Judy Reinsma | The AC/DC Reference Is Inescapable
August 22, 2025 12:36 pm
Gary Horton’s column in today’s Signal (Aug. 13) is one of the best he has written, and very insightful. We are headed on a highway to hell, with no guardrails
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Denise Lite | Tip Your Servers in Council Chambers
August 22, 2025 12:32 pm
I nearly spit out my coffee reading that Mayor Bill Miranda is now suddenly calling for a planning review of the Harwell Project (Aug. 14) because the project has “grown
Jim de Bree | Tariff Impacts Coming the Down Track?
August 22, 2025 12:27 pm
For most of my life, I have enjoyed model railroading as a hobby. Today, most model railroad equipment is made in special order batches. If you see something you want,
Dan Walters | Unintended Consequences of New Laws
August 22, 2025 12:16 pm
Sociologist Robert Merton coined the term “unintended consequences” in a 1936 essay, exploring how people take actions they believe will have positive outcomes, but later learn they have negative impacts.
Carl Kanowsky | Wrapping up Napa Premiere Week
August 22, 2025 12:31 am
This is the last in my series about Napa Premiere Week, an annual event that features almost 200 new wine creations done specifically for this gala. Open only to licensed members
Education Department to cancel Virginia School Districts’ funding over allowing males in female bathrooms
August 21, 2025 2:15 pm
By Naveen Athrappully Contributing Writer The Department of Education is seeking to suspend or end federal financial assistance to five Northern Virginia school districts for violating Title IX of the Education
Appeals court tosses Trump’s $500M civil penalty in fraud case
August 21, 2025 2:01 pm
By Sam Dorman Contributing Writer President Donald Trump has scored a significant legal win, with a New York appeals court throwing out the half-billion-dollar penalty he received in his business fraud
Byron York | D.C. Crime: The ‘Trump Is Bad but He’s Right’ Effect
August 21, 2025 6:50 am
There’s something interesting going on in the continuing controversy over President Donald Trump’s anti-crime initiative in Washington, D.C. When Trump first announced the move, saying crime in the city is
Joe Guzzardi | Californians Are Growing Weary of Newsom
August 21, 2025 6:48 am
The wonder is how someone who has reached such high elected office could be so clueless about the political game’s fundamentals. Gavin Newsom — twice-elected San Francisco mayor, twice-elected lieutenant
Lynn Wright | The Mystery Senator
August 21, 2025 6:45 am
In any reading of the Opinion page of The Signal, you can expect the same litany of MAGA letter writers and their usual drivel of something along the lines of,
Jason Gibbs | Honoring Youth and Inspiring Change at the Evening of Remembrance
August 21, 2025 12:31 am
At the heart of Central Park (27150 Bouquet Canyon Road), surrounded by oak trees and serene trails, is one of the most meaningful spaces in Santa Clarita: the Youth Grove,
Trump Administration fires 37 officials for ‘politicizing intelligence’
August 20, 2025 4:40 pm
By Joseph Lord Contributing Writer U.S. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Tuesday announced that security clearances and any government employment for 37 current and former intelligence community officials were
Russia: Excluding Moscow from security talks is ‘road to nowhere’
August 20, 2025 4:35 pm
By Chris Summers Contributing Writer Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Wednesday that attempts to resolve security issues relating to Ukraine without including Moscow were a “road to nowhere.” Lavrov’s
Israel calls up 60K reservists ahead of Gaza operations
August 20, 2025 4:26 pm
By Guy Birchall Contributing Writer Israel has called up around 60,000 reservists ahead of an expansion of its operation in Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces announced on Wednesday. In a post
Texas House advances new congressional map
August 20, 2025 4:24 pm
By Jackson Richman and Joseph Lord Contributing Writers The Texas House on Wednesday advanced a newly drawn congressional map that would give Republicans five extra seats in the U.S. House. A
Here are the 5 Republican seats at risk in California’s redistricting
August 20, 2025 2:51 pm
By Joseph Lord Contributing Writer Five California Republicans are poised to potentially lose their seats in the U.S. House of Representatives in upcoming elections as the California Legislature moves forward with
‘Moral conflict’ drives Democratic doubts about Newsom’s redistricting plan
August 20, 2025 2:27 pm
By Jeanne Kuang CalMatters Writer As Republicans lambasted California lawmakers for rushing through their effort to gerrymander the state’s congressional map, Democrats are facing a quieter angst in their own party.
Gary Horton | Ante Up and Kick In: How to Invest in a Nation’s Spirit
August 20, 2025 6:47 am
Col. Robert G. Shaw (answering a soldier’s reluctance to lead): So, what do you want to do? Trip: Don’t know, sir. Col. Robert G. Shaw: It stinks, I suppose. Trip:
Kirk Smith | A Deceitful Picture
August 20, 2025 6:45 am
Something that is bad for our culture is when someone says something in our political discourse that can easily be shown to be not true or only part true and
Annette Lucas | Will This Pass the Sniff Test?
August 20, 2025 6:44 am
The Village at Wiley Canyon project proposal started out on the wrong foot by not following the city General Plan to widen Wiley Canyon Road from Wabuska Street to Calgrove