- WTF! SCV handyman attacks and tries to kill a client’s dog at four in the morning. The dog’s owner awoke at that time to her Dachsund’s cries, so she went outside and saw her handyman holding her dog underneath a tarp that was soaked in a “bleach like chemical.” The Dachsund later died and the handyman, John Gilchrist, has been arrested SIGNAL
- City planners and the Planning Commission worked through the One Valley One Vision’s Traffic and Circulation element at the Planning Commission meeting on Tuesday night SIGNAL. I HEART goes deep on Level of Service claims (Rated A through F) and tells us how the plan to keep traffic at current levels while the population increases is dependent on bridges while Cam Noltemeyer predictably calls OVOV an “assault on the residential community.”
- As if we needed something else to worry about. The Daily News says health officials have found more rabid bats than usual in the SFV and SCV this year. The tiny flying mammals, which eat insects and hang out with vampires, are a potential threat to people and animals. If you see a sick one, don’t touch! DAILY NEWS
- City lands Trifecta triathlon event in June, the same time we’ll host a stage start in the Amgen Tour of California. SIGNAL
- AP profiles three California Republican Congressman, including Buck McKeon and Kevin McCarthy from nearby Bakersfield, who are ascending to top leadership positions in the new House SIGNAL
- Buck McKeon says that if we cut defense spending, it means we’re undermining America. But other Republicans seem open to cutting from the DoD TIME MAG
- It’s confirmed: the problem with California is….Californians. An LA Times poll finds that Californians don’t want to pay more taxes but also dislike cuts to popular programs and want spending increased on others LA TIMES
- County to build Commerce Center drive overpass that takes Commerce Center drive traffic off Highway 126 and puts it on Henry Mayo Drive. SIGNAL
- City to host “Breakfast with Santa Claus” on December 11 CITY BRIEFS
- Letter writer wants Frank Ferry to resign because, as Principal of Alemany High School, Ferry is stealing the SCV’s talented football youth. He even checked with the City Attorney and District Attorney who told them there’s no conflict of interest between Ferry’s position on the Council and as Principal of Alemany. Ahh, but there’s a “moral conflict of interest” our LETTER WRITER says
- John Boston’s Time Ranger column this week is a win with new information about the first discovery of gold in California (it may not have been Francisco Lopez in P-Canyon but rather some Indians in P-Canyon way back in 1796) and lots more WRB
- Big Picture takes a look at all the protesting going on around the world BIG PICTURE
- Happy 29th Birthday to my brother Scott!
Nine years of the Valley’s town square · 2006–2015
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