Just before New Year’s, our Mighty Signal posted my first five Top Ten legislative wishes for 2026. These include mandating manufacturers to develop products that enable comprehensive recycling, changing residency
I have been a naughty boy. According to a letter from the gas company, I’ve used too much gas. Further, the electric company holds an ax over my head; the
I just read the article in the Jan. 24 issue of The Signal regarding L.A. County giving sidewalk vendors a $2.8 million grant. Once again, I am ashamed of Los
After my mom finished treatment for cancer, much of the cancer medicine was no longer needed. To help my family reset, I looked into how to dispose of it. I
Gov. Gavin Newsom dropped a brief and vaguely worded section into his State of the State address earlier this month, suggesting an overhaul of how California’s vast public education system
By David Hegg “How did that happen?” I find myself asking that question far too often these days. How did a good guy get involved in illegal activity? How did
I have concluded from the tone and content of Andrew Taban’s columns, that he, much like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, exercises charisma and a compelling charm, thus inspiring
California faces a half-dozen existential issues that threaten the state’s future economic and social wellbeing, and they have persistently defied attempts to resolve them over the past 25 years. They
Leave it to leftists to storm a house of worship and disrupt prayer, in order to object to the deportation of foreign murderers, gang members, pedophiles, rapists and fraudsters. Just
The death of Renee Good was a tragedy. It was both preventable and avoidable. She had no business being an instigator in the daily Minneapolis riots. Yes, they are riots,
Kudos to all of the letter writers in the Jan. 21 Signal. But the special ATA-BOY Award goes to Rob Kerchner for an outstanding, succinct and spot-on evaluation! Ron Perry
It’s hard to have sympathy for people who choose to live in California. It’s their business, after all, if they want to be domiciled in a state where the taxes
Once I had the neatest conversation with Chuck Norris. You know. Karate guy? Movie and TV star? One of Earth’s toughest people? I was sports editor then and it couldn’t
Imagine enrolling in a philosophy class at the College of the Canyons where some of Plato’s works are off-limits. You would probably feel cheated. Yet this is reportedly what is
When social media first began attracting young people more than two decades ago, parents worried about whether their children were chatting with nefarious strangers. Now, with the emergence of artificial
You’ve seen videos of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers struggling to apprehend illegal immigrants in Minneapolis and elsewhere around the country. Many of those immigrants have criminal records. The reason
The world has two inexhaustible sources of energy. They can relieve the Earth of fossil fuels that are now contaminating it. They are solar energy from the sun and geothermal
Opinions about the recent fatal shooting in Minneapolis have been sharply divided along political lines. Those on the right, looking at it through a red-tinted lens, immediately claimed it was
A quote from one participant at the conservative rally (article) published on Jan. 20 was, “bettering our country and restoring it to the ideals that it was founded upon.” But
Tuesday’s Signal was a masterclass in why a vibrant local newspaper is still essential to civic life and democracy. That edition was chock-a-block with insights, from hard news to opinion