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The median price of a home in Los Angeles County was $463,450 as of December, according to the California Association of Realtors, while it was only $327,210 in the counties of Riverside and San Bernardino. In Ventura County, the median was $612,460. The statewide median was $474,480. [Mary Heim] said another factor is that birth rates are slowing, particularly among Hispanics, who make up a significant percentage of Los Angeles County's population. Greater numbers of Hispanic females are reaching higher levels of educational attainment and labor force participation, both factors that tend to match a drop in fertility rates, she said. In Mexico, as well, fertility rates have been dropping, she noted. Los Angeles County's population also has been getting older, as its school-age population drops and work-force size remains nearly stagnant. Enrollment in grades 1-8 dropped by 12,000 students over the prior year, while the senior citizen population grew by 8,000, according to Finance Department senior demographer Linda Gage. The labor force increased by only 2,000.

SACRAMENTO - Population growth in the Inland Empire continues to boom as more people flee coastal California for affordable areas in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, state population figures released Monday show. The median price of a home in Los Angeles County was $463,450 as of December, while it was only $327,210 in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, according to the California Association of Realtors. The statewide median was $474,480. [Mary Heim] said another factor is that birth rates are slowing, particularly among Latinos, who make up a significant percentage of Los Angeles County's population. Greater numbers of Latinas are reaching higher levels of educational attainment and labor force participation, both factors which tend to match a drop in fertility rates, she said. In Mexico, as well, fertility rates have dropped, she noted.

County population grew by 132,309 people last year to 10,179,716 residents -- more than the combined total in the next four most populous counties combined. But its growth rate ranked just 32nd among the state's 58 counties. The median price of a home in Los Angeles County was $463,450 as of December, while it was $327,210 in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, according to the California Association of Realtors. The median was $612,460 in Ventura County and $474,480 statewide. \"The (San Fernando) Valley has experienced a very strong price appreciation over the last two to three years,\" [Jim Link] said. \"If there is an out-migration, it's price-driven. The median in the Valley hovers at around $480,000, and that's a fairly hefty price. So if someone can't afford that, certainly they're going to look at outlying areas.

The median price of a home in Los Angeles County was $463,450 as of December, while it was $327,210 in Riverside and San Bernardino counties, according to the California Association of Realtors. The median was $612,460 in Ventura County and $474,480 statewide. As Los Angeles County's school-age population drops and work force size remains nearly stagnant, the population is getting older on average. Enrollment dropped by 12,000 students in first through eighth grades from the previous year, while the senior citizen population grew by 8,000, according to Finance Department senior demographer Linda Gage. \"The (San Fernando) Valley has experienced a very strong price appreciation over the last two to three years,\" [Jim Link] said. \"If there is an out-migration, it's price-driven. The median in the Valley hovers at around $480,000, and that's a fairly hefty price. So if someone can't afford that, certainly they're going to look at outlying areas.

The state's ethnic makeup is set to continue changing dramatically over the next half century, [Mary Heim] said. Hispanics are projected to make up the majority of the state by around 2038. By 2050, Hispanics will account for 54 percent of all Californians, whites will make up 23 percent, Asians 12 percent and blacks 6 percent, according to the calculations. American Indians and multiracial people will account for 2 percent each.

Orange County's population grew to 2.8 million last year, increasing at the third-fastest pace in the state, new figures show. The number of residents here rose by 49,800 from July 1998 to July 1999, an increase of 1.8%, the California Department of Finance said Wednesday in its annual population report.

Ana Karen Manzanares Garcia, 18, a 2006 graduate of Deer Valley High School in Antioch, Calif., believes her alma mater needs to do a better job of educating Latinos. Although a Latino Club exists at the school, she says Latino culture should be taught more. Few teachers speak Spanish in Antioch, she said, unlike the middle school she attended in San Francisco. For years, schools have been majority Latino in much of Southern California and San Jose and predominately Latino in East Bay districts such as West Contra Costa and Pittsburg, Calif. In most other Contra Costa schools, white students remain the vast majority. But this year for the first time the Latino population exceeded whites in Antioch schools, according to the Department of Education. Latinos became the biggest group of students in Alameda County schools in 2004-05. While [Jackie Goldberg] stopped short of calling for the return of bilingual education, she, [Joe Coto] and Latino student advocates want to see the state adopt textbooks suited to meet the change. English and history textbooks and curriculum need to include more Latino and other cultures and be less Eurocentric, some say, and Coto wants textbooks that are less culturally biased. He also believes, as does Goldberg, that lesson plans shouldn't follow a one-size-fits-all approach. Moreover, Latinos are not a monolithic group; they are multigenerational Californios and recent immigrants, both legal and illegal, from across Latin America.

Mary Alice Heim, 84, of Dubuque, died Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2009, at Luther Manor, Dubuque.

  The Swineharts have been blessed and overwhelmed with the care and support from family, friends and customers. There have been \"prayer chains\" from people they have never met and cards of care and support for which they are ever grateful for. Still, so many people ask, \"What can I do?\" or \"Let me know what I can do to help,\" according to Mary Heim of Coal Township, [Bob]'s sister-in-law. \"It's a terrible thing to go through,\" Heim said. \"Anyone who has had a loved one affected by cancer knows the overwhelming feeling of helplessness. That's why my husband [Dave] and I decided we needed to do something.\" \"We need riders and the public's support for this cause,\" Heim said. \"In this economic period, everyone has hardships, but imagine having a terminal illness and out-of-pocket medical expenses. What would you do? How could you manage? The committee hopes to provide a nice event for everybody that attends with the end result showing Bob how much people care and love him.\"

In numbers released Wednesday, the state Department of Finance pegged Santa Clara County's population at nearly 1.8 million as of July 1, 2006, up 1.49 percent, or about 26,000 people, from the previous year. The county grew faster than any of the Bay Area's other large counties, including San Francisco, Alameda, San Mateo and Contra Costa. The finance department said about 67,000 more people left California for the other 49 states than arrived from the rest of the country, up from 56,000 people in 2005 -- a trend some observers said could be cause for concern. Overall, the state's population grew by about 462,000 in the past year, mostly because there were more births than deaths and because of foreign immigration. KB Home built 1,350 Bay Area homes in 2006, almost all of them in Santa Clara, Alameda or Contra Costa counties, up from 1,010 homes in 2005. \"We won't build a home if we don't have a person to build it for,\" [Craig LeMessurier] said.