Opinion

Byron York

Byron York | JD Vance’s Difficult Road to 2028

Vice President JD Vance faced an impossible task trying to negotiate an end to the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran. That Vance failed is no surprise, given Iran’s so-far implacable resistance

Letters to the Editor

Roger Ickes | Get Off Our Backsides

After reading the letter from Kevin T. Kelly(April 4), ceding implied approval of the proposed courthouse to the State Judicial Council, I re-read the story in the March 28 Signal

Letters to the Editor

Rick Barker | Back in the Bottle

Nowadays I often wonder just how in the world people pre-social media ever found a way to communicate with each other in either good or bad ways. Watch the news

Dan Walters

Dan Walters | Who Benefits from Swalwell’s Exit

Sunday afternoon, during the television broadcast of a San Francisco Giants-Baltimore Orioles baseball game, an ad popped up, accusing Rep. Eric Swalwell of ducking tough votes in Congress. The ad

Letters to the Editor

Arthur Saginian | One Important Word

Jonathan Kraut, regarding your column (Feb. 24), please read the Constitution of the United States of America, namely the first sentence of the Preamble. “We the People of the United

Letters to the Editor

John Shaffery | Patterson Will Be Missed

The recent news of Rick Patterson’s passing and tributes written about him reminded me how fortunate I was to meet Rick when starting our law practice in Santa Clarita in

Letters to the Editor

Steve LePore | Stand for Your Values

Santa Clarita Valley mini-megachurch leaders, I’ll ask again: When will you trade allegiance to a man and to political power, and return to the virtues of the gospel you proclaim

Letters to the Editor

Rob Kerchner | Never Again

What protects you from 51% of your neighbors democratically voting away your rights? A republic, as Ben Franklin said, if you can keep it. Because as we saw with COVID,

Letters to the Editor

Margaret Elias | A Good Idea That Needs Work

As a parent, I appreciated Assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo’s recent column (“Growing Up Digitally Addicted: Why Our Kids Need Protection, “April 7) highlighting the very real harms of social media addiction

Dan Walters

Dan Walters | Dueling Props Will Spur Confusion

When California voters approved Proposition 13 in 1978, they forced a massive change in how government services are financed that continues to reverberate nearly a half-century later. Prop. 13’s limits