In court, the lawyers involved in the ongoing case involving the future of the Chinatown site in Riverside have stipulated that no trash will be removed and no dirt moved on the property until the next hearing is conducted. If you recall, the city council denied an appeal filed by a local organizati...

"The people who appointed me are the ones who call the shots." ----Community Police Review Commission member, Kenneth Rotker in terms of who he answers to. "I say we move forward with the three OIDs." CPRC Commissioner Art Santore "The reason we're in the charter is precisely so this kind of thing d...

Yes, that was an earthquake in the early morning hours of Nov. 17 and you can discuss it here. It's noted here at the United States Geological Survey's earthquake site. It was 4.1 and felt over a wide region of Riverside County. The earth kept quaking later into the morning with this 3.8 quake at 9:...

In a landslide victory, Barack Obama became the first Black president in United States history. As night fell, many local and state elections remained undecided. "And what I see upon reviewing the paper work is that there seems to be some confusion about whether or not this commission is a review co...

"They could start coming in and not knowing who the players are, the members of the gangs, they could start pulling over kids who dress like gang members but (who) have no relation at all to gangs." ---Former Riverside Police Department Area Commander and Eastside Think Tank member, Alex Tortes to t...

Summer is here! The annual tradition of 100+ degree days has hit the city. We'll see cooler weather again in about six months. At the county administrative headquarters in Riverside, members of the local Universalist Unitarian Church are handing out flowers and cake to celebrate same sex couples who...

"They will have to tear it out of my hands" --- Gerry Douglass who owns Aamco Transmissions about his planned response to the Redevelopment Agency's plan to use Eminent Domain on his business to hand it off to developers. Sentiments are very mixed among downtown business owners about the controversi...

An interesting thing happened at the Cultural Heritage Board meeting yesterday. You see, in a Press Enterprise article on the controversial Fox Plaza project scheduled to be completed downtown sometime during this century, it appeared that the only people commenting for the most part were those who ...

The Riverside City Council meeting was a done deal in more ways than one, but for one thing it clocked in at less than 90 minutes in length last night. Some meetings have clocked in at under an hour in recent months. Remember when the city council actually held meetings? Now, instead of discussion i...

Another independent bookstore in Riverside bites the dust? In the wake of the closures of Imagine That! and Ananda at the Canyon Crest Town Center and the uncertain future of the Downtown Book Store, it's hard to believe that the city's business sector is really in such good hands. Not that it's eas...