
Jim Horton | The Government We Deserve?
Why do we elect fools? It has been said many times that a society deserves the government that they have. Hitler said this about the German people. I don’t know

Why do we elect fools? It has been said many times that a society deserves the government that they have. Hitler said this about the German people. I don’t know

This is in response to Max Morgan’s letter on Sept. 3, “The Truth on Tax Cuts, Medicare.” A common practice by Donald Trump and his blindly supportive minions is to

Gary Horton seems to have gone on a rampage recently against private gun ownership, as exemplified by his most recent column on the subject, (Aug. 28), “Did America Want to

Because Democrats and Trump Haters have nothing else to run on, in her latest bi-weekly (Aug. 28) diatribe Lois Eisenberg replays the same, tired, unfounded-in-facts, liberal talking points that the

Jonathan Kraut’s column, “Comparing MAGA-ism vs. McCarthyism” (Aug. 27) is shallow on facts and reality and only displays his hatred and disdain for those who oppose his views. Bloviation and

America’s twitterer in chief has suggested that their green dollars could buy some “Greenland.” Although only about 80% of Greenland is covered in ice, the suggestion has been given a

The Amazon rain forest is on fire, and climate scientists fear a tipping point is near. Millions of tons of dangerous carbon dioxide are discharging each day into the atmosphere.

Subject: The “Save the Open Space” flimflam. This will be a follow-up to the letter written by Mr. Ken Dean in The Signal magazine (Aug. 25). I totally agree with

The Signal as well as several local Facebook groups were quick to trumpet the 24% year-over-year drop in crime in the Santa Clarita Valley but, is the unadjusted “real crime”

Did you leave the five-day weather report up to our wonderful humorist, Mr. SCV? The weather report for evenings and Monday look ominous. Taking it from the Saturday (Aug. 24)

Some of the famous favorite punching bags of the GOP are Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid. The GOP wants to do way with these necessary benefits of health and well

This is in response to John Boston’s column on Aug. 23, “John Boston | 2019: Writhing in The ‘Hideous Ecstasy’ of Hate.” I responded to John Boston’s prior column on

Great letters today (Aug. 23). John Boston calling for us to be less acerbic, less accusing, less crude… And David Schribman explaining to us, in a refreshing, balanced way, what

The rational thought is that when a person is elected to represent the people of a certain district, that elected official would do just that — represent constituents for their

As a past member of the 2007 “Save Open Space” committee, I am disgusted with the current controversy and actions of our City Council’s transferring of funds from the open

We have now had a trifecta of “Democratic Voices” starting with the Josh Heath column, which Betty Arenson accurately described as a “fantasy.” However, it was a dark fantasy, which

California housing affordability is in a crisis. Construction is being drawn back from building new homes by the home builders due to government fees, labor, the high cost of materials

On Saturday afternoon, Aug. 3, I switched on my TV to learn that there had been a mass shooting in El Paso. After a few moments I remarked to my

The Signal is to be commended for reporting that Cemex USA has sued the Bureau of Land Management to overturn the administrative decision that would have effectively terminated its two

This trip included 10 volunteers and we are now familiar with the check-in procedure: Hand over driver’s license, obtain a locker key, put all belongings in locker, including wrist watches