Upgrade your home, downgrade energy usage

The best home upgrades not only make spaces more livable and energy-efficient but are also cost-effective. Making energy-efficient improvements is a savvy way to save money on utility bills, curb

Letters to the Editor

Nancy Oliver Flores | Our Big, Fragile Meat Problem

Experts agree our colossal domestic and foreign wildlife markets put humans at risk of pandemics. Yet exotic wildlife is not the only concern. Industrialized animal operations have spread foodborne pandemics

SCV Voices: Guest Commentary

Gil Mertz | Read This or I Will Be Offended

Have you noticed our crybaby culture where no one misses an opportunity to be offended? America just celebrated Independence Day, which should be a time to pull us together as

SCV Voices: Guest Commentary

Eric Goldin | Intellectual Honesty and Mistakes

We should revere science because most scientists have very high ethical standards and are not afraid to recognize and amend errors in their research. The scientific method is the best

Letters to the Editor

Jim Blumel | Horton Wrong on Motto

Gary Horton’s column on July 8 lists all the many things he thinks is wrong with America. I disagree with every bit of it, but there’s one misstatement of his

Community: Education in brief

Nazareth College student Christina Devantier earns spring 2020 dean’s list honors Nazareth College is proud to announce that Christina Devantier, of Valencia, has been named to the dean’s list for

Letters to the Editor

Ronald Nathan | Thoughts from a Centrist

Civil rights, social justice, racism, police brutality, the anti-war movement, distrust of government, feminism, sexual liberation, sexism, gay rights, legalizing marijuana, rights for the handicapped and disabled, tobacco smoking in

Letters to the Editor

Gregory Whitney | Taliban Kills Without Bounties

Why would the Russians pay the Taliban to kill U.S. or other allied forces when the Taliban will gleefully kill any “foreign invader” for free? Remember when the Taliban gleefully

Letters to the Editor

Randi Kay | A Few Mask Tips and Reminders

This is just an update and a few suggestions regarding mask wearing. It is great to see the majority of residents of our community wearing masks.  While cloth and surgical