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Paul Butler: Going the Extra Mile

Paul Butler | Virus at work

There’s a pervasive and intrusive virus that continues to infect us at our workplaces. It blew through our fields of labor during the agrarian age; whistled through our production factories

A group of demonstrators gather at the corner of McBean Parkway and Valencia Boulevard in Valencia to support striking transit drivers on Wednesday morning, 110123. Dan Watson/The Signal

MV, drivers back at bargaining table 

After nearly two months of a strike, MV Transportation gave an offer that the members of Teamsters Union Local 572 are expected to consider Sunday, union officials confirmed late Friday

Santa Clarita bus drivers demonstrate back in Octoberin front of a city transit center. Katherine Quezada/ The Signal

Bus strike heads into eighth week  

  While a Santa Clarita city official sought to address claims Tuesday that the city isn’t doing enough to end the bus strike, more than 30 drivers showed up to

Don Cruikshank smiles as he introduces his family during his appointment to the city of Santa Clarita's Parks, Recreation and Community Services Commission in February 2016. Courtesy city of Santa Clarita.

Local businessman, parks commissioner dies  

A longtime local business leader and city parks commissioner died Friday, according to a city official.  Don Cruikshank ran a successful equipment and event rental business, a legacy continued by

Paul Butler: Going the Extra Mile

Paul Butler | Gratitude at work

Recently, I was reflecting on all the reasons we have to be grateful for our work in this land of plenty, and here are seven that stood out to me: 

Paul Butler: Going the Extra Mile

Paul Butler | Giving and receiving feedback

Ken Blanchard, author of “The One Minute Manager” is credited with saying, “Feedback is the breakfast of champions.” I appreciate the profound practicality that suggests feedback should be digested, implying

Press release

SCV-based DrinkPAK building 2 facilities in Texas

News release  DrinkPAK, a contract manufacturer of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, is expanding and investing more than $450 million in the construction of two state-of-the-art manufacturing facilities in the Dallas-Fort