By Mark Gutglueck
The culture of favorable treatment and the compromising of standards that pervaded the 2019 College Admissions Scandal spilled over to taint operations at Ontario International Airport, implicating the president of the airport’s board of directors, Alan Wapner, and the man he handpicked to serve as the airport’s chief executive officer, recently unearthed public documents show.
In keeping with the nature of the criminal conspiratorial nature of the activity that felled a multitude of celebrities, blue bloods and influential titans of finance and industry who used their wealth to have their children accepted at some of the country’s most prestigious colleges and universities in exchange for bribes paid to scholastic deans and other guardians of the gates of academia, what were apparently unreported gifts and privileges that could not otherwise have been purchased at any price were for years conferred upon Wapner, ultimately in exchange for which he rewarded his benefactor with a service contract which is ultimately to be worth millions of dollars over the next decade.
Wapner and the executive director of the Ontario International Airport Authority he had installed, Atif Elkadi, are alumni of USC, the University of Southern California, which employed Scott Jacobson as its associate athletic director before sacking him in January 2020. After revelations that the scions of famous actors and wealthy businessmen or industrialists had been given athletic scholarships to USC despite having no skill, no ability and in some cases no familiarity whatsoever with the sports for which those scholarships had been provided, Jacobson and several others in the USC Athletic Department were sacked. Continue reading →

In explaining why she is running for city council, Corysa Martinez said, “I am proud to call Montclair my home of over thirty years, and excited to raise a family here. As a council member since 2019, I have been dedicated to improving our residents’ quality of life by promoting public safety, economic development, and resident welfare in collaboration with our community leadership.”
Martinez noted “It is important that Montclair is represented by dedicated leaders focused on the long-term socioeconomic health and welfare of our community, which will be accomplished by the alignment of businesses, community, and government objectives. I am that dedicated leader for our city.”
Martinez has been on the city council since 2019, when she was chosen to replace her late mother, who died during her second term in office. She was then confirmed to remain in that position with a special election held in November 2020 to determine who was to serve out the last two years of the term to which her mother was elected in 2018. Continue reading →

His board colleagues appear to be leaning in favor of indulging San Bernardino City Unified School District Board Member Danny Tillman in his suggestion that individual board members be permitted to confer with the district’s legal counsel at will.
Some have interpreted Tillman’s request as a ploy to have the district foot the bill for an individual board member’s legal costs growing out of that member’s personal action independent of the collective decisions arrived at by the board.
The board revisited that section of the district’s board policy manual pertaining to the way in which the board is to go about seeking legal advice. That section of the manual was last modified and ratified by the school board as it was then composed on October 16, 2007. Continue reading →

By Richard Hernandez
The State of California has completed the first phase of what is ultimately planned as an expansion of Medicaid California, also known as Medi-Cal, to an estimated 764,000 illegal immigrants in the Golden State, even as more than two million of the state’s residents with full U.S. citizenship have no medical insurance coverage whatsoever.
This summer, California made its largest stride yet in providing taxpayer-subsidized medical assistance to those in the state illegally. Since 2014, there has been an effort in the California legislature to extend Medi-Cal benefits to illegal aliens, promoted by then-Assemblyman Ricardo Lara. Lara’s initial bill failed to gain passage, but in 2016 legislation was passed and signed into law by then-Governor Jerry Brown that extended Medi-Cal coverage to children without legal residency status. In 2019, Senate Bill 104, by which Medi-Cal was extended to cover low-income illegal aliens aged 19 to 25, passed into law and was signed by Governor Gavin Newsom, going into effect on January 1, 2020. Continue reading →

His intensifying civic concern over the last several years and his commitment to public service have prompted Mark Taylor to seek election to the Yucaipa City Council, he told the Sentinel this week.
“I’m running for city council in District 1 because I believe that the city deserves leadership that is representative of the people who live here – people like you and me, who live in Yucaipa and put in the work to make it the wonderful place that it is,” he said. “I’m not a politician, just a concerned citizen who wants to give back to the community that inspires me. I will support our first responders as well as our local businesses. I will work to maintain a balanced budget while also delivering the services the City of Yucaipa requires.” Continue reading →

The Argument in favor of Measure L, written by Upland Treasurer Greg Bradley, Upland Parks Committee Member Sarah Lee, Upland resident James Thomas, retired Upland Unified School District Superintendent Dr. Loren Sanchez and retired Los Angeles County Deputy Sheriff Susan Higgins Coniglio, states:
For local control and quality of life, vote yes on L!
Yes on L keeps Upland Safe.
Yes on L Fixes Upland’s streets & potholes.
All money stays in Upland.
Yes on L keeps our taxpayer dollars local – keeping Upland safe and clean, and our property values high.
We all want to keep Upland a special place to live, but we need funding that the State cannot take to keep our city well-maintained. Continue reading →