- Will Airport Plan Fly With SCV Residents?: "If they won’t listen to us about the high-speed rail, then maybe we can send Sacramento a message via air mail." KHTS reports on plans for an airport on the nearly 1,000 acre former Whittaker-Bermite property in the center of town. KHTS
- Minimum Concerns: The county Board of Supervisors voted to study the possible effects and impacts of a minimum wage increase in L.A. County. The Signal
- County OKs Additional Bridge Funds: The county Supes greenlit nearly another half-million for the $37 million bridge being built at Highway 126 and Commerce Center Drive. KHTS
- The Cost of Water: "One striking aspect of California’s water emergency is how few voices in positions of authority have been willing to state the obvious. To plant increasing amounts of water-intensive crops in a desert would be questionable in the best of times." Accounting for only 2 percent of the state's GDP, agriculture uses about 80 percent of California's water. The Daily Beast
- Neighborhood Canvassed After Shooting: Investigators canvassed the Canyon Country neighborhood where a car-to-car shooting involving an off-duty LAPD officer took place, though officials say they're no longer looking for a second gunman. The Signal
- IDs Released in Two Deaths: The Coroner's Office released identities of a man found dead in the wash last December, and an SCV man who died in custody at Twin Towers. KHTS
- Your Tax Dollars at Work: "It's truly difficult to imagine any other area of government where you couldn't get a full accounting of how $45 billion was spent." The Pentagon can't account for $45 billion it spent in Afghanistan. Factually
- Thinking About the Electorate: "When we look across the racial and ethnic communities of California, there’s a strong desire to invest more, a strong belief that we need more for a better future.” KQED asks what it would look like if California's electorate looked more like California. KQED
A decade of the Valley’s town square · 2006–2015
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