Monthly Archives: October 2010

October 21, 2010 – Daily Brief

Posted on October 21, 2010 by Jeff

Deputy City Manager and lead library takeover staff person Darren Hernandez has been subpoenaed by the Save Our Libraries group and will be deposed under oath on November 24th. A subpoena doesn’t indicate any wrong-doing it’s just a formal method of gathering information. TimBen … Continue reading →

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Effective

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Jeff

Jerry Brown’s new ad attacking Meg Whitman as Schwarzenegger 2.0 is pretty good: I was a Schwarzenegger voter in 2003, excited by our unorthodox recall process and happy to kick Gray Davis to the curb. We needed an outsider, someone … Continue reading →

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Foreclosure Gate : “A Pervasive Scheme”

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Jeff

If you thought the subprime/prime mortgage meltdown of 2008 was scary, with all the related crap –collateralized debt obligations, mortgage-backed securities, NINA loans and derivatives trading- that we were forced to learn about about back then, have I got a … Continue reading →

Posted in Economy, Real Estate | 7 Comments

October 20, 2010 – Daily Brief

Posted on October 20, 2010 by Jeff

Now that was a storm! The Twitter feeds were hopping last night as a lightning storm descended on the SCV from the east, creating a show the likes of which we haven’t seen in years. The National Weather Service issued … Continue reading →

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City releases some Library documents

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Venturan

Save Our Libraries (SOL) scored a small victory today in the ongoing  struggle to prevent our libraries from seceding from the LA County system: some of the documents related to the library decision have been released to SOL in response … Continue reading →

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Water, Development and Politics in the SCV

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Jeff

There’s been a lot of intrigue lately over Tesoro Del Valle, that northern SCV community that’s changed their development plans in the last year and is now in a battle to secure water for more homes than were originally planned … Continue reading →

Posted in Development, Economy, Opinion, Politics | 6 Comments

October 19, 2010 – Daily Brief

Posted on October 19, 2010 by Jeff

A marriage/divorce/child custody battle analogy works particularly well when describing the relationship of the Canyon Country library to the City of Santa Clarita (which funded construction and owns the building) and the County of Los Angeles, which operates it and … Continue reading →

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David Schlangen-Camarillo’s Version of David Gauny?

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Timothy Myers SR.

The Nebraska bride and I spent the weekend in Camarillo to spend time with our extremely cool youngest daughter, a sophomore at CSU-Channel Islands at their annual Family Weekend.  I always enjoy Camarillo which boasts an excellent coastal climate and … Continue reading →

Posted in Misc. | 9 Comments

Conan O’Brien blows up a small part of the SCV

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Jeff

A spot for his new TV show, debuting in November, was filmed at Saugus’ famous Mystery Mesa. It’s hilarious: The Deadwrite blog has some history about the Mesa: Mystery Mesa is the name of the spot, and Kimi and I … Continue reading →

Posted in History, Media | 6 Comments

October 18, 2010 – Daily Brief

Posted on October 18, 2010 by Jeff

Library construction bids opened back up; companies that want to build our new Newhall Library have 30 days to complete the bidding process, this time without the errors (hopefully) SIGNAL Woman mysteriously drives car into gulch on Northbound I-5 near … Continue reading →

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