By Richard Budman Here we are on Christmas Day 2020. What a year this has been. For most of us, this Christmas will not be the same. We will not
It’s Christmas Day in Newhall. Elsewheres, I hear as well. I’ve been in homes, sometimes not mine, for 70 years now. I think the first three or four December 25ths,
It might seem odd, a Jewish boy from Brooklyn celebrating Christmas Spirit, but believe me, getting to this point has been a lifelong journey. It was not until after I
After an incredibly tight race in California’s 25th Congressional District — with only 333 votes (out of 338,943 cast) separating winner Republican Mike Garcia from second-place finisher Democrat Christy Smith
The column by Alan Ferdman on Dec. 18 was indeed an excellent wakeup call as to how California seems to be suffering a problem akin to that of a Third
Christmas arrives in just two days. And COVID-19 is seemingly blocking all the joys and events and fun you’ve come to know and love… and sometimes dread. Public service announcements
President Donald Trump and his allies have lost 58 out of 59 cases in multiple courts, including at the Supreme Court, in their unsuccessful attempts to prove voter fraud in
I have been waiting for this day ever since William Barr became attorney general for Donald Trump. I know Barr was sworn into being the American people’s attorney general, but
Editor’s note: According to the writer, the following was written as a research project on school police officers in general, and is not intended to be specifically about the November
I am a proud Democrat. I believe the principles of my party — social justice, humanitarianism, protecting the working man from the bosses — are what power the soul of
Politics has a dirty name, especially for the past several decades, but for me… Politics is the way competing legitimate interests and stakeholders resolve their differences legitimately and nonviolently. The
By David Hegg While the season of Christmas is enjoyed by many, I also recognize that in our pluralistic society, not all celebrate the birth of Christ. The honorable co-existence
Please join me in wishing the city of Santa Clarita a very happy 33rd birthday. Originally from England, my wife and I with our two then-very-young children first moved here
2020 has been quite a year: devastating fires, violent protests and a record-breaking heat wave. What about the COVID-19 virus? A bright light shone in November because Pfizer made an
Woody (answers phone): Cheers! Yes, ma’am, right away. (Turns to Carla.) There’s some lady screaming her head off. Carla: What’s she want? Woody: I don’t know. All I could make
What good are tax dollars if our elected leaders don’t use them to provide citizens with basic and necessary government services? California is about to learn the hard way that
That was interesting. What was a substantial margin in the May special election (95,667 votes, 54.9%, to 78,721 votes, 45.1%) shrunk to something infinitesimal. The Christy Smith campaign was a
Seems forever since I’ve dashed off one of these poor excuses for a Christmas present. So much to share about the family up here in the vast high desert wasteland
Last week, two days of Southern California Edison shutting down my neighborhood’s power started me thinking about what life might be like in California when my grandchildren have children. Today,
All over the Santa Clarita Valley, you can see young people walk out of their houses with masks on, alone, and get into their cars and drive away. A car
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