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Supervisor Barger issued the following statement today, after the Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to implement the Rental Housing Habitability Program
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The Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts will be holding a free Household Hazardous Waste and E-Waste Recycling event for Santa Clarita residents.
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The award-winning Valencia High School Theatre Arts proudly presents “The Outsiders” directed by Stephen Whelan.
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The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit affirmed a $68.5 million judgment Monday for SCV Water for the cleanup of local groundwater contamination in its case against the Whittaker Corporation.
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Angelo Aleman smacked a pair of home runs as College of the Canyons concluded its three-game series vs. Antelope Valley College with a 10-5 home victory at Mike Gillespie Field on Friday.
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Cowboy Festival weekend is upon us!
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Castaic Union School District is thrilled to announce that Lara Frandzel has been selected to participate in the Teacher Innovator Institute at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C
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The city of Santa Clarita’s exciting Concerts in the Park series, presented by Logix Federal Credit Union, makes its highly anticipated return this summer for friends, families and neighbors to gather under the evening sky and enjoy free, live musical performances on Saturdays from July 6 to Aug. 24, at Central Park, located at 27150 Bouquet Canyon Road.
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The Master's University men's volleyball team left no doubt about it as they swept the OUAZ Spirit 25-22, 25-14, 25-22 in the season finale Saturday in The MacArthur Center.
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Join the Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District online for an engaging conversation with experts in the field as they discuss the latest advancements and future trends in vector control Monday, April 15, from 6 p.m to 7:30 p.m.
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In recognition of Mental Health Awareness Month in May, Child & Family Center is presenting a series of four seminars for parents and caregivers of children and teens.
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The University Student Union at California State University, Northridge is helping Matadors keep their peace during finals season with Crunch Time.
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The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health has been notified by the California Department of Public Health of one case of measles in a non-Los Angeles County resident who traveled throughout Los Angeles County from Saturday, March 30 to Sunday, April 1.
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California Department of Transportation, along with Valencia-based C.A. Rasmussen, continues to make progress on the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife Crossing.
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The Santa Clarita Shakespeare Festival is expanding its 2024 Summer Season to include a weekend of performances at the MAIN in July by members of this summer’s youth Shakespeare Camp.
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The 28th Santa Clarita Cowboy Festival makes its anticipated return to William S. Hart Park, located at 24141 Newhall Avenue, this upcoming weekend!
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With the federal and state deadlines for filing and paying taxes approaching in three days, Los Angeles County is also renewing its focus on taxes, with a special focus on enhancing its property tax correction and reimbursement processes.
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The Los Angeles County Development Authority will be accepting registrants for its Senior and Family Public Housing Site-Based Waiting Lists, including Orchard Arms Senior Apartments in Valencia, from April 15, 8 a.m. through April 30, 11:59 p.m., or until a sufficient number of registrations have been received, whichever occurs first.
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Live jazz music, entertainment by talented William S. Hart Union High School District Students, music by Lance Allyn, be treated to happy hour, plus six seated courses - each one created by a different chef from your favorite local restaurants and paired with fabulous wines, local and statewide.
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Local realtor, Racquel Wilder, is hosting a free community paper shredding event Sunday, April 21, from 12 p.m. to 3 p.m., in the parking lot of Congregation Beth Shalom.
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2014 - "Become Ocean" by John Luther Adams (CalArts BFA 1973) named winner of 2014 Pulitzer Prize in Music [story]
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A special meeting of the William S. Hart Union High School District’s Governing Board will be held 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 17. It will be followed by the regular meeting of the Hart Board at 7 p.m.
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Rep. Knight, continue to vote for repeal and replace… just make sure they happen at the same time.
The “Affordable” Care Act; it only works if you don’t work.
The “affordable” care act is a sham. We now have an $8,000 deductible and can no longer afford to take our kids to the doctor. Not sure who is this affordable, but for our middle class family, it has been a horrific nightmare.
Its affordable if you don’t have a job, or a very low paying job, and a few kids, then of course its free, and you have to pay for yours and theirs. the middle class gets screwed.
Bingo
It’s your insurance company, not the ACA.
Suzi S Smith Not. My insurance company was directed by the ACA to discontinue the policy we’d had for years, because it was not “ACA compliant”. We now have less insurance, a higher deductible, and higher premiums. Talk to anyone in the insurance industry – or, better yet, read the ACA – and find out for yourself.
It worked for my family. I was able to afford insurance for the first time in over a decade. And I do work and have done so for 30 years. The ACA framework IS the republican plan, essentially the same as what the Nixon Admin put forth in the 70’s and then again in the 90’s to counter the clinton admin and also the same as RomneyCare in MA… They can’t come up with a replacement because it’s the plan they’ve been hawking for 45 years.
Knight needs to remember that het got elected by a majority, not only a few.
I hope the ACA is repealed and replaces ASAP.
