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 →

SUMMONS – (CITACION JUDICIAL)
CASE NUMBER (NUMERO DEL CASO): CIV SB 2128482
NOTICE TO DEFENDANT:
(AVISO DEMANDADO):
DAVID ALAN BOUCHER, MERCEDES MARTINEZ, AND DOES 1 to 10, inclusive
YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF:
(LO ESTA DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): MTC FINANCIAL INC. dba TRUSTEE CORPS
NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.
You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.
There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.
¡AVISO! Lo han demandado. Si no responde dentro de 30 dias, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su version. Lea la informacion a continuacion
Tiene 30 DIAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entregue esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefonica no le protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar on formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted puede usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formulario de la corte y mas información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede mas cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida si secretario de la corta que le de un formulario de exencion de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin mas advertencia.
Hay otros requisitos legales. Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov), o poniendose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación de $10,000 o mas de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso. Continue reading →

Redlands officials this week broached the threshold of allowing the construction of hundreds of single-bedroom dwellings, large numbers of which are ultimately to be used to house families.
Casually and with seeming indifference to the concerns of several people who expressed specific reservations and thousands who had weighed in previously but were not present to lodge a protest this week, the Redlands Planning Commission unanimously approved two projects in the downtown area proposed by the same firm. Within the footprint of the residential development component of each of the projects, are densities, respectively, approaching 100 units to the acre in one instance and 78 units to the acre in the other.
At no time during the discussion leading up to the approval of the so-called “The Grand” project at the corner of Redlands Boulevard and Eureka Street and its sister “City Center” project at the corner of Eureka Street and Brookside Avenue did officials explore the implication of raising children in such confined space. Continue reading →

Alfred Gonzales, who is one of two challengers who have surfaced against incumbent Fontana First District Councilman Phil Cothran Jr. in this year’s race, said his candidacy came about as a direct result of what he saw as an underhanded move to gerrymander Cothran’s strongest competitor out of the race.
Cothran is the son of Phil Cothran Sr., one of Fontana Mayor Acquanetta Warren’s firmest and most loyal political supporters. For a dozen years, Warren ruled Fontana with an iron first by virtue of her overpowering electioneering machine. In 2018, she used her political reach to establish young Cothran onto the council. That election was the first by-district council race in the city’s then-66-year history, and Warren’s team pulled out all the stops to ensure Cothran prevailed over three other candidates, including one-time School Board Member Shannon O’Brien.
Brewing for three years thereafter was an anticipated matchup between Cothran and, instead of Shannon O’Brien, her husband, Los Angeles Police Detective Jason O’Brien. With the redistricting of the city following the 2020 Census, however, Warren used her control of the council – including Cothran and two of her other allies – Fourth District Councilman John Roberts and Third District Councilman Peter Garcia – to redraw the city’s district map, carving out a small notch of District 1 and placing it into District 2, where Warren’s only rival on the board, Jesse Sandoval, resides. Continue reading →

U.S. District Court Judge Virginia A. Phillips last month dismissed a federal lawsuit brought by veterans who served at the former George Air Force and their families who alleged negligence on the part of the government for exposing them to toxic substances when they were serving or living on the now-shuttered military installation.
Judge Phillips disposed of the suit without making a determination as to the validity of the allegations contained within it, ruling the federal government has “sovereign immunity” which puts it beyond the reach of the court with regard to such matters.
Over a thousand people, hundreds of whom no longer live in the Victorville/Adelanto area where the base is located or California, filed an administrative claim against the Department of Defense/Air Force on June 30, 2021 in an effort to force the U.S. Department of Defense and in particular the U.S. Air Force to acknowledge negligence in their stewardship of the now-discarded relic of the Cold War. Continue reading →