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Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco Officially Announces Bid For Governor

February 17, 2025 2:24 pmFebruary 17, 2025 2:24 pm

Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco announced on Monday that he would be running for Governor next year, becoming the first major Republican to join the race. Speculation that Bianco, a longtime supporter of Donald Trump and longtime critic of Governor...

CA Legislative Republicans Get Their Special Session on Wildfires, Water and Insurance

January 13, 2025 4:35 pmJanuary 13, 2025 4:49 pm

California Legislative Republicans held a press conference calling for immediate action to ramp up California’s wildfire prevention efforts, stabilize the state’s insurance market and investigate why there was no water in fire hydrants in the Pacific Palisades fires. Numerous companies...

The Top 10 Surprise Elections This Year In California

January 2, 2025 2:45 amJanuary 2, 2025 2:46 am

2024 was a wild year when it came to elections. A close presidential election that wound up not being close at all. The House and Senate going to the GOP. And in California, there were some genuine surprises. Some were...

Former Marine Jeff Gonzalez Flips Long Held Democratic 36th District Assembly Seat

November 18, 2024 7:26 pmNovember 18, 2024 7:30 pm

Former Marine Jeff Gonzalez (R) formally defeated Coachella Valley Unified School District school board member Joey Acuna Jr. (D) on Monday for the 36th District Assembly seat, becoming the first Republican to win the district since 2008. The 36th District,...

Republican Jeff Gonzalez Plans to Flip Assembly District 36 Red

October 3, 2024 9:42 amOctober 4, 2024 8:37 am

Assembly candidate Jeff Gonzalez just returned from a 6-hour round trip to Needles, CA, when we talked, which residents told him they hadn’t seen their elected Assembly representative for 10 years. Jeff Gonzalez lives in Indio, 167 miles away. Gonzalez...

Joshua Tree Saloon Super Groovy Tuesday

November 7, 2018 10:20 amNovember 7, 2018 10:33 am

JOSHUA TREE—Thanks to local musician and Open Mic Night host Teddy Quinn, Joshua Tree has a place to celebrate or mourn election results as a community. Quinn remembers the year the event at the Joshua Tree Saloon became a gathering...