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In the Santa Clarita area, a controversy over plagiarism by unpaid political columnists has led The Signal to suspend the use of local columnists while it figures out a better way. Both instances of plagiarism were caught by local bloggers. Jeff Wilson at SCV Talk has the details and the email that the paper sent to its columnists.
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