One estimate I’ve seen for totally removing San Onofre and Rancho Seco decommissioned plants is $5.1 billion and similar cost for Rancho Seco. Of course, Southern California Edison is asking
California’s self-designated deadline for achieving net zero emissions of greenhouse gases is 20 years away. But what is happening — or not happening — in multiple arenas now may determine
By David Hegg The great American pastime is no longer baseball, or for that matter, anything even remotely related to sport. No, it is much more consuming than any passion
I always try to hike new trails in our valley soon after they open. Our newest trail and Santa Clarita’s 39th park opened a week ago, so I checked it
By The Signal Editorial Board We should all celebrate America’s successes. And, as much as people with strong partisan political views will not only hate to admit it, but also
When President Donald Trump deservedly wins the Nobel Peace Prize, I can hear Gary Horton and Jonathan Kraut’s very public reaction. “It is only appropriate that the man who would
Apparently, the Santa Clarita City Council has lost touch with what the city of Santa Clarita needs to spend $3.3 million on. And it isn’t landscaping the Newhall State Route
Towering above California’s freeways, oversized billboards display the names of personal injury law firms and the smiling faces of attorneys every other mile or so. If you have driven the
What were the Democrats in New York thinking? Eight months after being humiliated by Donald Trump, they’ve chosen a devout socialist to run for mayor of arguably the country’s most
I’ve grown fond of publicly writing the phrase, “as I begin to approach middle age.” It irritates many literal thinkers with sound math and logic skills. They note if I’m
Renée McKellar’s letter, “Sanitizing the Record” (April 23), labels Moms for Liberty as “extremist,” citing the Southern Poverty Law Center’s claim that M4L is an “anti-government” group bent on ruining
There are four holidays that occur in quick succession and symbolize our love of country: Memorial Day, D-Day, Flag Day and July Fourth. The first and the last are the
In his April 9 column, Gary Horton’s monologue on President Donald Trump’s concept of global affairs went against nearly everything we were taught about world politics by (our political science
“No Kings Day” was a protest that took place on June 14 to protest President Donald Trump’s policies and actions in his second term. The protest was held across the
After California became a U.S. state in 1850, its Legislature grappled with how state and local governments would be structured. One decree was that counties, beginning with Los Angeles, would
This column is about the current dreadful state of the Democratic Party. But begin with this extraordinary fact: At this time eight years ago, in the first year of Donald
The final scene in Stanley Kubrick’s dark classic, “Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,” ends with Slim Pickens as Major “King” Kong, hooting
As a fellow Vietnam veteran, I completely agree with Rick Barker’s letter in the Sunday Signal (June 22): “A Vet’s Flag Opinion,” in which he states, “The American flag or
It was interesting to read Perry Smith’s front-page article in the June 20 edition of The Mighty Signal headlined, “City to discuss Newhall Gateway project.” It is proposed that a
First Democrats tried to make Donald Trump into Adolf Hitler, and America said, “Nah, he’s not so bad.” Next, they tried to make Joe Biden “sharp as a tack,” and