Signal 100 | The Signal and the Cowboy way
March 4, 2019 3:49 pm
No. 9 in a series of 52 commemorating 100-year anniversary of The Signal Years ago, I used to help out at the local Cowboy Festival when it was properly held
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John Boston | Hey VIA! Can I Change My Vote For Best Movie?
March 1, 2019 10:26 am
Dear Valley Industry Association, Before I offer a sincere thanks for your most kind hosting of The Mighty Signal luncheon last week, I must apologize for past remarks I’ve made
Signal 100 | When reporters run wild
February 23, 2019 8:30 am
No. 8 in a series of 52 commemorating 100-year anniversary of The Signal “I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what
John Boston | Sordid Details of Di Van Hook’s Big Package (Salary)
February 22, 2019 1:16 pm
Recently, a loyal Signal subscriber pondered what people were making over at College of the Canyons. Just how much does Chancellor Dr. Dianne Gee Van Damme Van Heflin Van Halen
Signal 100 | The killing of Ed Brown
February 16, 2019 8:00 am
Part 7 of 52 In the 19th century, Santa Clarita was a Wild West valley, as dangerous a place to live as any. We had one of America’s biggest range
John Boston | Special Thanks To Katie Hill & Her Dem Party!
February 15, 2019 2:40 pm
Dearest Congresswoman Katie Hill, Taking digits to keyboard this fine Santa Clarita morn to congratulate you and urge that you keep up your righteous work in Washington. Also, I apologize.
John Boston | Invasion of the OOTOG Sock Snatchers
February 8, 2019 4:52 am
I figure around the year 2051, I will be officially out of middle age and entering the long, unforgiving epoch of my dotage. I hope we still have a Second Amendment
Hot coffee and a fresh Signal on Feb. 7, 1919
February 1, 2019 11:27 pm
What a fascinating device, to have a time machine that actually works. I’d order the deluxe kit, one that comes with a universal translator and Shroud of Mental Fog so
John Boston | The Gillette Merchants of PC Shaming
February 1, 2019 1:18 pm
DEAR DAVID TAYLOR: As CEO of Proctor & Gamble, the umbrella company over Gillette, I’ve been a big fan of your razors for many years. Love the Fusion 5. What
Signal 100 | Chasing the Stories of Might Have Been
January 26, 2019 12:45 pm
By John Boston Signal Staff Writer Part 4 of 52 For years, I nagged anyone who wouldn’t listen about a mythological creature supposedly living right under our noses. This great
John Boston | Mr. Trump: Give Your SOTU in the Good ol’ SCV
January 25, 2019 8:30 am
DEAR PRESIDENT TRUMP, Read, recently, with disappointment, that Mrs. Pelosi is not letting you use Congress for your upcoming State of the Union speech next Tuesday. Terribly sorry, Mr. President.
There will never be another Scott Newhall
January 18, 2019 11:35 pm
By John Boston Signal Staff Writer I had been crying, not a dignified thing for a satirist. Right before Halloween and upstaging Bill Clinton’s 1992 November election, Scott Newhall died.
John Boston | City’s New Era of Street Lights and Dark Ages
January 18, 2019 8:53 am
I remember former Signal editor Ruth Newhall going completely Ape Poopy once. Well. More than once. Some bureaubozocrat in Sacramento sent a press release. Couldn’t tell you what it was
The Mighty Signal and history
January 12, 2019 7:45 am
Here’s a staggering fact: The Signal is older than the American woman’s right to vote. The Mighty Signal’s first issue came out on Friday, Feb. 7, 1919. The 19th Amendment,
John Boston | Universal Free Gun Care for Useless Federal Mall Cops
January 11, 2019 6:16 am
Even when I was a kid in my 20s, I thought there was something screwball about the Left. Later, during my college days, I noticed that liberal activists were void
Before so much and so many, there was The Mighty Signal
January 9, 2019 3:26 pm
Before television and radio transmission. Before talking movies. Before the Eskimo Pie, the hair dryer, traffic lights, the Band-Aid, convertible cars or the cheeseburger. Before the invention of the bulldozer,
John Boston | Oil, On My T-Shirt, Pain, In My Heart…
January 4, 2019 7:38 am
The other day, I was folding laundry with a typical pained expression. Another great, $25 Henley T-shirt. Ruined. This one was splattered with the oily fingerprints of Bernstein’s Restaurant Recipe
John Boston | A Man Named Red, an Alfa Mechanic & Pie
December 28, 2018 1:20 pm
I was born a nostalgic soul, attracted to realities thousands of years past, sometimes a childhood away. This time of year — and I know the reason why — I’m
John Boston’s Time Ranger & SCV History: A Special 1,000-Year History of SCV Christmases
December 25, 2018 4:04 am
I think I’ve been doing these trail rides into SCV history for almost 40 years now. What do you know. It’s Christmas, 2018. May you be surrounded by loved ones.
John Boston | Santa’s Coming to My Office Christmas Party!
December 21, 2018 2:08 pm
Christmas is right around the corner. I’m so behind. Worse. It’s the 14th. I’ve yet to even think about my annual Christmas Party. Fortunately, I’m self-employed. There’s just me and