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| UCR toxicologist defends pesticides | Seattle PI | | 2008-03-05 |
| Riverside Cement Company to spend $395 million replacing kilns and pay fine because of air quality violations | US EPA | | 2008-03-05 |
| Cathedral City medical marijuana dispensary reopens. | Desert Sun | | 2008-03-05 |
| Lennar Corp. posts $1.3 billion loss and prices or new homes drop. | LA Times | | 2008-03-05 |
| Riverside County foreclosures skyrocket -- check for yourself. | foreclosures.com | | 2007-08-15 |
| Secretary of State withdraws Approval/Conditional Approval of electronic voting machines (several similar documents, this one on Sequoia). | secretary of state | | 2007-08-09 |
| Andrew Gumbel: "Everyone who cares about American democracy should raise a toast -- or a hat, or a loud cheer -- to California's Secretary of State, Debra Bowen, a politician who has somehow resisted the pressure of special-interest lobbyists, campaign fundraisers, and the rest of whole dubious cabal surrounding modern politics and actually done the job of representing the people who elected her to office." | Andrew Gumbel:Huffington Post | | 2007-08-09 |
| A stake through the heart of e-voting? | The Californian | | 2007-08-05 |
| 39 California Counties\' Vote Systems in Question | truthout | LA Times | 2007-08-05 |
| Riverside County finances - CAFR | County of Riverside | | 2007-02-23 |
| Riverside City's annual budget analysis - CAFR | City of Riverside | | 2007-02-23 |
| Why Independent Testing Labs Aren't | Black Box Voting /Bev Harris | | 2007-02-23 |
| Deceptive Fix | Bruce O'Dell | | 2007-02-23 |
| E-voting -- Lou Dobbs on YouTube | Lou Dobbs/CNN/YouTube | | 2007-02-11 |
| Sequoia machines hacked | bradblog | | 2007-02-10 |
| Sycamore-Highlands activist group | Sycamore-Highlands | | 2007-01-31 |
| Efforts to privatize postal service - background report (relates to DHL) | ryans | | 2007-01-31 |
| Economic data for Riverside-San Bernardino-California area | economy in a can | | 2006-12-24 |
| Riverside jobs data from 2005 | economy in a can | | 2006-12-24 |
| Need for teachers brings students to Cal-State San Bernardino | San Bernardino Sun | | 2006-12-24 |
| Riverside schools benefit from state education bonds | Press-Enterprise | | 2006-12-24 |
| Despite Orange County "fastrak lanes" debacle, Governor Shrwarzenneger plan for more privatized toll roads, including in Riverside. | http://www.sacbee.com/111/story/97425.html | | 2006-12-24 |
| Riverside has an international organization -- Amalgamated Order of Real Bearded Santas | North County Times | | 2006-12-24 |
| Nostalgia - Once there was a Santa Claus Village in the San Bernardino Mountains. | ktla | | 2006-12-24 |
| Women are silent casualties of the war on drugs | north county times/californian | | 2006-12-23 |
| Norco struggles to preserve its equine identity | horse.com | | 2006-12-23 |
| The Cheesecake Factory opens in Riverside, California | retail insider | | 2006-12-22 |
| election ballot irregularities cost Dem. the race in Fl-13, according to ES&S expert. | TPM Muckraker | | 2006-12-22 |
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OrangeCrest -
12-10-06 -- BOO! HISS! DISBAND THE CIF! (Okay, we over dramatize, but 10-2 Canyon Country over 14-0 JW North for
the California Division 1 High School football championships???
OCC says ... "Da system must be rigged ..." (Okay, we could just go with the ratings system, found here ... Maybe the rest of the Ivy League needs to put up more of a fight ...)
12/7/06
Ahmadinejad's 11/29/06 letter to the American People. CNN
12/6/06 (archived) --
CCAEJ Voter's Guide (pdf)
Proposition Recommendations (WhateveritisImAgainstIt)
OrangeCrest - 10/24/06 -- Airplane, Airplane, Airplane, Garbage Truck, Garbage Truck ... It Must Be Tuesday
10/24/06 (archived) --
9/16/06
Rail Traffic to double by 2025 (
Desert Sun)
San Bernardino County Dist. Atty. Mike Ramos and Riverside Sheriff Bob
Doyle issued badges to members of three groups that donated more than
$150,000 to the political campaigns of Baca, Ramos and Doyle, campaign
records show, leading some to question whether the badges and
credentials were issued as political favors. (
LA Times)
RD Olson sells University Towers (
Business Wire)
9/15/06
9/14/06
Cocaine Airways and Iran-Contra? El Toro, March & Other locations? (
OC Weekly)
LA Times Profiles Riverside Christian Rock Musician Jason Martin (
LA Times)
Watch the Vote Disappear -- Princeton Researchers Hack Diebold Voting Machine in 30 secs. (
Princeton)
Jane Block, Penny Newman, Terry Wold and other environmentalists to question local leaders in environmental panel Thursday
(Press-Enterprise)
9/13/06 -- Riverside has highest "gross rents" for retail property in the nation.
