February 23, 2010 – Daily Brief *
- Dave Bossert says documents he requested from City Hall might prove that Councilwoman Marsha McLean is being “chauffeured” around by city staffers. He then pastes in an email conversation between staffers saying they have to pick McLean up from home “like normal.” What’s remarkable, he says, is that none of the documents were redacted in anyway, almost “as if some City staffers wanted to throw McLean under the bus.” He also writes about Ferry and Weste in his post WRB
- *Someone died on Sand Canyon last night. The Daily News says a car plunged off the road, resulting in a fatality DAILY NEWS
- Crime actually up slightly in 2009, not down. Sorry for the mix-up in yesterday’s Brief, I got confused. Anyway, the Signal has a full story today; major crimes were up last year, with burglaries showing a 12% rise. Auto thefts were down however. SIGNAL
- City to add more traffic cams if Council approves agenda item SIGNAL
- Southern California cities toss around ideas to deal with giant vacant auto lots. Over the last two years, over 260 dealerships in California have closed. We have a fair share on Creekside too LA TIMES
- A 19 year old man was pursued and arrested for driving a stolen car on Monday. SIGNAL
- A Valencia couple has been arrested for growing marijuana in their home. A fire in the home lead to the discovery of 47 marijuana plants, plus cultivation equipment. The man arrested says the pot is for personal use and he doesn’t sell. The couple had children in the home. SIGNAL
- LA Dodgers jack up ticket prices even for the upper deck nosebleed sections LA OBSERVED
- George Runner bill would ban sex offenders from signing up for websites like Facebook. Such sites are like a “virtual shopping mall for sex offenders on the prowl,” he tells the VV DAILY PRESS
- Mobile home owners in Newhall hit with $68 a month increase in rent after City panel votes yes on increase. The increase will go towards paying for damages suffered during rainstorms in 2004/05. SIGNAL
- SCVMomsBlog asks “What does Think SCV Mean to you?” Very well. I take ThinkSCV to the next level. Our way of life, superior as it is, must be spread to all four corners of the globe, and the galaxy beyond. It is not enough that just I Think SCV, I believe everyone, everywhere, and at all times must ThinkSCV (and dream it too, there is no escape). There beat that, SCV MOMS
- Cool graphic shows how residents of major US cities get to work INFRASTRUCTURIST
- Steve Poizner camp says Meg Whitman is out of touch for wearing a Burberry coat at NASCAR race in Fontana. For those of you without a fashion sense like me, Burberry is to Meg Whitman as Arugula is to Barack Obama as Provolone is to John Kerry’s Cheese Steak. It is not acceptable to wear such high-end threads at a beer-soaked NASCAR event. HUFFPO
- Buck McKeon’s Women’s Workshop was just a poorly disguised campaign event for Carly Fiorina opinion writer says. She gets bonus points for forcing McKeon’s Deputy Chief of Staff to extricate the Congressmen when she confronted him SIGNAL
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Traffic Cams: I don’t mind them, but I thing the fines are excessive. I have never had a traffic cam picture, but these fines are abusive.
Vacant Auto Lots: How about a place where gourtmet trucks can conglomerate and keep the gastro’s happy.
George Runner: Waste of time, you can’t control it. Stop pandering.
NASCAR is for everyone, stupid Huffpo
Yes, “gourtmet” was intentional
was “gastro’s” intentional? Bout of Jammer-itis perhaps?
A good idea nonetheless.
The author of The Signal opinion piece “Shame on you, Mr McKeon” is obviously a malcontent who went to the conference with an agenda to embarrass Carly Fiorina and Congressman McKeon. She may well be the sister of the Assemblywoman from Berkeley, CA. A planned hit job using The Signal.
Another crime that was NOT reported in the newspaper happened Sunday afternoon at the corner of Lyons & Apple in Newhall, near the Chase bank parking lot.
