By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  “Racism is racism.” So said Rep. Katie Hill’s Twitter account earlier this month as she joined fellow Democrats and Republicans alike in calling for the

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  Back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, before we all knew about the internet, and social media was just a twinkle in Mark Zuckerberg’s eye, there

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  Back in the 1990s and into the early 2000s, there was a movement, particularly among conservatives, to enact legislation — even a constitutional amendment —

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  Sometimes, in “the moment,” you say and do things that, later on, strike you as funny or even a little embarrassing.  For example, this week

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor My son was home on holiday break from college, and he had an early-morning doctor appointment to get one of his various hockey injuries checked out.

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor You’re gonna take a walk in the rain And you’re gonna get wet (I predict) You’re gonna eat a bowl of chow mein And be

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor The clogs were just hideous. And, my friend Anthony wore them proudly. He’d picked them up on one of our group camping trips to Buellton.

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor Am I a bad person if I enjoyed Tuesday night’s Santa Clarita Tribal Council meeting? Oops. Check that. CITY Council. It was the City Council,

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor So I spent a good portion of Monday night driving through residential neighborhoods, blasting music at concert-level volume via a pair of massive speakers mounted

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor Part 2 of 2: The Girl Here’s everything you need to know about my 17-year-old daughter: Messing around on the computer recently, she stumbled across

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor Part 1: The Boy I used to write about a lot of “firsts” when I was on my first go-round with The Mighty Signal. Here

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor “Transparency” is a word government officials throw around a lot, as if merely saying it means one is practicing it. In practice, though, its application

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor As the fur and dust settle after Tuesday’s election, I look back on the past few months and can’t help feeling like something was missing:

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor Her voice was bright and cheery. “Hi! I’m calling on behalf of a nonpartisan evangelical group and we’re doing a 31-city bus tour to encourage

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor I had coffee with one of my biggest critics the other day, and it reminded me of a time long ago when one of my

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor It was one of my earliest cloak-and-dagger experiences as a reporter. It was the early 1990s. I got a call from a guy — let’s