(RIS Media)
9/12/06 -- Students admitted Free to Perris USAC/CRA sprint car races September 16, "Back to School Night"
(WhoWon)
9/10/06 -- "Officials from Riverside and Orange Counties agreed on a plan Friday to
take soil samples from the mountains, the first step to see if an
11-mile tunnel could be constructed connecting Interstate 15 in Corona
to the Foothill-Eastern Tollway in Irvine." (several paragraphs down in:
State Briefs -- Monterey Herald.com) See also
CBS2,
KESQ
9/10/06 -- Project Censored lists the top 25 censored news stories for 2006
9/10/06 -- AQMD loosens restrictions on power plant emissions in the inland area. (Press Enterprise)
9/10/06 -- How UCR minds its hazardous waste.
(Greenbiz.com)
9/10/06 - UCR psychology professor Howard Friedman talks about "making the most of your charisma."
Hartford Courant
9/10/06 -- UCR chemist Kerry Hanson says her research shows sunscreen should be reapplied every two hours ...
medindia.com
9/10/06 -- "Officials from Riverside and Orange Counties agreed on a plan Friday to
take soil samples from the mountains, the first step to see if an
11-mile tunnel could be constructed connecting Interstate 15 in Corona
to the Foothill-Eastern Tollway in Irvine."
State Briefs -- Monterey Herald.com
8/30/06
Jerry Lewis scandal video -- (UNC-TV / YouTube)
8/25/06 -- Gas Company to sponsor "Greening of Riverside County" (Primezone Newswire)
8/25/06 -- More about the Congresman Jerry Lewis - Lowery Lobbyist Circus (PBS - Now)
8/24/06
8/24/06--if you haven't before, check out the "
article indexes",
where there are a lot of resources. We've been building this for
awhile, but just discovered the "frames" had not been made public!"
OrangeCrest 8/24/06 -- Riverside's wealth of City info and data -- if
you have been looking for Riverside's budget, city council agenda,
municipal manual and a wealth of other info, it's all online and
you can find it here.
Note -- some operations require Internet Explorer instead of
Firefox. For instance, if you want to convert and download most
documents to PDF, you will need to use Internet Explorer.
OrangeCrest - 8/24/06 -- Forum / classifieds / etc. is fixed (I think). We
discovered that the style sheet for the forums did not actually allow
people to subscribe to the forum! (That is why this is called an
"alpha test".) But if you wanted to join to add discussion,
recommend a link or place a classified ad, you can do so now.
Please note:
As stated in the forum "rules", this is not an anonymous forum.
Treat it like "letters to the editor," please.
When you register,
to filter out spammers, etc., we will receive a "please approve"
e-mail. If you haven't provided accurate registration
information, we will write and ask you for more info, and then
authorize your participation on the board.
8/23/06
8/22/06
8//22/06 -- Maric College Moves to former Marketplace Theatre (CBS2.com)
8/22/06 -- Knee-jerk
Republicans - Assemblyman John Benoit (R-Riverside County) votes
against bipartisan bill to legalize industrial hemp (SFGate.com)
8/15/06 -- Corona Dump to receive 600 tons of Los Angeles trash per day (AP/San Luis Obispo.com)
8/15/06 -- State Assemblyman Ray Haynes castigates Riverside's "environuts" for 1980 "no growth" initiative. (The One Republic)
8/15/06 -- Band "Eclipse" making video at Lake Alice Trading Co. (Press-Enterprise)
8/15/06 -- Farmer workers could benefit from van pool (quoting Supervisor Roy Wilson - Desert Sun)
8/15/06 -- Change in carrots pest management may mean less air pollution -- based on UCR research (Western Farm Press)
8/5/06 -- Riverside most polluted in world, behind Jakarta, Calcutta and Bangkok (New American Media)
8/5/06 -- Journal
of Pediatrics releases study confirming air pollution in Southern
California is implicated in infant respiratory deaths
8/3/06 -- Artist Exhibit in Riverside examines "What we Think Now" about Iraq
8/3/06 - Carlsbad -Oceanside Art League calls for art entries from Riverside, San Diego and Orange Counties
8/3/06 - Lt. Governor Candidate opposes Riverside-Orange County tunnel
8/306 - Riverside energy consultant E. Seth Wilson quoted in nationwide article on natural gas prices
8/3/06 - Belrays, band formed in Riverside in the '90s, plays in Australia
8/3/06 -- Riverside DA argues that wrongly convicted man's innocence is "irrelevant" in claim for damages (Napa Valley Register)
8/3/06 -- 3 million fish die in Salton Sea (Desert Sun)
8/3/06 -- Commission on Judicial Performance charges Judge Spitzer with back dating orders and other misconduct (Metropolitan News)
8/3/06 -- State and Local Officials to Meet in Riverside to Discuss Global Warming (KESQ -- ABC news Channel 3, Desert)
8/3/06 -- Fitch Rates Riverside's Lease Revenue Certificates (relating to public improvements at Tyler mall) A+ (Business Wire)
8/3/06 - Six Apart / Live Journal -- No Safeguards, No Response
7-27-06 -- Tesla Motors - Nice electric car, too bad we can't afford it ...
