The Inland Empire Will Do Just About Anything to Insure You

In a Massive, Highly Diverse Region, Getting People Healthcare Means Getting Creative

If you build it, they won’t come. So you’ve got to go to them. This was the big takeaway from the first year of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in the Inland Empire, a region that desperately needed more healthcare coverage but was slow to get people enrolled. At a panel co-presented by The California Wellness Foundation at the Riverside Art Museum, public health and economic officials discussed how they’re working to reach the 500,000 people who were uninsured in the region before the implementation of the ACA.

Desert Healthcare District …

Where the Rock Stars of the Marching Band World Come Out to Play

Riverside Was and Is Southern California’s Drum Corps Hotspot

A futuristic scrapyard setting. Three 60-inch TV screens showing black-and-white static. A lookout tower. Then: a steady beat from a player on a drum set, cymbals crashing, and marimbas rolling …