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Earth Day offers a special opportunity to look at how Mother Earth is faring under the onslaughts of our oil-based society, what’s being done to help her, and what else

“So horrible to watch the massive fire at Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris. Perhaps flying water tankers could be used to put it out. Must act quickly!” So tweeted our

Last month, Gov. Gavin Newsom ignored the will of the very people who elected him to office. The governor decided to put a temporary halt on the death penalty and

With presidential campaign season now among us, that means one thing: words, words, words. Over the next two years, we will be hearing speech after speech, mostly from the major

The candidates coming from the party of the Democrats are tripping over themselves striving to top each other with free stuff. With the 2020 primary about 10 months away and

The County of Los Angeles has just released a draft of its new “Sustainability Plan.” First, don’t get me wrong. I would love to have this plan work. We need

Why do some thoughts insist on sticking when others won’t? For about three years, when I was in my 20s, I did not own a car. I had a big

When I first met Janet Hedke in a church choir in Burbank, she was a wife and a mother with a full-time job. I thought the woman sitting next to

For the younger among us, this must have seemed a long, strange winter. By golly, it’s was cold from November to March, and rain levels haven’t hit this deep, hard,

We’re bombarded with change. Most, but not all, of it is indeed “new and improved,” in that the new thing is better than the old thing. It’s the transition that

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

In Lewis Carroll’s book, “Through the Looking Glass,” AKA Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Alice finds herself in a strange and mysterious world. Sometimes I feel like Alice. Our country has

One of my dearest friends is Curtis Stone, the Grammy-winning so-&-so. Stranger than strange, last Monday, April Fool’s, we somehow called each other at the exact — same — time.

Rules and boundaries create order, enhance safety, clarify permissible behavior, and establish conformity. Rules and boundaries also restrict personal freedom, prevent taking smart actions, impinge on creativity, and inconvenience us

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 David Hegg In our society the words “knowledge” and “wisdom” often are taken as synonyms. But it wasn’t always so. In the ancient world “wisdom” was much more than