- The City of Santa Clarita is applying to be part of Google’s experimental 1gb/s super high speed fiber optic internet network. Google will announce winners later this year SIGNAL, GOOGLE
- Is there a chance the more conservative California Republican Assembly SCV Chapter will endorse David Gauny for City Council? Dave Bossert seems to think there is. Get your dose of rooty, tooty, fresh ‘n fruity local GOP politics tonight at the ol’ IHOP in Unincorporated County territory WRB
- College of the Canyons enrollment maxing out at 23,000 students as funding dries up. Classes are more than 90% full even as $12.3 million has been cut from the school over the last two years SIGNAL
- Speaking of College of the Canyons, there is a bike rack at the University Center. It’s on the other side of the building near the Academy of the Canyons. I didn’t think to look there. So my apologies to COC, sorry for the fuss
- Did you know Awesometown has a blog? And it’s written in part by none other than Marlee Lauffer? Check it out: AWESOMETOWN
- Over 500 parents have applied for West Creek Academy, the new experimental Saugus District school. Interest is high judging by how many hits we’re getting here on SCVTalk thanks to NickelDime’s great coverage SIGNAL
- Ethan Allen and Warehouse Discount Center shut down their stores says KHTS
- Buck McKeon’s speech earlier this month before the Heritage Foundation is about as hawkish as you can get. He thinks we’re leaving Iraq too quickly, wants Gitmo to stay open, and he says that President Obama rewrites history in favor of Al Queda. HERITAGE
- Damnit, next week is California Cuss Free Week, it wasn’t last week. The bill, sponsored in part by our own Cameron Smyth, may go before the Assembly this morning. PS, say hi to our old friend and Signal alum Brian Charles over at the PASADENA STAR NEWS
- For 13 years, a Canyon Country man allegedly used the name and identity of a Lancaster man until Detectives untangled the web of fraud. The man faces 16 months in prison KHTS
- Los Angeles City Council candidate Mitch Englander held a fundraiser at Larry Rasmussen’s Spirit Properties place this week. Englander is running for Council for the district that butts up against the SCV and he helped to fight Las Lomas KHTS
- The City of Santa Clarita is streamlining and rebuilding its Permit processing center on the first floor of City Hall CITY BRIEFS
- Environmentalist Lynne Plambeck and the Tea Partiers may have something in common, she says. In particular, don’t let developer interests saddle the taxpayers with the bill for infrastructure and don’t repeal hard-won environmental laws that keep our air clean, she says SIGNAL
- Forget the minuteman rally, go have fun with six hours of jazz this weekend at the COC PAC KHTS
- I give up trying to describe the latest Not a Ferry Fan video. Suffice it to say he doesn’t like Jesse Jackson to the extent that he felt it appropriate to mention him in a video about the City Council election YOU TUBE
A decade of the Valley’s town square · 2006–2015
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