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Sanctuary request needs research

The Santa Clarita City Council needs to step back and do some research on the request by Councilman Bob Kellar for the city to declare itself a non-sanctuary city. Step

Letters to the Editor

Lois Eisenberg: Frightened by Bolton

We are now in the throes of being frightened to death by another warmonger who is known to be the epitome of warmongers, John Bolton. Bolton is extremely hawkish in

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Thomas Oatway: Students not manipulated

Ron Bischof lost the credibility of his arguments on how to implement school safety when he attacked the students of Parkland, Florida as being “orchestrated by media producers and other

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Martha Michael: Running the bases

While many Americans have their attention fixed on Opening Day (yesterday for the Dodgers, next week for my favorite—the Lancaster JetHawks), there are other players stepping up to the plate,

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Richard Myers: No fear of guns

I just read Brian Baker’s March 15 piece, “The Second Amendment and the Militia,” and I’d like him to know that I am getting mighty tired of him and his

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Dick and Alice Ramirez: Invite #MeToo

  A few years back, a group of responsible, dedicated young kids just a few years older than the students protesting now, changed the world by protesting our involvement in

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Brian Baker: Still need a driver

I enjoyed reading Maria Gutzeit’s March 20 column entitled, “Eagerly awaiting the on-demand, futuristic life,” but in discussing self-driving cars she quoted Mark Schniepp, PhD, as saying that “…the current

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Robert W. Burton: Reading vs. writing

Too much emphasis, these days, at all levels of educational instruction, is placed on reading, but not on writing. Many people read well, but only a select few write well.

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Betty Arenson: Watching Sacramento

There are positives occurring in the California legislature that somehow elude the general public. Yes, agenda items intended to help the citizenry, yet these same issues get rejected, buried or

Jess Phoenix: Time to talk about it

It was April 20, 1999. Sirens blared in the distance as I hurried along the broad sidewalk next to my high school’s administration building. I had just picked up my

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Prescribed solutions to an epidemic

At the beginning of March, the White House held an Opioid Summit to discuss the administration’s efforts to combat a growing national addiction crisis—one that claims the lives of 115

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Jay DelDotto: An insight to my beliefs

I was wondering when I was going to be attacked regarding my March 14, 2018 Letter to the Editor pointing out Lois Eisenberg’s continuous rants about President Trump and anything