- Heading Toward the Strike Zone: With contract negotiations seeming to have hit a wall, nurses at Henry Mayo are calling for a one-day strike next week. The Signal
- Making the Hard Decisions: The Signal announced that on May 2 it is cutting the print edition of the paper back to five days a week. This isn't a shocking move, and if they can keep up strident weekend coverage online I think they'll do ok. The Signal
- A New Look for the View: A $13.2 million modernization project is underway for Valley View Community School. SCVNews
- East Side Growth: "All the beauty of Santa Clarita is being destroyed and the traffic is getting insane." Luke Money's look at development in the SCV continues. The Signal
- Cause Reported in Baby's Death: The Coroner's Office has released the cause of death for a 19-day-year old baby allegedly murdered by her father earlier this year. KHTS
- There's a Checkpoint, Charlie: The Sheriff's Department is conducting a checkpoint within city limits this Friday night. SCVNews
- When is Genocide Not Genocide?: "Armenian genocide is not an allegation, a personal opinion, or a point of view, but rather a widely documented fact supported by an overwhelming body of historical evidence." So said our current president back in 2008. Now that he's in the White House, it's apparently a bit more complicated to call a genocide a genocide. LA Times
- When We Hunted Mountain Lions: "The Times fretted that the 'California lions' would 'pervert their appetite...by eating the strollers on Lovers' Lane or occasional stray children.'" There was a time when mountain lions were a beast to be hunted and killed. LA Observed
- Trying Not to Get Railroaded: "They need to understand that pitting one community against another is not going to fly with us.” SClarita officials are urging cooperation between communities to fight the California high-speed rail project. The Signal