Opinion

Editor’s note: Savanna Birchfield, who created this “word cloud” illustration, is a Saugus High School graduate and current CSUN student.

By Tim Whyte Signal Editor  After a fall filled with fires, car crashes, political strife, shootings and a general sense of dread and tragedy, this past week I got a

By David Hegg  I almost didn’t put Christmas lights on the house this year. It wasn’t that I came across some cogent intellectual reason to end the tradition. I was

With the congressional impeachment hearings over the last couple of weeks going on in public display, you have to wonder if this is just a bad pilot episode for a

For most football players, or, for that matter, oboists, it’s harder to get a second napkin in a Chinese restaurant than an NFL tryout. Colin Kaepernick has been out of

If you are like me, every year at Thanksgiving you consider some things to be thankful for, but some years produce greater blessings than others.  This Thanksgiving, our family is

By Richard Budman Owner/Publisher, The Signal Thanksgiving is a family day, a day when multiple generations gather together to celebrate and remember the good things we have in our life

It’s been a couple of weeks now. The shock is still there, but is fading with time, as expected. The appropriate silent respectful phase is phasing out — and soon

Less than two months ago, I decided to get serious about my personal carbon footprint. Like many people, I bring my reusable bags to the store and do my best

Now that the initial shock and disbelief has gone away, I feel as though I can (hopefully) articulate some thoughts and emotions about the senseless tragedy that occurred. First off,

The power of faith is once again shaping up to be a key determining factor regarding immediate political sentiment.  Whether there is Republican incentive in the Senate for an honest