Taxpayer and government reform advocates will not be given a fighting chance to repeal a special fire district tax imposed on all landowners in the county’s unincorporated areas, San Bernardino Superior Court Judge David Cohn ruled on May 31.

This marks the third time the Red Brennan Group has been prevented from undoing the tax.

The Red Brennan Group, which was named after the late government efficiency and fair taxation advocate Kiernan “Red” Brennan, took up cause against the expansion of the Fire Protection District Service Zone Five (FP-5) assessment that was imposed on all of the landowners within the county’s unincorporated areas by the San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors in 2018, seeking to overturn the tax after the county used a protest validation to put it in place. Continue reading →

Gary and Miriam Keith will present the musicians of the Ontario Chaffey Community Show Band in the performance of “Rhapsody in Blue: The Music of George Gershwin” on Monday June 20, 2022 at 7:30 p.m. in Gardiner W. Spring Auditorium.
The Woodwind Celebration Ensemble will present a pre-concert recital in the auditorium lobby at 7:00 p.m.
Gardiner W. Spring Auditorium is located on the campus of Chaffey High School at 1245 North Euclid Avenue in Ontario.
The concert will be narrated by David Allen, newspaper columnist for the Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, and Ontario City Councilman Alan Wapner. The performance begins at 7:30 p.m. and is free to the public. Continue reading →

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Almost a year ago, June 4, 2021, the Liberty Sculpture Park in Yermo introduced the CCP Virus Sculpture. A little over a month later in July, agents of the Chinese Communist Party with ties to the Chinese Ministry of State Security, repeatedly attacked the sculpture, eventually burning it to total destruction July 23^rd, according to charges unsealed in March 2022 by federal prosecutors.

Weiming Chen, sculptor of the piece, immediately vowed to rebuild. With the support of donations from those angered by the attack, including the Human Rights Foundation, the CCP Virus II Sculpture was created using the original molds as the guide to build a metal frame. Sculptor Weiming Chen, welder Qien Yan, assistant Jonas Yuan, and David Jen spent seven months using rebar, sheet metal, cement, and paint to make the replica of the giant coronavirus molecule head with Communist Hammer and Sickle attachment and the face and skull of Xi Jinping, President of China and Leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The installation is the largest depiction of Chairmen Xi in the world that firmly holds his leadership accountable for the CoVid-19 pandemic’s worldwide impact and devastation.

An event to unveil the CCP Virus II Sculpture will be held Sunday June 5^th starting at 3 p.m. The park entrance is 37570 West Yermo Rd. Speakers will be in English and Chinese languages. A period of silence to honor the victims of CoVid-19 is a planned portion of the unveiling ceremony. The unveiling will be followed by a memorial observance of the 33^rd anniversary of the Tiananmen Square Massacre (estimated to begin 6PM) in front of the giant Six Four monument. Speakers for the memorial will be mostly Cantonese and Mandarin dialects. 

An electronic replica of the May 27 edition of the San Bernardino County Sentinel can be downloaded by clicking on the blue portal below.

Grand Terrace, San Bernardino County’s third smallest city populationwise and its smallest in land area, would become the sixth of the county’s 24 municipality to jump on the cannabis-product sales tax revenue bandwagon if its residents are willing to allow that to happen.
Medical marijuana has been legal for sale in California since the passage of 1996’s Proposition 215, the Compassionate Use of Marijuana Act and the sale and use of marijuana for intoxicative effect has been legal in the Golden State since the 2016 passage of Proposition 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act.
Both Proposition 215 and Proposition 64 contained provisions that essentially allowed local jurisdictions to maintain the sales bans on the drug that had been in place in the state since 1907. For 16 years after the Compassionate Use of Marijuana Act went into effect, there was no local government in San Bernardino County that would permit medical marijuana to be legally sold. All 22 of the county’s cities, Continue reading →

By Mark Gutglueck
Compounding its already well-established reputation for dysfunctional political and managerial relationships, the West Valley Water District last week accomplished its eleventh detachment from a senior managerial or administrative employee since late 2017, while its seventh board member since 2016 is set to make his departure from the district next month.
Meanwhile, the FBI is scrutinizing the motivation and implication contained within the pattern of parallel firings, hirings, firings, hirings and firings the district has engaged in over the last five years and the seeming use of lucrative employment opportunities with the district as payoffs to politicians for action they took in their elected capacities elsewhere.
On May 19, the board unanimously accepted the resignation of Shamindra “Rickey” Manbahal, who has Continue reading →