Letters to the Editor

Dan Masnada | Cooper an Obvious Choice

Bill Cooper clearly deserves to be re-elected to the Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency board of directors. He has capably served on the SCV Water Agency and its predecessor, the

Letters to the Editor

Thomas Oatway | History Repeating Itself

I have been watching a PBS television special on the Holocaust and the U.S. What struck me was the number of Americans who were in denial of the Nazi genocide

Letters to the Editor

Gary Horton | We Need Gutzeit on Water Board

Maria Gutzeit is the right candidate for Santa Clarita Valley Water! I’ve both worked with Maria professionally for nearly 20 years and we’ve been friends over most that time. One

Letters to the Editor

Rick Barker | Educated Voting

In re: Richard Myers, “Man Without a Party?” Sept. 28.  To me the greatest threat we have in this country politically, no matter your party affiliation or political views and

Gary Horton

Gary Horton | Common Progressive Sense on Props

Election season is now active and it’s time to share the progressive, thoughtful view on some of our most important choices before us, regardless of party affiliation.   This election,

Letters to the Editor

Larry Bustetter | Military Savvy in Congress

Today, savvy demands practical knowledge and understanding — the ability to make good judgements when world military threats call for such a skillset.  Of course, a military combat background presence

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Gwladys Axelrod | GOP Is Now the Trump Party

You keep trying to discount Hillary Clinton even though she went through 11 hours of questioning and not once did she use the Fifth Amendment. She was declared not guilty.

Politics and government

Newsom signs controversial nursing home bill

By Jocelyn Wiener CalMatters Health Writer  A controversial bill aimed at fixing aspects of California’s broken nursing home licensing system was signed recently by Gov. Gavin Newsom, who faced dueling pressure

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Selina Thomas | The Ariel Effect

Many of us have seen the heartwarming viral videos of young African-American girls reacting with emotion and joy when they see Ariel for the first time in the latest Disney

David Hegg

David Hegg | Things I Know for Sure

Is anyone else finding it hard to know what we can know for sure? Perhaps it is the explosion of ways to gain information that is making certainty uncertain. Who’s

Letters to the Editor

Paul Oberlander | Garcia Team Gets It

I remember a commercial that aired on television in the 1970s. An American Indian rows up to shore in a canoe and steps over garbage thrown there. He wanders a