Past Stories
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 31
It’s Halloween, which as everybody knows is English for Dia de Los Muertos Eve. Also? Happy Birthday, Mom!
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1
It’s Dia de Los Muertos, which as everybody knows, is Spanish for the Day...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 17
Humpin‘.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18
I guess I never really did completely stop suspecting Vanessa Franko of trying to take over my mind by using the pop music column she writes for The Press-Enterprise to plan...
¡Ask A Mexican!
Dear Mexican: As a college educated Mexican-American, I had my fair share of Chicanas in college . . . all of which my jefita considered putas with books. But now that I graduated, I’m going out with a gabacha for…
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10
A Press-Enterprise columnist—can’t remember the name; these days there seem to be thousands of them—reports that Mettheus Theo Zoeternelk thinks Norco needs an official city song. To that we reply, o...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3
The headline in today’s Press-Enterprise reads, “UCR scientist cures potato chip disease,” and there’s no shame in admitting your confusion. Hell, I’m confused . . . that is, you know, a little . ...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26
“Never again!” the architectural preservationists proclaimed—ohhh, guess it must be a year now—when a little, Spanish revival building that had been tucked behind the Fox Theater in downtown Rive...
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 19
The City of Redlands has replaced its traditional supply warehouse with a fully automated system of 42 vending machines, and early results indicate the change will save time, waste and money, while impro...
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12
The Salton Sea stops stinking, relieving the rest of Southern California of a rotten-egg stench that had people retching for days. Yep, things have become that humiliating for the Salton Sea, which has s...
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WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5
The Election Integrity Project, a collection of nuts and dolts who refuse to let the facts get in the way of their paranoid suspicion that the will of America’s voters is being undermined, is preparing ...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29
As sad as it is to read about the continuing disintegration of San Bernardino’s once-thriving E Street shopping district, I consider it poetic that the news about the impending death of Casual Living—th...
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 22
The thunderstorms that a couple of days ago poured an inch or two of rainwater on Big Bear in just one hour caused Rathbun Creek to overflow, turned streets to rivers, flooded over Bear Mountain Golf Course...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15
Hump Day.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 16
Humpty-Hump Day.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 17
The Moreno Valley Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks reminds everybody that its charity golf tournament is only a...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8
A 4.5-magnitude earthquake strikes just north of Yorba Linda but is felt throughout the Inland Empire, just like Tuesday night’s 4.4-magnitude quake, centered in the same place. Since these quakes—among ...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 1
In an inspirational show of support—and a depressing show of misunderstanding—for the right of free speech, thousands of people jam Chick-fil-A restaurants as part of a national “appreciation day” fo...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, JULY 25
Theatre arts aficionados in Big Bear who had been waiting for Waiting For Godot are still waiting—and will be for the foreseeable future. The Big Bear Theater Project’s production of Samuel Beckett’s ab...
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 18
Like a mini Queen Mary sitting like a huge embarrassment in a mini Long Beach harbor, an 84-foot, 93-ton side-paddle boat named the Princess is marooned in mud and weeds on the shores of Lake Elsinore. The&he...
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WEDNESDAY, JULY 11
Back when the City of Canyon Lake was mostly a bunch of vacant lots, my parents owned one of them. They sold the land too soon for their own good, but not for mine. In the mid-1970s,…
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, JULY 4
It’s Independence Day, but three men wake up in jail, booked the night before on suspicion of arson and conspiracy after staging an impromptu protest when they were denied admission to the Jurupa Valley High...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27
Once again, startled awake by that question: Why do people fortunate enough to have become really, really rich so often have no higher priority than to become really, really richer . . . and leverage their ri...
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20
Poor, sad Wildomar. A week ago, only 20 of its 32,178 residents showed up at City Hall for the city’s fourth birthday. That lack of enthusiasm can be traced to economic problems that enable the local govern...
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13
The City of Wildomar turns 4 years old today, so the City Council throws a little party before its regular meeting. Actually, the party wasn’t specifically planned to be little—at least, not as little as ...
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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6
The morning after the election rarely feels good, but this one feels worse than usual because I didn’t vote—and the consequences are already obvious and costly. In the 31st congressional district, where De...
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 30
REGION: Students can give blood, get gasHey teens! Looking for a summer job? Sure you are! You don’t need anybody to tell you that California’s teen unemployment level of 30 percent is more than 2 ½ times...
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 23
The Rialto Unified School District adopts a new logo and slogan created by students six months after they told officials they wanted something that more accurately represents their experience. The old logo fea...
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 16
The lineup for hip-hop festival Rock The Bells is announced, and some say it may be the best one ever. Reading that was pretty exciting until I realized that the some who were saying it were in…
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 9
My, oh, my, how I fear for the fate of Dug Begley. Sure, being the designated road rage-aholic of the Inland Empire otherwise known as the transportation columnist for the Press-Enterprise—is prestigious, and...
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WEDNESDAY, MAY 2
Whether or not the Blue Pearl Project is biting off more than it can chew with its goal of “helping the ocean, saving the Earth and the animals that are a part of it,” there’s no doubt…
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WEDNESDAY, APRIL 25
San Bernardino Supervisor Neil “The Bully” Derry casts the only vote for his proposal to require restaurants to inform customers whether the establishment does immigration background checks on its employ...
