Letters to the Editor

The Rose Garden and White House lawn events staged recently as substitutes for campaign rallies have been bizarre enough, with Donald Trump summoning a captive audience for his stream of

For clues as to why we are reacting the way we are to coronavirus and COVID-19 I would suggest watching the movie, “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.” In that

I attended the City Council meeting (July 14) and, after public participation for agendized items, the council proceeded to hold a closed session to discuss two items, one of which

On Dec. 5, 2019, (this date is from Google) reporter James Rosen asked House Speaker Nancy Pelosi if she hated President Donald Trump. She replied that she was raised in

For once I agree with Councilwoman Marsha McLean, in that, she said the renaming of Central Park is “a divisive issue for our community.” I believe renaming the park in

Every day we see in newspapers or hear on news channels of how many people have died of COVID-19, and the numbers are rising. However, the general population does not

What went wrong when the U.S. and the U.K. were considered the two best countries to be prepared to handle a serious pandemic, which we are experiencing now? One of

It appears that a fruit vendor was being harassed by a couple in Santa Clarita. I saw the tweet. I was disgusted by both sides of the argument. First of

How do we achieve giving the same choices to study to our kids in elementary schools? I do not know about the U.S., but I can refer to what I

I see that the White House is urging those in charge of our schools to open them up in the fall, although many school districts have already declared that they

Continuing a theme that imagines life through the lens of videogame design, there are current topical conditions to illustrate further how a hypothetical game can model our predicament. In early

There have been a number of letters to the editor lately that, shall we say, are not well thought out — see Ms. Betty Aronson’s recent reply to one such

If you are in a conversation to mask or not to mask: Shut up, ask yourself a question. What’s the right thing to do? Then put on your mask. Your

An additional death from COVID-19 at Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital. Forgive me for sounding cold-hearted and callous, but OMG, you’d think it was the end of the world. Any word

Bob Kellar has served our city longer and more diligently than any other City Council member. We should be honoring him rather than pillaging him for remarks made a decade

I want to state unequivocally, and as a City Council member, that I am against all forms of bullying and racism. I am against all supremacist groups, hate groups and

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

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

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

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