Opinion

Letters to the Editor

Tony Maldonado | A Strategy for Change

In a revealing article from June 19, The Signal highlighted a concerning statistic: nearly one-fifth of College of the Canyons employees feel unwelcome at their institution. This story, titled “Survey:

David Hegg

David Hegg | Dependent Independence

By David Hegg Once again, Independence Day has brought summer into reality. In my growing-up years near Canada, July 4 always seemed to be the first day it was hot

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Rob Kerchner | Overlooking the Evils of Marxism

For their crimes Nazis are routinely — and appropriately — denounced by everyone, including leftists, who eagerly ignore the even worse crimes of Marxists.  But it’s not just leftists who

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Ron Perry | The Guts to Speak Up

Re: Cindy Josten, “Too Much Made of Pride,” letters, July 2. Finally, someone with the guts to speak up! Thank you Cindy Josten, for a wonderfully worded, non-hateful, yet much-needed

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Thomas Oatway | Is This Lawfare, Too?

Are we supposed to believe that the delays of other Donald Trump trials by the Supreme Court and a judge appointed by Trump are not examples of “lawfare”?  Thomas Oatway

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Rick Barker | Elected Officials

Elected officials freely chose to put ­­themselves in the public eye and if they are worthy of the position they hold they are also intelligent enough to be very aware

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Jim de Bree | Debate Proves Concerns

Over the past several months, when asked who I thought would win the election, my response was typically, “I don’t know, but here are my odds. Trump has a 45%

Commentary

Dan Walters | After 248 Years, Is This Our Best?

Business mogul Mark Cuban conducted an interesting experiment during last week’s debate between President Joe Biden and his predecessor, Donald Trump. He fed a transcript of the debate into ChatGPT,

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Dr. Gene Dorio | Teammanship

Nothing could have prepared me better for my career and life than playing team sports growing up.  It’s hard to imagine someone now in their 70s pitching a fastball 100

Commentary

Dan Walters | When State Stops Fossil Fuels …?

California’s taxes on gasoline, already among the nation’s highest, increased by another 1.7 cents per gallon this week. Republicans blamed Gov. Gavin Newsom for increasing the state’s sky-high living costs.

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Rob Kerchner | Lessons from COVID-19

COVID-19 taught us a lot about our government, our elite culture and our media. In the midst of uncertainty and ignorance about the virus, even in the so-called expert circles,