Richard Myers | Add a Banner on Days Since Shooting
December 4, 2019
I’m sure The Signal wants to do whatever it can to end the continuing slaughter happening throughout the country. With the Saugus High School killing fresh in my mind, it
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Ken Dean | This Can’t Be the Norm
December 4, 2019
Like everyone in our grief-stricken city, I have no words to express other than what has already been said. I do have a question, like everyone else. Why? As a
Gary Horton | Protect Our Kids in Everyday Settings, Too
December 4, 2019
Our community is healing from the Saugus school shooting. We’ve come together and are committed to coming out of this a stronger community. This was a huge loss, and thank
Gil Mertz | What the Left Fears Most on Trump
December 3, 2019
As the left and the media have been lighting their hair on fire daily with their baseless scandal du jour against President Trump, he has quietly appointed nearly one in
Dianne Van Hook | Delivering on the Promise of Opportunity
December 3, 2019
In the fall of 1969, College of the Canyons opened for its first term of classes. Thirty-one faculty taught 735 students in the late afternoons and evenings Hart High School,
Savanna Birchfield | Word cloud, ‘Saugus Strong’
December 3, 2019
Editor’s note: Savanna Birchfield, who created this “word cloud” illustration, is a Saugus High School graduate and current CSUN student.
Bob Galarneau | A Reply on the Evangelicals
December 1, 2019
Re: “The Power of Faith in U.S. Politics,” by Jonathan Kraut (Nov. 26). Not all evangelical Christians are Protestant (those who broke away from Rome, during the Reformation). Some, like
Tim Whyte | You Know What Lightens the Mood? Nudist News
December 1, 2019
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
David Hegg | Yes, Put Up the Lights; You’ll Be Glad You Did
December 1, 2019
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
Christopher Lucero | We Must Love Every Soul
November 30, 2019
Thoughts on David Hegg (Nov. 24), John Boston (Nov. 22), Karen Roseberry (Nov. 21), Johnathan Kraut (Nov. 26), and to those in despair seeking answers to the question…why? …and our
Reiko Hawkins | On Guns vs. Guitars
November 30, 2019
About 17 years ago, for a period of about two years, I joined a group of Japanese women who informally set up play dates for their children in Santa Clarita.
C. Norman Allen | Impeachment: Sound, Fury, Nothing More
November 30, 2019
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
Naomi Young | The Power of Unity, Kindness and Love
November 29, 2019
An act of violence shook our whole community to the core. Yet, in the midst of this chaos and confusion, I still feel hopeful to see that our community is
Kathryn Supple | A Hart Student’s Perspective
November 29, 2019
I am a student at Hart High School. Although I do not attend Saugus High School, where the shooting Thursday occurred, I have several friends who attend there and witnessed
John Boston | Colin Kaepernick Gets the Harvard Big Sissy Award
November 29, 2019
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
Brandi Simmons | Thankful for School at Home
November 28, 2019
I’m thankful for many things during this season of giving, including the opportunities public school at home has given my family. For my son Cash, online learning at California Virtual
Jim de Bree | A Special Reason to Be Thankful
November 28, 2019
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
Richard Budman | Thanksgiving and the SCV Extended Family
November 28, 2019
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
Kaytie Holt | Rebuilding and Recovering at Saugus
November 27, 2019
Editor’s note: Kaytie Holt, Saugus High School choir teacher and daughter of Signal Staff Writer Jim Holt, wrote the following one week after the Nov. 14 shooting at the school.
Lois Eisenberg | Impeachment: Right Matters
November 27, 2019
Watching the impeachment inquiry Nov. 19 on TV, I was never prouder of all the righteous career officials as witnesses in the impeachment inquiry. Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who was