Past Stories
Animal Magnetism
Leave it to PETA to ruin a good party. According to The Press-Enterprise, the traveling Ramos Bros. Circus this week was forced to move from its spot in Corona due to complaints from the animal rights activists. They argued tha...
The Fundamentals
Reading may be fundamental, but in Pomona, some feel that right is being threatened for its kids.
Like so many other cities,Pomona is in financial pig crap and has to do a Jason Voorhees on its budget. One set of…
The Condemned
San Bernardino County’s sketchy plan to help homeowners will involve seizing mortgage loans using eminent domain
A trial run of the use of eminent domain law in the Inland Empire will soon allow at least two municipalities to...
Trashy People?
Not even working in Waste Management should justify a foul mouth. In Riverside County, two supervisors allegedly used racist slurs against their employees, according to The Press-Enterprise. The problem doesn’t seem to be lim...
Chain Reaction
Walmart’s “Chain of Greed” screws over warehouse workers and wages, advocates say
An eye-opening report from the National Employment Law Project (NELP) is the latest proof of Walmart’s far-reaching, negative impact on t...
Cop Out
San Bernardino City Attorney Jim Penman
Crime doesn’t pay . . . but defending the San Bernardino Police Department against a buttload of lawsuits apparently does. The City Council recently approved a $300,000 budget increase...
A Child Left Behind
A social worker can’t get her own agency to help her autistic son
Experts estimate that 500,000 young adults with autism will reach adulthood in the next decade, according to media reports. This alarming figure hits close to ...
Ladies Choice
In an age of Snooki and Kathy Griffin, reality TV is in some desperate need of some positive female role models. Luckily, a pair of healthy, kick-ass substitutes have been found. The Oprah Winfrey Network is releasing a brand n...
The Killings
SBPD deals with a city that’s become a war zone
San Bernardino police are super glad May is over. Actually, it’s safe to say that pretty much anyone who lives in the city feels the same way.
It’s because the…
Hole in One
Open space? Soccer stadium? Shopping center? It might be too late to preserve the Riverside Golf Club
It has been almost three years since the closure of the Riverside Golf Club, located on Orange Street just west of the 215&he...
The Naked Truth
Proving once again that the Inland Empire is no cultural wasteland, former Chino Hills High School graduate Jaclyn Swedberg is currently gracing the cover (plus an eight-page pictorial) of Playboy’s June issue. The 21-year-ol...
Real Animal Cruelty
A convicted pet killer is on the loose in San Bernardino County
Inland Empire pet owners have reason to be on heightened alert. Timothy Arie Kooyman, a convicted felon whose crimes include charges of animal cruelty, was recentl...
A Bear Affair
Bears. They’re just like you and me, except with more hair, bigger teeth, retractable claws and potentially homicidal tendencies . . . really hoping this still isn’t like you. In any case, the California Department of Fish ...
Enough is Enough
A Local Day of Action for Education slams UCR’s leadership—as well as budget cuts and tuition hikes
As if things weren’t bad enough for students seeking a higher education in California, the UC system plans to increase tu...
Next Year’s Sunburn
The dates for next year’s Coachella—which will repeat the two-weekend format the music and arts festival established last month—were just announced: April 12-14 and April 19-21. Actually, festival organizers just plan on ...
The Check is in the Mail
Democratic hopeful Amos Young Jr. makes campaign promises—but not the ones you’d think
By all appearances, Amos Jackson Young, Jr. has big plans for the upcoming Democratic National Convention (DNC) that is going to be held...
Observe and Report
In the event of police brutality, Cop Watch IE is here to document everything and protect your rights
A startup group of well informed tech savvy activists has plans to put rogue law enforcement on the beat in Riverside under&h...
Hangar 24
Need to drown their sorrows Angels fans? Now you can do so with taste! Redlands-based craft brewery Hangar 24 adds itself to the stadium’s alcoholic lineup, according to The Press-Enterprise. Hangar 24 is one of two breweries...
Sobering Thoughts
Pomona Assemblywoman Norma Torres
We came close to a law that would have made sober drivers guilty of DUI
Imagine that you, a medical cannabis patient, are driving home from work when a car driven by a stoned-out oxycodone add...
Hindsight
Photo by Tommy A. Purvis
I guess we were on to something. More than a month after the Weekly ran a cover story (Vol. 6, Issue 51) about the impact of the San Bernardino County DA’s gang injunction—namely that it…
Down To Earth
The Weekly knows you have a busy life, juggling school, work or play—who’s got time for Earth Day today? Here are a couple of Mother Nature-friendly products that make going green easy as falling off a landfill.
Cave Brot...
Don’t Hate the Game—Or the Players
Photo courtesy of IE Heartless
New LGBT softball team hits all the bases when it comes to tolerance, acceptance
Gay marriage and equality for homosexuals are issues that will not go away in California or the nation as a whole....
Train-ing Day
The DesertXpress high-speed rail: pork barrel politics or an L.A.-to-Vegas dream come true?
Five billion dollars worth of swing-state politics in the form of a Railroad Rehabilitation & Improvement Financing Loan (RRIF) fro...
You Say You Want a (Medical) Revolution
Dr. Alan Trounson to discuss the hope and future of stem cell research at CSUSB
It has been 32 years since Dr. Alan Trounson helped to deliver Australia’s first in vitro fertilization (IVF) baby. Since then, according to Trou...
Party Like It’s 1989
The legacy of Club Metro simply refuses to die
For folks of a certain age, let’s say 35 to 50, who lived in the IE at the time, Club Metro—in what they said was Riverside but was really Rubidoux—is a…
Checking the Checkpoints
Law enforcement tosses a net around drugs and human smuggling along the I-10—but where are the jihadists?!
Without the usual media fanfare the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has set up a recent series of covert interio...
Shaking the Disease
Claremont McKenna to recognize a mother-mentoring program seeking to eliminate AIDS in babies
When the non-governmental organization (NGO) mothers2mothers (M2M) began its mission in 2001 to prevent mother-to-child transmission ...
Sheep’s Clothing?
L
eap day brought far more this year than an extra day to protest the alleged out-of-control abuse of warehouse workers caught up in the exploitation of the Walmart supply chain at the mega contractor Schneider Logistics in Mir...
