Double Taxed in 29
The 29 Palms city council recently decided to do nothing and rejected a request for assistance from the Water District for our 29 Palms Fire Department. Yucca Valley pays a little more than 4 million...
Tag Archives: public safety
A Look at Red Light Cameras Around the Country
Red light cameras are everywhere. They’re in hundreds of cities, including large municipalities like Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. Drivers groan about them, critics call ...
Program Cuts Punish Voters
The Yucca Valley Town Council needs to be reminded they represent the people of the Town, not Town Hall. The latest move to cut two Town services that add greatly to the residents’ quality of l...
29 Palms City Council Votes to Stay Out of The Water Department’...
It wasn’t until I got home and my husband asked me why I would vote no that it really hit me that my vote may have been misunderstood. He of all people knows that I support public safety and ...
Putting out fires with garden hoses
Where is the “can do” attitude? It has been sacked with a “can’t do” mentality. Interestingly, the only two remaining members on the city council who brought the city over the financial cliff by voti...
Bigger fish to fry than City Manager Richard Warne
Yes the 29 Palms City Manager well deserves to be criticized and fired for his scheming, his heavy handed style of management, his blundering $31 million city debt and his manifest failure to take st...
Fire department funding options re Hesperia
Local leaders in 29 Palms should read this news article very carefully. Are officials in 29 Palms paying attention to public safety? 29 has so much money they don’t know what to do with it, but...
Local leaders cavalier about public safety?
TWENTYNINE PALMS | COMMENTARY | OPINION “When the San Andreas ruptures it won’t be triggered by the smaller faults, but “full tectonic stress….” “A 7.5 quake is 1,000 times s...
Like 29 & Yucca, failed Montebello reaps funds from car seizures
Yucca Valley recently leved a vehicle seizures recovery tax. . . keep an eye on Yucca. Make sure if it’s towed, it’s towed legally.. If you don’t think it happens, think again. The...
New Commander of Indio Jail
Indio, Ca– Sheriff Stan Sniff promoted Lieutenant Frank Taylor this afternoon to the rank of Sheriff’s Captain. Captain Taylor will serve as the new Commander of the Sheriff’s Indio Jail. Capta...
Assemblyman Cook to Tour State Route 330 Collapses, Meet with Caltrans...
SACRAMENTO –Assemblyman Paul Cook (R-Yucca Valley) will tour State Route 330 near Big Bear on Friday, January 7. Several large sections of road collapsed over the holiday season following heavy storm...
Assemblyman Paul Cook Announces the Creation of New Team to Protect Ki...
SACRAMENTO – Assemblyman Paul Cook (R-Yucca Valley) will be joining Valley Watch, Valley Wide Recreation and Park District, and Riverside County Supervisor Jeff Stone in announcing the successful est...
Slow news day… Whats happening across the river?
MCSO PRESS RELEASE January 4, 2011 FAILURE TO REGISTER – KINGMAN Mohave County Sheriff’s Sex Offender Registration Officer arrested Richard Glen Gibson, 59, of Bullhead City, late Monday (1/3) mornin...
Busy Weekend for Riverside County Off-Highway Vehicle Enforcement Team...
Off Roaders read this press release carefully. The RSO is giving you fair warning where they are setting up. Riverside County, Ca— (Press Release) On 12/4/10 & 12/5/10, R.O.V.E. Deputies de...