While San Bernardino city officials are hailing the progress that is being made in the city in the aftermath of the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 28, 2024 ruling in the case of the City of Grants Pass v. Johnson allowing local governments to be more ruthless in the way the homeless population is handled, the situation with regard to inhumane conditions endured by those who live on the streets has gotten worse.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the case of the City of Grants Pass v. Johnson essentially undid the previous rulings in the 1962 case of Robinson v. California and the 2018 case Martin v. Boise. In Robinson v. California, the Supreme Court held that the Eighth Amendment prohibits criminalization of a status, as opposed to criminalizing criminal acts, in striking down a California law that criminalized being addicted to narcotics. By extension, this applied to being homeless, such that it made applying traditional vagrancy laws difficult, problematic or even impossible. In this way, from that point on, at least until very recently, an individual could not be prosecuted for being homeless. In Martin v. Boise, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled that city officials in Boise, Idaho, could not enforce an anti-camping ordinance whenever its homeless population exceeds the number of available beds in its homeless shelters. The Ninth Circuit includes the nine western states and all of the Pacific Islands.
Both Robinson v. California and Martin v. Boise had the practical effect of preventing government in general and local governments in particular from declaring open warfare on the homeless. Whereas previously, before the Grants Pass vs. Johnson ruling, local officials had to walk a very fine line in evicting homeless from parks and other public areas, officials now have a much freer hand in sending the homeless packing. Continue reading →

Today, one month after the acting assistant secretary for civil rights with the United States Department of Education alerted administrators at California State University San Bernardino and 44 other institutions of higher learning that they needed to end the use of racial preferences and stereotypes in education programs and activities, the U.S. Department of Education has opened an investigation into why those sought-after reforms were not implemented.
According to documentation generated by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, California State University San Bernardino is among 45 colleges and universities that have violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by partnering with “The Ph.D. Project,” an organization that purports to provide doctoral students with insights into obtaining a Ph.D. and networking opportunities, but limits eligibility based on the race of participants.
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is also investigating six universities for allegedly awarding impermissible race-based scholarships and one university for allegedly administering a program that segregates students on the basis of race.
“The Department is working to reorient civil rights enforcement to ensure all students are protected from illegal discrimination. The agency has already launched Title VI investigations into institutions where widespread antisemitic harassment has been reported and Title IX investigations into entities which allegedly continue to allow sex discrimination; today’s announcement expands our efforts to ensure universities are not discriminating against their students based on race and race stereotypes,” said U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon. “Students must be assessed according to merit and accomplishment, not prejudged by the color of their skin. We will not yield on this commitment.” Continue reading →

FBN 20250001614
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
THIRD STRIKE BEER CO. 12221 POPLAR ST STE 3 HESPERIA, CA 92344: BVGS INC 12221 POPLAR ST STE 3 HESPERIA, CA 92344
Business Mailing Address: 12221 POPLAR ST STE 3 HESPERIA, CA 92344
The business is conducted by: A CORPORATION registered in California under the number 3324319.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
/s/ JESSE CANCEL, President
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 02/14/2025
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy K4866
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on February 21 & 28 and March 7 & 14, 2025.

FBN 20250001473
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
IBRINGYOUPEOPLE 10801 LEMON AVE APT 1727 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91737: TANNER J GOLDEN
Business Mailing Address: 437 E BENWOOD ST COVINA, CA 91722
The business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
/s/ TANNER J GOLDEN
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 02/11/2025
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy J9965
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on February 21 & 28 and March 7 & 14, 2025.

FBN 20250001746
The following entity is doing business primarily in San Bernardino County as
AFFILIATED DIALYSIS OF CALIFORNIA 8239 ROCHESTER AVE., STE #110 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730: HOME DIALYSIS CENTERS OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, LLC 8239 ROCHESTER AVE., STE #110 RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CA 91730
Business Mailing Address: 2462 WASHINGTON RD. WASHINGTON, IL 61571
The business is conducted by: A LIMITED LIABILITY COMPANY registered with the State of California under the number 200609810171.
The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: January 1, 2017.
By signing, I declare that all information in this statement is true and correct. A registrant who declares as true information which he or she knows to be false is guilty of a crime (B&P Code 179130). I am also aware that all information on this statement becomes Public Record upon filing.
/s/ TYSON ASCHLIMAN, CEO
Statement filed with the County Clerk of San Bernardino on: 02/20/2025
I hereby certify that this copy is a correct copy of the original statement on file in my office San Bernardino County Clerk By:/Deputy J7527
Notice-This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the county clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (see Section 14400 et seq., Business and Professions Code).
Published in the San Bernardino County Sentinel on February 21 & 28 and March 7 & 14, 2025.

