Opinion

According to the Centers for Disease Control, fentanyl overdose is now the leading killer for people aged 18 to 45, taking more lives since 2020 than COVID-19, car accidents and

After reading Gary Horton’s latest attempt (Feb. 2) to convince the remaining holdouts to get vaccinated against COVID-19 by “exposing irrationality as a weapon against cult and illogical thinking,” it

In re: Jonathan Kraut, “A Fourth Branch of Government?” March 29.  I have always enjoyed reading Mr. Kraut’s submissions and while he and I don’t share many views on most

I have one question concerning Camp Scott: Since when have 18- to 25-year-olds been considered as youths? Glenn MooreCanyon Country Editor’s note: Fair question. The violent criminals who would be

It has been said, “Build it and they will come.” Well it has been built, and they are coming. I am referring to the ever-growing homeless encampment behind the Shell

Once again I am flummoxed! My wife and I each worked hard all our adult lives, paid our taxes and felt blessed to be in the working class in a

This letter to the editor is a response to Jonathan Kraut’s opinion column published Tuesday, entitled “A Fourth Branch of Government?”  Mr. Kraut asserted, “We need an agency to evaluate

Sequel to Capitol break-in Jan. 6, 2021, Part 5 of 6. (Part 4 was published March 25.) The FBI has conducted the biggest manhunt in American history to hunt down

In the ever-expanding category of “things that used to work in California, but thanks to bureaucrats they don’t anymore,” we get to add the entire Interstate 5 freeway every time

President Joe Biden wants the rich to pay their fair share, rich defined as the wealthiest 20,000 households.  Good plan — the Democrats lose maybe 50,000 votes while the remaining

Thank you Supervisor Kathryn Barger!  Once again you have proven how you fight for the people of Santa Clarita and Los Angeles County.   For the L.A. Board of Supervisors

I wake up every day to see the dreadful news on the Russian invasion in Ukraine. Brave citizens valiantly defend their country and freedoms, while bombs rain on innocent civilians. 

Our freedoms in this country have not been under such drastic and totalitarian attack since Franklin Delano Roosevelt imprisoned Japanese citizens during World War II.  The new targets of the

I consider myself a fairly intelligent, well-educated and well-read person. As a major capital improvements engineering project manager at the L.A. Department of Water and Power, first and foremost on

Consider this sociopolitical aspect of the pandemic: the further left, the greater the gusto for homemade masks, even AFTER other leftists and bureaucrats admit they don’t work – in fact,