- Junkies scouring through trash bins for discarded prescription bottles near senior center residential complexes have prompted warnings from police, pharmacists and doctors in the SCV. Dr. Gene Dorio tested the idea out- he got an empty prescription bottle, called into a pharmacy and was able to get a refill without a Dr’s note SIGNAL, KTLA, LA TIMES
- Now military jets are buzzing San Jose and Silicon Valley, reports the San Jose Mercury News. UPI compares that incident with the May 4 fly-bys in the SCV. Is this going to be the summer of the military jet fly by? Cue the X Files theme song! SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS, UPI
- David Galvan, the former city council candidate busted for impersonating a cop, allegedly pulled over another motorist to warn him about “cutting him off.” The 23 year old joins two other comically bad malefactors who ran for the Council this year. SIGNAL
- Nevada creates more ads to lure businesses away from California LA TIMES
- Narcotics suspects leading police on a car chase in a Van Nuys neighborhood crashed into a sidewalk and killed a 6 year old girl who was playing with her friends. LA TIMES
- Man (probably a CalArts student) dressed in drag as a woman walks around SCV and deliberately trips and falls as SCVers “are forced to respond and confront my unstable identity as they see it: drag queen, transvestite, gay male, woman or prankster.” He performed the routine at Wal-Mart, Marshalls, Home Depot, the mall and a few other places. YOU TUBE. Check out the teenagers at 2:15 in front of TGI Fridays
- The City would like to expand outdoor and sidewalk dining in Old Town Newhall SIGNAL
- And there’s going to be an antique car show in Old Town Newhall on June 27 KHTS and an Art Walk on Main Street on July 1 KHTS.
- This just in to the SCVTalk news desk: Old Town Newhall is back baby!
- County pays Santa Clarita Transit $2.3 million for service in unincorporated SCV SIGNAL
- “This year, the Republican ticket is spectacularly diverse. It includes three women (Whitman, U.S. Senate nominee Carly Fiorina and treasurer candidate Mimi Waters), a Latino (Lt. Gov. Abel Maldonado), an African-American (secretary of state candidate Damon Dunn) and three white men,” says the VECO STAR on the diversity of the Republican ticket in 2010 as compared to prior years
- The lunatics at the LaRouche PAC “infiltrated” Buck McKeon’s recent town hall meeting and have a not-so glowing report on our 9 term Congressman (but they praise him for “essentially handing over the meeting to LaRouche supporters). One LaRouche supporter, standing next to McKeon, said that the LaRouche battle was to “defend the Constitution and the general welfare against the institutions destroying the country, i.e., Obama and his British Controllers, like Wall St. and London Banks, BP, and the Queen. He also went through the need for, and nature of Glass-Steagall, and the need to go with the LaRouche Plan of heavy industry, nuclear power, and Mars colonization.” LaRouche PAC members were also at McKeon’s September Town hall meeting in which he discussed health care. LAROUCHE
- Speaking of Buck McKeon, the mysterious Stop Buck Now blogger has a detailed post on McKeon’s support for an alternative Joint Strike Fighter jet engine, an engine the Defense Department says it doesn’t need. The blogger shows how much money McKeon has received from Lockheed, Boeing and Rolls Royce in the months leading up to defense appropriations BUCK STOPS NOW
- As a Jew, patriot coordinator and Minuteman Roger Gitlin knew from the start that Barack Obama wasn’t to be trusted when it came to support for Israel. “First: His name; more specifically, his middle name: Hussein. It’s a Muslim name, but Obama and his supporters were quick to lose that moniker early on in the presidential campaign. I was always taught to be proud of my heritage. Be proud of your name, my parents would say. Apparently, this is not the case with Barack Hussein Obama,” he writes WRB
- One last Buck McKeon entry: he apparently speaks Spanish pretty well in this message to the new SCV Latino Chamber of Commerce YOU TUBE
- John Boston’s Time Ranger column this week writes about one of the SCV’s more colorful characters: Henry Clay Needham: prohibitionist, utopian, presidential candidate, and Newhall resident. I think Needham and Tiburicio Vasquez are my two favorite characters in the annals of SCV history WRB
- Letter writer says Frank Ferry saved the name-calling and outrageous accusations for after the election. Hey Letter Writer, where were you when Ferry threatened to bury David Gauny? This is not new behavior on Frank Ferry’s part. SIGNAL
- I like Jim Walker’s column on the Summer solstice and I’m glad I’m not the only one who thinks about the amount of daylight available at various times of the year SIGNAL
- Some savvy person has made a real-world ink stamp out of the Facebook “Like” Button ENGADGET
A decade of the Valley’s town square · 2006–2015
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