Mike Devlin
posted as “Mike”
Total posts
138
6% of the archive
Active span
2010–2015
6 years
Eras
2
WordPress, SantaClarita.com
Busiest year
2014
52 posts
In the site’s own words
A native of Philadelphia, Mike has lived in Santa Clarita since 1988. He occasionally provides electoral and/or culinary analysis for SCVTalk.com. He’s married with two children
2010
3 POSTS2011
22 POSTS- Local Aussie tells the homeland about ‘Awesometown’
- DEVELOPING – Charges filed in July 4 incident
- Where in the SCV? (Episode One: The Saugus Cafe)
- SEIU Makes a Monster Out of LSSI
- Where in the SCV? Episode 1.5 (The Recap)
- Where in the SCV? Episode 2: Tesoro del Valle
- RIP, altSCV
- The districts are coming, the districts are coming!
- Digesting the districts, volume 2
- Valencia Apple Store – First Look
- Districts are out of beta, releasing on time
- Friendly Valley Social Club, For the Win
- Separated at Birth?
- More on Fatburger, because I couldn’t resist
- A Tea Party rally by any other name…
- SCV Constitution Day Summit: Reports from the field
- Keeping it brief, and burying the lead
- Pendulum swings back to Hart
- October 31, 2011 – Daily Brief
- Clauses 11-20 of Hatami's "Contract" With Santa Clarita**
- Daily Brief - November 28, 2011
- Joe Kapp, still swingin' at 74: an SCVTalk-as-TMZ moment
2012
13 POSTS- Daily Brief – January 9, 2012 (Less-than-brief edition)
- Daily Brief - January 30, 2012
- Look who's coming to dinner: Wilk's eyebrow-raising fundraiser
- Daily Brief - March 26, 2012: About that debate...
- Calling our shots
- Daily Brief – April 9, 2012
- How they spent it
- Live Blog & Results
- Ender concedes, what’s next?
- Daily Brief – April 16, 2012
- June 26, 2012 – Daily Brief
- July 9, 2012 – Daily Brief
- July 23, 2012 – Daily Brief
2013
39 POSTS- Six Reasons Why Saugus is the Next Big Thing
- Breaking: Major Fire Behind Magic Mountain [Updated]
- Hart's Gift to Fall: Incumbency
- Saugus USD Trustee Linked to Disturbing Online Activity
- Game Over? Multiple Court Docs Suggest Winkler Lived in Sylmar While Serving Saugus
- Will Statewide GOP Org Show McKeon's 'Winkler Caucus' the Door?
- The 'Bro Truck' Instagram Contest of 2013
- Bro Truck Instragram Contest Rolls On
- Top 5 SCV Bro Trucks: The Winner Hates Your Stupid Face
- The SCV November Election Season Begins Right Now
- Buck Dynasty Bets on Vegas
- Saugus Still Waiting on the County's OK to Fill Winkler's Seat
- Ex-Smyth Aide and LA GOP Player Scott Hounsell Arrested for Sexting With a Minor
- Laurene Weste's Surprise $18k Leads 2014 Council Race
- Buck McKeon warns of 'Arabs' disguised as 'Hispanics' sneaking into the US
- Chris Fall Resigns from Hart Board. What Now?
- SCV Street Knowledge, Vol. 1: Bouquet Canyon
- Einstein T.O. Charter Denied Home, Plus Possible SIte for SCV'ers
- 'Mr. SCV' John Boston joins SantaClarita.com
- SCV's VIPs Share Labor Day BBQ Tips
- The Return of "Where in the SCV?"
- Where in the SCV: When is Valencia® not Valencia?
- Goodbye BroMex, Hello Cringe-Mex
- Five* Things I Learned at the Saugus Candidate Forum
- Pending Pizza Preview
- District Attorney Issues Strong Rebuke to Hart Board Over Brown Act Violation
- Lee Rogers Out-Raises Buck McKeon in the Third Quarter
- First-ever poll for the 25th doesn't look good for Buck McKeon
- 140 characters in these streets
- Phony PTA Mailer Sponsored by Local School Board Candidates
- California State PTA Slams Mailer Used by Local Candidates, Fake PTA Site Shuts Down
- Three Mountain Lions Surprise Saugus Residents
- Scott Wilk Calls Out Buck McKeon Over Possible Strickland Scheme
- Who voted yesterday? Almost nobody.
