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
l grant you that COVID-19 is a nasty, devastating disease that has crippled our country and continues to do so as I type this letter. But I have several burning
Historically, climate change has been perceived as a cause celebre of left-leaning activists since conservatives have been reticent to voice concerns about the issue. However, conservatives now recognize that America’s
When we consider the COVID-19 pandemic and everything left in its path of destruction, it has arguably left one of its greatest impacts on global poverty rates. As The World
Thank you for Pastor David Hegg’s column in your Sunday Signal, Dec. 13. His column “Love that Matters Most” was an uplifting encouragement calling us to the life of love
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish
Most of the columns and letters to the editor that I write and are published by The Signal concern political topics, and since I’m a conservative I expect – and
As a Republican I also share Lois Eisenberg’s (letters, Nov. 27) misplaced discursive glee in the election of Joe Biden. In the last 12 years, eight under Obama/Biden, and four
For the fourth time this year, residents of Santa Clarita, in particular Canyon Country, have been on the receiving end of public safety power shutoffs. As the third of these
As I look at all of the shenanigans that are being pulled by our elected officials, as they are exposed to us, I have only one thought in my mind:
It’s nice to see some fresh thinking, thank you John Dennis (letters, Dec. 8). A new county would provide many new functions to the Santa Clarity Valley. A county fire
Seventeen state attorneys general have filed a brief in support of the Texas attorney general’s brief to the Supreme Court to overturn the election results in Wisconsin, Michigan, Georgia and
There was a sad time in my life when I would frequently antagonize religious individuals. During my teen years and for most of my 20’s, I was on a self-imposed