Letters to the Editor

A dreary gap exists between Washington’s birthday in mid-February and Memorial Day at the end of May. A new federal holiday on the last Monday in April would welcome spring

As a compulsive Signal letter writer and hater of all things Republican and Donald Trump, Lois Eisenberg (Dec. 23) should be more than happy with William Barr’s performance as attorney

We all need an outlet where we can do something that benefits our health, and release stress and anxiety, especially this year. For many of us, that place is our

Subject: Newly elected District Attorney George Gascón. To the people who voted for Gascón, you got what you wanted. Or did you?  When in court and you can’t afford an

Last week I put out my trash cans as usual, but the green waste sat all alone for several days and then I finally put it back in my yard.

In 1972, William F. Buckley Jr.’s conservative magazine National Review published a cover headline titled “The Time Has Come: Abolish the Pot Laws,” a proposal Buckley, himself, supported. Nearly 50

USA. Taxes. Redistribution. Incentives. Subsidies. Just a few memes to kick things off. Patricia Suzanne (commentary, Dec. 5) has asked why she or her family should pay for someone else’s

Looking at the picture from a higher level I feel confident in saying that the coronavirus and COVID-19 did not destroy countless businesses, alter our lives, or damage the economy.

The next time someone you know waxes eloquent about universal health care, remember this: Nothing that requires the labor of others is a basic human right.  Rather, there is a

I am amazed at what people can complain about during a worldwide pandemic that has 22,820 deaths and 1,902,355 confirmed cases in California alone as of Dec. 21 at 6

The column by Alan Ferdman on Dec. 18 was indeed an excellent wakeup call as to how California seems to be suffering a problem akin to that of a Third

President Donald Trump and his allies have lost 58 out of 59 cases in multiple courts, including at the Supreme Court, in their unsuccessful attempts to prove voter fraud in

I have been waiting for this day ever since William Barr became attorney general for Donald Trump. I know Barr was sworn into being the American people’s attorney general, but

Editor’s note: According to the writer, the following was written as a research project on school police officers in general, and is not intended to be specifically about the November

Politics has a dirty name, especially for the past several decades, but for me…  Politics is the way competing legitimate interests and stakeholders resolve their differences legitimately and nonviolently. The

Please join me in wishing the city of Santa Clarita a very happy 33rd birthday.  Originally from England, my wife and I with our two then-very-young children first moved here

2020 has been quite a year: devastating fires, violent protests and a record-breaking heat wave.  What about the COVID-19 virus? A bright light shone in November because Pfizer made an

That was interesting. What was a substantial margin in the May special election (95,667 votes, 54.9%, to 78,721 votes, 45.1%) shrunk to something infinitesimal. The Christy Smith campaign was a

All over the Santa Clarita Valley, you can see young people walk out of their houses with masks on, alone, and get into their cars and drive away. A car

l grant you that COVID-19 is a nasty, devastating disease that has crippled our country and continues to do so as I type this letter. But I have several burning