What I was told by and eye witness was:
a group of young men told a young lady driver to stop and when she did, they pulled the young male passenger out of the car and beat him to a pulp.
To verify this I called the sheriff station and spoke to a women sheriff, and she told me there was an arrest made.
No more~No less.
I do realize the crime was on Sunday but still no report in the newspaper by today.
Today’s headline article in TMS on crime in the Santa Clarita Valley area sure stands in contrast with the article of a couple days ago. Kudos to TMS and SCVtalk for the make-up reporting.
However, Capt. La Berge’s article does have a breakdown of City of Santa Clarita stats, showing an increase in crime in 7 out of 8 major crime categories from 2008 to 2009.
That stat alone does not fit City Hall’s election-time story line that ‘everything’s fine.’
CC – They aren’t talking about enforcement cameras, these are the traffic monitoring cameras.
I think the Signal’s collective crime statistic is lousy. The “slight increase in crime” is based on aggregating all crimes–homicides and rape with less violent crimes like auto theft and larceny.
If you take the statistic seriously, it means that even if there were 100 more murders in a year but 101 fewer larcenies, the overall crime rate would be said to decrease. I don’t think that’s in the spirit of accurately describing crime in the SCV; a more informative number to report is that crime in 7 of 8 categories increased between 2008 and 2009.
Of course, of the 7/8 crime rates that increased, many did so by very small amounts, and I don’t think these numbers control for increases in population. This is why year-to-year statistics don’t mean much either way.
Jeff – this is right up your alley
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2010/02/bike-couriers-case-down-would-be-bike-thief-in-wild-downtown-pursuit.html
It’s too bad they are raising Dodger ticket prices again. Parking is also high at $15. I always thought baseball was a sport families could afford to attend. I guess the McCourts need more money for the divorce costs…
Ahh Jane, thanks for clearing that up. Is Jammer-itis serious? I definitely have brain fade of some sort this morning.
I’m not sure about McLean being “Ferry’d” (couldn’t resist!) all over town cuz I see her Acura everywhere she goes.
Meg Whitman can afford to wear Prada in the pits at NASCAR if she feels like it.
Chris Sharp writes in The West Ranch Beacon “A Sharp View: TimBen Boydston auditions as City Hall’s Happy Warrior”
Great article on Boydston’s views!
Take a look at http://westranchbeacon.com/blog/2010/02/a-sharp-view-timben-boydston-auditions-as-city-hall%e2%80%99s-happy-warrior/
GREAT column today from Patricia Skinner Sulpizio, outing Buck McKeon for his underhanded campaign trick, putting in candidate Carly Fiorina for the women’s conference. Has this congressman no shame?
As a Republican, I won’t be voting for Fiorina, just because she is backed by McKeon. McKeon surrounds himself with dutiful puppets, like Laurie Ender and Frank Ferry, and if McKeon is backing Fiorina, it is a for sure that she will be nothing more than another McKeon puppet. McKeon only backs spineless weaklings, and his support of any candidate tells voters they will just get a shameless McKeon campaigner for their vote.
But using the women’s conference to promote his next puppet hopeful was pretty slimy even for McKeon. Just how low can this jerk go, and why was this shameless campaigning under the guise of the women’s conference allowed in the first place?
I don’t necessarily disagree with you charlie but Sulpizio is no better in her own right.
Just goes to show you the power of the Web. We may have gotten some trash for it but our letters to McKeon post-Women’s Conference were up weeks ago.
I love how you “Think SCV,” Jeff. You’re so passionate… maybe you stopped by that pot-growing couple’s house before you got started blogging this morning?
“I love how you “Think SCV,” Jeff. You’re so passionate… maybe you stopped by that pot-growing couple’s house before you got started blogging this morning”
No comment.
Did anyone see the man lying on the sidewalk on Soledad east of Whites yesterday afternoon? We saw paramedics arrive at the scene. Just wondering if anyone knows what happened.