Homelessness in the City of Riverside up 34%? Homeless youth up a staggering 41%? We take a brief look at the findings in the 2020 Riverside County Point In Time Count recently released.

Scandal at SCAPA? Listen as Jason Hunter explains.....

There are three sides to every story....... listen as we decipher what happened after the Mayor veto'd Ex-City Manager John Russo's contract with the City of Riverside.

Measure O: Where did it go? What if the spending of millions of dollars of public bond money came down to semantics or interpretation of the bond measure? Listen in as our guest Jason Hunter lays out his side of why this bond money should not go towards building new schools and decide for yourself if its being used correctly.
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Listen as The Downtown Area Neighborhood Alliance describes the details of their "Safer Parks Initiative", a proposal to deter criminal activity in Ward One parks and along the Santa Ana River trail and return the public green space back to the law abiding "measure Z paying" taxpayers.

The Riverside Public Utilities is recommending raising the rates of its services to make up for lost revenue and replace aging infrastructure, but after some recent events ( Measure Z, the firing of City Manager John Russo and news being made by some RPU employees earning hundreds of thousands of dollars in overtime) can the already bewildered City Council stand up to many of it's constituents who say they've lost confidence in their ability to make sound decisions that benefit Riverside?

The City of Riverside and its elected officials are once again entrenched in controversy as the city tries to fix the public relations mess they currently find themselves in.

A brash and arrogant City Manager is at the epicenter of what some are calling "Russogate"
Abruptly fired even though just 3 short months ago he was being lauded as the best thing to happen to this city in a long time. A mayor suing his own city? A City Council that looks like a bunch of idiots that can't get it together. Accusations of collusion and corruption?

So whether you are watching like a hawk or haven't quite been filled in on the whole story, join us as we sit down with community watchdog Jason Hunter and get the dirt that the suits at City Hall don't want you to know..........

The Keep California Safe Act of 2018 will fix three related problems created by recent laws that have threatened the public safety of Californians and their children from violent criminals.

Please visit www.keepcalsafe.org

This episode of Block By Block looks at how the closing of the Nation's mental institutions increased the homeless population in our country over the last 50 years. Will we ever really be able to begin to solve the homeless problem unless we first deal with how we care for the mentally ill?