|
|
|
|
|
[Sign Up Now] to Receive Our FREE Daily SCVTV-SCVNews Digest by E-Mail |
|
|
Inside Weather
Calendar 
Today in S.C.V. History November 26
|
Comment On This Story |
Opinion Section Policy
Read More From... RECENT COMMENTARY
Monday, Nov 25, 2024
Thursday, Nov 21, 2024
Wednesday, Nov 20, 2024
Wednesday, Nov 13, 2024
Monday, Nov 11, 2024
Monday, Nov 11, 2024
|
Tweet This
Facebook
Digg This
Bookmark
Stumble
RSS
Latest Additions to SCVNews.com
|
|
As part of Santa Clarita’s ongoing commitment to public safety, small dividers will be installed on Orchard Village Road in the coming weeks.
 |
The Campaign for College Opportunity has named College of the Canyons a 2024 Champion for Excellence in Placement in Black Math Success.
 |
The city of Santa Clarita will host the grand opening of the Valencia Community Center on Monday, Dec. 9 at 10 a.m. at the center at 26147 McBean Parkway in Valencia.
 |
Join a community discussion on retail theft Monday, Dec. 16 from 4-5:30 p.m. featuring California State Assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo, Assemblymember Rick Zbur and a panel of industry experts.
 |
|
|
All For Kids is seeking foster families and now offers two virtual ways for individuals and/or couples to learn how to help children in foster care while reunifying with birth families or how to provide legal permanency by adoption.
 |
As millions of motorists gear up for travel, the California Highway Patrol is gearing up, too. Starting at 6:01 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 27, and running through 11:59 p.m. on Sunday, Dec. 1, the CHP will activate its annual Thanksgiving Maximum Enforcement Period.
 |
The 4th Annual Newhall Holiday Marketplace will take place 10 a.m.- 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 8 at the Newhall Community Center, 22421 Market St., Newhall CA, 91321.
 |
College of the Canyons will enter the postseason as the No. 12 seed in the California Community College Athletic Association (3C2A) Women's Volleyball Southern California Regional Playoffs.
 |
The Thanksgiving holiday is all about gratitude. Being thankful for what we have and all the blessings we have in our lives.
 |
For the first time in The Master's University athletics history, a team has won the NAIA national championship. The women's cross country team finished ahead of Taylor University by one point to win the NAIA women's cross country national championship Friday, Nov. 22, at the Gans Creek Cross Country Course in Columbia, Mo.
 |
|
The California Department of Public Health is warning the public to avoid consuming one batch of cream top, whole raw milk produced and packaged by Raw Farm, LLC of Fresno County due to a detection of bird flu virus in a retail sample.
 |
The Acton Agua Dulce Arts Council will host the "Winner’s Circle Art Show" at the Acton Agua Dulce Public Library, starting Saturday, Jan. 11-Saturday, Feb. 22.
 |
1875 - Vasquez lieutenant Clodoveo Chavez reportedly killed by bounty hunters in Arizona Territory [story]
|
The Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk has reported that there are less than 20,000 ballots remaining to be counted in the Los Angeles County area.
 |
|
|
|
The Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce will hold its annual Awards + Installation event on Friday, Jan. 31 at the Hyatt Regency.
 |
The Valley Industry Assoction will host a Cocktails & Conversation event with Cameron Smyth on Thursday, Dec. 12, 5:30=7:30 p.m. at Margarita’s Mexican Grill, 23320 Valencia Blvd., Valencia, CA 91355.
 |
Following an extensive search, the Governing Board of the William S. Hart Union High School District has unanimously selected current Interim Superintendent Dr. Michael Vierra as the new Hart District Superintendent, filling the vacancy created when Mike Kuhlman resigned effective June 30.
 |
"Christmas Carol: The True Meaning of Christmas" will be performed on stage at the Canyon Theatre Guild on weekends beginning Friday, Nov. 29 thru Monday, Dec. 23 at 24242 Main St., Newhall, CA 91321.
 |
The California Air Resources Board has approved a $34.94 million incentives funding plan that will continue support ongoing efforts to increase access to medium- and heavy-duty zero-emission trucks, buses and equipment, with a focus on small businesses.
 |
Preparing to decorate for the holidays? If you come across broken string lights that are no longer usable, instead of tossing in the trash you can now drop them off for recycling at one of the SAFE collection centers
 |
REAL NAMES ONLY: All posters must use their real individual or business name. This applies equally to Twitter account holders who use a nickname.
15 Comments
They put out a press release on saving us (you & me) millions by refinancing their debt. The numbers were astounding. Was it 50 million? And now they want us to pay more taxes, to accrue more debt? Not voting for E. Nope.
Out of district students are not necessarily commuters. They are online students or LAPD, Sheriff, LAFD and other programs that do not take seats in the classrooms. The majority of students are local! Your kids! Your neighbors! Each year more and more are looking for affordable schooling and new job training. More space is needed so that next years high school graduates and the years after that can get an excellent quality and affordable education.
