- Einstein Academy backers sent packing: with a vote of 3-1, and no one from the Einstein group even present, the SUSD board denied charter status for the fourth time last night. The sole aye vote, Stephen Winkler, played the anti-semitic card just like AEA's director did the last time AEA was denied charter status by SUSD, saying he thinks that the AEA's backers are Jewish may play a role in the other board member's minds. AEA says SUSD is operating in bad faith and that it plans to appeal, again. SIGNAL, KHTS
- Councilmembers Ferry, McLean and Boydston got all up in the grill of one Sam Unger, the executive officer of the obscure LA Regional Water Control Board. I HEART, who says Ferry was in fine fighting form at list night's Council meeting, says that the Councilmembers upbraided Unger for his "science" showing that Santa Clarita's chloride had devastated crops in Ventura County. Ferry, borrowing a page from old west water wars, all but threatened to build a damn and block the flow of the Santa Clara river downstream. "We are that crazy" as a community Ferry told the bureaucrat. Boydston had his facts ready, noting VeCo farmers enjoyed good production last year, and Maria Gutzeit, an actual scientist and 2014 Council candidate, called BS on Unger's presentation. Great details at I HEART SCV, Gutzeit shows her stuff at SCV LTE group
- Speaking of the chloride issue, today we'll see the SCV Sanitation District's plan to deal with our excess chloride. Jim Holt at the Signal details how the agency is spending big bucks with a PR firm to get the message out SIGNAL
- Jane Doe #23, the Guatemalan woman whose body was found badly decomposed last week in San Francisquito Canyon, may not have been a victim of "foul play" according to officials. Investigators are still trying to determine her identity and think she was 30 years old. SIGNAL
- Another child airlifted to Children's Hospital Los Angeles after falling from play structure. But he's fine now SIGNAL
- Former LAUSD teacher from Valencia arrested for possession of child pornography. US Postal Service investigators made the bust in cooperation with several area law enforcement agencies. SCVNEWS
- A 25 year old man was stabbed on Monday in the apartments on Valle Del Oro in Newhall following a fight amid, not surprisingly, "beer cans and people in the area drinking." KHTS
- Scott Wilk and Steve Fox, both state Assemblymen representing parts of the SCV are seeing some traction on education bills they're pushing. Wilk's would increase funding for counselors at community colleges, while Fox wants to explore the possibility of opening a CSU in the Antelope Valley SIGNAL
- A little odd: SCVi, the SCV's best known & oldest public charter school, held a Civil War battle reenactment with 140 8th and 9th graders at Rancho Camulos. I want pictures. SIGNAL
- Angelenos spent about 59 hours sitting in traffic in 2012, making LA traffic the worst in the country according to a new survey. So I don't want to hear complaints about SCV traffic. We have it really good here. LA TIMES
- Yet another survey by the DoT shows that Americans traveled 3.1 billion miles less in February 2013 than in February 2012. Americans have been driving less and less since 2010, even as gas prices spike high or dip low. More & better transit & improved technology are cited as possible causes. HSR BLOG
- Mayor Kellar to host another town hall meeting on April 30, this time in Saugus. CITY BRIEFS
- Signal columnist Gary Horton writes persuasive piece on how gun violence kills more Americans every year than any recent terrorist event. Alas, even the underwhelming Senate bill that would have brought some sanity to the gun buying process died last week. COLUMN
A decade of the Valley’s town square · 2006–2015
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