After much searching, geologists announced Monday that they had found Marsha McLean's "forming cracks," deep in the heart of Soledad Canyon. McLean said that if left to its own devices, the forming cracks would not just harm the libraries, but threatened "to swallow us all."
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Interestingly, the home schooling community in the Santa Clarita Valley is up in arms about the libraries being taken over by the city. These parents rely on the libraries for research and teaching and they are ticked. This is usually a constituency that has supported the city council in the past. Not a group that the current city council would seem to want to offend. But they have big time.
Ironically, I have seen nothing publicized about this group’s objections.
SA
They need to send in LTE’s and start posting on this website (City staff reads it.) The decision will not be reversed but make the Politburo’s life miserable by constantly bitching about the library takeover.
RE: The Signal’s Library editorial
TMS’s editorial board consistently peddles dreck. I hate the short, declarative sentences where they try to come off as earnest and wise but end up sounding fake and patronizing beyond all measure. When I read something like “Here at The Signal, we’re in favor of reading,” I feel the pangs of nausea. Then I get to “Tuesday was the beginning. Now comes the heavy lifting,” and it’s all I can do to keep from barfing. But I completely lose it at the closing: “We know where to find the people whose feet we’re going to hold to the fire: right down the road at Santa Clarita City Hall.” Blech.
Rarely have I seen so many words used to say so little so poorly.
Could the Politburo have gone too far? People across the spectrum from Roger Gitlin to Carole Luteness for God’s sake agree on this issue! If Ender sails back in in 2012 that will prove once and for all the value of incumbency.
Good point.
God forbid!
Our City Council (except Bob Kellar) did not listen to the people who spent several hours of their lives asking that their questions be answered before the library takeover.
We formed our own city because we felt that we would be heard better on a local level. Now it would appear that no matter how many people go to City Hall, no matter how many people speak, and no matter how many questions go unanswered, the people are simply ignored.
How then can The Signal believe that the Council will listen to the people if they have problems with the service from for-profit LSSI? Will Ms. Ender simply point out that the 200,000 other people that are not there have no problems with the system?
Tim Ben,
Your local OTNA and Redvelopment folks supported the City proposal because it will free up funds for your Downtown Newhall Redevlopment and guarantee hours and books for your new Newhall Library.
I agree the City could have done a better job in discussing this issue. However, why should the current council listen to you and the Plambecks and the Lutnesses and the Noltmeyer’s of the world when all you do is oppose every proposal and say no?
You ran as a fiscal conservative and a redevelopment proponent. There must be something the City does that you can find to support.
Love SC
The council should be listening because we are all their constituents.
Seems like you have some “inside information” on how the Library Tax dollars will be spent and surplus allocated? Why not share the specifics with all of us.
It seems that LSSI will have just enough time to screw up as library manager leading into Laurie Ender’s re-election campaign.
Iheart, you are so right on the mark. I just read the editorial again and found the best comment at the bottom:
With intelligent debate like this for local readers, it’s no wonder these clowns are still in office. Where’s the report that the santaclaritalibrary.com website was obtained a year ago or some real questioning over the reckless haste in this decision? “Eternal Vigilance” is a slogan more than an action item.
The Signal is just catering to one of its last remaining advertisers- The City. They are too scared to piss off one of the few paying customers they have. That’s all this is.
So Jeff….you have “witnessed” TMC students all over town? How do you know they are from TMC? Are they all carrying Bibles, wearing signs and singing hymns? Are you stereotyping? I thought flaming lib types didn’t stereotype.
Maybe they’re wearing their college insignia on their shirts, sweatshirts and backpacks.
The t-shirts are usually a dead giveaway
I’ve seen them out in force lately, but mostly cleaning up the campus getting ready for the new school year. Gotta say, that campus reminds me a lot of one I went to many years ago up in Napa – looks really nice!
Wow, way to attack stereotyping with a statement like “I thought flaming lib types…” Good lord, have you ever read the definition of the word hypocrisy?
I have noticed the same thing as Jeff has, and I am not a “flaming lib type” nor am I stereotyping. I have noticed a lot more t-shirts around SCV declaring as much. Lighten up there champ.
How do you know they are from TMC? Are they all carrying Bibles, wearing signs and singing hymns?
It’s the stunned and bewildered homeschool look in their eyes of being let out in the light of normal society for the first time in their lives.
@Jeff, I have attended every meeting the California High Speed Rail Authority has held in Santa Clarita. Interest has waned because there is NO STOP proposed in Santa Clarita despite our pleas and objections. Sylmar to the south or Palmdale to the north are OUR nearest stops. What a crock!
If you are interested, High Speed Rail will be presenting at the next CCAC meeting on September 15, 7 PM at Mint Canyon Moose, 18000 Sierra Highway.
An opportunity to ask questions and get answers right from the source.
@Ferdman, or the can just go to http://www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov
and verify what I just said.
Berta. Does that mean U will not be there.
Don’t be concerned. U will not be missed.
@Jerry, U r nt tht luky.
@Berta, U r nt tht BRIGHT.
Re: Choloride. It is interesting that so many folks are up in arms about a $210 million water treatment plant. I just tallied up CLWA capital spending and estimates of spending for fiscal years 05/06 to 13/14. For that 9 year period, CLWA will spend $388 million or an average of $43 million per year. Why is it that folks appear to be ignorant about the CLWA capital spend when it will be nearly double the cost of the treatment plant over a 10 year period? Why do you think we are seeing the water rate increases over the past few years? It’s not just the drought…
Hey, it’s expensive to move heaven and earth to buy water for the as-yet unbuilt housing units which will take the Santa Clarita Valley’s population from the current 240,000ish to 500,000 people.
Just get ready for water rationing which CLWA alone has the authority to impose, as a means of creating more water for new development.
Then there’s “toilet to tap water” vehemently opposed by residents of the San Fernando Valley, where sewage outflow is injected into the soil to create water for drinking water wells to extract.
Then there’s “astronaut water”. You don’t even want to know what that is, but prepare to drink it 10 years from now when CLWA is providing water to these 500,000 people.
Remember the movie “Dune?”
So KHTS has lowered themselves to being a tool for cheap propagandists, eh? I guess contrived controversy means ratings, which means more ad $$. After all, it works for Fox. Oh well, it’s a free country. Let free enterprise prevail…
Guru,
I must have missed it. What contrived controversy are we talking about on KHTS?
Your Web Guru:
I am pretty certain that this is a self sponsored show, so Joe has to cut a check to KHTS for all the ads on that airtime at a wholesale level (he can then probably resell them to third party sponsors if he has any) KHTS would only care if there was some other affinity program that was willing to pay a higher wholesale tariff for the ad time.
I think we are seeing that Joe is running out of ideas (and local guests). Plus Petz can only carry the call in weight so far!
I know how KHTS works and understand that in the name of free speech and FCC deregulation of the fairness doctrine, that it’s fair game. It’s just that the subject is such a cheap tawdry attempt to gain listeners a la “Jerry Springer” when there are more real subjects to debate and more important issues to tackle. Then again, the economy and the war are nowhere near as provocative.
Your Web Guru
Joe is a personal friend of mine but I honestly don’t think he gives it much thought, certainly not as much as you have.
Mmm, you’re probably right. Again, I mean nothing personal against the host, and it’s the wonderful thing about this place we live that we’re entitled to the freedom of our opinions.