallon, if we do [...]
Posted: June 18th, 2008 under Election 2008, US Federal Elections.
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Gasoline Prices will Continue to Rise Despite the Politicians Claims
The State and Local Government are taking $0.70 from the $4.43 you pay at the pump. Add another $0.18 for the Federal government and that $0.88 a gallon.
The democrats rail against the big oil companies who produce, refine and deliver product to the gas pump. Democrats propose windfall profit taxes on these companies. To what [...]
Posted: June 13th, 2008 under Election 2008, Federal US govt, State Elections.
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Home Foreclosures in Rancho Cucamonga, No Neighborhood left untouched
Yahoo Real Estate sites 1582 properties in some stage of foreclosures in Rancho Cucamonga. Visit this site and see the home in your neighborhood mapped and in foreclosure. This is a very sobering view of the condition of the local real estate market.
It may well be some time before this glut of homes are [...]
Posted: June 11th, 2008 under City RC, Rancho Real Estate.
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Rancho Cucamonga City Councilors Looking to Move On
Mayor Don Kurth, Rex Gutierrez, and Dennis Michael all look to be on the move in 2010. The campaigning will start soon with fund raising already begun for the assembly seat expected to be vacated by Assemblyman Bill Emmerson.
Rex is a little more candid about his intentions to run for the 63rd [...]
Posted: June 10th, 2008 under City Council, State Elections.
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Hillary Clinton Ends her Presidential Campaign Today, Endorses Obama
The show is over for the time being in the Democratic Party race for the nomination. Now comes the sequel, with the Vice Presidency spot to be filled. The temptation will be to put Hillary Clinton on the ticket to bring her democratic base along in November. The party split between the conventional base wishing [...]
Posted: June 3rd, 2008 under Election 2008, US Federal Elections.
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