
Richard Budman | Remembering Dad’s Example
Tomorrow is Father’s Day and I would like to wish all the fathers a very happy and special day. Although my dad passed away 32 years ago, there is not

Tomorrow is Father’s Day and I would like to wish all the fathers a very happy and special day. Although my dad passed away 32 years ago, there is not

Leadership is about more than just occupying a chair on the dais. We saw an illustration of that on June 9 when, at the height of the local protests over

Since its founding, individual responsibility and self-determination have been core principles of our country. Indeed, America was founded after a revolution fought by rugged individuals who bristled under the oppressive

Dear Democratic Friend, Hey Precious. Drat we haven’t chatted in eons. Hope all’s beyond duckiness with you and yours. Hug. Fond smile. Wish you joy, good adventures and happy days

Thanks for all of the pictures and acknowledgments of our Santa Clarita Valley 2020 high school graduates. You have given them their “special moments” albeit unlike any given in previous

George Floyd’s brutal asphyxiation in Minneapolis ripped open the wounds of slavery for the entire African American community in our country. Being captured on video by eyewitnesses made it more

Dear Councilman Bob Kellar: I wish to make an important statement. As a resident of Valencia since 2006, I am an active citizen and care about my community and the

If you see or hear of a wrong being perpetrated and say or do nothing, then you are complicit in that wrong. Hence, after reading the letter to the editor

T oday I write about, “being called upon.” You know, those situations when you have an opportunity to do GOOD in this world. One day I took a drive to

I am heartbroken… yet now steadfast. Compassion calls our collective conscience. Answer. Now is the time for deep repair. Too many have suffered and died. Black and brown lives matter

Dear Rep. Mike Garcia, Please excuse this open letter to you, but since you didn’t answer my correspondence to your office, and the public interest in this topic is high,

I am grateful to the deputies from the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station and all other deputies, L.A. Police Department, and all law enforcement officers for the outstanding job they

We are tearing down statues of our history. We are deleting movies that are our history. Will we start to burn “Huckleberry Finn”? Does anyone know the history of Nazi

Most mornings I get out for a 5- to 8-mile bike ride along the Santa Clarita Valley’s wonderful paths and paseo system. It’s a near-daily ritual in my yet unsuccessful

It’s time to send the airlines a message and choose another mode of transportation. Over the years their services have deteriorated to the point of dismal failure. We have been

What do you get when you take a virus from China and send it to the U.S. besides millions of sick people and awful premature deaths? You get a lot

My name is Julia Estrada and I am an extremely involved student and 2020 graduate of Hart High School. I am writing in regard to the need to retire Hart

It was a steamy Georgia morning, July 1975. I was about to embark on half-day adventure with a friend to visit an old historic district called Pigtail Alley. Somehow, I

Conservative Jewish commentator Dennis Prager occasionally jokes, “If two Jews are alone in a room, there will be at least three opinions.” Christians have quipped that even God himself could

On March 19, the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic. By March 20, most Americans started submitting to strict directives to stay home, in what The New York Times