David Hegg

David Hegg | Now, About Health Care

By David Hegg I imagine we’re all caught up in the great adventure of health care. We all need it, and it seems everywhere someone is telling me the price of staying healthy is increasing. We all have faced the horror of losing a job and realizing health care plans for the unemployed or underemployed take a lot of cash and

Letters to the Editor

Nancy Fairbanks | Newfound Support for Police?

On Assemblywoman Pilar Schiavo’s website, she expresses her support of law enforcement with Assembly Bill 2943. She writes “enhancing the ability of law enforcement to respond effectively to these crimes.”

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Rob Kerchner | Congratulations on Your Pay Cut

Since January 2021, the cumulative rate of inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index, a figure calculated by the federal government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, stands at 19.4%. On

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Deadline Set for Election Letters: Sept. 21

The Signal will publish letters and columns related to local elections through Oct. 5, one month before Election Day. The deadline to submit any letters to the editor about local

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Larry Moore | Reflections on DNC, Night 2

The following letter was written after the second night of the Democratic National Convention. Just when you thought the DNC could not sink lower, night two gave us a new

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Thomas Oatway | Trump Behaving Disrespectfully

Recently a video emerged where Donald Trump had some things to say about the Medal of Freedom awarded to civilians, and the Medal of Honor given to military personnel for

Dan Walters

Dan Walters | $20 Billion Later on Homelessness …

California has allocated more than $20 billion to alleviate the state’s homelessness crisis since Gavin Newsom became governor in 2019, but there’s precious little data on how the money was

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Diana Watkins | COC Board Needs Support

Ms. Sue Bozman (letters, Aug. 31) is right in asserting that a college or any institution cannot depend on just one person to achieve success. The storied reign of Dianne

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Michael Weinstein | Ban the Rent Control Ban

In his recent column about rent control (Aug. 22), Jim de Bree is right about the need for new housing construction in California. But increasing the housing supply and expanding

Byron York

Byron York | Harris, Trump and Arlington Cemetery

It looks like the fight between the Harris and Trump campaigns over Donald Trump’s appearance at Arlington National Cemetery is intensifying, not diminishing.  Kamala Harris herself posted a statement on

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Lou DAlessandro | An Extreme Risk We Can’t Afford

Sacramento politicians don’t get the financial pressure we’re all under because they don’t know what life is like for the average American. Rep. Mike Garcia does. Mike has been fighting

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Lois Eisenberg | The Return of Joy

To Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz, thank you for bringing back the “joy” and “hope” in this dismal 2024 presidential campaign until you showed up. Since President