Thankfully, last week’s explosion and fire at California’s second largest refinery, Chevron’s El Segundo plant, was not an environmental catastrophe. But it could have serious economic and political impact. It
I originally wrote this column two decades ago. By mid-2005, the cultural and political lines in America had hardened. The Bush administration’s second term was riding high on confidence and
Have you noticed promoters on some infomercials and TV ads deliver their dialogue in a setting where a loud background environment is created to permit them to YELL on camera?
Nancy Fairbanks and Maggie Bowman’s “ping-pong match” got my attention when I read Nancy’s rebuttal (Aug. 7) to Maggie’s letter (May 23). In this corner we have Moms For Liberty
I grew up calling myself “Italian.” I never used “Italian-American,” partly because it’s fairly obvious I am American and also because I didn’t want any grief from the tedious people
By David Hegg Sometimes going backward can be both rewarding and upsetting. Consider Robert Fulghum’s cogent little book “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.” Published in
The stark difference between liberals and conservatives has never been more glaringly obvious than the reaction to the death of Charlie Kirk. Even though he was an icon of patriotism
As this year’s legislative session concludes, I’m proud of the progress we’ve made — but even more determined to confront the urgent challenges ahead, with California’s affordability crisis at the
Michael Cruz’s letter, “Narrow, Short-Lived Benefits” (Aug. 14), is yet another example of how he sidesteps the real value of legislation in favor of distortion. While Cruz takes aim at
In response to Lois Eisenberg’s “What is America’s Excuse” letter in the Oct. 3 edition of The Signal: The first sentence in your letter to the editor is, “Great Britain
Even President Donald Trump’s millions of critics cannot deny one central aspect of his character that has kept him at the forefront of U.S. presidential politics for more than a
Something wrong has happened to us. It’s never any one event. Rather, death by a thousand paper cuts. In the same week, I spotted essentially the same sign in two
In Re: Gary Horton and “Gun Control,” commentary, Oct. 1. When I was a youngster all of us kids had at least one firearm and pre-1968 you could pretty much
In his response to Nancy Fairbanks (July 19), Christopher Lucero made some very accurate observations on the state budget here in California. I honestly couldn’t fault him on any of
From “A Study in Scarlet,” by Arthur Conan Doyle, 1877, a Sherlock Holmes mystery: “… that and the Ratcliff Highway murders, the article concluded by admonishing the government and advocating
It’s almost like the news media is trying to get us to hide under our beds in fear. From CNN to USA Today to Fox and beyond, all we hear
“They’ve all come to look for America …” — Paul Simon 1967 Back when I was in high school, one of my favorite music groups was Simon & Garfunkel. On
The assassination of Charlie Kirk was shocking and heartbreaking. No matter what you thought of him, he was on a stage, speaking his mind, when his life was taken. That
Great Britain has not had a single school shooting since 1996 due to their strict gun control program, but unfortunately during that period of time until the present the United
On May 16, 2023, the Des Moines, Iowa, school board hired Ian Roberts to be its new superintendent. Roberts, the first African American ever chosen to run the city’s schools,