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I am glad that I am a retired CPA because year-end tax planning this year is especially tricky. Taxpayers won’t know if they employed the optimal tax planning strategies until

Each year the Oxford Dictionary chooses a “Word of the Year” for purposes of pointing out some trend in the English-speaking world. This year, after much discussion, debate and research,

Editor’s note: A second Santa Clarita City Council vote on a proposed Fallen Warriors Memorial, this one to expand the planned memorial in Newhall, is expected to come before the

Few things might be as humbling as receiving a successful organ transplant. Completely at the mercy of another’s misfortune, and subject to the gifts and talent of a surgical team,

For the first time, The United States will have a president who owns very significant assets, both in terms of real and intellectual property, widely distributed in the U.S. and

Since the election, and more broadly over the last 18 months of the campaign season, this country has seen a level of animosity and anger rarely experienced on such a

Perhaps nothing demonstrates a person’s integrity more than his or her willingness to keep a promise. As the great Alaskan poet Robert Service once wrote: “A promise made is a

Bridge to Home is one of the primary nonprofit homeless service agencies in the Santa Clarita Valley. It began in 1996 when a small group of local, caring volunteers saw

My name is Katherine Nuno; I enrolled in a College of the Canyons English class and took on a service-learning project about how we as individuals can help make a

I’ve had this column in my head for some time. I knew what needed to be said and what needed to be read. And then came an unexpected death –

Donald Trump is about a month away from being sworn in as the 45th president of the United States, and he’s already teeing up to be the most divisive and

My name is Jasmine Cea, and I am a 19-year-old student attending the Canyon Country campus of College of the Canyons. My colleagues and I have done some research on

Homelessness is not my field of expertise, but I feel it is incumbent upon the Santa Clarita Valley community to focus on this scourge against humanity. My passion has always