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According to the California Department of Public Health, one in six homicides are due to domestic violence. Last year in Santa Clarita alone, the California Department of Justice cataloged 515

It lay abandoned, on the department store floor, toy aisle if memory serves. I pretty much lived The Childhood Unsupervised and was in third grade. Someone had dropped a perfectly

I’m so excited, and I just can’t hide it  I’m about to lose control, and I think I like it  I’m so excited, and I just can’t hide it  And

Part 1 of 2 While our attention has been drawn toward national politics, 10 state propositions will be on the ballot this November. It would be wise to pay attention

By David Hegg Remember when you were a child and acted disrespectfully to your Grammy? Remember when you stole that packet of gum from the corner market? Remember when you

Have you ever dealt with someone who just can’t admit when they’re wrong? And even when they’re clearly proven wrong, they gaslight and twist the narrative just to seem right?

My daughter was home for a scant three weeks and one of our favorite things is to run errands around the valley where I can bore her to tears with

If you’ve been paying attention to scientific reports, international news, or even our local weather patterns, you know that we have a serious climate problem.  As the planet heats up

Our company had our annual “Dodger Night” last Friday. I’m sorry I missed it because something uniquely special happened in baseball during that game vs. the Rays.  Ninth inning, game

The William S. Hart Union High School District’s College and Career Fair and the Valley Industry Association’s Connecting to Success are both coming up next month. They aim to help

By David Hegg Several events around the nation have led pundits and observers alike to label specific actions “unconscionable.” The word defines what is considered unreasonable, unsuitable, or excessive. To

As I watched the Democratic National Convention on CNN, a couple of things have struck me as particularly odd. Here are some oddities I noticed. • Freedom. Freedom seems to

DEAR BEN SHAPIRO — Thank you, sir, for testifying, with Cyrano-like elan, before Congress recently about liberal censorship. You and I point out the Emperor Has No Clothes. No surprise.

The Santa Clarita Valley Chamber of Commerce has been working on PAGA reform for the past two years through our coalition partners and the Legislature. In a state Legislature that

The specter of rent control is reappearing on the California November ballot. The people who put Proposition 10 on the 2018 ballot and Proposition 21 on the 2020 ballot have

By David Hegg Usually, when we think about vacations, we anticipate “getting away” from the things that normally occupy us. The whole idea is to escape, to “vacate” our ordinary

Back when I was little, I fretted about existential crises, like would I be required to smoke cigarettes as a grown-up, or, how, or, more importantly, why, one would find

Our national debt recently exceeded $35 trillion and is expected soar over the coming years. This amount only includes debt held by the public, and excludes large liabilities such as

I’ve been a member of Kathryn Barger’s Chiquita Canyon oversight committee for nearly two years. And over these two years things at the landfill have gone from calm and predictable

What is waste to energy and how could it have saved us from the nightmare of the odor problems facing Chiquita Canyon and Sunshine Canyon landfills?   We often hear