Letters to the Editor

It was encouraging to see the effort by the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department Vehicle Theft Task Force in The Signal on Aug. 20, etching vehicle identification numbers on catalytic converters.

Re: Planning Commission appointment process. This Tuesday, Aug. 26, during their regularly scheduled meeting, the Santa Clarita City Council ratified Mayor Pro Tem Laurene Weste’s nomination of Daniel Faina to

Re: Jack Teoli’s letter (Aug. 27). Mr. Teoli, I am surprised at your approval of the disenfranchisement of your fellow Californians via gerrymandering put forward by our governor and Legislature.

With last week’s actions in Texas and California, the movement to further divide our country by gerrymandering continues. The immediate goal of Texas legislators (following directions from Donald Trump) is

At its next meeting, the William S. Hart Union High School District governing board is poised to vote on a package of policies framed as “parental rights” and “unity.” Behind

Re: Gary Horton, commentary, Aug. 27. Agree with you, Gary on Intel. Now do Amtrak. Miguel Jones  Saugus

Dan Walters’ piece in opinion (Aug. 22) about unintended consequences is, as always, very good at “explaining how California’s” government works. He gives us several examples of how bills rammed

I have written a couple of letters on this topic in the past but President Donald Trump’s news conference brought it back into the news with the added option he

Explain this: In 2017, the Democratic Party was a pro-Israeli party. They sympathized with the Israelis by 13 points more than with the Palestinians. But now Democrats sympathize more with

Today, I am happy to live in a free state like California, and have an assemblymember like Pilar Schiavo. On Aug. 21, the California State Legislature voted in favor of

I thought we had a democratic republic representative government in California where the people hold power through voted representatives. With California’s one-party political system, we have morphed into an oligarchy

Hmmmm. So, let’s say you are a Dodgers fan. Let’s say that in preparation for the World Series the Astros essentially find a way to subvert some rule or tradition

In this morning’s column (July 23) Gary Horton was lamenting the “silence” in the face of what, in his opinion, is the diminishing sense of meaning, purpose, and dignity in

Gov. Gavin “Alfred E.” Newsom, like Superman, is out to save the world, even if that world includes Texas.  But, unlike the Man of Steel, he doesn’t have superpowers. He

I have often complained about Gary Horton’s “Full Speed to Port” column. I have often reminded readers that always steering to port means that you spin in circles. However, when

Gary Horton’s column in today’s Signal (Aug. 13) is one of the best he has written, and very insightful. We are headed on a highway to hell, with no guardrails

I nearly spit out my coffee reading that Mayor Bill Miranda is now suddenly calling for a planning review of the Harwell Project (Aug. 14) because the project has “grown

For most of my life, I have enjoyed model railroading as a hobby. Today, most model railroad equipment is made in special order batches. If you see something you want,

In any reading of the Opinion page of The Signal, you can expect the same litany of MAGA letter writers and their usual drivel of something along the lines of,

Something that is bad for our culture is when someone says something in our political discourse that can easily be shown to be not true or only part true and