A lot is said about the “mess” of California. Taxes, traffic, sprawl, housing costs – on and on. There’s no shortage of moaners moaning on and on about California’s faults.

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  I made a joke one time with my son and one of his hockey teammates, about a decade ago. We were talking about nicknames, and

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  My memories of Town and Country Farm School are a little fuzzy. It was one of several places we tried for our first born, when

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  Why do we like Tiger Woods? It was a question posed by one of my favorite sports talk hosts, Colin Cowherd of Fox Sports, the

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  A horse reminded me of Dale Earnhardt the other day. As I wrote last week, I’ve been a NASCAR fan since I was a kid.

By David Hegg My wife and I say the movie “Unplanned” last week. The true story of a woman in the abortion industry kicked up quite a bit of conversational

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  The first time my parents took me to Saugus Speedway in 1975, I was hooked. It amazed me how fast and loud the cars were,

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  Remember the “Thank You, Buck?” banners? They went up on more than a dozen bridges and overpasses around town, thanking then-Rep. Howard “Buck” McKeon, R-Santa

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  One of my habits is that I like to stop at my neighborhood Circle K every morning and get a 44-ounce iced beverage to get

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  My daughter has a little bit of Ricky Bobby in her: She thinks second place is the first loser.  Yes. Both of our kids —

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  A part of me was disappointed when David Barlavi didn’t raise a clenched fist during the flag salute at Tuesday’s Saugus Union School District board meeting.

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.