|
|
|
|
|
[Sign Up Now] to Receive Our FREE Daily SCVTV-SCVNews Digest by E-Mail |
|
|
Inside Weather
Calendar 
Today in S.C.V. History December 25
|
Comment On This Story |
Opinion Section Policy
Read More From... RECENT COMMENTARY
Friday, Dec 19, 2025
Wednesday, Dec 10, 2025
Wednesday, Dec 3, 2025
Tuesday, Dec 2, 2025
Tuesday, Dec 2, 2025
Wednesday, Nov 26, 2025
|
Tweet This
Facebook
Digg This
Bookmark
Stumble
RSS
Latest Additions to SCVNews.com
|
The Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station has issued the following traffic alerts: Due to heavy rains, the westbound right lane is closed on Soledad Canyon Road between Camp Plenty Road and Langside Avenue.
 |
Fostering Youth Independence’s recent Charlie Brown Holiday party was attended by dozens of local foster youth and their volunteer Allies.
 |
The National Weather Service as issued the following alerts for the Santa Clarita Valley. Flood Watch until Dec. 26, 4 p.m. PST, High Wind Warning until Dec. 25, 3 p.m. PST.
 |
|
Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger is urging residents to remain vigilant as a powerful storm system moves through Los Angeles County, bringing periods of heavy rain and rapidly changing conditions.
 |
Thirteen suspects were arrested, and more than $800,000 in stolen merchandise was recovered following a coordinated, multi-agency operation targeting an organized retail theft network operating across Northern California.
 |
|
The California State Transportation Agency today announced a new joint effort by two of its departments, the Department of Motor Vehicles and California Highway Patrol, to curb excessive speeding and prevent deadly crashes.
 |
The city of Santa Clarita invites the community to heat up the holiday season at the Holiday Spice Salsa Edition on Saturday, Dec. 27, at the Canyon Country Community Center, located at 18410 Sierra Highway Santa Clarita, CA 91351.
 |
1965 - Signal newspaper owner Scott Newhall shows up for a duel (of words) with rival Canyon Country newspaper publisher Art Evans, who no-shows and folds his paper soon after [story]
|
As winter storms enter Los Angeles County, the Los Angeles County Department of Animal Care and Control urges pet owners to take necessary precautions in light of the significant storms expected to last for five days.
 |
Brayden Miner scored 31 points and Rylan Starr had 24 as The Master's University men's basketball team crushed Bethesda University 145-59 The MacArthur Center.
 |
From surprise Santa arrivals to stacks of gifts waiting for young hands, the Boys & Girls Club of Santa Clarita Valley delivered holiday cheer on a large scale this season, reaching hundreds of children and teens throughout the Santa Clarita Valley, including Clubhouses in Canyon Country, Newhall, Val Verde and Castaic.
 |
|
Princess Cruises, headquartered in Santa Clarita, embraced a cherished maritime tradition in a uniquely festive way, celebrating a symbolic christening of its Rose Parade float with a ceremonial break of a bottle of Pantalones Organic Tequila.
 |
The Golden Globes have ushered in awards season with the announcement of the 2026 nominees across 28 categories. Among this year’s contenders is Pixar’s "Elio," which earned a nomination for Best Motion Picture – Animated.
 |
The National Weather Service has issued a "Hazardous Weather" warning for the Santa Clarita Valley and Southern California.
 |
Detectives from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department Missing Persons Unit are asking for the public’s help locating at-Risk missing person Drew Barrick Russell.
 |
1997 - Five bodies found during grading of Northlake development in Castaic; determined to be Jenkins graveyard [story]
|
Old Town Newhall Public Library will host "Spice Travels," Friday, Jan. 2, 9:15-9:30 a.m. at 24500 Main St., Santa Clarita, CA 91321.
 |
|
The California Highway Patrol encourages the public to “brake” the habit of speeding this holiday season. The CHP will launch a Holiday Enforcement Period starting at 6:01 p.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 24, and ending at 11:59 p.m. on Thursday, Dec. 25.
 |
Volunteers are needed to help clear brush and restore the tread from the existing lower Gates and Twister trails 8 a.m.-noon Saturday, Dec. 27.
 |
Join InfluenceHER's "Redefining Happiness, a Candid Conversation for the Modern Woman," 4-6 p.m., Friday, Jan. 16 at the Venue Valencia.
 |
The Santa Clarita Public Library system has announced that all library branches will close at 1 p.m. on Christmas Eve, Wednesday, Dec. 24, and remain closed on Christmas Day, Thursday, Dec. 25, in observance of Christmas.
 |
Students pursuing an undergraduate degree in water resource-related fields are invited to apply for the 2026/27 ACWA Edward G. “Jerry” Gladbach Scholarship, offered by the Association of California Water Agencies in partnership with SCV Water. Applications are now being accepted through March 1, 2026.
 |
REAL NAMES ONLY: All posters must use their real individual or business name. This applies equally to Twitter account holders who use a nickname.
11 Comments
Betty,
This time, you hit the race button with a clever slight of hand. You can’t even help yourself. It just boils up and out and taints your every word.
And your hate for those with differing opinions. The “leftist PC crowd.” What hogwash.
Please, try to write a column about a subject for what the subject is, rather than as another vehicle to attack “the leftist (black) president, or the socialists or the whatever label you’re attacking.
Meanwhile, continue to live happily on your Medicare, your Social Security, and all the taxpayer paid social services this city provides.
You seem to hate the very things that bring you a quality of life.
Thank you Betty. Well said.
