Madison Aument

Dozens flooded Congressman Jay Obernolte’s (CA-23) office in Hesperia on Tuesday. They were there to rally against the Medicaid cuts in President Trump’s megabill... and to ask Obernolte, a Republican, to vote no.

For 91.9 KVCR News, I'm Madison Aument, and this is Economics IE. Daniel McDonald is a professor of economics at Cal State San Bernardino. He also writes a free Substack newsletter called Inland Empire Economic Intelligence.Every two months, inflation data is published for the Inland Empire. So this week, McDonald joined me to talk about the ways people in the IE are still feeling the sting of inflation.

The school board in Temecula adopted a revised policy Tuesday night to notify parents if their child makes changes to their records. It comes months after they were forced to rescind one that would inform parents if their child is transgender.

The controversy in Redlands continued last night as the school board there voted to adopt two contentious policies— that critics say are an attack on LGBTQ students.

A man charged in connection to the bombing of a fertility clinic in Palm Springs has died in federal custody. Daniel Park was in prison for supplying large amounts of chemicals used in the attack.

Each month, IEGO, a nonprofit focused on economic growth in the Inland Empire, publishes the IE Labor Market Pulse. The newsletter analyzes monthly employment data to give readers insight into the IE labor market. Today, I’m speaking with Matt Mena, Executive Director of IEGO, about last month’s job numbers.

An archer may be shooting wild donkeys in Riverside County. Authorities there got word recently about two burros with arrows in their sides. Now they’re searching for the animals… and who did it.

The Redlands school board on Tuesday considered two proposals to address racism in schools. After hours of public comment and discussion, the board decided to table both resolutions.

For 91.9 KVCR News, I’m Madison Aument, and this is Economics IE. Kelley Bader is the former board president at Slow Bloom Coffee Cooperative and is now program manager for co-op development at the Inland Empire Labor Institute. Last week, we talked about Slow Bloom’s creation and success as a worker-owned co-op. You can find that episode on our website. In part two of our interview, Bader delves further into cooperatives and what they mean for workers.

A second man has been identified in the bombing of a fertility clinic last month in Palm Springs. Authorities arrested him late Tuesday and say he supplied large amounts of chemicals that were used by the FBI’s primary suspect to make explosives.