1. It’s short-sighted to think that the value of the properties you sell are not impacted by having one of the highest ranked California Community Colleges in our valley.
2. The “build it and they will come” attitude is not prevalent; they are already here, but they can’t get the classes they need.
3. “Special interests lie unions . . . Who are not interested in education . . .” Is particularly offensive. The two faculty unions on campus represent over 800 employees; every one of whom is committed to a standard of excellence in higher education in our valley.
1. It’s short-sighted to think that the value of the properties you sell are not impacted by having one of the highest ranked California Community Colleges in our valley.
2. The “build it and they will come” attitude is not prevalent; they are already here, but they can’t get the classes they need.
3. “Special interests like unions . . . Who are not interested in education . . .” Is particularly offensive. The two faculty unions on campus represent over 800 employees; every one of whom is committed to a standard of excellence in higher education in our valley.
Reply
Do you think it’s realistic to keep adding to the debt for this? At what point would you say we should stop? 750 million? 1 billion, 3 billion at some point you have disaster on your hands if you keep adding to the debt. Whatever happened to common sense?
The middle class homeowners of the SCV are not personal ATMs for the fiefdom at COC. We are already paying taxes direct and indirect to support this public junior college. Are their arrangements with full high dollar private 4 yr universities and county law enforcement academies something we should continue to bankroll? How about night school? Lots of private business entities in this valley contribute imensely to our all important economy but they don’t stick their hand into my pocket and remove my hard earned cash. This is shameful. Support education and a healthy COC by VOTING NO on E in order to reel them back into accountability and stop the exploitative drunken with power practices they’ve been exhibiting. The salary base of this core group is also out of control. http://transparentcalifornia.com/salaries/2014/college-canyons/ Wake up SCV sheeple.
We are mortgaging our future and for our kids/grand kids. This has to stop. COC does have a large portion of people from outside the area and online classes do not need a classroom so that does not fly for me. I am a recent COC graduate and I think complaining about the realities of higher education like wait lists and parking is what happens and if COC is not setting these students up to know what comes next it is false advertising for higher education. We are teaching the students it is okay to keep taking on lots of debt when it is not. Pay off the other measures/bonds first and then start looking for more money. SCV is growing too fast and getting over developed. Look at all the projects on the books. This will be the next San Fernando Valley and that truly stinks in my opinion and not why I am and have been a homeowner here for 17 years. NO on measure E.
How long do comments typically await “moderation”
I have one waiting over an hour.
When there are a lot of comments, we moderate them 3 or 4 times a day on average. Otherwise 1-2 times.
More tighty-whitey, I’ve-got-mine, anti-education, anti-union, whiny rhetoric from a man who most probably once benefited from the very Democratic Party institutions he so smugly criticizes. Mr. Putzold maintains a smug, parochial point of view which speaks poorly for both he and the citizens in our city. What is this: “…Nearly 50 percent of students at COC are commuters…” Of *course* they are; it’s a *junior college* not a university, Einstein. In a civilized society, people must pay taxes for public services — whether one likes it or not. Time to get the big boys to pay their share.
I didn’t know being responsible is a “tighty-whitey” thing. Pam your view is more of a loosey-goosey, everything that is mine is yours, my hard work pays for your utopia even if I don’t agree type of rhetoric. It’s time to wake up to reality and realize that there are principles that are true no matter what your ethnicity, political views etc…if you spend too much money and don’t pay your bills you will have to pay the piper. Wake up Pam.
And may I add, Mr. Putzold might be a Santa Clarita resident — as of late, but he is not *from* here which gives his provincial comment about commuters a hypocritical bent. If you look at his Linkedin page you’ll see he’s going negative on Prop. E because it affects his real estate business. It’s all about the dollars with Steve. Not about your sons and daughters or you…all about the dollars in his coin purse.
Pam Miller, you’re intellect is so superior! Thats a joke. All you do is criticize, but funny how you have not one reasonable solution to NOT GETTING US IN MORE DEBT! You cant spend money you don’t have! There are no dollars in the coin purse to even protect! It’s empty and you want to fill it with IOU’s that are grandchildren will be paying for. You need a reality check.
At least you tried Steve. Most people have no clue about the bottom line, or mismanagement. How much is enough?= Always a little more. Offended union? When did a union take a salary decrease to prove their dedication to their educational cause – without being forced? Looks like every single career do nothing but draw a salary politician got re-elected too. Very disappointing. And to “all about the dollars”: you are free to give all your money away without the need of slandering Steve. Hope he sues.
Santa Clarita and COC in particular is taking the same route our federal government is going. Spend it now and don’t worry how it’s going to be paid for! The real problem is a lack of prioritizing. Now that they are going to be 470 million in debt, they will have to keep adding to the debt to keep the illusion going until it at some point it all unravels and everyone loses. Then it’s those terrible people that said we should live within our means fault! We live in a world that denies reality and the laws of economics cannot be overcome forever. It will catch up to us. I don’t look forward to that day.