“Gary”…or whatever your name is. Whenever I bother to read blogs, I’m always entertained to get criticism from a “brave” anonymous. Secondly: Don’t tell me I didn’t write what I meant. Its very clear and you didn’t get it. You are so embedded with your inane defenses, you twisted the article to some perverted message that is not there. Believe this: If I wanted to directly criticize anyone mentioned in the commentary, I would pointedly do that. Third: It is always very amusing when a hateful critic who thinks he has a differing opinion from me, assigns me with the (his) “hate” when I have a perceived differing opinion. That kind ALWAYS miss the pure irony of their words. Fourth: save yourself some angst with not wasting any more time telling the world Obama is black. Really? That’s just laughable. Here’s a couple news flashes for you and your ilk: A.Obama has dark skin but he is HALF WHITE; B. why does the color of his skin bother you and your kind so much? 2. His skin color is hardly what bothers me. What bothers me is his core-engrained incompetence and ignorance of terrorism and al threats to the USA. Fifth: Where did Social Security and Medicare come in? But since you brought it up–No one “gave” that to workers; they and their employers paid for them. So unbelievable, you did not know that. Sixth:I did NOT know our “city” was providing the two. I think that will be a HUGE surprise to a whole lot of people. Eighth:…and I complained about city services where??. Ninth: You would have people of differing opinions silenced so you could read only things you like. Surprise, I disagree with you about that. Unrelated, miss-the-target responses like yours always prove so worthy and beneficial. Kudos to all of those, differing opinions or not, who “man-up” enough to put their real full name on articles they take the time to research, write and present. I am really going to have to start taking more time to read replies and respond because its a great opportunity to educate so many with such great referenced examples of the drive-by-dense.
Gary, did you bother to read what Betty wrote? All life matters. All life. But most of the time it only makes the news is when it’s salacious. It shouldn’t matter who kills who. All life matters. What doesn’t matter is the color of a person’s skin. My own family is represented by almost every racial group there is. Killing for the sake of killing is what’s wrong. And the fact is, guns don’t kill people. People kill people. So cut Betty some slack for having a heart and being moved by another senseless death. And in case you think I haven’t had to deal with a senseless death, your wrong. My husband died less than 2 weeks ago from a cruel killer. Cancer. And in my grief I thought it was important enough to defend a woman I’ve never met,for expressing a valid opinion from a person who would rather attack her than the view she expressed. And for the life of me I can’t figure out why it matters to you if she collects Social Security or Medicare, unless your implying she’s too “old” to have an informed opinion. Sounds like ageism to me, and that in its self is discriminatory. By the way, those benefits are provided by the Federal Government (not the city). The individual receiving the benefits paid into the very funds they are receiving said benefits from. Medicare, like health insurance from your employer, is deducted from the Social Security benefit before the money is distributed to the payee. So if she is receiving SSI, she earned it. And trust me, living on those “benefits” provides a quality of life in most cases that is well under the national poverty line, unless you live in a state with a low cost of living. So educate yourself before pontificating on a subject you clearly no nothing about. And to you Betty, bravo!
WOW. She’s officially crossed over into full blown conspiracy theorist nutbag. Note to Betty: Plastic surgery can’t hide a cruelly ignorant soul.
You deserve every inch of backlash you’ll get for this commentary. So presumptive. Filled with assumption and lies. Filling in blanks to make your tired heart feel ok. Generalizing via media reports is easily the most asinine thing one can do. And you’ve done it, and then some.
Hahaha, George Soros!!
Jared Gardner, first of all, you seem a little to familiar with the effects of plastic surgery……just sayin’. If you think I’ve had it, then thank you. Second: “Assumptions and lies”…inform yourself. Check out the complaints from the alleged protestors…Conservatives didn’t hire them….Here you go….
1. #Ferguson Protesters Protest Not Getting Their Checks For Protesting…
On May 14, protesters, upset with not being paid their promised checks for protesting, protested outside MORE, Missourians Organizing For Reform and Empowerment, an ACORN organization which had received funding through George Soros to fund Hired protesters with the Black Lives Matter movement have started a #CutTheCheck hashtag and held a sit-in at the offices for the successor group to the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) in Missouri after the group allegedly stopped paying them.
2.FrontPage Magazine reports that Missourians Organizing for Reform and Empowerment (MORE) has been paying protesters $5,000 a month to demonstrate in Ferguson. Last week, hired protesters who haven’t been paid held a sit-in at MORE’s offices and posted a demand letter online.
MORE is the re-branded Missouri branch of ACORN, which filed for bankruptcy in late 2010, FrontPage reported. MORE and other groups supporting the Black Lives Matter movement have received millions of dollars from billionaire financier George Soros.
The group Millennial Activists United posted a letter on their blog demanding MORE “cut the checks” to demonstrators. (End of article(s)cites)
“Generalizing”? That’s rich. I am positive that Jennifer Rivers thinking of her dead son doesn’t think I’m too “general”!
Please! If I were afraid of “backlash” from people who neither READ nor understand what I actually write, without twisting topics to their sick, destructive agendas, I wouldn’t write.
Debbie, my sincere apologies to you. I addressed the (actually, useless in comparison)negative trash first and did not acknowledge huge loss; your husband after a battle with an awful disease. I am so sorry. I just took a friend to and from chemo yesterday in the valley, for her continuing battle. I wish you well on your journey of grief. My gosh, less than two weeks; I hope you have s strong positive structure to support you. May God’s blessings be abundant in your life. Thinking of you…with faith and prayers.
Thank you for sharing…
You may be onto something Betty. Where are the “activist”? Thanks