Politics and government

Bills of 2023 | New law aims to boost clean energy

Editor’s note: The Signal is presenting CalMatters’ wrap-up stories on some of the key bills that reached the governor’s desk at the close of the 2023 legislative session. Here’s the

Gary Horton

Gary Horton | Are We Who We Think We Are?

Happy New Year to the Santa Clarita Valley! On to what will prove, one way or another, a monumentally important year.  Americans have long thought of themselves as an exceptional

Letters to the Editor

Stephen Maseda | Noble Lies and Logic

Mr. Ron Perry’s (Dec. 21) reply to Pastor David Hegg’s column of Dec. 15 concerning “Noble Lies” contains a number of assertions that do not withstand even cursory analysis.  We

Letters to the Editor

Rob Kerchner | It Was Inevitable

Once America began saying two men could be married, it wasn’t long before two men could be two women. Rob Kerchner Valencia 

Politics and government

California reverses course on travel ban

Editor’s note: The Signal is presenting CalMatters’ wrap-up stories on some of the key bills that reached the governor’s desk at the close of the 2023 legislative session. Here’s the

Joshua Heath commentary

Joshua Heath | We Need Vision, Not Just Criticism

Your typical activist college student nowadays, eager to change the world, will tear through a variety of texts on subjects like Black liberation, feminism and socialist theory. They’ll learn all

Letters to the Editor

Arthur Saginian | The Never-Ending War

I often wonder why anyone would waste his time even thinking about a concept like “peace” in a place like the Levant in general and Israel in particular. Ever since

LET IT SNOW … NOW WE SKI 

By Ann Marie Brown  Visit California  Remember last winter? More than 30 atmospheric rivers dumped record-setting snow across the Sierra Nevada and Southern California mountain ranges. Ski resorts reported seasonal

Letters to the Editor

Larry Moore | I Have a State for You!

After watching the Ron DeSantis-Gavin Newsom debate, what I have known for a long time was reconfirmed. Newsom is smug, smirking, sanctimonious, arrogant and condescending, a habitual liar. While DeSantis

Letters to the Editor

Larry Bustetter | VA Resources Misused

Sen. Steve Daines, R-Montana, condemned the Biden Administration on Dec. 7 for suspected use of Veterans Administration resources to care for illegal aliens. His letter to the secretary of Veterans

Paul Butler: Going the Extra Mile

Paul Butler | Hopes for the New Year

Here are my top seven hopes for our working world in 2024:  In summary, as we navigate the complexities of the modern working world in 2024, let’s prioritize personal responsibility,

Mike Garcia

Mike Garcia | An Undeniable Crisis for Military

Sen. Tommy Tuberville and the Pentagon recently ended their social-policy war, and all Americans should be grateful to see this needless debacle come to an end. Sen. Tuberville’s blockade of