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The circumstance at Yucaipa City Hall over the last two years has consisted of what one insider described, in retrospect as “an administrative cul-de-sac.”
That assessment was made in the aftermath of the city council, at its last meeting in February, approving a request for proposals for a replacement city attorney, and a lengthy closed session on March 3 which concluded with 3-to-1 vote to place City Manager Chris Mann on paid administrative leave.
Both Mann and current City Attorney Steven Graham Pacifico were hired under extraordinary circumstances in January 2023 which generated what, for Yucaipa, was an uncommon degree of controversy that spawned recall efforts against three members of the city council, one of which ultimately proved successful.
The contretemps that ensued from the 2023 city manager/city attorney changeover triggered a level of political/governmental instability in Yucaipa that theretofore had never existed. At present, all five of the city council members, the city manager, the city attorney and the city clerk are different personages than those who held those titles five years ago. Previously and throughout Yucaipa’s first 31 years as an incorporated municipality from 1989 until 2020, the city had been remarkably stable, one characterized by consistency among its elected leadership and staff leadership.
In 2020, the council consisted of then-Mayor David Avila, who had been on the city council since 2014, Dick Riddell, who had been on the city council since 1996; Denise Hoyt, who had been on the city council since 2004; Greg Bogh who had been on the city council since 2010, and Bobby Duncan, who had been on the city council since 2012. The city manager was Ray Casey, who had been city manager since 2008. The city attorney was David Snow, who had held that post since 2012. That November, four years after the city had switched from its traditional at-large elections to by-district contests to choose its city council members, Duncan had achieved reelection in District 3, Holt had opted out of seeking reelection in District 4 and Jon Thorp was elected to serve in her place. Riddell was turned out of office by challenger Justin Beaver in District 5.
Two years later, Avila and Bogh chose not to seek reelection in District 1 and 2, respectively. At the final city council meeting in October 2022, in an effort to cement their political legacies, Avila and Bogh pressed their council colleagues to approve an extension of Casey’s contract as city manager until the end of June 2024. They reasoned that the Princeton-educated Casey, who had previously been Yucaipa’s city engineer/public works director and at that point had been city manager for 14 years, had proven himself to be an ideal match for the city. They wanted to ensure that whoever succeeded them would have an opportunity to see for themselves Casey’s level of expertise and competence, and they calculated that perpetuating his contract for more than a year after the newly composed council was in place would give Casey an opportunity to illustrate to the new members his value to the city and result in a possible extension of his management of the city if he did not choose to retire at that point. On October 24, 2022, the council unanimously approved the 20-month extension of Casey’s contract. Fifteen days later, on November 8, 2024, Matt Garner was elected from among four candidates to replace Avila as councilman in District 1 and Chris Venable came out on top in a two-person contest to take Bogh’s position representing District 2. Continue reading →

Stater Bros. Chief Executive Officer Peter Van Helden last month told his company’s workforce and the world that a new financial era has dawned, making further layoffs beyond the 63 that have just gone into effect unavoidable.
In what Van Helden said were the first layoffs ever in the grocery store chain’s 89-year history, 63 courtesy clerks were handed pink slips last month.
Since the first store’s founding by Cleo and Leo Stater in Yucaipa in 1936, Stater Bros. Has experienced steady growth, such that the corporation, now headquartered in San Bernardino, has expanded to 171 stores.
The 26th largest grocery-store chain in the United States, it looms much larger within Southern California. It is under challenge at present, however, according to Van Helden, because of inflation that has already taken place, further inflation that is going to occur, particularly prompted by President Donald Trump’s imposition of tariffs and the dwindling opportunities to engage in cost reductions of its products because of the escalating expenses of labor, electricity, fuel and other overhead. Continue reading →

