Dick and Alice Ramirez: Invite #MeToo
March 27, 2018
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
March 27, 2018
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
Jim de Bree: Algorithms continue to change baseball
March 27, 2018
In 1961, I attended my first Dodger game at the Coliseum. As Vin Scully would say, the game was a dandy. The Dodgers played the Giants. Koufax faced Marichal. Both
Robert W. Burton: Reading vs. writing
March 26, 2018
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.
Betty Arenson: Watching Sacramento
March 26, 2018
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
Joshua Heath: Gov. Brown will leave a mysterious legacy
March 26, 2018
Jerry Brown, the only four-term governor in California history, is set to leave public life next January, when his likely Democratic successor will take his place in the governor’s mansion.
Jennifer O’Shea: A professor’s perspective on Saturday’s March for our Lives in Santa Clarita
March 25, 2018
By Jennifer O’Shea For The Signal Three doors separated me and my 35 students from the outside. Three doors separated us from fresh air, sunshine and possible bullet spray. In
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March 24, 2018
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David W. Hegg: The ‘cult of victimhood,’ and minority rule
March 23, 2018
In a previous column, I made mention of the “cult of victimhood.” For many months I have thought about writing a column on the rise of this cult, and the
Jess Phoenix: Time to talk about it
March 23, 2018
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
Prescribed solutions to an epidemic
March 23, 2018
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
Jay DelDotto: An insight to my beliefs
March 22, 2018
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
Gabriela Yearick: Combating homelessness as a community
March 22, 2018
I come from a military family, and this has allowed me wider view of the world as a whole. As a new transplant to the Santa Clarita area, one of
Ron Bischof: Talking about school safety
March 22, 2018
“Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.” — H. L. Mencken, twentieth-century journalist, satirist,
Richard Myers: Getting people to ask the question
March 21, 2018
As I watched the student walkouts on March 14, I was impressed by the numbers and the enthusiasm of these young Americans, but I think we should be very cautious
Stephanie Green: Them vs. US
March 21, 2018
In the March 14 edition of The Signal, right-wing letter writer, Jay DelDotto, criticized left-wing writer, Lois Eisenberg, because of the “verbal venom that she disgorges about Republicans.” He then
Cher Gilmore: Community choice energy—a golden opportunity
March 21, 2018
Last month, the Santa Clarita City Council wrote letters to California Senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris and Representative Steve Knight in support of national policies that “acknowledge the threat
Steve Lunetta: The dangers of pulling the state’s thread
March 21, 2018
Have you ever been really bored in a long meeting, never-ending church sermon or a romantic-comedy movie and you see a thread sticking out of your shirt? It’s a very
Brian Baker: A word on climate change
March 21, 2018
On March 17, in the Weekender edition of The Signal, there was a column entitled: “Climate change is a science fact” written by Jess Phoenix. In that column, she introduces
Lois Eisenberg: A sense of renewable hope
March 21, 2018
Reading The Signal’s Editorial Board’s article: “A Teachable Moment,” which was posted on Saturday, March 17, gave me a sense of renewalable hope. Not only was the article a