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AMGEN ‘09 details, followup on toddler’s death, some depressing real estate stats, and politicians plan to walk the SCV, all ahead in today’s Daily Brief.

KHTS has an update this afternoon on the  investigation into the death of a 2 year old boy who was left for hours inside a hot car in Canyon Country on Monday.
According to KHTS, the still-unnamed mother of three may have believed that her “other children were taking care of the young boy”  after the […]

Well the news this morning is simply awful. What can be said? It’s a tragedy.

Jeff dribbles up center court, spins around one defender, runs past another…he’s in the key, no one’s around him. He shoots! He scores! Another Daily Brief for the record books! The crowd goes wild!

So personal resoponsibility is the theme of today’s Signal editorial page. What a wonderful topic for this valley. I can’t help but think that Editor Lila Littlejohn’s thoughts on personal responsibility ought to be applied collectively to certain organizations and institutions in town.

As a database administrator by day, I find shopping at Wal Mart to be a fascinating exercise. For decades, the Bentonville Arkansas based mega-corp has squashed competitors and expanded massively by doing one thing exceedingly well: mining customer and demographic data.
Now don’t get me wrong. As a liberal tree-hugger who supports local businesses (even with […]

“…one of the worst things about civilization is, that anybody that gits a letter with trouble in it comes and tells you all about it and makes you feel bad, and the newspapers fetches you the troubles of everybody all over the world, and keeps you downhearted and dismal most all the time, and it’s […]

The economic downturn, the housing crisis, and the cost of a barrel of oil have all made it impossible for me to continue operations here at SCVTalk.com. So, effective tomorrow at 8 am, I’m laying off all the staff and SCVTalk asa news blog will cease to exist; instead, I’m going to transform the site […]

Dog days of summer already, I think. Kind of slow today. Just poking around and not finding much. Shucks.