
Pilar Schiavo | Looking Forward to the New Year
With two weeks remaining in 2024, it’s time to reflect upon our work and look forward to the coming year. We have done such great work together this year, so

With two weeks remaining in 2024, it’s time to reflect upon our work and look forward to the coming year. We have done such great work together this year, so

I am writing to express my jaw-dropping astonishment at the city of Santa Clarita’s decision to approve a lithium battery storage facility at 18358 Soledad Canyon Road. Bravo, city officials!

When the state Department of Education released academic test scores of California’s public school students in October, it cast them in positive terms. “Overall,” the department said, “the percentages of

By David Hegg It’s Christmastime, and even those with no religious connection to the celebration of Jesus’ birth would admit the season brings out particular joys in our society. You

Ironically, in this age of anti-bullying campaigns, the left is the biggest bully of them all. They have decided what views are acceptable and deride, silence, and excommunicate anyone who

I’m thinking of having a T-shirt produced for myself (and anyone else who might want one like it). On that T-shirt will be two sentences: “I didn’t vote for Trump

The news that Elon Musk, one of the most successful business people on the planet, is joining with Vivek Ramaswamy, another highly successful entrepreneur to head up the new Department

It’s time to wake up and pay attention to what’s going on over at our local elementary school district, the Saugus Union School District. Parents and teachers have been speaking

The biggest stories in the national media this week both came from the mad streets of New York. The manslaughter trial of Daniel Penny, the young man who accidentally killed

I am a complete knucklehead for attempting to share a physical impersonation in a poorly written text commentary. So. What else is new? One of my all-time favorite movie scenes

Regardless of what a lot of people think, customer service is not dead. To prove my point, just take a trip to any Chick-fil-A or In-N-Out restaurant. The kids who

This whole presidential pardon thing has gotten completely out of control. Article II, Section 2 of the Constitution, at the end of Part (1) simply states, “and he shall have

Gavin Newsom has just two years remaining of his governorship. As it winds down, he is stepping up efforts to build a national profile toward what many pundits assume will

In December 1995, as a graduate student studying communication-studies I was forced to remove the word “Christmas” from my holiday-decorated office at the college I was attending. Soon after, I

There’s nothing like a clear election victory to clear away a constitutional crisis. Or to set one in motion.The result: Jan. 6, 2025, will be a bore. But Jan. 20,

Joe Biden has 40 more days to serve as president. But anyone watching events in Paris over the weekend would think President-elect Donald Trump has already taken office. The president-elect

I am thoroughly confused by President Joe Biden’s pardon policy. In addition to pardoning his son Hunter, Biden is considering pardoning people who he claims have not committed any crimes,

As we try to bring light to issues in our communities, schools, businesses, or even the world, it’s almost always silenced by a higher power — particularly the people that

The following letter is a written version of public comments delivered at the Dec. 3 Santa Clarita Planning Commission meeting. The approval of the lithium battery storage facility in Canyon

Pundits and academics who have parsed the data of Donald Trump’s presidential victory differ on the fine points but generally agree it reflected voters’ widespread unhappiness with the status quo,