- From the Did He Just Say that? Files: Congressman Buck McKeon tells The Signal that places in the USA are “almost on the verge of revolution” over having their will “thwarted” by minority interest groups, like the gays. Other local pols also talked about their reaction to the Proposition 8 ruling. SIGNAL
- Unemployment stays at 9.5% as private employers add 71,000 jobs in July, but overall the country lost 131,000 jobs last month. There’s no doubt the economy slowed down in the spring, says the NY TIMES
- “The City has no intention of banning any books,” Gail Ortiz tells KHTS. “Our intent is to run a first class, high service library to serve the people of this community.” It’s not the City I’m worried about…ahhhh nevermind KHTS
- Speaking of the library matter, the COLA Librarian says that if the City were to takeover the operation of our three libraries, it might lose out on $1.5 million in tax revenue SCV voters approved of back in 1996. The City disputes that, saying that on the basis of Carl Newton’s analysis, they’ll be able to keep proceeds from the law. SIGNAL
- Last month The Signal reported that City Manager Ken Pulskamp made $241,000 year overseeing the City of Santa Clarita. In a database released today by the LA Times, Pulskamp’s 2009 taxable compensation is listed as $257,579 (with the caveat that that number has been annualized for comparison to other cities.) If you sort by salary, Pulskamp is the 12th highest paid administrator in Los Angeles County (though he leads the 5th largest city in terms of population.) The LA Times report finds that the average City Manager makes $210,000 LA TIMES
- Same sex marriage ruling not turning out to be a big issue for all four California Gubernatorial and Senate candidates LA TIMES
- A Castaic area tow truck company emailed a bunch of media contacts yesterday alleging that the SCV Sheriff’s Station has allowed a single, rival SCV tow-truck company to monopolize all LASD-ordered tow jobs. Preffered Towing, the aggrieved party, compares the situation to the City of Bell and says that for two years, the SCV Sheriff’s Station sent 1091 calls out of 1095 to a tow company called Rolf’s Towing resulting in hundreds of thousands of dollars for that company. I’ve already asked the LASD to comment.
- Food costs rising at SCV supermarkets SIGNAL By the way, the new Sprouts Market is coming along; the interior is almost all built out. Pics coming
- Congressman McKeon and a whole bunch of other House Members and California Senators want an official probe into what went wrong with the Station Fire LA TIMES
- Captain Paul Becker of the SCV Sheriff’s Station will hold a community open house for residents Thursday August 19 at City Hall from 5pm to 7pm WRB
- Crazy: A 39 year old Lancaster man has been sentenced to 64 years to life in prison for shooting & killing a man with a crossbow in 2008 LA TIMES
- Colorado GOP Gubernatorial candidate says Denver’s popular bicycle sharing program is a “very well disguised” United Nations plot DENVER POST
- Remembering Hiroshima, 65 years later TAMPA BAY POST
- Big John Boston has some swashbuckling tales for you in this week’s Time Ranger column, including details on my favorite SCV bandito, Tiburcio “Tibby” Vasquez, the last of the Californio banditos, a dashing, womanizing, hard drinking, hard charging horseman of yesteryear. Also, did you know that Art Deco-inspired Newhall Elementary School auditorium was built using FDR’s New Deal money? WEST RANCH BEACON
- Romero Canyon site for Castaic High School has “well known and documented flaws,” says this LTE WRITER.
- I Heart SCV -well known for his bird whispering abilities- caught up with that Red Shouldered hawk yesterday that flew into City Hall. Here’s what the Hawk had to say: “I, however, was able to reach the hawk, and it had a lot to say–per usual for the species. It told me that it has been looking for a home since its oak tree at Romero Canyon was hacked down by Larry Rasmussen’s minions, eager as they were to clear the site even before it was chosen to host the new high school. It relocated to McBean, living in a mature sycamore near Newhall Memorial. When that tree also met the chainsaw, it moved to a cottonwood in Newhall Ranch, but recently heard that that area would soon be developed as well. Understandably, it intended a protest flight into boss man Ken Pulskamp’s office but missed, hitting the lesser Ken’s office instead.”
A decade of the Valley’s town square · 2006–2015
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