TODAY’S LEAD
Citrus Belt Review: The national story says AI is taking warehouse jobs. The corridor's actual filings tell a different one — for now.
SUPPORTING FEATURES
Champion Newspapers: WM trucks will photograph contaminated and overfilled carts; fines of $17.89 and $29.81 follow a two-month warning period.
Citrus Belt Review: California shrank for the first time in three years. The IE still grew — but only where houses went up, and only in one of its two counties.
The Raincross Gazette: A conditional use permit legalizes a campus that has run without city approval since 2015, and caps enrollment at 450.
Business & Money
Real estate, manufacturing and logistics, tribal economy, wine country, capital markets.
Citrus Belt Review: California shrank for the first time in three years. The IE still grew — but only where houses went up, and only in one of its two counties.
Citrus Belt Review: A UCR survey finds just 41% of IE residents thriving, against 53% nationwide. The economy is growing, but the gains aren't reaching wages or the warehouse jobs the corridor was built on.
Citrus Belt Review: The Riverside metro pays physicians within 3% of Los Angeles rates — one of five California metros in Doximity's national top ten.
People & Moves
Executive hires, promotions, departures across IE companies, agencies, and hospitals.
The Raincross Gazette: Permanent now after four months as interim; oversaw a run that pulled in six international firms and 700-plus jobs.
Champion Newspapers: Montclair Chamber executive director; replaces Misty Fram on the shelter nonprofit's board.
Hiring Signals
WARN notices, major hires, workforce-level activity across IE sectors.
California EDD: A staffing firm is cutting 725 jobs at one Moreno Valley site — one of the largest single WARN filings in the corridor this cycle, and a read on warehouse labor demand more than any one employer.
HSJ Chronicle: The latest EDD numbers show the Inland Empire jobless rate down as employers add jobs, with demand holding in education and health, hospitality, government, construction, and trade.
Community Forward Redlands: 17 of the 24 cuts are counselors; the district started the year planning to eliminate 91 positions before vacancies and attrition pared it down.
Civic
Land use, public finance, housing, public safety, elections.
The Raincross Gazette: A conditional use permit legalizes a campus that has run without city approval since 2015, and caps enrollment at 450.
Citrus Belt Review: Residents across the corridor keep spotting new license plate readers — on city streets, county roads, and inside their own gated neighborhoods. What they can't find is a straight answer about who installed them or why.
The Raincross Gazette: The watchdog post pays $161,000 to $217,000 and reports to the mayor and council — the structure critics say undercuts its independence.
Weekend
Dining, wine country, tribal hospitality, events, day trips. Full Weekend page refreshes Friday morning.
Upland Lemon Festival: Free, three days, five stages, 200-plus vendors — the city's 29-year citrus tradition runs Friday through Sunday.
RivCoParks: First public workshop on the heritage village planned around Riverside's 1862 adobe — review early concepts, weigh in on the site's future.
City of Rancho Cucamonga: Free family movie nights start this week — Cars Friday, a new film weekly through July.
Citrus Belt Review: Washington just softened a few finished-goods tariffs, but the force that actually moves IE metal companies is the 50% tax on raw steel and aluminum — and it splits local firms into winners and losers depending on whether they make metal or buy it.
The Long Read · Published Wednesday
The Numbers
Five key metrics from the dashboard. Continuously updated as data sources release.
Tuesday, June 9, 2026 · Data current through June 8