Dear L.A. Police Department officers, leaders and union members: Mayor Eric Garcetti has proposed cutting your already inadequate budget in response to threats and lies from organizations like Black Lives
Early on the Centers for Disease Control decided that COVID-19 was spread by droplets from coughing and sneezing. Many of their assumptions have proven wrong over the last four plus
Ever since they came up with the concept of social distancing I have been trying to wrap my mind around this concept. For sure it has been the death knell
I’m writing today in response to a June 6 letter by Roberta Dey, “Show a Little Respect Already.” She says her heart “becomes sad” when she gets to the opinion
I’m tired doesn’t even come close to encompassing the feeling. Sadly, there’s always a giant problem. Every semester, a shadow over our head. Evolution, not revolution, is the watchword during
President Donald Trump has taken a lot of heat for the actions by Secret Service and Washington, D.C., police to dispel an unruly mob impeding Trump’s trip to a church.
Dear men and women of the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station: I attended the peaceful protest (June 4) in Valencia to support the Black Lives Matter movement to end police
I have a question regarding the June 4 article “Henry Mayo announces additional COVID-19-related death.” When Henry Mayo uses the word “related” do they mean that the patient didn’t die
I learned after the fact that both of my granddaughters (ages 15 and 19) had been in the “Black Lives Matter” protest in Santa Clarita on May 30, after seeing
“Momma! Momma! I’m through!” Those were the dying words of George Floyd. In the face of death, and I will add “pure evil,” George Floyd called out to his mother!
In this age of rampant unemployment, older citizens are also undergoing financial stress. Prices are rising due to business closures and reduced profits. There are seniors looking for work. Older
On the front page of The Signal June 3 there is a picture of a protester holding a sign stating “DEFUND THE POLICE.” So if that were to happen, what
I sit at my home each day and read The Signal to see what is happening in our community. Each time I get to the opinion section, my heart becomes
At the age of 31, my life was a train wreck! Among many character flaws, I was a financial disaster. I would tell bill collectors, “Duane Smith moved to Vietnam.
Between the years of 1942-1945, 10 internment camps were opened in California per the instructions of the U.S. government where thousands of Japanese-American citizens were rounded up and interred. They
I watched live television as a looter emerged from a Starbucks store downtown. He was holding one wrapped package of cheese and ham slices. You could see the disappointment on
In trying to find the words that convey my thoughts and feelings, it is extremely difficult because I am so numbed by the endless onslaught of the visual carnage on
The Christians supporting President Donald Trump, especially the evangelicals such as Vice President Mike Pence, should be ashamed if not condemned for their support of (Trump). On Monday, June 1,
Response to Richard Myers’ letter of June 2: I believe that Richard Myers is way off base in his praise for Colin Kaepernick’s depreciation of our nation’s flag in the
Response to Richard Myers’ letter of June 2: Colin Kaepernick wasn’t right to “take a knee” during the national anthem. Protesting police brutality has nothing to do with honoring those