September 14, 2011 – Daily Brief

Posted on September 14, 2011 by Jeff
  • It sounds like Santa Clarita may not get a new courthouse after all. The Signal is reporting today that the state agency responsible for funding new courthouses has only $57.8 million in its fund, and a state official says the number of new courthouse projects will have to be reduced. Supervisor Antonovich’s office  sounds optimistic though SIGNAL
  • Some residents were upset at last night’s City Council meeting as the LMD ballot was debated and continued to the next meeting, where an odd system of council voting will be employed. Also- the City Council delayed a vote on whether to hand over soveriegnty to the United Nations join a feel-good environmental initiative and the City refused to open up the SCV marketplace to other waste haulers I HEART SCV, SIGNAL, SCVNEWS
  • Metals recycler fined $2.9 million for dumping hazardous waste at the Chiquita Canyon landfill near Val Verdea. SA Recycling shred automobiles and put the waste -which had more lead, cadmium, and zinc- into Chiquita Canyon and a landfill in Simi Valley. But if you think we’ll see a penny of that amount you’re wrong; it’s all going to the port of Los Angeles. SIGNAL
  • Scott Wilk is more than likely going to run for 38th Assembly district against Patricia McKeon, he tells the Signal today. But first, he’s running to be reelected to the COC board. SIGNAL
  • Number of Californians living in poverty rises to 16%, or about 6 million people. Poverty is defined as a family of four making less than $22,113 per year LA TIMES
  • Buck McKeon tells the Daily Beast that if it comes down to tax increases or minimizing cuts to the Defense Department, he’d err on the side of minimizing cuts to the Defense Department….meaning Buck McKeon has just created and/or exposed a rift in the GOP: he’s willing to raise taxes. It didn’t take long for Grover Norquist to attack McKeon, saying that “his constituents” expect him never to raise taxes DAILY BEAST
  • California Republican representatives are fighting each other over a proposed ballot initiative that would overturn the state’s redistricting effort, which was formalized in August. On the one hand are folks like Buck McKeon who got placed in comfy, safe districts; on the other are Reps like David Dreier who have very poor electoral chances in their new districts ROLL CALL
  • Buck McKeon’s office will hand out free copies of the US Constitution if you want one KHTS
  • With Cameron Smyth’s help, a local medical center got $100,000 it was entitled to from the state of California SIGNAL
  • A water district in Central California built a fake news website to influence coverage of it. It even made it up on Google news. LA TIMES
  • Hill  People: Deputies found a “sophisticated” pot farm six miles east of I5/Highway 138 in the Angeles National Forest. The pot farm had 2,719 marijuana plants with an estimated street value of $4 million. No suspects were found at the site, but camping gear was. KHTS
  • Anti-bullying program yielding results at Canyon High SIGNAL
  • Johnny Pride, the colorful City Council candidate who was accused of crimes only to have authorities drop all charges, has tried his hand at stand up comedy. Really this isn’t Daily Brief worthy material but I couldn’t resist YOUTUBE
  • John Boston’s “Boston Report” is pretty funny this week. Did you know Dianne Van Hook is building a pyramid at COC “to welcome [her] immortal body into the afterlife?” BOSTON REPORT
  • Incredible: bystanders lift burning car off man who was trapped beneath LA TIMES
  • LTE writer explains the value of Social Security vs depending on the vaunted free market for everything SIGNAL
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13 Responses to September 14, 2011 – Daily Brief

  1. Nate says:
    September 14, 2011 at 9:29 am

    Prop to the Signal for the excellent typography on Sunday’s issue. Good thinking.

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  2. Alan Ferdman says:
    September 14, 2011 at 12:44 pm

    Irrespective of LARC’s ties to ICLEI and the United Nations (Agenda 21), one only needs to read the LARC information included with the staff report to learn; it is LARC’s goal to push for reducing US greenhouse gas emissions to 80% below 1990 levels. With today’s population and foreseeable technological advances that act alone would decimate the American economy and our ability to compete in a world market. In addition, the issue of grants, raised by staff and our mayor, is not even mentioned.

    I believe it would be irresponsible for my government officials to use American Taxpayer dollars to join, and therefore help fund, an organization which promotes an agenda that is harmful to our American economy and way of life.

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    • Petz says:
      September 14, 2011 at 1:39 pm

      Thanks for your vigilance Alan, why don’t you run for council?

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      • Gitlin's Gringos says:
        September 14, 2011 at 2:11 pm

        This city needs more paranoid science-phobes, that’s for sure.

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        • Todd says:
          September 14, 2011 at 2:20 pm

          In my professional world… we have a troublemaker causing us quite a headache complaining now about Agenda 21 and ICLEI…

          One of those “big brother, government intrusion, Obama wants to know what you had for breakfast, new world order” kinda guys. Really? Aren’t there bigger problems????

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  3. Petz says:
    September 14, 2011 at 3:57 pm

    One really has to wonder why Cameron would intervene in a dispute where an entity “underbilled” the state. What , they finally realized they did not charge as much as they could get away with ? Cameron is walking into the sunset knowing he does not have to stand for reelection, so it really does not matter to him.

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  4. Lori Rivas says:
    September 14, 2011 at 7:20 pm

    Nice astronomy day poster, Petz. My kids and I have loved looking through the solar telescope, the comet presentation, making telescopes and I often refer back to the scaled solar system set up in the corridor. Absolute favorite, though, is looking through the nighttime telescopes, and seeing Saturn’s rings, the moon’s craters and more. So awe-inspiring.

    We’ve been attending for about 8 years now, I think.

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  5. Petz says:
    September 14, 2011 at 7:53 pm

    It has been a pleasure working with the Valencia library-the poster was done in one day, with the county it took time and had to be sent to Norwalk for approval. How did you see the poster so soon?

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