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I was raised by two very generous parents who always helped those in need when they could with food, household goods and toys, and hand-me-down clothes for their kids. We

I was raised by two very generous parents who always helped those in need when they could with food, household goods and toys, and hand-me-down clothes for their kids. We

Sometimes Thomas Oatway pens a piece that illustrates a view opposite to his bias. The May 10 anti-Trump letter is one such. First he cites a poll suggesting 57% of

Why? As a long-time reader of The Signal and occasional letter-to-the-editor writer, I don’t understand why a high degree of personal attacks take place in your newspaper because someone has

When you have a vocally captive supportive audience at your town hall meeting at CNN, of course you are going to get applause and laughter at every lie and demeaning

In his May 7 column, “Towards a More Perfect Union,” David Hegg makes a commendable plea for respectful civil discourse. We need more words like his that call people from

According to the May 4 Signal article under the headline, “City budget projections tighten with May revision,” city revenue projections from February to May increased by $3 million from $139

In his March 11 letter, Thomas Oatway showed Charles Darwin’s theory is being proven correct. The funny part is, Mr. Oatway might not have considered just HOW Darwin’s theory is

Middle School student Liam Morrison was recently pulled out of gym class in Middleborough, Massachusetts, and told to remove a T-shirt he was wearing that said “There are only two

Re: Letters to the editor, Lois Eisenberg, “Thomas Not So Supreme,” May 4. Why didn’t Lois mention Justices Stephen Breyer and Elena Kagan as well as Justice Clarence Thomas? Breyer

Lois Eisenberg authored a letter (May 4) decrying the alleged corruption of Clarence Thomas. Typically, she provides no proof of her assertions. In fact, none of the leftists who submit

If you pay any attention at all to news other than the mainstream news and out-of-town radio stations, you are no doubt aware of the mounting tension over the City

So, I guess we are destined to witness the brinkmanship and Kabuki theater that goes along with debt limit negotiations, again. The great enterprise called USA Inc. will be figuring

Poor Joshua Heath. His article “I’m a Democrat and I Support Trump’s Wall” (May 2) is so insane that it begs a thoughtful response. Where do I start? Like so

It is interesting to see that polls suggest that 57% of Americans say an indictment of a former president should disqualify that person from holding the office again. Yet 75%

The suppression of the Hunter Biden laptop is emerging as an enormous news story. It meets or exceeds Watergate — the classic measuring stick of American scandal — in every

In re: Signal article “Parents speak out: Kindergarten bullying not being addressed,” March 29. Read this article and then tell me what is glaringly missing! If you said the part

In his latest weekly strident attack on Republicans, Thomas Oatway (May 2) proclaims that Republicans “love guns more than they love children.” This, coming from a spokesman for a party

Santa Clarita, even though it has had enormous growth in the last two decades, has always had a small-town feel. You see the same people, your neighbors, at our many

Today, Canadian expats are mourning the death of a true musical icon, Gordon Lightfoot. His popularity as a folk singer skyrocketed during the 1960s, and he wrote about all things

The letter by Andres Sanchez-Sanchez (March 22), and all of the similar letters before his, got me to wondering why there has been so much of a “to-do” with our