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Wilcox: Housing affordability all over the map and falling for everybody 2 days ago Business Hollywood stunt actors foster parkour, freerunning at Hawthorne, Chatsworth gyms 2 days ago Entertainment industry $400 million bill to stem runaway film and TV production would keep California competitive 2 days ago Business On the Job With Ken Lloyd: If they didn’t get the job, let them know 3 days ago Opinion Jill Painter Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw deserves MVP honors Doug McIntyre Hung up on cellphones? There’s a first world problem Louis Brewster Fans, media need to show patience in Tony Stewart investigation Home → Business Amazon taps Redlands for its fifth California distribution center REDLANDS >> With more and more people shopping online, Amazon.com Inc. announced Thursday it plans to open its fifth California distribution center here and its third in the Inland Empire. The new 700,0... By Neil Nisperos | 2 days ago Despite slight unemployment rate rise, Inland Empire jobs growing The Inland Empire unemployment rate rose slightly to 9.2 percent in July, the California Employment Development Department reported Friday. While the figure represents a 0.8 percent increase in unemployment from June to July, the figure is below... By Neil Nisperos | 1 day ago Business Small businesses tap Amazon’s shipping prowess to sell more, earn more Business Los Angeles County, Inland Empire lose jobs as California gains overall Automobile manufacturing Your next commuter car could have 2 seats, 3 wheels and get 84 miles to the gallon MOST RECENT STORIES Mobile phones Hung up on cellphones? There’s a first world problem I don’t like change. I admit it. If it were up to me, we’d still be using typewriters and cars would have vent windows and a lot more chrome. The cellphone was her idea. But technology is nothing if not seductive and after years of lugging one around, I’ve grown used to it. OK, dependent on it. Not as dependent as you smartphone people are dependent because my phone was an old-style flip phone with almost no features, or at least no feature I knew how to use... Doug McIntyre | 5 hrs ago Computer crime Chinese businessman indicted in Boeing C-17 hacking case LONG BEACH >> A 49-year-old Chinese national involved in a computer hacking scheme to steal trade secrets about the Long Beach-assembled Boeing C-17 military cargo plane and other aircraft has been indicted by a federal grand jury, the U.S. Attorney’s Office announced Friday. Businessman Su Bin — who also went by Stephen Su, Stephen Subin and Steven Subin — is being held in British Columbia, Canada, on a provisional arrest... Karen Robes Meeks | 1 day ago Airport operation TSA lost-and-found at LAX overflowing with unclaimed laptops, smartphones One hundred fifty-four laptops, 98 cellphones, 18 iPads and 32 wallets. These are among the thousands of items Los Angeles International Airport passengers have left at security checkpoints over the past month. And the TSA said Wednesday it would like to reunite them with their owners. As electronic gadgets replace books and magazines as passengers’ preferred form of in-flight entertainment, Transportation Security Administration lost-and-found offices have turned into... Jordan England-Nelson | 3 days ago Real estate Homes less affordable, but San Bernardino more affordable than most LOS ANGELES — The housing affordability index, which measures the percentage of all households that can afford to purchase a median-priced single- family home in California, fell in the second quarter, the California Association of Realtors reported today. Despite the dip in Californians’ ability to buy homes, San Bernardino County remains one of the state’s most affordable areas. Across the state, lower interest rates in the second quarter of 2014 failed to... City News Service | 3 days ago Aircraft manufacturing Boeing C-17 employees being offered job training, assistance by aerospace union LAKEWOOD >> The union representing more than 1,000 mechanics and others who work on Boeing’s Globemaster III C-17 this week opened its hall in Lakewood for job training and assistance for many soon-to-be displaced Boeing Co. employees based in East Long Beach. The move comes soon after the company issued its first round of layoff notices and nearly a year after Karen Robes Meeks | 3 days ago Family finances Money Manners: Law school decision not your business Q A good friend’s daughter is applying to law school. I’ve known “Jess” most of her life, and I’m familiar enough with her academic record to know that she’s not going to get into a top-tier school. While of course there’s no disgrace in this, the unfortunate truth is that these days, graduates of the kind of law school Jess can hope to attend generally have difficulty finding jobs that pay enough to justify the mountain of debt... By Jeanne Fleming and Leonard Schwarz | 4 days ago Job hunting Job openings hit 13-year high in June U.S. employers in June posted the largest number of monthly job openings in more than 13 years — a sure sign that the nation’s economy is getting back on track. A total of 4.67 million jobs were advertised, the highest since February 2001. June’s job openings were up 2.1 percent from the 4.58 million that were posted in May, the Labor Department reported Tuesday. The numbers were included in the Job Openings and Labor Turnover survey, or JOLTS report. The... Kevin Smith | 4 days ago Lawsuits Former worker files suit claiming SpaceX denied meal breaks, overtime pay A former factory worker has filed a class-action lawsuit alleging that Hawthorne rocket manufacturer SpaceX required employees to work through lunch breaks and did not provide overtime pay. The lawsuit also claims the company founded by Elon Musk, officially known as Space Exploration Technologies, rounded down the actual number of hours employees worked. Workers “were systematically denied their rest breaks due to the demands placed upon them by ... their... Jordan England-Nelson | 4 days ago Economic outlook Businesses keep jobs, find growth through San Bernardino County program A San Bernardino County Workforce Investment Board program that matches business consultants with companies facing difficulty has helped keep 700 workers at 47 local companies employed, according to the agency. The federally funded program, using what are called “rapid response” funds from the Department of Labor, provide money for consultants to help challenged businesses increase revenue, reduce operating costs, and recognizing opportunities to stabilize... Neil Nisperos | 6 days ago Special effects Visual effects group fights back against film subsidies The magic of visual effects added elegant-looking skyscrapers to Los Angeles for the futuristic film “Her,” blew up the city’s freeways in the blockbuster “Battle: Los Angeles” and let Autobots ravage Broadway in “Transformers.” But now the visual effects industry is looking for help. Faced with job losses from runaway production, a Los Angeles-area group representing visual effects workers launched a new campaign last week to highlight... 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