Its only affordable for the people getting massive subsidies. Everyone else is getting soaked.
I hope he got a petition from those who want it dissolved…it is not affordable and there is no care but it is an act…
#NoMoreKnightmares. Let’s “replace” Steve Knight in 2018.
The ACA works, is it perfect no, but for the first time, millions of Americans who never had health insurance could, young adults could stay on their parents’ plan until the age of 26 and those with pre-existing health problems could not be denied coverage. Those who claim it only works for the poor are simply wrong and/or ill informed.
Why should health care be limited only to the wealthy? Why are elected officials provided with government sponsored health care at no cost, but hard working citizens cannot have affordable health care because that would be “socialism?” Without the ACA, tax payers would still be obligated to pick up the tab for those uninsured; at least with the ACA mandate, individuals are accountable for paying their fair portion without placing an undue burden on all tax payers.
Health care is a fundamental human right, and the Republican led Congress has had six plus years to repeal or offer a viable alternative to the ACA, and yet, they have failed to do so on both fronts. Repeal and replace? Ha, six plus years and counting, the GOP apparently can fool some of the people some of the time, but let’s get real, trump and his lackeys have NO plan or vision. Overturning the ACA, places the onus on them to come up with a realtime solution and they don’t want the responsibility or blame for denying millions of voters health care especially when midterm elections are just around the corner.
excellent article! good to know that it is people from all parties and all parts of the district who are concerned. Single payer may be the way to go, but it is cruel to remove healthcare without a replacement. Take care of our people!
I did read the ACA, all 1571 pages of it. And I read the FIRST DRAFT which had more PROTECTIONS for insurance policy holders to REIN IN the cost increases imposed by the insurance companies. In case you nay-sayers forgot, Anthem Blue Cross increased premiums in California 39% in 2008, only the insurance commissioner would not approve it. The ACA stopped that. If your premiums and deductibles are high, shop for another policy. I know working people who have reasonable costs and good coverage and SOME WHO COULD NOT GET ANY COVERAGE FOR CHILDREN WITH PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS AT ANY PRICE. One family has a child with cystic fibrosis which ins from her dad’s work REFUSED TO COVER. They are grateful that they have coverage for her now because the premiums are far less that the THIRTY THOUSAND they were paying out of pocket every year, sometimes more. The Medicare “enhancments” alone are saving millions for people on Medicar – though many are too stupid or ill-informed to realize it.
All you folks who want it repealed and are buying the propaganda vomited out by the republicans should actually speak to some people who will be negatively affected.
Do you have elderly parents on Medicare? The “DOUGHNUT HOLE” which was closed by the ACA will open again and MEDICATIONS that have ben AFFORDABLE will again be too expensive for them to afford.
Are you willing to help them pay for the meds that are keeping them alive? There will no longer be free screening for cancer, diabetes, kidney and liver disease and co-pays for lab and x-ray will AGAIN BE CHARGED, AS WELL AS FOR DOCTOR VISITS. If you have elderly parents who will have to choose between rent and medical care, what will YOU DO?
The ACA had many more advantageous features in the First and Second Drafts
However these were removed or modified during “mark up” by republicans so that the insurance companies had less constraints.
So blame the republicans for the lack of fairness in the ACA. The Democrats tried to give us an excellent program but were stymied by those who took bribes from the insurance industry.
Hey Enaya Hanbali, why you are not responding to all these reasonable people who explained to you how bad was affordable care??
Hundreds of protestors? I only see maybe a couple dozen. Anyway, healthcare is not a universal right. You have the right to seek care, but you do not have rights over someone else’s labor to be cared for by them.
The ACA is awful, it hurt my family personally when my parents had their long time health insurance discontinued because it was not ACA compliant. Now forced into the exchange and told it was the same coverage as their old insurance, they found out it wasn’t when they needed to use it. My father got diagnosed with cancer and his doctors didn’t accept his new insurance. He wanted to go to special cancer hospitals but his new insurance wasn’t accepted when his old insurance would have. My father was a strong man, both physically and mentally, but I had never seen him so defeated as when he was told his oy options were out local hospital and the county hospital in Los Angeles. We tried the county hospital because supposedly they have a good cancer program but they couldn’t do anything until they got a specific test done. Unfortunately they needed permission from the insurance company to perform the test which they said could take a week. It took months and by that time my dad had been placed in hospice at his home.
I’m not blaming the ACA for my father’s death, but he was not cared for. We cared for him the best we could, but my dad worked his ass off his entire life, bought really good insurance and it was taken away because a few geniuses in Washington felt they knew what was best more than my dad knew for himself.
So, I don’t care about how the ACA helped you. I don’t care how bad you had it before. All of us had triumph and struggle in different ways and you will never justify taking my parents health insurance away so that you could feel good about seeing subpar doctors at the county hospital.