- Late Friday afternoon, the Saugus Union School District posted an addendum to their regularly-scheduled meeting Tuesday night. A close reading of the addendum appears to show that the SUSD board will take "action" tomorrow night to declare the seat of Stephen Winkler "vacant" based on information that "Winkler may not reside in the district." Leon Worden says the wording of the addendum is "written in such a way as to indicate the school district has discovered the cause for his ouster," and if SUSD has been checking out Winkler's residency for 90 days as they say they have, that should be revealed tomorrow night. The board will have to vote yes or no on the item, or vote to table it for the future. SCV NEWS
- Meanwhile Luke "On the" Money at the SIGNAL looks into where Winkler lives, while KPCC gives perhaps the best single-article overivew of Winkler & his controversial comments, and BREITBART leaves out about 80% of the story and goes with a "Life Long Democrat Declares I am Not a Nazi" headline.
- And a blast from the past: Bob Haueter, Buck McKeon's one time Deputy and a local GOP enforcement officer/caporegime who played an integral role in getting Stephen Winkler on the ballot in 2011, speaks out after being questioned by several Facebook readers. Haueter, you'll recall, fled the SCV to Texas after Buck McKeon's wife lost in the primary race against Scott Wilk in 2012. FACEBOOK
- After tearing down the often-abused Redevelopment program, Governor Jerry Brown has set his sights on Enterprise Zones, the sate-local slush fund that is used to incentivize businesses to hire disadvantaged workers by handing out up to $37,000 in tax credits for each job. State-wide, the program costs us $700 million and is so opaque that it's hard to tell which companies are benefiting from the incentives. However a new report says companies with more than $1 billion in assets account for 65% of the tax credits, with WalMart & Fed Ex taking the most in a Sacramento-area Enterprise Zone. In one example cited by critics, the EZ program was used by a firm to lay-off its $22/hour union workers in the Bay Area and move to an EZ zone where it paid new workers $10/hour. Santa Clarita's Enterprise Zone covers just about the entire city as well as unincorporated areas and claims to have created or saved a few thousand jobs; the CIty is so enthusiastic about the program they occasionally throw free breakfasts and seminars to teach businesses how to get the tax credit. LA TIMES, ENTERPRISE ZONE CHART, CITY
- Despite all the issues with our water -from spent rocket fuel, excessive chloride, and hardness- it's pretty safe to drink, in fact it's an "A" rating by the California Department of Public Health. When you turn on the tap, you're only ingesting 1 perchlorate part per billion parts of water, according to the report. On the hardness level, however, SCV water is twice the usual rate and life without Lemi-Shine in the SCV is impossible. SIGNAL, FACEBOOK THREAD
- Scott Wilk/Steve Fox "town hall" meeting on chloride actually becomes a remote Skype video pep call in which the Democratic and Republican assemblyman told people concerned about the chloride issue that it was good they were getting involved. The Signal even called the pointless town hall meeting a "retread" of other meetings.SIGNAL
- College of the Canyons, apparently flush with cash in the wake of Prop 30, adds a new summer session and 100 courses to its catalog. That's enough for 3,000 more summer students. SIGNAL
- Summer Concerts in the park are great, but if you're looking for something a little more....rustic, perhaps cerebral, and intimate, be sure and check out the SummerFest at Rivendale where there will be Shakespeare plays, some concerts and such. The wine and cheese flow at these events but be sure to bring some bug spray. SCV BEACON
- Dave Bossert, back from his yearly sabbatical to coastal Maine, apparently missed out on Winkler-gate and thinks there's some stink on Henry Mayo Hospital's Board of Directors. SCV BEACON
- Myers on how hard it would be to actually recall Winkler. "While a committed corps of even 20 volunteers could certainly make this happen, they still run up against the problem that this number of signatures needed exceeds the amount of people who actually voted in the last election by a factor 62 percent," Myers writes. SIGNAL
Nine years of the Valley’s town square · 2006–2015
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