Past Stories
The Rundown
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...
The Rundown
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…
The Rundown
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...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 18
I visit the website for the Redlands Daily Facts, notice that most of the stories are from other members of the sucky ring of William Dean Singleton newspapers, then click on a story about a councilmember op...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 11
School buses, like the dinosaurs to which they have been for so long and so insultingly compared in size, appear to be going the way of the once-roamed-the-Earth. The Jurupa Unified School District will lay ...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4
Veteran law enforcement officials looked at Moreno Valley school board member Mike Rios last February and they just couldn’t shake the notion that there was something . . . unusual . . . about the guy, some...
The Rundown
THURSDAY, MARCH 27
Hey, man! Sorry to bug, but do you own a pit bull? A white one? Yeah, yeah, I thought I’d seen you with a dog like that—a white pit bull with a couple of brown spots, right…
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21
A 4,400-square-foot ranch house that Desi Arnez designed and lived in after he no longer loved Lucy enough to remain married to her, is being considered for transformation into a meeting and events venue in ...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14
Maynard James Keenan, front man for his band, Tool . . . and frontman for his other band, A Perfect Circle, is preparing to bring his other other band for which he is frontman—the quirky socio-comedic ...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 7
Hassle Alert! Hassle Alert! The annual four-month closure of eagle habitat areas in the San Bernardino National Forest (normally Dec. 1 to April 1) will be nearly doubled (through June 15) by order of the ...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 29
Some of us believe that life is precious, an audacious cocktail of protoplasm and high-stakes casino craps. For us, this date, the one that makes it Leap Year, is perhaps our holies—an extra day, a free...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22
After parents, friends and members of the Big Bear High girls soccer team spend four days shoveling snow off the pitch so they can play against Rim of the World today, the Lady Bears lose, 2-1.
THURSDAY,&...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 15
Who’s the boss at the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department? Not Wendy Thomas, the 911 dispatcher whose name somehow makes people crave fast-food burgers with square-shaped patties. U.S. District Cour...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8
It would have been a nice touch, but organizers of the movement to place a monument to the late civil-rights leader, César Estrada Chávez, in downtown Riverside aren’t going to meet their self-imposed ...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1
Today is a fine-enough day, sunny and such, the first day of a month that will include both Valentine’s Day and Leap Year, oh boy. Yet days like these can sometimes strike us strangely—as though they s...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 25
You can bet that after 66 years, a guy whose last name is Eclipse—and get this, his first name is Alfred—is accustomed to being singled out. It’s happening again today, although for the last time, si...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18
They call the show The Price Is Right, which is easy to claim, but has anybody ever challenged that assertion, checked to find out whether or not the price of all the crap Drew Carey pimps on…
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11
I tear up a check after accidentally writing the year as 2011.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 12
The second-least-funniest guy ever to be named Jerry Lewis announces he will retire from Congress at the conclusion of h...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 4
Everybody’s back to work—well, except for all the unemployed people, whose numbers may swell a bit on Feb. 1, when redevelopment agencies across California are closed, thanks to a Dec. 29 ruling by the ...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 28
The leaders of the Kiwanis Club of San Bernardino, having done their durn-level best to get the word out, just hope that everyone has received—and remembers—that today’s regularly scheduled 12:05 p....
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21
A new manager at Riverside National Cemetery decides to enforce long-standing—but long-relaxed—rules against bringing Christmas trees, balloons or other celebratory items to gravesites. For many peopl...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14
Meanwhile, up in Big Bear, it’s time to count bald eagles. Nope, not some euphemism for payday. Volunteers really are sought—every year at this time, for the past 34 years in a row—to take a winte...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7
A retired Riverside police detective who molested two young girls is been sentenced to 24 years in state prison—and considering Granville Kelley, Jr. is 74 years old, that should do it. Prosecutors say t...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 30
Jocelyn Williams of Rancho Cucamonga turned 13 a month or two ago and her favorite uncle couldn’t make it. Huh? What’s that? Well, yeah, it’s true Jocelyn has never actually said that her favorite u...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 23
Just in time to use a lot of holiday food references, the turkeys on the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors have take a realistic look at the gravy train their jobs have become and direct the…
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 16
Fresh & Easy, the chain of perky little grocery stores that’s become the fallback position for the British since they lost their empire, announces a plan to hire more than 600 people over the next s...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9
There are 28 items on the agenda at this week’s Riverside County Board of Supervisors meeting, and members of Local 721 of the Service Employees International Union apparently have strong enough feelings...
The Rundown
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 2
The Riverside County Board of Supervisors add another crock of all-original ignorance to their long-running variety show at the Administrative Center by performing the first installment of an ack-bassward ...