- What Have We Found at the Bottom of the Rock?
- Five Ways to Make Thanksgiving More Delicious by Thinking SCV
- Actor Paul Walker (Fast & Furious) Killed in Car Crash in Valencia (Updated)
- It's Official: Strickland is Running for the 25th
- Newhall Bar Announced the Exact Site of Last Night's DUI Checkpoint (Updated)
2014
52 POSTS- Garage Sales and Pajamas: How SCV Talks
- Guy Runs for Congress, Hates His New District
- Roundabout Opens Round About 10am
- Tony Strickland Interviewed on KHTS
- Deputies shoot & kill man in Canyon Country
- This Rain, I Swear
- Council Campaign Finance Docs (1st period 2014)
- Area Man Gives Yellow Light to City's Red Light Cameras
- About the Open Space That's Targeted for Vegas-style Billboards
- Lobbyist for Digital Billboard Operator Threw Fundraiser for Incumbents Last Month
- SCVTalk Exclusive: The Selfie That Shook SCV
- Dear Saugus School Board, Here's How You Get Rid of Stephen Winkler
- City Council Race: Last Campaign Money Reports Before the Election
- City Council Election Poll: An Experiment
- Candidates Return Donations, McLean Makes 'Mistake' Using City Seal
- What's Up With All These People Asking for Signatures, and Who's Blocking Them?
- Special Guest Visits the Sierra Pelona Valley Wine Festival
- New Interactive Map Shows Exactly Where We Bike and Run in SCV
- 18,000 Signatures for Billboard Referendum; Here's What You Should Know
- The 25th Congressional District, in Six Charts
- Nine months later, Scott Hounsell Cleared of Charges
- Day After Massacre in His Former District, Tony Strickland Makes a Chilling Pro-Gun Call to Voters
- Tony Strickland Pens Love Letter to Simi, But What About Us?
- Why the 25th Might Be Going Blue, In One Chart
- Heckler's Anti-Gay Slur Earns a Shove From Actor, Actor Gets Fired, SCV Gets Infamy
- I Don't Know What You Did Last Tuesday
- A House of Pies: The 25th Primary in Six Charts
- We Won't Have Winkler to Kick Around Anymore
- Far Right Lane to the Wrong Offramp
- SCV Porto's Watch 2014: They Hear Us Loud and Clear
- The (not quite) Daily Brief for July 25, 2014
- Knight Says No to Removing Confederate Flag From State Property
- The New Colossus Looks Like an Instant Classic
- ACLU Doesn't Agree With Knight On Confederate Flag Bill, After All
- Strickland Once Called Homosexuality A 'Lifestyle' That 'Takes Decades' Off Life
- Parents Refusing to Vaccinate at Dangerously High Levels at Five SCV Schools
- Breaking: Lee Rogers Withdraws Support from Steve Knight, Recommends Democrats Abstain
- For Some Reason, Steve Knight is Bringing Tim Donnelly to the SCV
- Truth in Photoshopping: Digital Tricks by Digital Billboard Boosters
- In Print, Knight's Words Aren't Always His Own
- Sad News: Porto's Chooses Buena Park Over SCV
- Looking to Expand, Local Dump Using Questionable Tactics
- Chiquita Canyon in Perspective: Building America's Largest Landfills
- Congressional Brief #2: The I Approve This Brief Edition
- They Might Be (Hart) Districts
- 25th Congressional Campaign Money, In One Chart
- Councilmember Accuses Citizen of Lying; You Won't Believe What Happens Next
- Funding for Measure S Campaign Linked to Allvision
- Update: Fully 100 Percent of Measure S Money Comes From Allvision
- Your Guide to Election Night in SCV
- Nine Ways to Make Thanksgiving More Delicious by Thinking SCV
- After Measure S, Council Going Back to What it Does Best
2015
9 POSTS- At Some SCV Schools, Parents Still Refusing to Vaccinate at Dangerously High Levels
- See the Vaccination Rates for (almost) All SCV Childcare Centers
- Santa Clarita Ain't What it Used to Be (it's actually much safer)
- County Slow to Act on Measles Exposure in Valencia
- Red Ink May Mean STOP for SCV Red Light Cameras
- Will the Return of Applebee's Cure Valencia's Blight?
- What Kind of Library Does Saugus Want?
- Congressman Tells Protester: 'Touch me again, and I'll drop your ass'
- No Season is a Good Season for Catching the Vapors