Daily Archives: June 19, 2010

iePolitics: What Is Old Is New Again

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I took a peek at the new Organizational Chart that goes into effect on June 30, 2010 for the county of San Bernardino:  OrganizationalChart.  Several things stood out.

First, it looks like County Administrative Officer Greg Devereaux undid all the completely stupid and self-serving changes former County Administrative Officer Mark Uffer made last year.  No more empire building for Ufferites.

Second, unless I missed it, which is possible, this reorganization did not go before the Board of Supervisors for approval.  I know when I worked for the Deputy Administrator for EPWA, one of the last projects we worked on was a large-scale county reorganization that took Architecture and Engineering and another important division that I can’t remember now away from Marie Alonzo and made a number of other changes including eliminating our own jobs.  I know that had to go before the Board of Supervisors for approval as has other county reorganizations since so I wonder:  Is this Devereaux’s way of showing who is boss? Continue reading →

InlandPolitics: Two different newspapers, two different worlds – Part 2

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You can usually tell a newspaper and their agenda when you contrast and compare stories by two reporters for two different newspapers, who are sitting in the same room.

This is part two in a series covering the disparity in reporting by The Sun / Inland Valley Daily Bulletin Newspaper. The papers are a part of the Los Angeles News Group, which is a subsidiary of MediaNews Group. Continue reading →

InlandPolitics Commentary: Wells Fargo scamming Inland Empire mortgage borrowers?

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The administration of President Barack Obama has been continuously stressing that it wants to keep Americans in their homes.

After all, the U.S. Federal Reserve System is giving the money center banks including Wells Fargo, virtually free money so the same banks can turnaround and lend it back to the U.S. Treasury keeping the interest paid by the same Treasury as profit. Isn’t it great? Borrow money from taxpayers at an interest rate of 0.00%-0.25% and then lend it back to taxpayers at a substantially higher interest rate. A practice known as making money on the spread.

Why modify mortgages when you can force the borrowers out of their homes and use taxpayer money to cushion the loss?

Now along comes Wells Fargo Bank.

A bank that is a major California mortgage lender with a large Inland Empire presence. Continue reading →

iePolitics: Environmentalists and the Environment – Part One

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Anyone who listens to John and Ken on the Los Angeles-based radio station KFI 640 may be left with the impression that all environmentally friendly ideas are costly, with little or no positive effect on the environment.  From depletion of the ozone and global warming to Cap and Trade and diesel emissions, environmental concerns are controversial and often seem to be based on less-than-sound scientific data and hypothesis.  The environmental do-gooders force upon us an extensive array of rules and regulations with little concern for economic consequences or our ability to implement stringent standards without readily available technology or yet-to-be-made scientific discovery.

Most people do not realize how much we are impacted by environmental regulatory agencies.  One of the most powerful in southern California is the South Coast Air Quality Management District, which is not only charged with regulating smoke stacks at the factories of high-polluting industries and the emissions from our automobiles, but also involves itself in almost every aspect of our daily lives, from the cost of our dry cleaning to our romantic interludes (think a cozy dinner at a nice restaurant or cuddling up in front of the fire place on a cool evening). Continue reading →