David Downey

Despite seismic concerns, last segment of Los Angeles-to-San Francisco high-speed rail line is cleared environmentally @CShalby latimes.com/california/sto…

My latest: An ancient Palmer's oak was born before the end of the Ice Age and has survived in what is now Jurupa Valley for an astonishing 13,000 years. Development is proposed and that has advocates worried. I hike out to see the oak and reflect. pressenterprise.com/2024/06/27/cal…

My latest: items about an exhibit at @RAMriverside, a Claremont man in @NatGeo, the existence of @TamayoRest, a Chinese restaurant hub in @CityOfRC and much more. pressenterprise.com/2024/05/30/lac…

Latest from @JeffHorseman

After 14 months, Crestline has a grocery store again. Goodwin & Son's roof caved in during the 2023 blizzard in the San Bernardino Mountains. They reopened Tuesday and it's fair to say locals are excited: There's not a free spot in their parking lot today.

Mel will be missed.

Why does Major League Baseball have so few Black players? trib.al/OaORDeG

Since the pandemic began more than three years ago, the U.S. has suffered wave after wave of loss. As the declaration of the Covid-19 public health emergency expires, here’s a look at the toll the virus has taken. nyti.ms/3I2bjU7

Latest from @sarahxhofmann

Great things were granted today at the City Council mtg as we updated our budget. Here's a few of my favorites: -$10 million for road repaving -$5 million for repair/replacement of trash trucks -$700,000 for correcting park vandalism -$140,000 for up to five Police Service Dogs

In early 1962, before their first album, @TheBeachBoys played two short concerts in San Bernardino. The Hawthorne band returned to SB several times in 1963, a year in which they went as far as Hemet and Indio for gigs. That's a long way from the water. sbsun.com/2023/04/08/bea…

Amazing photos here of what California's reservoirs looked like before and after this wet winter... ocregister.com/2023/04/06/dra…

Poppies are set to bloom across California in bursts of orange and yellow for the first time since 2019. The superblooms are expected to be so bright that they can be seen from space. on.wsj.com/3Ke3bjU

Russia has taken over the rotating presidency of the UN Security Council. The panel, created to maintain world peace, met in New York on Monday under its new leadership: the country that has plunged Europe into its biggest conflict since World War II. nyti.ms/40FhXHm

I visit the little-visited Citrus State Historic Park in Riverside, meant to be a living museum to California's citrus days. $30 million in the state budget may allow the park to be completed at last. pressenterprise.com/2023/04/02/cit…

Five years after ⁦@chuckplunkett⁩ led the Denver Post Rebellion, journalism in Colorado has changed but hasn’t lost the fight. (Bad news for authoritarians and the authoritarian-curious.) coloradosun.com/2023/04/02/den…

Myrlie Evers, who moved to Claremont and attended @pomonacollege after her husband, Medgar Evers, was assassinated in Mississippi, was honored at Bridges Auditorium for her 90th birthday. Even the Bidens filmed a "happy birthday" video for the occasion. dailybulletin.com/2023/03/26/civ…

The Navajo Nation reservation stretches across 27,000 square miles in Arizona, Utah and New Mexico, Almost a third of the 170,000 people who live there do not have access to clean, reliable drinking water, the tribe says. n.pr/40jIbP1

What kind of relief -- and when -- San Bernardino Mountain residents can expect after devastating winter storms. My latest: buff.ly/3FzbW6w

Pence saying something about the press that v few other Republicans are, at Gridiron, via @playbookdc: “I don’t deny that you infuriate me … and I’m sure I infuriate you … but I genuinely value what you do to keep us a democracy.”