Terry Elliott, the candidate behind whom the unions representing San Bernardino’s police officers and management had lined up as the central element of their effort to drive Second Ward Councilwoman Sandra Ibarra from office in 2022, has been indicted by a federal grand jury on 11-counts relating to his having swindled individuals of more than $230,000 through misrepresentations he made involving a church and a nonprofit corporation with which he is associated.
Elliott was arrested Thursday, March 6, and is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon in United States District Court in Riverside.
Elliott had an established criminal history when he was recruited by the San Bernardino Police Officers Association and the San Bernardino Police Management Association to run in the June 2022 election against Ibarra in what was her first reelection campaign after having been elected to represent the Second Ward in her maiden campaign for political office in 2018. Ibarra, who had been supported by the police unions in 2018, fell into disfavor with the police department when she publicly remarked upon the fashion in which the city’s police officers and the department in general stood down and took no action to arrest the participants in looting of commercial establishments at various locations in San Bernardino, including within the Second Ward, during the riots that occurred on the evening and early morning of May 31/June 1, 2020, in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis Police Department on May, 25, 2020.
While the San Bernardino Police were present en masse while hundreds of rioters were staging protests that turned violent and involved breaking windows, going into stores and shops and walking or running away with merchandise, the department’s command made a set of strategic and tactical decisions to remain non-confrontational with the volatile crowd and only a handful of arrests of isolated participants in the rioting were made. The department and its officers defended that action, or non-action, as a prudent response that prevented any untoward incidents involving police, rioters and bystanders and an escalation that would potentially have led to further violence, injury and death. Continue reading →

More than ten months after former Upland Public Works Director/City Engineer Bradon Yu was forced to leave his post with the City of Gracious Living over his bridling at being forced to postpone critical street repairs for what he and others considered “political reasons,” city officials have issued a response to the grand jury’s critique of the controversy in which they have exonerated themselves of any [misbehavior/wrongdoing].
Upland’s residents have consistently over the years turned back the efforts by city officials to get them to approve imposing on themselves higher taxes to augment the sales tax, property tax and state and federal grants and other subventions the city receives to make up the revenue side of its budgetary ledger. Under California’s Constitution, any new taxes must be approved by those voters in the jurisdiction in which the tax is to be applied. While residents in many nearby cities in both San Bernardino and Los Angeles counties, such as Chino, Ontario, Claremont and Pomona have voted to increase the sales tax they pay within their various city limits, that has not been the case in Upland. In 2022, the Upland City Council used its authority to place Measure L, which called for a one-cent per dollar sales tax increase, pushing the 7.75 percent sales tax rate to 8.75 percent. Upland voters participating in the November 8, 2022 election rejected Measure L, with 10,222 voters or 44.6 percent in favor of it and 12,697 voters or 55.4 percent opposed to it.
Disappointed in and disapproving of what they considered to be the city’s voter’s stinginess and angry with a small but committed contingent of Upland residents who campaigned against higher taxes, Upland city officials, led by Mayor Bill Velto, who had taken the voters’ rejection of Measure L quite seriously and personally, resolved to persist in the effort to get the city electorate to acquiesce in a tax regime that would provide City Hall with revenue beyond the $61.3 million it had in its annual general fund operating budget. A strategy that was arrived at was to limit or discontinue altogether funding for street repairs and for Foothill Boulevard – Historic Route 66 – the city’s major east/west thoroughfare. Continue reading →

The H5N1 bird flu, which was first detected in San Bernardino County in January, is spreading locally.
The malady, which so far has been primarily confined to the animal world but carries with it potential yet mostly unmanifested hazards for humans, has made its presence felt most poignantly with the sharp escalation in the pricing on eggs. Based upon the progression into agricultural hosts, it appears the situation with regard to the contagion is on a trajectory to get worse before it will get better.
Yesterday, March 6, San Bernardino County Public Health Department officials announced that the bird flu has turned up at no fewer than four of San Bernardino County’s dairy farms.
“While the risk of bird flu to the general public remains low, the detection of this virus in animals across multiple farms serves as a reminder to practice caution when handling animals or animal products,” said San Bernardino County Health Officer Sharon Wang. “It’s crucial to avoid raw milk consumption and follow proper food safety practices to reduce any potential risk of exposure.”
In January, there were outbreaks in both San Bernardino and Riverside counties.
While H5N1 appears to have originated in birds, it has jumped to a variety of mammals. Currently, it has manifested in 48 species. In 2023, it had migrated to South America, where it resulted in a die-off of 23,000 sea lions.
The condition made its first known appearance in North America in 2021. Continue reading →