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Local economy recovering slowly | economy, local, recovering – Victorville Daily Press The Inland Empire gained 17,800 jobs in the first two months of this year compared to the same period in 2011, according to keynote speaker John Husing, a chief economist at the Inland Empire Economic Partnership. And that happened without additional construction jobs, [...]

I was in another one of our local communities today. It was a bright, sunny day, and I was walking down the street. I saw someone putting up some signage for the city, telling pedestrians not to cross the street at that intersection. I was not going that way, but if I had been coming [...]

As you’ve probably noticed, this blog speaks fairly often about policy issues that affect smaller businesses. One of the biggest issues we deal with is education. There are a couple of really big reasons for this. First of all, most of us have children, nephews, nieces, grandchildren, and neighbors going through some level of the [...]

We are beginning the “silly season” a year early. This means that we get to wade through the politicians talking one another down and trying to come up with cute phrases that will fit in a thirty second “sound bite”. I have to admit that I am far from ready to listen to the politicians [...]

I am a proud graduate of our nearby campus of the California State University.  I took Business Administration at CSU San Bernardino (CSUSB).  I was there when the University’s College of Business and Public Administration received AACSB acreditation.  It was a good school then, and it is a good school now. CSUSB has its main [...]

I realize that the entire country is now aware of California’s extraordinary drought conditions.  In our area of Southern California, we already have a desert, so there is a more or less permanent drought going on.  Even so, conditions are quite a bit drier this year than usual. There are plenty of things that we [...]

Shortly after CBS’ Don Imus was fired for his remarks, Clear Channel’s Barbara Stanton was suspended for racially-insensitive comments she made on her radio program. I had heard of neither broadcaster before their respective incidents.  Imus was apparently trying to be funny.  Coverage of the event refers to him as a “shock jock,” so it [...]