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In re: Sandy Cassidy, letters, “It Wasn’t About the Food Pantries,” Aug. 10. Ms. Cassidy, the point of my response was only to point out that whenever one relies on

In re: Sandy Cassidy, letters, “It Wasn’t About the Food Pantries,” Aug. 10. Ms. Cassidy, the point of my response was only to point out that whenever one relies on

I’ve been thinking about irrelevance. Unless I am watching a golf tournament, advertisers no longer target me. Even worse, I’ve apparently lost track of popular culture, no matter how fast

According to the California Department of Public Health, one in six homicides are due to domestic violence. Last year in Santa Clarita alone, the California Department of Justice cataloged 515

After skimming Gary Horton’s Sept. 4 column, his position makes so little sense, his writings should be rebranded, “Slow Speed to Nowhere.” This week Gary is upset by people campaigning

On Assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo’s website, she expresses her support of law enforcement with Assembly Bill 2943. She writes “enhancing the ability of law enforcement to respond effectively to these crimes.”

Since January 2021, the cumulative rate of inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index, a figure calculated by the federal government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, stands at 19.4%. On

“He was on our radar.” How many times have we heard that after a mass shooting at a high school or a shopping mall? We heard it for the umpteenth

The Signal will publish letters and columns related to local elections through Oct. 5, one month before Election Day. The deadline to submit any letters to the editor about local

It lay abandoned, on the department store floor, toy aisle if memory serves. I pretty much lived The Childhood Unsupervised and was in third grade. Someone had dropped a perfectly

The following letter was written after the second night of the Democratic National Convention. Just when you thought the DNC could not sink lower, night two gave us a new

Recently a video emerged where Donald Trump had some things to say about the Medal of Freedom awarded to civilians, and the Medal of Honor given to military personnel for

Why is it you wear a mask? Are you afraid so you wear a mask? What are you afraid of to need a mask? Or are you paid so you

California has allocated more than $20 billion to alleviate the state’s homelessness crisis since Gavin Newsom became governor in 2019, but there’s precious little data on how the money was

Ms. Sue Bozman (letters, Aug. 31) is right in asserting that a college or any institution cannot depend on just one person to achieve success. The storied reign of Dianne

In his recent column about rent control (Aug. 22), Jim de Bree is right about the need for new housing construction in California. But increasing the housing supply and expanding

It looks like the fight between the Harris and Trump campaigns over Donald Trump’s appearance at Arlington National Cemetery is intensifying, not diminishing. Kamala Harris herself posted a statement on

Hollywood can’t always be trusted to accurately portray reality or history, to say the least. But I fully enjoyed watching the facts go by in the premier of “Reagan,” which

I’m so excited, and I just can’t hide it I’m about to lose control, and I think I like it I’m so excited, and I just can’t hide it And

Sacramento politicians don’t get the financial pressure we’re all under because they don’t know what life is like for the average American. Rep. Mike Garcia does. Mike has been fighting

To Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz, thank you for bringing back the “joy” and “hope” in this dismal 2024 presidential campaign until you showed up. Since President