Signal Opinions and Editorials

12/23/2018

Our View: This week's editorial calls for a social media truce on Christmas Day:

By The Signal Editorial Board You’re probably familiar with the story of the Christmas Truce of 1914. It was just five months after the outbreak of World War I, the so-called War to End All Wars. Except,

12/17/2018

In case you missed it, here’s Our Sunday editorial about last week’s selection of Santa Clarita’s mayor for the coming year.

By The Signal Editorial Board This was not Santa Clarita’s finest hour. On Tuesday night, the City Council met, as it does each December, to celebrate the accomplishments of the past year, salute the outgoing mayor, and

12/14/2018

Today on the opinion page: John Boston explores the horrors of airline travel at the holidays.

Only a few of us will be lucky enough to make it through the holidays without a trip to the airport. A couple weeks back, I took a certain family member who doesn’t like her name

12/09/2018

Our View: Props to Supervisor Kathryn Barger for responding to the recent holiday traffic nightmare on I-5.

By The Signal Editorial Board There's a certain amount of common sense that you want to point out when people are surprised by holiday traffic. Take this past Thanksgiving, for example. The traffic that weekend was

11/29/2018

In today's opinion section, Steve Lunetta examines the lessons of World War I, Lynn Wright offers post-mortem commentary on the 25th Congressional District election, and we have a letter to the editor from Thomas Oatway.

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11/04/2018

Election/opinion page update: We've published approximately 50 letters to the editor this past week, virtually all of them election-related. https://signalscv.com/opinion/

08/26/2018

In the latest satire from John Boston, he imagines a dinner in Malibu with all five City Council members:

I had the strangest supper the other night. Five of my friends and I decided to take a business dinner over to Malibu at this beautiful new restaurant north of town on the cliffs overlooking

08/10/2018

So, this is happening:

I have questions about Mr. Crow Guy. For one thing, I don’t know if he’s a guy. Crow Guy could be Crow Girl, Crow Woman, Crow Lilliputian, or, in these libertine hepcat pre-apocalyptic times, a

07/18/2018

Lots of new letters to the editor lately, from both the left and the right. (Will the middle speak up soon?)

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07/17/2018

In this week's Democratic Voices column, Jonathan Kraut says the Trump administration's latest consumer fraud protection initiative is just window dressing on an existing, ineffective program.

A substantial portion of our work at my investigations firm is dedicated to aiding in the prosecution and recovery of funds lost due to fraud and financial crimes. We do this because government agencies typically do

07/13/2018

Steve Lunetta shares some advice from his mom in this week's column — and tackles the $15 minimum wage, too:

My Mom always said that if something was too good to be true, it generally was. She was trying to teach me that we all need a healthy level of skepticism to avoid being taken

07/12/2018

In this week's "Full Speed to Port," Gary Horton asks if we, as Americans, have collectively lost it.

This past July 7, Signal columnist Gwendolyn Sims penned a column titled, “Democrats Don’t Really Care About Kids.” Let that sink in for a moment. You mean, all those 30-odd years I worked away in the