April 13, 2011 – Daily Brief

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Jeff
  • LA County’s most business friendliest City – Santa Clarita – stuck its big government interventionist hands in the marketplace yesterday, adopting an ordinance banning outright the use of mobile billboards within City limits. Residents had complained that the billboards were being parked in their neighborhoods and moved just a few feet a day. Adam Smith was unavailable for comment but the SIGNAL, KHTS, and I HEART SCV have reports.
  • Re: the above. Now if we could just ban those ridiculous mobile billboards that people attach to their cars and drive around town in
  • The City of Santa Clarita has released a floorplan and internal renderings for the new Newhall library. The floorplan shows much of the first floor devoted to children and teen services with the main collection on the second floor. Cheers for the integration of local history elements, like a passage with slanted walls that represents Beale’s Cut and some other neat features. RENDERING, FLOORPLAN
  • Captain Paul Becker at the Sheriff’s Station has divided the SCV into eight zones and restructured the station’s community relations unit into crime prevention unit. Becker says the division into zones will enable more effective stats tracking and will allow Deputies to see crime trends faster. SIGNAL
  • The Hart School District will begin considering names for the new Castaic High School at a board meeting tonight. Oh this is going to be fun. KHTS
  • Santa Clarita named one of the best “Cities of the Future” by fDI Magazine, a publication of the Financial Times of London. I’m trying to determine if this is one of those Who’s Who lists that you pay to get put on, but the actual article is locked down, so we’ll have to rely on an Alabama blog which says the rankings are based on a City’s performance metrics, its “inward investments” and its programs to attract investment. BLOG
  • Looks like the local Sanitation board has run low on money and a rate hike -unrelated to the chloride matter- may be coming our way. The Signal doesn’t say how much the rate hike would be, but Sanitation Board members will discuss it Thursday at City Hall SIGNAL
  • The private Trinity Christian school will graduate its first senior class in 2012 following ten years of steady growth according to the Signal. The school, which teaches Latin, costs $10,880 per year for tuition SIGNAL
  • Would you like free tickets to an LA Lakers basketball game? How about the Kentucky Derby? Or Disneyland? Do you like the Grammy’s? Well then you need to become a California state Senator or Assemblyman because companies will just give this stuff to you free of charge. That’s my takeaway after perusing the Sacramento Bee’s great database of gifts that have been given to Cameron Smyth, Tony Strickland, and former state Senator George Runner over the last several years SACBEE
  • Our legislators not only get all those free perks, but they (err at least four of them at this time) are allowed to carry concealed weapons, unlike the rest of us. SAC BEE
  • Looks like Buck McKeon got what he wanted out of the last-minute budget deal agreed on by the President and Congressional Republicans last week. Under the plan, which guts $38.5 billion in domestic discretionary spending, the Pentagon will get $5 billion more than it did last year ATLANTIC
  • Disturbing: A woman on her way to interview at a convent was raped while in a vacant concourse at the Denver International Airport NEWS
  • Texas and Ohio are very angry that NASA has decided to retire the Shuttle Endeavour to Los Angeles once the shuttle program is shut down later this year. We Californians built the damn things, didn’t we? LA TIMES
  • Letter writer compares library takeover to Obamacare, says that just as Obamacare will be repealed next year, so too will the City Council face blowback next year SIGNAL
  • Lady Ducayne likes the new independent Fresh Pita Grill over by Home Goods in Valencia LADY DUCAYNE
  • If you just can’t get enough of Americans battling fellow Americans on this blog and elsewhere, or if you’re curious about history, then you can head out to Fort Tejon on Sunday to check out a Civil War reenactment SIGNAL
  • Great Gary Horton column on conspicuous consumption and the lack of a year round homeless shelter in the SCV SIGNAL
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7 Responses to April 13, 2011 – Daily Brief

  1. James Farley says:
    April 13, 2011 at 8:32 am

    I think the Sherriff should give some names to the zones to reflect the nature of them. Here’s some suggestions:

    Valencia “Snob Zone”
    Newhall “No sidewalk Zone”
    Canyon Country East “Too Close to the AV Zone”
    Canyon Country West “At Least It’s Not CCE Zone”
    Saugus “Meth Lab Zone” (ok that’s a stretch)
    Val Verde/Castaic “Flea Zone”
    Gorman “Why is this even in the SCV jurisdiction Zone?”

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  2. spineflower2 says:
    April 13, 2011 at 11:01 am

    Good riddance to those damn trailer signs!

    In a windy part of town they are a major traffic hazard. In Chatsworth and Northridge in the SF Valley, they are always blowing over into traffic lanes, causing last-second swerving. They are often just parked in the right lane itself! The owners have been defying the law there for years, tying it up in courts and getting off on nitpicking loopholes (like adding “this is not a trailer” to the sign lettering). But it IS a trailer, OBVIOUSLY, and according to the DMV who licenses them as trailers. But that damn wording got them may months of “legality” until that loophole was closed.

    Bastards use those signs. Screw ‘em. SCV doesn’t need them.

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  3. kiprockfist says:
    April 13, 2011 at 11:09 am

    Weird, no mention of the registration of library cards. Two days in a row.

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  4. Alpiner says:
    April 13, 2011 at 2:11 pm

    Jeff, the name is Trinity “Classical” Academy.

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