March 8, 2010 – Daily Brief

Posted on March 8, 2010 by Jeff
  • No updates yet in Johnny Pride case, we’ll keep our ears to the ground today however
  • SCV is home to at least 13 private schools and their appeal is growing, reports the Signal. More than a few of them teach “evolution as a theory” alongside creationism. Enrollment in the schools seems to be growing, with one (Trinity) set to open a full high school in a few years SIGNAL
  • The Signal’s Jonathan Randles had a one-on-one interview with Congressman Buck McKeon on health care, immigration, and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell SIGNAL
  • Second round of campaign finance disclosure forms will be visible on VoteSantaClarita.com by close of business tomorrow, March 9 I’m told. We may have some numbers for you today however.
  • TimBen Boydston opens campaign HQ on Old Town Newhall TIMBEN.COM
  • Go Weste the SCV Congress of Republicans says. SIGNAL
  • Newhall Land officials must be tickled pink with the success of Awesometown and how the term has entered the SCV vernacular SIGNAL
  • Mother thought man arrested for molesting her boy was a “weird guy,” but gave him the benefit of the doubt because he was in her church. That and more details in the Signal’s thorough story SIGNAL
  • New Sheriff’s Captain ran cold case and unsolved murder team. He also has run the LASD’s city contracting bureau SIGNAL
  • The two giant Texas oil companies who are apparently funding a California ballot initiative to overturn our landmark Greenhouse Gas law are staying quiet about the issue says the NY TIMES
  • State Senate bill would forbid cyclists from riding while using their cell phone. Streetsblog is upset but I say what’s good for the goose is good for the gander STREETSBLOG
  • Leasing companies and owners are using the SCV’s 25% of vacant office space for film production SIGNAL
  • The motorcyclist killed in Bouquet Canyon on Sunday was a 47 year old man from Northridge. The CHP says his motorcycle collided with a car but no one else was injured SIGNAL
  • Los Angeles International airport and its “faded, cramped domestic terminal” is us, the people of “the United States of Deferred Maintenance,” writes Thomas Friedman
  • I should have seen this coming: Roger Gitlin quotes from my round-up of last week’s Minuteman Rally. Let me just reply with the Bob Kellar defense. The quote is completely taken out of context. SIGNAL
  • Speaking of that rally, blogger Blazing Monk has put together an interesting highlight video of the rally BLAZINGMONK
  • A perfect storm of media, crime, and the City of Santa Clarita in Dave Bossert’s commentary this week WRB
  • About that editorial last week that hinted at the existence of a “Crime is Rising!!1!” hit mailer by one of the Council challengers, the Signal says it messed up and didn’t mean to cause such a fuss. There is no mailer…yet the paper says SIGNAL
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14 Responses to March 8, 2010 – Daily Brief

  1. Fred Butler says:
    March 8, 2010 at 8:45 am

    It gives me a chuckle to read newspaper reporters writing about private schools. Like the person’s an anthropologist that has discovered some previously unknown tribe in the mountains of Burma or something.

  2. Annette says:
    March 8, 2010 at 8:47 am

    Journalism at it’s worst.
    Crime is up in 7 out of the 8 categories. Auto theft has gone down far enough to over come the human inflicted crimes.

  3. scvmom says:
    March 8, 2010 at 8:57 am

    Just wanted to say thanks for the Daily brief! You give a great update of SCV info!

  4. Blazingmonk says:
    March 8, 2010 at 9:22 am

    Haha good one fred

  5. NickelDime says:
    March 8, 2010 at 11:00 am

    RE: TMS’s Sunday editorial on Google fiber “We love you Google, now commit to us”

    It was weak. Being Hollywood’s backlot is not enough of a reason to be selected.

    Criterion #1 Next generation apps: We want to see what developers and users can do with ultra high-speeds, whether it’s creating new bandwidth-intensive “killer apps” and services, or other uses we can’t yet imagine.

    The first thing that comes to mind is in line with Principal Cory Pak’s vision for West Creek Academy – to use high speed infrastructure to further classroom instruction, beyond where it is today.

    One case in point was simulcast concerts with a school on the other side of the world. There were others that took cultural understanding to a whole new level.

    Something at that scale goes well beyond a T-1.

    This aligns with Google’s “Ten Things” and civic-minded nature much more than “we blew up stuff for 24.”

    Having 5 school districts, though, makes scaled collaboration rather difficult. One school in one district ain’t gonna cut it.

    Comparing, say, Burbank – a city with ~100k residents, one school district, a larger density of studios and post-prod, dark fiber already in place for distribution – I’d be quite shocked to learn we were among the lucky ones selected.

  6. Annette says:
    March 8, 2010 at 1:13 pm

    Thanks Jeff! Dave B’s commentary is a MUST read for anyone interested in the future of SCV.

    Again, shame on you Signal!
    NO Incumbents in 2010!

  7. Damageinc says:
    March 8, 2010 at 1:51 pm

    No on should ever read Bossert. Gauny’s partnership with Bossert sent my vote somewhere else.

  8. SCV Guy says:
    March 8, 2010 at 2:12 pm

    @Damageinc : I disagree. Everyone should be reading all of these local news and blog websites and then making up their OWN decision.

    Taking just one point of view is never enough.

  9. Damageinc says:
    March 8, 2010 at 2:43 pm

    Oh should we be reading your blog too… Lol

  10. Damageinc says:
    March 8, 2010 at 2:44 pm

    Or should we just be watching your videos?

  11. cash says:
    March 8, 2010 at 5:59 pm

    Carrying a gun must “make” the officer.

    “An off-duty Los Angeles Police Department officer was robbed Monday afternoon in Saugus, prompting sheriff’s deputies to detain one man and search for the area for a second suspect, authorities said.

    The suspect still on the loose was described as a white male, 16 to 21 years old, wearing a dark, hooded sweatshirt and riding a small bicycle, said sheriff’s Lt. Tom Bryski.

    The alleged robbery occurred about 2 p.m. near the intersection of Bouquet Canyon and Newhall Ranch roads.”

  12. SCV Guy says:
    March 8, 2010 at 6:29 pm

    @Damageinc: if it suits you. I’m just getting started. I have a long way to go to catch up with Jeff. But I’ll make an effort of it.

  13. damangeinc says:
    March 8, 2010 at 6:30 pm

    Well you are kicking his ass in the video department.

  14. Damien Newton says:
    March 8, 2010 at 7:31 pm

    For the record, it doesn’t really bother me that the cell phone law apply also to cyclists; but given a choice I’d much rather they actually enforce the law on the books rather than expand it.