A glitch at the county elections office has created the possibility that the outcome of the contest for Second District county supervisor could be impacted by perhaps as many as 5,000 residents in north Rancho Cucamonga and north Fontana voting twice in the June 7 primary election.
There is, as a consequence of the same mistake, a possibility that some of those voters who were mistakenly provided with the opportunity to vote twice will not have their votes counted at all.
County officials are not disclosing how widespread the error was. What is known is that at least 1,500 incorrect ballots were mailed to voters in north Fontana and Rancho Cucamonga, and the office followed Continue reading →

Kaiser Permanente, which provides health service for a wide cross section of those in San Bernardino County, is no longer providing its members residing in Rancho Cucamonga, where it has medical facilities, and in San Bernardino, where it has medical facilities, with COVID vaccinations.
Those seeking the shots are turned away at the door and told that they can try to see if they can get an immunization in Fontana or in Palm Springs.
Kaiser officials did not explain why they are discontinuing the injections, other than to say the policy was effective last week.
The move comes as California is experiencing another coronavirus surge. Continue reading →

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME CASE
NUMBER CIV CB 2207721
TO  ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner:  Dora Garcia filed with this court for a decree changing names as follows:
Genesis Danielle Garcia to Genesis Danielle Aguilar THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. Continue reading →

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By Mark Gutglueck
Terry Elliott, who is seeking election to the San Bernardino City Council in the Second Ward on June 7, has an extensive history involving fraud, theft and financial misdealings that have resulted in the loss of at least two of his pastorships, civil judgments against him, a bankruptcy and criminal convictions.
Despite his checkered past, Elliott remains as a preacher with the Ship of Zion, a church in San Bernardino, and the San Bernardino Police Department has allowed him to serve in the capacity of a police chaplain. Earlier this year, Elliott was able to leverage his status as a chaplain with the department into an endorsement by the San Bernardino Police Officers Association in his run against incumbent Councilwoman Sandra Ibarra to represent the city’s Second Ward. Continue reading →

By Carlos Avalos and Mark Gutglueck
For the nearly three-and-a-half years San Bernardino County District Attorney Jason Anderson has been in office, he and the prosecutor’s office he oversees have remained out of compliance with California Government Code § 27388, San Bernardino County Treasurer/Tax Collector/Auditor/Controller Ensen Mason has acknowledged.
Mike Ramos, who was district attorney from 2003 until Anderson succeeded him in January 2019 after Anderson prevailed in the June 2018 election, similarly evaded the California Government Code § 27388 requirements. Continue reading →

After foregoing taking a survey of San Bernardino County’s homeless numbers in 2021, county officials reinstituted the count this year, ascertaining that there are nearly 7 percent more destitute people within the county’s confines than two years ago.
The results, released Wednesday, May 18, indicate there were 3,333 dispossessed throughout the county, an increase of 6.656 percent in the number of homeless over 24 months ending in February.
Last year, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, citing concerns over the potential of the spreading of the potentially deadly COVID-19 virus to a vulnerable population, called off the counting Continue reading →