Opinion

Gary Horton: Light a candle of thanks in your life

Enough of politics. Let’s put politics away through this weekend – especially over Thanksgiving dinner, if we expect to keep our families intact and functional. No, those holiday dinner political

Joe Mathews: Throw off new media’s tyranny

As long as Silicon Valley and its futuristic technologies dominate our politics, we’re doomed to be stuck in the past. The big story of the poisonous 2016 elections was how

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Our view: Selecting the next council member

When the newly constituted Santa Clarita City Council holds its first meeting next month – minus Councilman Dante Acosta, plus newly re-elected Councilman Cameron Smyth – among the more urgent

Steve Lunetta: Hair on fire absurdity

Can we all just settle down a bit? Frankly, this is bordering on the absurd. Liberals are running around in the streets with their hair on fire, going on news

Gary Horton: Don’t call it a mandate

Donald Trump won the 2016 presidential election. As of this writing, Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump by 798,000 votes. Approximately 4 million votes remain to be counted, largely in blue

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Jim de Bree: The increasing role of disruption

I recently attended an accounting conference in Las Vegas. I am sure to most readers this sounds like a boring subject. To the contrary, the conference was extremely enlightening –

Our View: Congrats to clean-campaign winners

The contentious, prolonged and mud-marred 2016 election year is likely to be most remembered for its surprise ending to the presidential race. But it will also be remembered for the

John Kiernan: A nation turned upside down

Now that the election is over, it seems as if supporters of Hillary are engaging in activities formerly reserved for the extreme side of the Trump campaign. If we truly