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November 28, 2007 News Roundup

Posted by: SB Insider | 11/28/2007 9:49 AM

Here is the November 28, 2007 News Roundup for November 28, 2007:

Local and county leaders, coupled with top fire officials, told Feinstein, D-Calif., that they need additional resources to better tackle the region's wildfire woes.

County partners aim to end homelessness - SB Sun

Homelessness is as broad an issue as the county is big, and the new San Bernardino County Homeless Partnership has set out to tackle the burgeoning problem with a 10-year action plan.

An endangered fly spotted on city-owned Hermosa Gardens Cemetery property could jeopardize sales of burial plots in the future.
A panel of experts has told city leaders the state's prisons will continue to churn out parolees and that local governments must act fast to improve dismal rates of successful community re-entry.
Leaders from the city and General Electric Co. signed a contract on Tuesday that marks the first step to build the $700million power plant on 300-plus acres located just north of the sprawling Southern California Logistics Airport.
Wal-Mart representatives said Tuesday they hope to break ground as soon as possible on the Supercenter at Mountain Avenue and Fifth Street.
A sheriff's official said there was no update on the whereabouts of a Diamond Bar woman and her husband who fled with the woman's three sons instead of giving them to their grandfather, Rep. Gary Miller, who has custody of them.
With parking at City Hall limited, city officials are looking to expand a parking lot it leases from a nearby church.
Lucerne Valley residents were slapped with an increased cost of water that will more than triple the average bill from $130 to $424 a month.
A recent trade trip to China attended by 16 San Bernardino County-based companies has a potential to generate revenue of $153 million, according to the Economic Development Agency.
The city is considering owning the Victorville 2 hybrid power plant and using its profits to generate revenue for the general fund.
Victorville is suing Hesperia over an agreement to bring a Toyota dealership to the city.
Only a few weeks after leaving the post of San Bernardino County assistant assessor, Jim Erwin is looking for a new position with the county.

For seven months, a team of archivists at Loma Linda University has been sorting through boxes of congressional papers that once belonged to the late Jerry L. Pettis and his widow and successor, Shirley N. Pettis-Roberson.

City gets $300K Check To Pay Sewage Fine - Desert Dispatch

The city of Barstow received a $300,000 check from a subcontractor to pay a fine because of a May 2006 spill that dumped 1.5 million gallons of sewage near the Mojave River.



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