January 7, 2010 – Daily Brief

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Jeff
  • Hundreds of job seekers line up at new Census office in Valencia as it officially opens. The job will pay $17/hr according to The Signal, and they’re looking to hire 1,000-1,500 people SIGNAL, KHTS
  • Governor Schwarzenegger “conciliatory” in State of the State speech, but behind the scenes, it’s still Lord of the Flies in the state capitol as we face another $20 billion budget deficit. Assemblyman Smyth says one of the Gov’s reforms -privatizing prisons- didn’t get much support from either party SIGNAL,  VECO STAR
  • Buck McKeon says the Underwear Bomber’s Christmas day attack on a plane to Detroit was “successful” in a sit-down with KHTS. He used the opportunity to criticize the President’s decision to close Guantanamo Bay penal colony KHTS
  • City Council candidate, buff entertainer and the man who put the talk  in SCVTalk Johnny Pride speaks to us MYERS
  • Deputy Sheriff who worked at Pitchess Detention center kills himself in San Gabriel mountains SIGNAL
  • Land owners want to raise rent for mobile home residents in Newhall by 39%  (or $200/month). The Signal says most of the mobile home dwellers are on a fixed income, while the land owners say they have to pay for flood damage SIGNAL
  • BioSolar, a local company that makes photovoltaic solar cells out of renewable sources like plants, gets mentioned in a Grist article on solar energy GRIST.ORG
  • In 2009, there were four million fewer cars on American roads, which is “unheard of” according to some experts. Popular speculation is that cars have reached a “saturation point” in America; there are currently 246 million registered vehicles in the country but only 209 million licensed drivers CLEAN TECHNICA
  • I guess we’re lucky we don’t have an Apple store- The LA Times reports that over 100 “follow away” burglaries have occurred. The suspects stake out Apple stores then follow victims around until they leave their cars unattended LA TIMES
  • The SCV Film Festival starts next week at the Rep East theater in Newhall. CITY BRIEFS
  • Column details local group’s efforts at getting HOAs to accept solar panel installs SIGNAL
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One Response to January 7, 2010 – Daily Brief

  1. Kevin D. Korenthal says:
    January 8, 2010 at 4:18 pm

    GITMO as a penal colony. That’s a new one to me. Not completely inaccurate either. We do need a long-term solution to housing terrorists that we can never release and whom are too critical to our clandestine services to put on open trial. What to do, what to do.

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