San Bernardino News Roundup - December 22, 2007
Posted by: SB Insider | 12/22/2007 6:02 AM
Here is the San Bernardino County News Roundup:
Rialto bond ratings at risk? - San Bernardino Sun
On the eve of the city's largest bond sale ever, officials don't seem especially nervous about any financial consequences from stigma that might be attached to designation as a Superfund site.
About three years of adjustment and planning for a mammoth senior housing project in the city's economically troubled Westside appears to have dead-ended.
While most people are ducking out of work early to go holiday shopping or to attend Christmas parties, Linda Burton is staying close to the telephone.
A grant aimed at more aggressively curbing DUI incidents -- in time for the holiday season -- has been given to the Adelanto Sheriff's Station by the California Office of Traffic Safety.
Council members clashed over a proposed cigarette shop moratorium and over what stance the council should take regarding casino-related ballot propositions.
A $500 million bond measure slated for the Feb. 5 ballot could bring local community colleges additional classrooms, upgraded buildings and improved campus safety.
Although the debate over the proposed Timbisha-Shoshone casino project is technically in the past -- the Hesperia City Council voted to approve an agreement between the tribe and the city in 2003, and almost 60 percent of voters agreed in 2004 -- echoes of it could still be heard at Wednesday's city council meeting.
The 21-year-old son of a Yermo man running for State Assembly was seriously injured on Friday morning when his vehicle rolled over in Santa Ana.
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