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1 week ago | 
riversiderecord.org | Daniel Eduardo Hernandez |Daniel Hernández
Taso Alexiou was surprised by his customers’ reactions after he changed the color of the iconic neon sign for George’s Drive In from blue to red two years ago. He made the change in an effort to increase the sign’s visibility, because he felt the blue blended with the sky. It remains the biggest change he’s made to the family-owned business since taking charge. “It’s tough being the caregiver of the restaurant,” Alexiou said.
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1 week ago | 
riversiderecord.org | Daniel Eduardo Hernandez |Daniel Hernández
A protest that was supposed to last two hours went late into the night as more than a thousand Inland Empire residents flocked to downtown Riverside Saturday to protest against President Donald Trump and his administration’s policies as part of the nationwide “No Kings” movement. Maria Castillo, an attendee, said she showed up to protest against the administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration. She added that her husband was deported in 2018 during Trump’s first term.
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2 weeks ago | 
riversiderecord.org | Daniel Eduardo Hernandez |Daniel Hernández
Around 300 Inland Empire residents gathered in downtown Riverside on June 13 in protest of the Trump administration’s nationwide crackdown on illegal immigration. “My parents came here illegally originally, and I wouldn’t be here if that hadn’t happened,” Claudia Valdovinos, an attendee, said as she began to tear up.
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4 weeks ago | 
tucsonsentinel.com | Daniel Eduardo Hernandez |Daniel Hernández
Special to Tucson Sentinel Growing up a son of a construction worker and in a Mexican immigrant household in Southern Arizona, I know what it’s like to feel the pressure when prices go up, but your family’s paycheck doesn’t.
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4 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Danielle Dorsey |Jenn Harris |Stephanie Breijo |Betty Hallock |Daniel Eduardo Hernandez |Daniel Hernández
In their soul, everyone has a historic restaurant they miss dearly in Los Angeles. Some fell victim to the mounting challenges that restaurants face in L.A.: gentrification, rising retail rental costs, and a prolonged financial fallout following pandemic closures, Hollywood industry strikes and the devastating January wildfires. Despite their untimely end, the city's most iconic restaurants have not faded from our collective memory.
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2 months ago | 
riversiderecord.org | Daniel Eduardo Hernandez |Daniel Hernández
U.S. Rep. Mark Takano (D-Riverside) repeatedly critiqued the Trump administration and said the nation is in the midst of a constitutional crisis, likening it to early-stage cancer, at a Tuesday night town hall in Riverside. “Like any cancer, if we don’t catch it early and confront it aggressively, it will spread,” Takano told the crowd of about 250 at Ysmael Villegas Community Center in his opening speech while addressing Trump’s defiance of multiple court orders.
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2 months ago | 
riversiderecord.org | Daniel Eduardo Hernandez |Daniel Hernández
As the buzz of customers and the drone of airplane engines filled the air, Leimamo Taylor sat in her restaurant’s office feeling overwhelmed. She’s felt this way since opening her cafe in 2019. “There were all these things coming at me in my first year, it was kind of like a spiral,” Taylor said.
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2 months ago | 
latimes.com | Daniel Eduardo Hernandez
Donning a bright red Adelita dress, a large beige sombrero and a silky bow tied to her hair, Rashel Zamorez rode her horse Bombón up to the starting line. She was preparing to compete in a friendly, untimed carrera con giros — an event in which riders guide their horses at top speed around a circular arena while completing three rotations at designated intervals. The race was the last act of her team’s performances, meant to show off their new skills to a small crowd of relatives and friends.
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Mar 5, 2025 | 
riversiderecord.org | Daniel Eduardo Hernandez |Daniel Hernández
After a decade of planning and fundraising — and two storm delays this year — the city of Riverside held a groundbreaking ceremony Tuesday to mark the start of construction on the state-of-the-art Northside Agriculture Innovation Center.
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Mar 5, 2025 | 
latimes.com | Daniel Eduardo Hernandez
In prison and seemingly unable to escape a destructive cycle that began when he was a child, Ahmed Bellozo spent hours watching investigative journalism shows, educational documentaries and Huell Howser’s homespun travelogue, “California’s Gold.” It was a way, he said, to distract from his pain.
