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1986 - COC board votes to allow Argentine cliff swallows to nest forever on sides of buildings [story]
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Hello Auto Group has announced its partnership with the Santa Clarita Veteran Services Collaborative for the second annual Military Spouse Appreciation Event. This event, dedicated to honoring military spouses, will take place on Military Spouse Appreciation Day Friday, May 10, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Anthony Vince Nail Spa at 24250 Town Center Drive #140, Valencia, CA 91355.
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The Valley Industry Association of Santa Clarita is set to ignite innovation and transformation with its VIA Workforce Development Conference 2024 at the Hyatt Regency Valencia on Thursday, May 16. Jorge Marquez, chairman of the Los Angeles County Workforce Development Board, has been added to the list of speakers appearing at the event. He will serve as the opening speaker at the conference.
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The Los Angeles County Department of Economic Opportunity and its regional partners have held the first of several upcoming rapid response events to urgently connect soon-to-be laid off local workers, impacted by the recent bankruptcy and closure of dozens of local 99 Cents Only Stores, to critical workforce services.
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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.