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Happy Saturday, everyone, and welcome to our look back at the stories shaping life across our entire desert community — The CV Reporter. Each week, we bring together standout reporting from The Palm Springs Post, The Palm Desert Post, and The Indio Post so you can see beyond your own neighborhood and stay connected to the issues, people, and moments that matter across the entire Coachella Valley.

— Mark & Kendall

American Reproductive Centers broke ground Monday on a new state-of-the-art fertility clinic and surgical center in Palm Springs, nearly one year after a bombing destroyed the original facility and set off a community-wide effort to help the clinic survive and rebuild.

Attendees cheered and the applicant and commissioners shook hands as the Palm Desert Planning Commission voted 4-0 Tuesday to approve Patrick Masur’s Rock’n Avenue Bar at 73-730 El Paseo. After a six-week recess, the commission approved the project with 53 conditions.

A MESSAGE FROM THE LIVING DESERT

Declining enrollment was cited as the reason for the closure at Indio HIgh School, with an estimated 30 students interested in the program next year. Members of the Indio City Council said they planned to reach out to the school’s principal and the district in hopes of reversing the decision.

The Palm Desert Parks and Recreation Committee voted 6-1 Tuesday to recommend that the city council reverse a proposed ordinance that would cut the panel’s meetings from once a month to once every two months — a change members say was made without their input and would undermine their ability to advise on parks projects.

Riverside County officials presented a $10 billion budget at a community workshop in Palm Desert last week, warning of financial pressures from potential state and federal funding cuts. County Executive Officer Jeff Van Wagenen said the county is facing rising costs and flattening revenues, making it difficult to predict the local economic future of a county with 2.5 million residents across 7,300 square miles.

Standout reporting from trusted sources

📣 Local public information officers join forces to launch the CV PIO Task Force [Coachella Valley Independent]

🏨 San Manuel Nation buys Riverside’s historic Mission Inn [Riverside Record]

🚗 California to share data on immigrant drivers nationally [CalMatters]

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