911 Truth Symposium on CSPAN (for 3rd time) Tuesday 8/1/06 3:10 p.m. (or watch it here...)
OrangeCrest, July 11, 2006 -- Group claims Riverside County
voting is, "Expensive,
Insecure, Illegal, Unqualified and Unaudited (word document)" -- see the report and the OCC page on Riverside County voting.
OrangeCrest, July 6, 2006 -- Judge Holmes overturns County
approval of 425 home development in Mira Loma
6-29-06 -- Copeland-Lowery
lobbying firm failed to report $2M in fees
OrangeCrest, June 19, 2006 -- Voter Right's Group
Issues "No Confidence" Press Release on recent San Diego vote.
More
on the Riverside Voting Issue.
6-28-06 -- Review of Los Angeles 9-11 Symposium -- panel discussion run on CSPAN 6-28-06
OrangeCrest, June 28, 2006 -- OCC Report -- A380 Airbus and other transportation subsidies. Money well spent?
6/28/06 -- Culture of Corruption is Real
OrangeCrest, June 24, 2006 -- What's up with the Riverside
City library? Missing trustees, expired terms, lack of
publicly
available minutes and arbitrarily restrictive usage rules ...
OrangeCrest, June 19, 2006 -- Voter Right's Group Issues "No
Confidence" Press Release on recent San Diego vote.
6/14/06 / OrangeCrest, CA -- Riverside Press-Enterprise runs
exclusive article (local section front page) about
CAREE complaint to California Attorney General Bill Lockyer.
CAREE gives response and further details, including link to
the
complaint letter.
How
the 2008 vote was stolen (Buzzflash/Greg Palast 6-13-06).
6/9/06 / OrangeCrest, CA --
Compliance
issues surface regarding Riverside County voting systems.
5-20-06 / Orangecrest, CA
-- Risking
Lives -- The March JPA / March Global Port fuel farm
More March Follies -- the Jeff Hill Lawsuit
6/16/06 -- Report:
Emergency Care in Crisis
6/15/06 -- "1927
Again" -- Saving New Orleans (Greg Palast -- excerpted from
"Armed Madhouse")
6/14/06 -- Bush
sneaking North
American super-state without oversight?
6/10/06 - Zarqawi
6/9/06 -- FBI places more scrutiny on
Ken Calvert and Jerry Lewis
5-20-06 rev.
6/9/06 / Orangecrest, CA --
"Questionable Connections," the growing Ken
Calvert data dump.
6-2-06 -- Largest
labor union in Ontario, Canada votes to boycott Israel
5-26-06
-- Michael Hayden, who has headed the NSA while
it compiled phone data on most Americans, has been confirmed as head of
the CIA. Feinstein
voted "yea" and Boxer failed to vote.
5-26-06
-- No More Enrons -- Negroponte can exempt corps. from reporting
5-25-06
-- Fannie Mae agrees to $400 Million fines
5-25-06 / Orangecrest, CA -- Amelia Earhart Middle School
wins scholastic pentathalon
5-25-06 --
The CIA, the DC 9 and the underreported 5.5 Ton Cocaine Bust in Mexico
this April
5-25-06
-- ABC reports House
Speaker Dennis Hastert "in the mix" of the Abramoff
corruption scandal
5-24-06
-- More pressure on dollar - Russia to Sell Oil in Rubles
5-23-06 -- Building America's "European Union"
-- Apparently the Border "Wall" will have relatively large gates
5-20-06
-- ABC discloses Foggo-Wilkes Hawaiian Hideout