- SCV Home sales take a 26.9 percent dive in October compared to a year ago, the Signal says. Prices are down too some 7.1 percent from October 2009 for a median sales price of under $390,000. Condo prices and sales, however are up. Overall, compared to October 2009, there were 77.5 percent more active listings in October 2010. SIGNAL
- Cracks are forming, ctd. The County of Los Angeles Public Library will reveal a $22 million “structural deficit” to LA County Supervisors today and propose extending the property tax on some cities for library services across the entire County to make up the deficit, according to the SIGNAL
- Meanwhile, down the 126, City leaders in Ventura recently saw that Camarillo had decided to withdraw from the VECO Library system and go with LSSI. Now they’re contemplating the same thing, but a ‘wrinkle’ in state Education Code forces Cities in other California counties to withdraw from County libraries effective the first day of the year, which is, after all, only 30 days away. VECO STAR But that doesn’t apply to us here in LA County- a carve-out in the Education Code says LA County and Riverside County municipalities don’t have the same requirement. ED CODE
- Yay! The cold snap is over. Boo! Windy times are here again. LA TIMES But at least one Santa Clarita Valley couple, originally from Denver, welcomed the cool weather remarking that buying a Christmas tree in 90 degree weather just never felt right ABC 7
- The happy story about a Plum Canyon Elementary students reunion with his Iraq-serving Navy father required a lot of coordination and planning the SIGNAL says. The box the father popped out of was a movie prop, and Galpin provided a big bow. The dad had to stay with in-laws in San Diego last week until school returned this week. DAILY NEWS
- The mother of two who was injured when a speeding CHP cruiser slammed into her SUV on Sunday night on I-5 is in fair condition at Mayo hospital. Her husband refused to talk to the press, saying he needed to talk to his attorney first. Reporter Jim Holt notes this isn’t the first speeding law enforcement officer who’s injured a driver this year. I’d add to that list the case several years ago where an LASD driver slammed into a passenger car near Mayo, and the infamous case just a couple of years ago where two LASD cruisers collided with each other en route to an emergency call at Golden Valley High School. All this is at the City kicks off another anti-speeding campaign. SIGNAL
- The Pentagon releases its important report today on the repeal of Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell. One of the key findings of the report is that 70 percent of military members say lifting the ban on openly-serving gay and lesbian service members “would have positive, mixed or no results.” AP.
- To which Buck McKeon said, “I’d like to know who these 70 percent are.” Buck McKeon has said we need to poll the military about DADT several times this year. WSJ
- Interesting piece from KPCC about the history of Congressional earmarks and how they’re used. Congressman McKeon is hedging as other Republicans try to ban them. “”That’s a bad word now and we’re gonna have to find out how we do it.” KPCC
- Letter writing senior hints that she’d pay for parking in Old Town Newhall SIGNAL
- Like Netflix streaming? Well Comcast just rocked your and my world by asking an internet backbone provider to pay extra money to Comcast because so many people are streaming movies. They are, in effect, putting up a toll both HUFF PO
A decade of the Valley’s town square · 2006–2015
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