Gary Horton: Reality is real no matter our beliefs
May 16, 2017
I’d been conscious two hours after my spine surgery when pain overtook me and I began trembling from head to toe with the most acute pain I’ve ever experienced. Electric
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Bill Lyons: Ready for self-driving cars?
May 16, 2017
Self-driving cars are coming soon—and they will change your life. We are entering a profoundly dynamic age in transportation that will cause major shifts in our thinking, business, and government.
Maria Gutzeit: Keeping it Rolling: Bike Week SCV
May 15, 2017
It’s Bike Week in Santa Clarita, and there’s a little bit of bike fever for everyone. It’s also a good example of how the city and county continue to evolve
Brian Baker: Federal law prevails in United incident
May 15, 2017
Recently The Signal published a letter by Robert Plassmeyer entitled “No crime involved in United fracas.” In that letter Plassmeyer disagreed with The Signal’s editorial “Lesson learned on the wing”
Gary Morrison: Just the right presidential appointment
May 15, 2017
If our president follows true to form and appoints someone antithetical to agency or department for which he or she is nominated, the only possible candidate is the attorney for
Has the crack-down on distracted drivers changed your phone-holding habits behind the wheel?
May 13, 2017
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Charles Ford Champion II: Got bilked!
May 12, 2017
A week ago, I took to the pages of The Signal to address attacks made by both a sitting state senator and a local competitor who has, from the day
Lynne Winner: Let’s keep partisanship out of nonpartisan offices
May 12, 2017
Editor’s note: The following letter was addressed to Sen. Scott Wilk’s Santa Clarita office and copied to The Signal. Senator Wilk, I just read in the mighty Signal that you
David W. Hegg: What ever happened to excellence?
May 12, 2017
As I write I am sitting in a hotel room wondering whatever happened to excellence, to doing things right, and doing the right things. What happened in America to turn
Gary Curtis: Anti-Christianity in college becomes battle ground
May 12, 2017
Anti-Christian bigotry is growing nationwide. In particular, this is being demonstrated in some high schools and on many university and college campuses. The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ)
Dianne G. Van Hook: Solving equation of college affordability
May 12, 2017
Today’s college students face a number of obstacles to reaching their full academic potential. Some challenges, like math anxiety and fear of public speaking, seem daunting, but can be mastered
Susan Cornner: Pocket change for health care?
May 12, 2017
Thank you for your fair, balanced story on this week’s “die-in” protest against Congressman Steve Knight’s support of the GOP health care plan (“A ‘die-in’ protest” Tuesday in The Signal).
A letter from The Signal’s Executive VP: Purloined viewers, purchased ‘fans’
May 11, 2017
As many of you know, I have lived in this community since 1984 and raised my family here. You probably also know I serve or have served on many nonprofit
Sally White: Just say ‘no’ to Castaic sprawl
May 10, 2017
With what seems like synchronization by the unseen hand, two diametrically opposed pieces appear in the May 9 issue of The Signal. Both need our very thorough and rigorous attention,
Michael Cruz: Another back story on turned tide
May 10, 2017
I’m writing in response to Brian Baker’s April 12 column titled: “The tide has turned.” Let‘s do away with the easiest error. Justice Ginsburg was not nominated by President Carter;
Barbara Moore: Knight owes an explanation for health-care vote
May 10, 2017
I believe Steve Knight owes older constituents an explanation as to why he didn’t stand up to Republican leadership and why he voted for Trump Care. Seniors are in danger of having their
Steve Lunetta: Child savings accounts the real answer?
May 10, 2017
I would like to think that the people we elect as public officials are fairly intelligent folks. We may sometimes disagree with their political views, but it is rare when
Terry Hartzler: Whose point was it?
May 10, 2017
Regarding the story “A ‘die-in’ protest” on page A1 of Tuesday’s Signal, did the “students” study the bill before this stunt? Did any of their teachers use this bill as
Tom Mertes: Profiting on the presidency
May 9, 2017
I’m deeply concerned with President Trump’s taxpayer-funded trips to Trump properties Mar-a-Lago. In 2015, Trump said he would “rarely leave the White House because there’s so much work to be