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Carrie and I returned home from Seattle on Monday night during what turned out to be the Famous Lightning Storm of 2021. While lightning was setting palm trees on fire

Now that the recall election is behind us, perhaps more attention will be focused on the City Council election process, a local political issue whose prominence seems to ebb and

By David Hegg G.K. Chesterton was one of the world’s greatest thinkers and writers. It is often said that he said something brilliant about almost everything in the first decades

I’ve had a lot of vaccines in the past. Tetanus, measles, polio, tuberculosis, flu, etc., and none of these ever required me to wear a face mask, stay away from

It’s certainly nothing new, this concept of rape, loot, lies and pillage. I’d rather not go back to it. Year in, year out, my request for a Christmas or birthday

It’s a funny thing that yesterday’s Signal opinion page featured a column discussing the differences and similarities between the US and Canada – and how neither country will be returning

By David Hegg With all the news available to us today it is impossible to escape the overwhelming sense that those in positions to tell us what is happening around

Remember those old “Maytag Repairman” commercials? For those too young to remember, the premise of the commercials was that Maytag appliances — washing machines and the like — were SO

It’s a sad state of affairs when failed leadership causes so many problems that it destroys the entity it was supposed to be in charge of. We have seen what a

In the checkered career of alleged Lifeguard Joe Biden, he’s earned kudos for major accomplishments. Hair-sniffer. Pervert. Crook. Bully. Liar. Groper. Plagiarist. Surrender monkey. Dumber than underwear left in a

A couple of grim statistics popped out this week in the mainstream press. (Otherwise known as the Real News.) First, America’s COVID-19 deaths have now passed the shocking numbers America

Most of what I hear from the media and my community is that we can each do our own part to live sustainably and that at the end of the

The Republican Party platform of 2016, which was largely adopted “as is” in 2020, states the GOP stands for many noble views and aspirations.  While proclamations are simply projections about

By David Hegg If you’re like me, you sometimes lie in bed after the alarm has sounded, theoretically debating the benefit of leaving the warm comfort of the bed to

“No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the Continent, a part of the main…. Any man’s death diminishes me, for I am involved

California is staring into the dusty, dry face of drought once again. Right now, Los Angeles County, including the Santa Clarita Valley, is experiencing an “exceptional drought.” Our local precipitation

When the phrase “Memorable Meals” is bandied about, it conjures visions of epicurean delights, chow so scrumptious it makes one moan. Sometimes, you don’t even remember the food because of

The topic this week revisits an article that I wrote several years ago. It was my first and last dalliance with stealing. It is a timeless piece because the message

In the Aug. 31 edition, the Signal published a well-written and thoughtful letter entitled “Health Care for Illegal Immigrants.” In that letter, the author suggested that I might be able

The primary role and duty of our elected district attorney is to protect the entire community within Los Angeles County. All children deserve a childhood free of crime and abuse.