Alicia Ramirez (she/her)

God I love journalism.

A pesto pepperoni pizza on a homemade crust fresh out of the oven.

It’s March 6, and our Friday night pizza is pesto pepperoni on a homemade crust.

Supervisors Vote to Fill PVHD Board Vacancies By Election, Appointment The Riverside County Board of Supervisors this week voted to fill a pair of vacancies on the Palo Verde Healthcare District Board of Directors by both election and appointment.

The Riverside County Board of Supervisors this week voted to fill a pair of vacancies on the Palo Verde Healthcare District Board of Directors by both election and appointment.
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Apologies for the late notice, but today’s office hours for @riversiderecord.bsky.social at Back to the Grind in downtown Riverside are being cut short, because this Santa Ana wind event has triggered my allergies.

I’ll be back out next week!

Riverside Begins Search For City’s First Inspector General Three months after voting to formally create the Office of the Inspector General, overwhelmingly approved by voters in 2024, the city of Riverside announced Tuesday the search for a candidate has begu...

Three months after voting to formally create the Office of the Inspector General, overwhelmingly approved by voters in 2024, the city of Riverside announced Tuesday the search for a candidate has begun. 
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really, really important read, especially if you are a sports reporter imo.

Seeing some of the things the USC students post on the internet, I'm so happy that social media was limited to Facebook photo albums when I was in college.

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protestor A court record reviewed by 404 Media shows privacy-focused email provider Proton Mail handed over payment data related to a Stop Cop City email account to the Swiss government, which handed it to the ...

New from 404 Media: Proton Mail, the privacy-focused email service, gave authorities data that let the FBI unmask an anonymous 'Stop Cop City' protester. It was payment data linked to the anonymous email account. From that, FBI ID'd them, then tracked their movements www.404media.co/proton-mail-...

ICE detains reporter Estefany Rodríguez in Nashville - Nashville Banner Reporter Estefany Rodríguez, detained by ICE with no arrest warrant, may face deportation. Her attorneys seek immediate review of the legality of her case.

A Nashville reporter who has reported on ICE was detained at a stop in South Nashville yesterday. Estefany Rodríguez fled Colombia after getting death threats and is awaitng an asylum hearing.

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Riverside Voters To Decide Future Of Measure Z Sales Tax In June Riverside voters will soon decide whether to increase sales tax in the city to cover the cost of improving the city’s fire department.

Riverside voters will soon decide whether to increase sales tax in the city to cover the cost of improving the city’s fire department. 
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Shasta won’t fund election official's representation amid legal challenge to ballot measure – Shasta Scout Curtis asked the board to hire Trump-connected attorney Peter Ticktin in hopes of ensuring the amendment makes it to ballots. A majority said no.

Curtis asked the board to hire Trump-connected attorney Peter Ticktin in hopes of ensuring the amendment makes it to ballots. A majority said no.

Voter confusion plagues Texas primary in key county Republicans’ decision to shake up polling locations led to mass confusion in the Texas primary election.

Hundreds of voters showed up at the wrong polling place after the Dallas County GOP forced both parties to abandon countywide vote centers in the March primary.

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A tweet from Eleanor Klibanoff saying, "The Texas Supreme Court has temporarily BLOCKED a Dallas judge’s order to keep the polls open til 9, ordering the county to separate out votes from people who were not in line at 7pm. Not a final ruling, but will create chaos in getting results from Dallas County"

Wow. If any races in Dallas County are super tight, this will be a huge legal fight as thousands of votes hang in purgatory.

Nearly 900 People Have Been Killed in Fighting in the Middle East The vast majority of deaths reported so far have been in Iran, but the human toll is being felt around the world.

More than 870 people have been killed in the fighting in the Middle East since the U.S. and Israel attacked Iran on Saturday. The vast majority of those reported so far have been in Iran, but others have died in Bahrain, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon and Israel as well.

ACLU, Law Firm Reps Urge Riverside To Reconsider Affordable Housing Vote Representatives from three nonprofit law firms said the Riverside City Council’s decision to reject millions in state grant funding for an affordable housing project violated the law and could leave t...

Representatives from three nonprofit law firms said the Riverside City Council’s decision to reject millions in state grant funding for an affordable housing project violated the law and could leave the city vulnerable to legal action. 
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"But over the course of Friday, more than 150 accounts placed hundreds of bets of at least $1,000, correctly predicting an American strike on Iran by Saturday."

That is a stark chart www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...

The first confirmed fatalities in Trump's illegal War on Iran:

Captain Cody A. Khork, 35, of Winter Haven, FA

Sergeant First Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42, of Bellevue, NE

Sergeant First Class Nicole M. Amor, 39, of White Bear Lake, MN

Sergeant Declan J. Coady, 20, of West Des Moines, IA

The only people who win in a war are those selling it.

And I think about my grandfather, who spent the last years of his life riddled with disease after being exposed to Agent Orange in Vietnam and South Korea.

I think about Basil, a British WWII vet, who moved to the U.S. after the war because he no longer had a family to go home to after they were killed in a bombing.

Every time the U.S. starts a new war, I think about the piercing screams of a pregnant widow on the tarmac of a regional airport as her husband’s flag-draped casket was carried down the stairs to a waiting hearse.

The official announcement image for Adam French

The official announcement image for Freddie Agyin

Update from closed session:

Adam French has been named the director of Riverside County Veterans Services, and Freddie Agyin has been named the director of the Riverside County Department of Environmental Health.

There are a few songs that will always get me to rally, regardless of how tired I am, but Chelsea Dagger by The Fratellis is in a category all its own.

It’s also the clearest sign that I lived in Chicago during the Blackhawks dynasty 🤪

And that’s a wrap on the public portion of this meeting!

The supervisors will now meet in closed session. County counsel Minh Tran says reportable action is expected.

Will update this thread after that action is read out.

Moving into supervisors comments. Again, I’ll update if necessary.

What to watch in the consequential Senate primaries in Texas The 2026 midterm season begins in earnest on Tuesday with two of the nation’s most consequential Senate primaries playing out in Texas.

The 2026 midterm season begins in earnest on Tuesday with two of the nation's most consequential Senate primaries playing out in Texas, a political behemoth that Democrats have been fighting to flip for decades. https://to.pbs.org/3OKVgAA

BREAKING: City of Birmingham passes temporary suspension on data centers. Story to come

During the Renaissance, people in Venice would vote by dropping little balls into an urn.

The Italian word for “little ball” is ‘ballotta.’

Now any kind of secret voting, by ball, piece of paper, or voting machine, is called a ‘ballot.’

We’ve made it to public comment, folks! The clerk says we’ve got six speakers signed up.

As always, I’ll update if necessary.

A member of TLMA presenting the proposed project to the supervisors.

Finally done with consent and moving right along to the sole public hearing item today:

Item 23.1: Proposal for the development of 73 single-family lots and 10 open space lots on 36.5 acres of land in the Lake Mathews Zoning District.

No public comments. Approved unanimously.