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By David Hegg This column is all about this premise: It is more ethical, and more beneficial, to seek the truth and tell the truth than to drift along with

Whether you like him or not, President Donald J. Trump, at the least, will be one of the “lesser of two evils” you must choose between in 2020, and if

One of my great regrets in life is not having won a lottery in excess of One Trillion Dollars. Take home. After taxes. Had I to do it all over

In my last column, I wrote about the current crisis that many diabetics face with respect to getting their medical insurance to pay for their insulin. This column discusses an

Americans are aware that the U.S. has some pretty nasty skeletons in our closet. Locking up our Japanese citizens during WWII. The slaughter of millions of Native Americans and forcing

I am possibly one of the few who welcome those conservatively dressed door-to-door volunteers who wish to promote a particular religious perspective or denomination.  I look forward to an academic

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  Sitting in Central Park last Saturday, listening to live country music performed by some of the genre’s most current artists, I experienced an eerie reminder

By David Hegg In the West we are preoccupied with doing, with attaining, with accomplishment. We work longer hours to meet the demands of longer lists while not so secretly

There is plenty of good news in Gov. Gavin Newsom’s 2019-20 budget. Besides increased funding for K-12 education, there is funding for 10,000 additional full-day preschool slots and funding for

The Democrats’ super-majority in the California Legislature, as well as their followers, do not fall short on bragging about a state $22 billion surplus. The dirty, little not-so-secret reality of

There are many civilization-ending issues this Opinion Page of Earth’s last great newspaper must address. War. Open borders. Who leads in a lesbian ballroom dance class. Democrats walking brazenly about

In further proof that Santa Clarita is no longer simply made up of Ward and June Cleaver types (except “The Beav” himself, who I think still lives in the Santa

Before the advent of modern technology, coal miners placed caged canaries in the mines. The canaries would easily succumb to poisonous gases in the mine and warn the miners of

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  When our son Luc was little, just learning to play hockey, my wife and I told him there was one thing most important about hockey:

By David Hegg I write today as a son, a father, and a grandfather, and never in my life have I sensed the need for father power in our country.

I applaud the vision of the William S. Hart Union High School District. They work to customize and provide options within and outside of the district, and they see and

On Jan. 22, the powerful United Teachers of Los Angeles Union garnered an eye-popping $840 million contract (by 2020-21) in a settlement after a teachers’ strike. Repeatedly, Austin Beutner, superintendent

Every year since time immemorial in the SClarita Valley, graduation happens. Chancellors, principals, valedictorians, dignitaries and goody-two-shoes going particularly nowhere are forced to address the multitudes. Like an all-you-can-eat buffet,

President Trump claims the Chinese are paying for the tariffs imposed by his administration. Recently an administration official said the Chinese are already lowering their prices of goods that are

This is not America / Shala la la la A little piece of you / The little peace in me Will die  For this is not America Blossom fails to