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Letters to the Editor

Rick Barker | Back in the Bottle

Nowadays I often wonder just how in the world people pre-social media ever found a way to communicate with each other in either good or bad ways. Watch the news

Dan Walters

Dan Walters | Who Benefits from Swalwell’s Exit

Sunday afternoon, during the television broadcast of a San Francisco Giants-Baltimore Orioles baseball game, an ad popped up, accusing Rep. Eric Swalwell of ducking tough votes in Congress. The ad

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Arthur Saginian | One Important Word

Jonathan Kraut, regarding your column (Feb. 24), please read the Constitution of the United States of America, namely the first sentence of the Preamble. “We the People of the United

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John Shaffery | Patterson Will Be Missed

The recent news of Rick Patterson’s passing and tributes written about him reminded me how fortunate I was to meet Rick when starting our law practice in Santa Clarita in

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Steve LePore | Stand for Your Values

Santa Clarita Valley mini-megachurch leaders, I’ll ask again: When will you trade allegiance to a man and to political power, and return to the virtues of the gospel you proclaim

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Rob Kerchner | Never Again

What protects you from 51% of your neighbors democratically voting away your rights? A republic, as Ben Franklin said, if you can keep it. Because as we saw with COVID,

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Margaret Elias | A Good Idea That Needs Work

As a parent, I appreciated Assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo’s recent column (“Growing Up Digitally Addicted: Why Our Kids Need Protection, “April 7) highlighting the very real harms of social media addiction

Dan Walters

Dan Walters | Dueling Props Will Spur Confusion

When California voters approved Proposition 13 in 1978, they forced a massive change in how government services are financed that continues to reverberate nearly a half-century later. Prop. 13’s limits

David Hegg, "Ethically Speaking"

David Hegg | Why We Disagree, Persistently

By David Hegg Only those playing with a closed mind and closed history book have trouble understanding why Americans are sharply divided over moral issues. At the risk of offending

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Philip Wasserman | A Cultural Shift

Walking into a record store in Studio City with my wife, Kelly, I realized I could not remember the last time I played a vinyl album. Even CDs have given

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James Kennedy | Is There a ‘Housing Crisis’?

Many candidates for California governor say the state faces a “housing crisis” and that they can solve it. Over the past 15 years, Democratic governors and Legislatures have promised similar

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Larry Moore | Truth and the Olympics

Lois Eisenberg (letters, March 11) ends her 1,675th diatribe against President Donald Trump by quoting, “the truth will set you free.” Lois, as Jack Nicholson told Tom Cruise in “A

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Mihran Kalaydjian | Gridlock by Design

Santa Clarita has long been seen as an alternative to Los Angeles, a place where families could live without the daily gridlock that defines life over the hill. But that