Mighty Signal fans would have to be semi-comatose to have missed the newspaper’s 100-year birthday celebration. Amazingly, right here in little Santa Clarita Valley, a tiny news sheet, first put

The Signal recently published one of the most shocking, sensationalized “opinion columns” I’ve ever read in its hallowed pages. Lisa Lavadores burned some 800 words essentially scaring the bejeebies out

Existent in our Santa Clarita Valley cyberspace are “chatrooms” where various factions hurl never-bending opinions toward one another, which in practice is pretty much akin to banging one’s head against

The newspaper you’re holding in your hand is turning 100 years old. Writers for The Signal have seen one heck of a lot of things over this past century, and

You know the story. Perhaps the streets outside your home appear a bit “alligatored” – with unsightly cracks and maybe even a touch of grass growing in the gaps. Maybe,

Monday afternoon I was pleased to spend an hour with Stephanie English, L.A. County Supervisor Kathryn Barger’s field deputy. Stephanie agreed to meet me at the Valencia Commerce Center –

It amazes me that we have a president who will essentially blackmail his own people to get his way on what is little more than an extension of a campaign

Congrats all us geezers on making it to yet another year which seemed so very far away when we were young. 2019? Are you kidding me? During the Cuban Missile

“All I want for Christmas is my border wall Is my border wall Just my border wall Gee, if I could only have My border wall Then I could wish

“Christmas is over. But it’s coming back again.” So used to say our lovely first son Jonathan, at the end of what used to be our wonderfully magical Christmas days

Last Saturday, I was driving back into Valencia along the scenic Highway 126. Just east of Piru, I witnessed a large band of Hispanic farm workers stealing our American jobs

The Dodo is of course, an extinct, flightless bird discovered in 1598, and rendered extinct by man a short 82 years later, in 1680. The extinction of the dodo within

Tsunamis are surprising things. The earth may shake, alarms may ring and folks know they’re coming beforehand – they just don’t know how high, long, or powerful the wave. An

“A week is a long time in politics.” — British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, 1960s A lot can change in politics in a week. Sometimes a day. Even in an

So, what are the takeaways from Tuesday’s most-anticipated mid-term election in memory? Writing, as I am, on Voting Day itself, while I obviously don’t know the results… I do have

The closing argument to this election is easy. You should vote for Katie Hill for the 25th Congressional District because America needs balance and increased oversight in our national government.

Here we go. Two weeks from The Most Important Elec- tion in Our Lives. You get to choose more of the unrestricted, anti-democratic, anti-civility, crazy-making from the Trump White House

The closing argument between Democratic challenger Katie Hill against Republican incumbent Steve Knight really comes down to this: Knight is a pawn. No matter how likeable a man, no matter

Voters in the 25th District have a rare opportunity to send an authentic, impassioned and truly one-of-us local leader to represent our interests in Congress. Katie Hill, our local candidate

It’s easy to get discouraged with all the national political tumult playing out on all media — constantly blaring into our eyes and ears. Many folks get discouraged — or