Opinions and Local Views from the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. The Daily Bulletin is an online and print publication established in 1885, serving the communities of Ontario, Pomona, Chino, Chino Hills, La Verne, Montclair, Fontana, Upland, Rancho Cucamonga, Alta Loma, Claremont Read this News Section...
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Rancho Cucamonga has thrown its collective hat in the ring for the June 8 primary. Our hats are off to the city for its citizens' civic participation. Read Full Artice...
If you're a candidate for any Inland Valley office in the June 8 primary election, you're invited to compose a 400-word statement in support of your candidacy and then e-mail it to candidates@inlandnewspapers.com .
The deadline is Monday at 5 p.m. Read Full Artice...
Sunday's killings in Mexico of a U.S. consulate employee, her husband and the husband of another employee elicited stern travel warnings from our State Department, cautioning American college students not to visit Mexico during spring break. Read Full Artice...
It's no secret that California politicians, from state legislators on down, are in regular contact with lobbyists. Everyone knows that. Read Full Artice...
It might not feel like it now, but Californians are lucky this is an election year with competitive state races. They are also lucky that one of the most high-profile campaigns is the Republican primary race for the gubernatorial election in November. Read Full Artice...
This is not a great year to have an $11.1 billion water bond measure on the November ballot.
The economy is in the tank, the state's fiscal condition is in the toilet, jobs are still being flushed - choose your watery metaphor. Read Full Artice...
FOR ST. Patrick's Day, two invitations came my way from friends, one to meet up at a bar, the other to see a movie.
But no, my choice of entertainment for the evening was to attend a City Council meeting in Rancho Cucamonga. Pray for me. Read Full Artice...
LIKE STUBBORN people clinging to their home despite an eviction notice, the $20million renovation of Ontario City Hall will finally displace its last holdouts: the City Council. Read Full Artice...
IT WAS an old-time L.A. weekend. I had lunch with one friend at Philippe's (founded 1908) and dinner with another at Musso and Frank Grill (founded 1919).
(Musso, by the way, is legendary for its crabby service, but our waiter was all smiles. Read Full Artice...
IN CLAREMONT, the latest civic hand-wringing is about allowing more drive-through businesses and a (gasp) 7-Eleven into town.
In other words, over protests, Claremont is poised to enter the latter half of the 20th century. Read Full Artice...
There's been plenty of crime and punishment in the Inland Valley's past, although most of it was not exactly on the scale of Al Capone and John Dillinger. Read Full Artice...
Sometimes you just wonder if the hassle of running for public office is really worth all the grief.
In Upland today, a councilman is bearing the scars of aspiring to be mayor. Read Full Artice...
Just like millions of vacationers, Alonzo E. Taylor and his two sons one summer jumped into the car in Philadelphia for an extended visit with friends out west in Pomona. Read Full Artice...
More than a century ago, R.C.P. Smith, editor of the Ontario Record, lashed out about one of the Inland Valley's pressing issues of the day: ladies' hats. Read Full Artice...
There are some words you just don't see in a family newspaper.
You know the ones I'm talking about.
Occasionally those words or equally offensive sentiments turn up in letters submitted for publication, and unsurprisingly, we don't run them. Read Full Artice...
In government, good policy should always trump good politics.
Unfortunately, when it comes to Assembly Bill 32, the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006, partisan politics has trounced policy. Read Full Artice...
Attracting new businesses to San Bernardino County so they can provide new employment opportunities for our residents is essential to our economic recovery, but I firmly believe that protecting existing jobs is an even more critical and urgent task for. Read Full Artice...
State Sen. Bob Huff, I noticed at the foot of his March 8 point of view ("Environmentalism is state religion"), doesn't represent my city. If he did, his views still would not represent me. Read Full Artice...
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