March 8, 2010 – Daily Brief

  • 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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13 Responses to March 8, 2010 – Daily Brief

  1. Fred Butler says:

    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.

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  2. Annette says:

    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.

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  3. scvmom says:

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

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  4. Blazingmonk says:

    Haha good one fred

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  5. Annette says:

    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!

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  6. Damageinc says:

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

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  7. SCV Guy says:

    @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.

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  8. Damageinc says:

    Oh should we be reading your blog too… Lol

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  9. Damageinc says:

    Or should we just be watching your videos?

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  10. cash says:

    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.”

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  11. SCV Guy says:

    @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.

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  12. damangeinc says:

    Well you are kicking his ass in the video department.

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  13. 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.

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