Controlling potassium when you have kidney disease

Foods high in potassium, an essential mineral and electrolyte, offer health and nutrition benefits. Potassium helps muscles, including the heart, expand and contract, but for people whose kidneys can’t filter

City of Santa Clarita honored for innovation

By Ken Striplin City Manager  “Innovation is seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.” — Dr. Albert Szent-Gyorgyi The City of Santa Clarita prides itself on

A Full Menu for Fun-Filled Holiday Festivities

When holiday meals turn into all-day events, having meals ready from morning to night becomes an important part of seasonal hosting. Starting with breakfast through the main course followed by

Safe and effective ways to clean up leaves

Removing leaves from the yard is a task that homeowners must perform each fall. Thousands upon thousands of leaves can drop from a single tree. Multiply that by the number

Alan Ferdman | We Must Make All of Our Votes Count

The United States of America has been the powerhouse of technical innovation and prosperity for many years past. During my lifetime, scientific advances originating in America have changed the world,

Community | Education in brief

7 SCV students honored on dean’s list at Baylor University More than 5,300 Baylor University students have been named to the dean’s academic honor list for the spring 2020 semester,

SCV Voices: Guest Commentary

Paul Raggio | Perspective: We, as Veterans…

I’m a veteran, a disabled one, representing 25% of the 18 million living veterans today, which is just a mere 5% of our nation’s population. This day of tribute traces

Gary Horton

Gary Horton | Trump Is Risking Our Democracy

A Republican friend joked with me that this week’s “Full Speed to Port” would be a jubilant victory lap for Joe Biden’s victory. I wish.  I wish that things would

Letters to the Editor

Lynn Wright | Editorial on Trump Forgot COVID-19

I realize newspapers have a fundamental right to post editorials, which are, after all, statements of opinions, not factual news, and I do not begrudge The Signal exercising this time-honored

David Hegg

David Hegg | Hey, Get Over Yourself Already

By David Hegg  More ethical ink has been used in discussions concerning pride than perhaps any other element of individual character and integrity. And even so, we are usually at

Letters to the Editor

Kay Vestal | Couldn’t Have Said it Better

Re: Carolynn Hill, letters, Oct. 9, “Not a Friend, a President.” I could not express my feelings about the president better than you did. You gave all the reasons I

Letters to the Editor

Lois Eisenberg | A Delusional Epidemic

There is a massive problem in America, which is a delusional epidemic by the Trump “cult” that the Republicans are advocating. It seems that no one is calling this out