Just Another Day At Seco & Decoro
By angellelemarche

Monday Morning.

A crossing guard stands in the middle of the street, red stop sign in hand.

Children begin walking across.

A few stragglers run for the cross walk, in the lead, a 12 year old girl. She gets to the corner just as a car makes the right turn and is about to drive right into the cross walk. Probably not a totally legal thing, ...

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Buses and Rain
By angellelemarche

It's been an El Nino kind of a week.

One storm front after the other, with small windows of non rain happening throughout the big storms.
It's day 4 of this mess and I decide to take the bus on Wednesday.
I get picked up at 7:48AM, as usual, on Cinema Drive. The bus turns onto Valencia Blvd and then almost immediately passes the area near Santa Clarita City Hall. ...

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We Need a SCV PD
By Independence

What we need is a proactive police department created right here in the SCV. What we need are police officers trained from cradle to grave in law enforcement with the understanding that their career begins and ends right here. We need officers with the type A drive found in PDs of Arcadia, Monrovia, Pasadena, Glendale, Burbank, etc... Sure their Police Budget is larger then ours. They pay from 100 million to 25 million while we ...

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Riding The NOHO Express
By angellelemarche

The NOHO Express

For residents of the Santa Clarita Valley, it has basically been, drive or train. Yes, there are buses, but unless you are going somewhere specific and the bus takes you there, you are SOL.
Then along came the NOHO Express. It arrived with little fanfare in August. I was still taking the train...but thinking about the fact that I might actually be able to save a few minutes ...

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Dirty Sheriff, You Naughty Cop!
By KindDriver

During the last March Maddness of 2008, LA Sheriff Officer Gomez, stopped me for a supposed California Roll at the corner of Gilbert and Rainbow Glen in Canyon Country. Ofr. Gomez stated I had driven through the stop sign at Rainbow Glen and Via Princessa too. During his testimony in court, Ofr. Gomez introduced a very vague video recording of the rightside of a car and a unclear picture of the driver.


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