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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. 

As I read the opinion section of The Signal certain names start to emerge as clearly conservative, some as clearly liberal, and some as simply down-to-earth and reasonable.  Some of

Think for a moment, about the life arc of the Greatest Generation. While still merely boys, they marched across Europe and vanquished Nazi Germany, preserving modern civilization in the process.

Even if you’re not a religious person, you probably are familiar with the Bible’s famous chapter on love. It’s found in the Apostle Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, in

Twenty years ago this morning, my alarm clock went off. Not the alarm on my smartphone — iPhones didn’t exist yet. This was an actual alarm-clock-radio, with the red digital

In feudal days, we had nobles and serfs. Peasants had no say in the laws issued by their monarchs, and the royal tax collectors came around regularly so they could

Decades later, I’m still embroiled in the argument. It was the summer of 1968. My best pal Phil Lanier, future country/western singer Joey Canyon and I went to the beach.