2020-11-06
ELECTION 2020
EVERY VOTE COUNTS—Above, Simi Valley resident Lyssa Herbert has her daughters Livy Herbert, 11, and Riley Herbert, 16, with her as she casts her vote during in-person voting at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library on Nov. 1. Herbert says she brings her daughters with her when she votes to teach them that voting is both important and a privilege. At […]
Candidates reflect on a race well done
SCHOOOL BOARDTop two waiting on final results
Newcomer Sofya Bagdasaryan is looking to clinch a seat on the Simi Valley Unified School District board. As results of SVUSD’s first by-district election on Tuesday continue to come in, Bagdasaryan is ahead of both Rocky Rhodes and Jonathan Bonesteel for the Area C seat, which opened up when Dan White opted not to run for re-election. As of Thursday […]
District 1 race hangs in balance
CITY COUNCILMashburn, Litster take early lead
The race for the three open seats on the City Council was an important one this election, as the newly elected officials will be challenged with bringing unity back to the city after a year rife with division over race and social inequality. Keith Mashburn, who was running for a second term as mayor, has managed to hold off his […]
Gray poised to grasp seat in park race
Two longtime board members get another termTuesday’s election had the potential to shake up the Rancho Simi Recreation and Park District board of directors, with six contenders vying for three seats on the five-member panel. Incumbents Elaine Freeman and Kate O’Brien appear poised to hold on to their seats, but newcomer Josh Gray is edging out the third incumbent, Mark Johnson, a retired math teacher who […]
Scanners will no longer pick up SVPD chatter
State mandate compelled encryptionThe Simi Valley Police Department is the first law enforcement agency in Ventura County to encrypt all of its radio and dispatch communications, making it impossible for the public and news media to listen in. SVPD switched to encrypted radio communication Nov. 1 with no warning. Chief David Livingstone said the decision was made to comply with a mandate from […]
Smooth voting, hefty turnout—suspense
EDITORIALWell that was a long day’s journey into night, and into the next day, and the next. Votes will be counted for at least the next two weeks if not longer thanks to a state law that requires officials to accept ballots sent by mail until 17 days after the election. Fortunately, concerns about voter intimidation and suppression never materialized, […]
Voters showed up in droves, but ballot count is going ‘smoothly’
Although it may take some time to certify all the votes cast in the 2020 general election, Ventura County Clerk-Recorder Mark Lunn said things are going well at the county level to process, verify and count the more than 330,000 ballots returned thus far. “What went particularly well was the new voting equipment we’re using. I think it went very […]
Take a lead in education for females
The education of women and girls, as laid out in the Girls LEAD act, is essential to the preservation of our democracy and way of life. Women make up roughly 50% of the population, and yet we are not represented in the higher reaches of power because the pipeline between women’s education and leadership is blocked. Societal prejudices force women […]