- Eighth graders and some parents, surprise surprise, want the promotion ceremonies that Hart canceled, so they may organize their own. The City is willing to rent out Central Park for $1,000 SIGNAL
- John Boston says a Swedish multinational company is planning to build a Cement plant, a dam, and “several giant residue holding pools” in San Francisquito Canyon. I can’t tell if he’s being sarcastic or what, but this is the first I’ve heard of it. WRB *
- US Postal Service releasing William S. Hart stamp! Seriously, this is about the coolest news all….decade. When has something SCV related ever graced a US Stamp before? WRB has all the details
- Hey Santa Clarita, you’re doing pretty well on returning your Census forms! Especially the people in North Valencia and Saugus who have a participation rate of 50+%. 60% of people have returned their Census forms in old Valencia. Meanwhile, the poorer parts of Newhall and the Jakes Way area are pretty abysmal, weighing in at 36% and 39% participation rates respectively. Canyon Country, get busy, only 48% of you have returned your forms. Check it out 2010.Census.Gov
- City touts report that says Santa Clarita’s retail market grew fast from 2003-2008. Gee, what happened after 2008 I wonder? But in all seriousness, we appear to be in better shape than many other communities KHTS
- LA County DA’s office investigates all allegations of public official impropriety, so that letter I posted last week from the DA regarding Bruce McFarland’s allegations was not very significant. Indeed, Mayor Dude himself calls McFarland’s allegation a “dirty campaign tactic.” But McFarland notes Ferry’s own history of pre-election surprises SIGNAL
- Freight train of rain heading our way according to WEATHER WEST
- Is Meg Whitman’s campaign going broke? The LA Times takes a look TIMES
- Should a 13 year old kid who has climbed the highest mountains on six continents try to summit Mt. Everest? OUTSIDE magazine profiles Jordan Romero, a 13 year old Big Bear 8th grader who plans to try with his family in May OUTSIDE
- The folks at tech blog Engadget drive the electric Chevy Volt, which is set to be released later this year ENGADGET
- Chris Sharp compares various SCV political personalities to animals. No really, it’s a pretty compelling post WRB
- John Kunak suspects the Hart District really has “no desire to spend the money to build a high school in Castaic.” SIGNAL
- In 2008, Signal columnist Gary Horton went a little overboard in his mockery of the GOP, a fact he now admits. So, he asks, will Republicans condemn the excesses of the Tea Party/Militia set? SIGNAL
* Hahahah. I’ve been had.
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Frank complaining about “dirty campaigning? hahahahahahahahaha, good one, Frank. Frank Ferry is the kind of slimy politician that just gets dirtier and slimier as the years go by. When Frank threatened David Gauny at City Council, Frank should have been forcibly removed from his seat. If a speaker threatened Frank at City Council you can be sure that speaker would have been ejected from Council. But it’s OK when a Councilman threatens one of US? It’s OK for Frank to STEAL coaches and players from our schools? This is a perfect example of why we need term limits, to get rid of garbage like Frank Ferry.
So finally our worthless paper does this watered-down article, AFTER the absentee ballots have been out for some time. My bet is Littlejohn and Premako couldn’t ignore all the criticism about their lack of integrity and fairness, but don’t worry you two, this article came late enough to have little or no impact at all with voters, just the way you planned it.
But notice that Littlejohn and Premako got that disgusting editorial about the fabricated hit pieces they THOUGHT “might” be coming in the mail and that lying hit piece of an editorial slimed all the challengers just before the absentee ballots went out, and THEY MADE IT ALL UP! That was the worst case of yellow journalism I have ever seen. THE SIGNAL SUCKS!
Frank Ferry is an educator, and he lives a life that is totally unethical. Shame on Alemany High School for keeping Slimy Frank as their principal.
Yep, I heartily agree – NO INCUMBENTS. Term limits, term limits, TERM LIMITS!
Yes, the only mailer I saw that quoted The Signal did precisely the opposite of what The Signal’s editorial board warned us of. “Citizens for Integrity in Government” sent out a full-page flyer on behalf of the incumbents. It quoted TMS’s Feb. 28th editorial with “Crime in Santa Clarita was down in 2009,” (a gross misrepresentation of facts). This was the very editorial that claimed we shouldn’t believe challengers who quote the Signal about crime. It’s absurd.
At least Frank didn’t associate with extremist invaders something that can’t be said about Gauny.
I have always hoped that we could pass Proposition IQ. Prop IQ would preclude people with below average IQs from voting in public elections.
You would not be voting.
HAHA… attacks is all you got. What I said was 100% true.
“Extremist invaders”???
