- The talking points for annexation are settled: on the County’s side, annexation is a bad idea because it splits Castaic, and there wasn’t enough turnout after last fall’s vote. But the City says that 1,000 residents of Hasley Hills initiated the annexation themselves and the ballot last fall showed 61% in favor of annexing to the City. Jonathan Randles has more SIGNAL
- Air Force guy denies that military fighter jets that flew over Santa Clarita on May 4 performed any aerobatic stunts. He said that if some airplane was doing stunts, it could have been Navy flyboys or Marine Corps airmen. Do these people have any credibility left? We have dozens of eye and earwitnesses and radar tracks that show maneuvers over the SCV. They have lies and nonsensical denials SIGNAL
- Packed City Council agenda on tap for tomorrow, including the very important Sanitation fee increase presentation COUNCIL AGENDA, SIGNAL
- Unemployment in Santa Clarita is down to around 7.6% from 8.2% in January the Signal says, but office vacancies remain high at nearly 20%. Also, film shooting has decreased 4% according to the City. SIGNAL
- Another California politics blogger is predicting that Santa Clarita will end up in a new, heavily Democratic district represented by Congressman Brad Sherman after the 2011 re-draw of Congressional districts. Frog and Turtle blog also added the Democratic Tahoe area to McKeon’s CA-25, which he says would make it harder for McKeon to get elected there, especially if Santa Clarita is subtracted from the sprawling district FROG AND TURTLE
- First Presbyterian Church of Newhall is the SCV’s oldest congregation at 119 years KHTS
- LA Times profiles an Arizona family living under the shadow of AZ’s new immigration law. The mother, an American citizen, is worried her undocumented husband could be caught and sent away LA TIMES
- Lost Reax: I thought the finale was emotional, unsettling and thought provoking, but ultimately unsatisfying and a cop-out. Perhaps not coincidentally, that’s how I feel about a lot of the world’s religions. I remain intrigued with the Jack’s “personal purgatory” theory, but even if that’s true, it’s an unsatisfying conclusion. Better reviews NY TIMES, USA TODAY, LA TIMES (Spoilers galore, ok?)
- Los Angeles’ long and funky history of envisioning a way out of its car-dependent culture LA TIMES
- Roger Gitlin didn’t like Mexican President Felipe Calderon lecturing on AZ’s immigration law SIGNAL
- Tim Myers is glad the Hart District is taking another look at its zero tolerance policy on student drug use/abuse. SIGNAL
- Dave Bossert says he’s been receiving emails and comments from the community detailing bad experiences at Henry Mayo Hospital. He shares one that sounds pretty distressing, and, opening it up more, starts a new Mayo hospital blog site. WRB, HMNMH Rant & Rave blog
- Big Picture blog shows off shots taken by only one photographer: the Cassini space probe, currently orbiting Saturn BIG PICTURE
A decade of the Valley’s town square · 2006–2015
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