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Credit card balances are surging. According to FICO, average utilization has climbed from under 30% just a few years ago to over 35% today. These balances aren’t being paid off,

Credit card balances are surging. According to FICO, average utilization has climbed from under 30% just a few years ago to over 35% today. These balances aren’t being paid off,

Nancy Fairbanks and Maggie Bowman’s “ping-pong match” got my attention when I read Nancy’s rebuttal (Aug. 7) to Maggie’s letter (May 23). In this corner we have Moms For Liberty

The stark difference between liberals and conservatives has never been more glaringly obvious than the reaction to the death of Charlie Kirk. Even though he was an icon of patriotism

Michael Cruz’s letter, “Narrow, Short-Lived Benefits” (Aug. 14), is yet another example of how he sidesteps the real value of legislation in favor of distortion. While Cruz takes aim at

In response to Lois Eisenberg’s “What is America’s Excuse” letter in the Oct. 3 edition of The Signal: The first sentence in your letter to the editor is, “Great Britain

In Re: Gary Horton and “Gun Control,” commentary, Oct. 1. When I was a youngster all of us kids had at least one firearm and pre-1968 you could pretty much

In his response to Nancy Fairbanks (July 19), Christopher Lucero made some very accurate observations on the state budget here in California. I honestly couldn’t fault him on any of

From “A Study in Scarlet,” by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1877, a Sherlock Holmes mystery: “… that and the Ratcliff Highway murders, the article concluded by admonishing the government and advocating

The assassination of Charlie Kirk was shocking and heartbreaking. No matter what you thought of him, he was on a stage, speaking his mind, when his life was taken. That

Great Britain has not had a single school shooting since 1996 due to their strict gun control program, but unfortunately during that period of time until the present the United

Does liberalism run on empathy and compassion? Or fear and hate? You could argue that folks hated Hitler out of compassion for the innocent Jews he slaughtered. But it’s a

Last month the Lincoln Club hosted a meet-and-greet for Herb Morgan, who is running for California state controller. I had no idea who he was or what he stood for.

An article (Sept. 26) reporting a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge sentenced a father to 15 years to life for killing his baby neither identified the judge nor had

The California Citizens Redistricting Commission was established in 2008 after voters passed Proposition 11 by a 50.8% to 41.2% vote. That measure set the duties of the commission to drawing

The Signal announced the City Council’s bold action to reel in a financial windfall from L.A County: namely, funds for low-income housing. The Riverview project will build 318 homes which,

Response to Gary Horton’s column, Sept. 24: Comparing President Donald Trump to Joseph McCarthy is beyond a stretch. President Trump and his family have been lied about for 10 years.

For those of you who are thinking Comrade Zohran Mamdani, Bernie Sanders, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Elizabeth Warren, and others of their socialist/communist ilk are on to something, ask yourself two very

In her Sept. 23 letter to the editor, Autumn Sandeen, to whom I am related, appears to have missed the context of Charlie Kirk’s response to Ms. Rachel regarding Pride

There are plenty of jokes about lawyers, but here’s one we family law attorneys tell about our clients: Our clients will take legal advice from their hairstylists — while ignoring

The first question I would ask one (Charlie Kirk’s killer) would be this: What were you trying to accomplish by killing Charlie Kirk, what was your objective? If the objective