Sometimes politically correct writing is so abstract no one gets it.
it is politically correct to call out of town minute men vigilantes, extremist invaders?
Wow….get over yourself.
To clarify…Wow Matt, get over yourself. Yes, please remind us of the “honorable” deeds of Gauny and Boydston.
That would be Gauny, the “Johnny come lately” whose life-long pursuit of immigration issues and advocating to address this problem dates back to late January 2010, and;
Boydston who would talk out of 12 sides of his mouth if he wasn’t limited to the three (I’m including his backside) on issues such as “don’t build the Newhall Library, errrr…..no I mean make sure you build this amazing facility in the manner that this additional group of people who might vote for me says it should be built.”
That’s almost as good as Boydston’s tireless efforts to remove billboards and address bandit signs as an “appointed” Councilmember, only now to be the biggest offender of bandit signs on City streets and parkways and that sign off I-5 that is only dwarfed in size by the size of his ego.
*applause*
Nicely done SCV Voter. Couldn’t have said it better meself.
At least get your timing right if you are going to spin the library issue.
TB was opposed to building the library before the street scape was completely done. He and others did not win that battle. At this point TB is only trying to make the best of a bad situation. The library is a huge waste of taxpayer dollars.
The bandit signs is another issue, TB blew that one big time!
Oh Mattie. I would love to see you face to face with Frank Ferry.
Would you give him a piece of your mind? Would you stand up to him and REALLY how slimy he is?
I can see it now: Matt — his fists at his sides, stiff shoulders, slightly leaning forward to establish male dominance, viens popping out of his forehead and neck as he yells at Ferry for threatening Gauny and being a doo-doo head politician.
Awwww. That’s cute. You could sell tickets and donate all the funds to your boy Gauny.
After you spit in Ferry’s face for a bit, you can then go over to The Signal and have a brawl with Premako and Littlejohn! BETTER YET, you should advocate getting them fired and then The Signal can hire you since you clearly know everything about The Signal and how it should be run.
Oh and PS: The incumbents will probably win. Prepare yourself
Any idea when those areas may be annexed. It sure would be nice to pay city prices for my kids’ city-sponsored sports leagues.
Tesoro probably fairly soon (1-2 years)
Matt,
For the sake of clarity: My function these days is that of editor of the business and opinion pages. I have no say in the news coverage.
But we recognize that the “news” pages are editorials in hiding…
Choosing what to cover and when is an editorial decision that clearly expresses the opinions of the editors and publisher.
Stories about how great the City is doing right before an election is an implicit endorsement of the incumbents, and blurs the distinction between “news” and “opinion.”
That still isn’t Josh’s department… also the lame “Media is bias” BS is SO OLD!
My criticism is of the general selectivity and bias of the Signal, not specifically of Josh.
“Old” or not, only the tragically naive believe the Signal is not boased in favor of the incumbents.
My condolences to you.
Their opinion writers wrote their own opinions… some people value them and some don’t.
Haven’t you heard Fox News explain how the opinion side never influences the news side…
So is using your company name for a
name on SCVtalk.
No, I am not outing you.
Just wondering
To busy today
My comments were to Damageinc!
I think you should google Damage .Inc and get educated…
We all know what’s right… build Castaic HS, annwex the whole west side, go to regionalized Council seats, and move FORWARD in the SCV!!! Enough dilly-dallying. This snail’s-pace piecemealing is wasteful.
LOL The looney left
http://vocalminority.typepad.com/blog/2010/03/liberal-hypocrisy-guess-who-used-target-imagery-on-their-maps.html
Only a wingnut would bring up something so off topic.
How many deaththreats did those Repulican candidates get? In the atmosphere today of openly threatening violent resistance to Obama and Democrats over health care reform, such “target” imagery takes on a different and more threatening tone than in the time of the 2004 example cited in the article.
How many leftists openly carried firearms to Bush speeches in 2004?
You mean like at that rally in LA back on March 20th?
http://pajamasmedia.com/zombie/2010/03/29/searchlight-vs-l-a-rival-rallies-reveal-stark-rightleft-divide/?singlepage=true
What is it about lefties and hating Jews? And being a 9-11 truther?
What is this evidence of something fred? Show the wingnuts of the one rally which can neither be confirm nor denied
and then show
lovely pictures from the other rally they like… they couldn’t possibly have any crazy wing nuts because you love them
Fred there is Bias and then there is Agenda… you clearly have a an agenda.
I have always hoped that we could pass Proposition IQ. Prop IQ would preclude people with below average IQs from voting in public elections.
You would not be voting.
my above message was intended for damageinc.
who has the IQ problem… can’t even figure out the simplest of web forms!
