One year ago, I wrote a column for The Signal promising that the Santa Clarita Valley Water Agency (SCV Water) would “bring greater transparency, stronger water management, reduced costs and
DEAR PRESIDENT TRUMP, Read, recently, with disappointment, that Mrs. Pelosi is not letting you use Congress for your upcoming State of the Union speech next Tuesday. Terribly sorry, Mr. President.
Last month, California Rep. Ted Lieu said, “I would love to be able to regulate the content of speech; the First Amendment prevents me from doing so.” This remarkable statement
I am concerned that, in the next decade, we may witness the repeal of Proposition 13. I realize that this sounds sacrilegious to many, but please hear me out. In the
Mark my words: The president is going to fry. As the government shutdown goes into its second month, and 800,000 federal workers continue to feel the squeeze of functional unemployment,
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 Katie Hill Congresswoman Every day, my office receives hundreds of calls about the shutdown. And as each day passes, they become more and more dire. Most people don’t care
By Janelle Burkholder Guest Columnist Someday, my child is going to discover I haven’t always been his mom. And that I’m not his only mom. And while I’ve thought through
It’s that four-letter word that leaps to mind when vulgarity is a thought. Its usage has become fully commonplace and very acceptable to too many. There’s no need for it
I remember former Signal editor Ruth Newhall going completely Ape Poopy once. Well. More than once. Some bureaubozocrat in Sacramento sent a press release. Couldn’t tell you what it was
While some of us would describe Patty Stephenson using words like “dedicated” and “self-sacrificing,” there are other people in her life who would use words like “tres approfondie” or “wusi
Last week we looked at this author’s view of how the future will shape up for transportation, retailing, dining, and the home. I’m still upset that we don’t have flying
Monday afternoon I was pleased to spend an hour with Stephanie English, L.A. County Supervisor Kathryn Barger’s field deputy. Stephanie agreed to meet me at the Valencia Commerce Center –
I was pleased to hear that, at its Jan. 8 meeting, the City Council unanimously approved cancellation of landscape and lighting district assessment proceedings. As I discussed in a previous
The government shutdown, which is now the longest on record as of this writing, is ridiculous. It is sad that some cheer it on. This shutdown, like others, illustrates a
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 David Hegg In society, respect plays an essential role. At its foundation, respect means to act in alignment with certain societal rules, even when to do so is to
In sports, academia, and Hollywood, transgenderism is transforming the natural reality of only two sexes, male and female, into a pathological culture of non-binary genders and bizarre pronouns. Heavy-handed mandates
Even when I was a kid in my 20s, I thought there was something screwball about the Left. Later, during my college days, I noticed that liberal activists were void
Whenever I think about the future, I wonder “where is my dang flying car?” Back in the 1960s, didn’t they promise us we’d all be whizzing around in George Jetson