HAHAHAHAHAHA
You should take your coffee cup out of the cup holder, usually what most people call a dvd drive and turn your computer off then go take a nap.
I wanna take a nap.
Hey Gail, get back to work.
Josh, your pathetic whining is lame. Your paper sucks and everyone knows it is nothing more than a PR tool for city hall and City Council. Comic books have more credibility than your crappy rag.
Vote David Gauny and Tim Ben Boydston. Just because Damageinc “and” SCV Voter “and” cry me a river will go ape-chit. Also because this city deserves much better representation than the incumbent jerk-offs that needed to golong time ago.
Good comments, spineflower.
I go “ape-chit” everyday actually. It’s good exercise, both mentally and physically.
IF Gauny and Boydston win (which they won’t), then I will turn up the heat in my “ape-chitting,” just to make Shane happy.
Cause that’s why I’m here. To make Shane happy. *hug*
I go “ape-chit” everyday actually.
Not hard to believe at all.
It’s good exercise, both mentally and physically.
Doesn’t really seem to be working for you, mentally, anyway. You might want to double up on your meds.
Why does the thought of Gauny and
Boyston scare the hell out of you so much?
Neither of them scare me…personally.
I just don’t like them
TBB is a huge phony, who comes off as a massive impersonal douche.
Gauny pals around with extremist. Makes stupid promises to appease these idiots.
I like Santa Clarita and think it has been run well better then most cities actually.
Why would I take risk on new people?
I would however fire just about everyone in Sacramento!
People don’t go as “ape-chit” as you unless they are plenty scared. And you sound very, very scared, which you aren’t very good at hiding. Have a nice “scary” day.
Why do wingnuts try to tell people how they feel.
I mean what I say and say what I mean…
I think your definition of going ape-chit is very mild.
I don’t see anyone really going ape-chit on here. But maybe my definition of ape-chit is just more radical.
Like my views, Right shane? *hug*
Oh Shane, you’re such a meanie head.
The thought of Gauny or Boyston sitting on City Council doesn’t scare me at all. In all honesty, I can care less who gets voted on or off the island. I just like rubbing people like you the wrong way. Frisky, eh? Meow.
I’m more of a lover and not a fighter. I think everyone on the City Council has his/her good qualities and bad qualities.
And in the end, they are all politicians. And everyone knows that all politicians are doo doo heads.
Moderator…where are you?
I loved that they requested a “Public Defender” and the undercover FBI agent wil not help them. The simpleton Tea baggers keep missing the point. These are the same whiners that were crying when the McCain/Bailin ticket lost. Now that their yelling (because they are haters not debaters) did not stop health care from passing, they are crying again. They think they can scare, intimidate and force others to go along with them by comments like “This time we came unarmed”, let me tell you something they are not the only ones who have guns and not all ex-military join the fringe militia crazies who don’t pay taxes and run around in the parks playing commando, the majority understand that the world is more complicated and grey then the black and white that these simpleton make it out to be and that my friend is the point. So it’s only fitting that their leaders are Sarah Bailin, Victoria Jackson, Michele Bachmann and their turn coat Glenn. So if you are bothered that there are some misconceptions of your group, well then I think you need to be more careful who you invite to give you speeches.
Montana, you and others here shrieking about tea-baggers and minutemen sound crazier than they do. Six of one, half a dozen of the other……
To busy today ;(
My comments were to Damageinc!
Wow, what a thread! If this keeps up I’m cancelling cable!
Regarding TBB: I’ve known him for several years and if there’s one thing he’s not, is a phony! Showman? Sure! That’s what he does for a living. Phony? No. Have we had our differences over the years? Hell yeah! While he can’t be given credit for being the only one, his drive and determination played a big part in getting the ball rolling to move the CTG from the rattlesnake-infested rattrap up Sierra Hwy to downtown Newhall; and I was around way back when people (Including myself) thought he was crazy for even bringing up the idea.
I still see that drive and determination when he talks about the city, and know he’ll still be passionate about it whether he wins or not. I learned not to count him out. If you think he’s full of it, call him on it. Send him an email, or call him direct. He’s never been one who’s afraid to stand up for himself and what he believes in.
“If you think he’s full of it, call him on it. Send him an email, or call him direct.”
As if these yokels would have the guts. Of course TimBen is hated at city hall, he tried to clean up all the corruption. I agree with Shane, I smell a lot of fear on this blog.
Stop city hall corruption!
NO INCUMBENTS!
Why would anyone need to tell TBB what they think? We just don’t vote for him.
I think it is funny line.. “Of course TimBen is hated at city hall, he tried to clean up all the corruption.” How naive…
ha