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Jim de Bree | Taxes After the Election

For several years, tax practitioners knew that tax planning in the year 2025 would be exceptionally challenging for individual taxpayers and...

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Clair Bennett | Trump Triumphed Due to Left’s Overreach

President Joe Biden has upheld his promise of a peaceful transfer of power. However, the same cannot be said for some Santa Clarita Valley...

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Mia Tretta | Could AI Have Stopped Me from Being Shot?

Gun violence has become an alarming trend among America’s youth, tragically emerging as the leading cause of death for children and teens in this...

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Gary Horton | We’re Three Meals Away from Chaos

Vladimir Lenin is famously credited with the stark observation, “Every society is three meals away from chaos.” He’s speaking both of food, but...

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Pilar Schiavo | Bright Spots This Thanksgiving Season

Next week is Thanksgiving. During this time, I like to reflect on the year we’ve had and all of the things that make me so incredibly grateful. And...

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David Hegg | Opinions, Beliefs, Behavior

By David Hegg Let me state up front that what you are reading is an opinion column. In the news business, this is often called an “op-ed,” short...

17.11.2024 7

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David Hegg | Civility Matters

By David Hegg As I write this I am thinking back on a flight from Dallas back home to Los Angeles. And, due to the obnoxious fellow sitting beside me,...

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Neil Fitzgerald | A Message Calling for National Unity

November is not only election month; it is also the month when we salute our veterans and thank them for their service, and the month of Thanksgiving...

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Gary Horton | It Ain’t Over Until It’s Over, but Thankfully It’s Over

I’ve enjoyed my Wednesday spot on The Signal’s opinion page for 18 years now. And, being on Wednesdays, the day after Election Day for every...

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David Hegg | Toward an Ethical Patriotism

By David Hegg The past decade has been littered with changing views on patriotism. For some, it remains a devotion to love, support, and defend...

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Jim de Bree | The Challenge of the Next Presidency

The next president may face the most challenging term of office since the Civil War. Societal changes, economic challenges, geopolitical forces and...

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Gary Horton | Political Leaders Finally Trash Chiquita Landfill

It’s not often one attends a community meeting guarded by 20-25 peace officers. But this was exactly the setting at the Chiquita Canyon Landfill...

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Jonathan Kraut | Reducing the Cost of Housing Is a Mixed Bag

A hot-button issue for our local government, when thinking of the “homeless” crisis, and discussed by both primary presidential candidates, is the...

29.10.2024 4

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David Hegg | Why This Is All Happening

By David Hegg In his 11-volume, “The Story of Civilization,” philosopher and historian Will Durant offered the simple yet profound observation...

28.10.2024 4

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Gary Horton | Landfill Crisis Demands Strong Leadership

Most Santa Clarita Valley folks have a hunch that something’s going wrong “over there, off the 126.” And people living “over there” by the...

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Jim de Bree | Sifting Through the Legalese of Propositions

I recently presented several non-partisan discussions explaining the propositions on the November ballot. Until those presentations were completed, I...

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David Hegg | Foundations of Democracy

By David Hegg I continue to be stunned at how rapidly moral fractures occur in our precious democracy. In the past few years, we have seen...

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Lisa Lavadores | The ‘Hat of Unity’ Photo Kerfuffle at the White House

The photo in question is of President Joe Biden wearing a Donald Trump hat on this year’s anniversary of 9/11. The White House later stated that...

17.10.2024 4

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Gary Horton | Fitting Tribute to a Pillar of the Community

I attended Dr. Dianne Van Hook’s career tribute this past Sunday afternoon. Much has been written about Van Hook’s departure from College of the...

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David Hegg | Be Election Ready

By David Hegg With just over three weeks until the election in November, it’s time to talk about voting choices. No, I won’t be endorsing...

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Neil Fitzgerald | Glossing Over an Appalling Record

Next month you have a choice in which you, not the politicians, not the media, get to decide the future of America. It is clear that we have one...

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John Boston | Naked Turtles. Or, Why I Had to Cancel Netflix.

I’ve been meaning to cancel Netflix for the longest time. Finally did this week. There was a jumbo $28 popcorn tub of reasons. First, top of the...

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Rabbi Mark Blazer | Confronting Reality Upon a New Year

It is customary at this time of year to offer each other the warm and hopeful greeting, “Shanah Tovah,” wishing everyone a good and sweet new...

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Jim de Bree | Recent Dock Strike Foreshadows Issues for Next President

The first week of October saw a brief, but consequential, strike by East Coast dockworkers that was seemingly settled after a few days. However, if we...

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David Hegg | How to Ruin Your Life

By David Hegg In my world of evangelical church ministry, we recently suffered a substantial spiritual earthquake. A man nationally and...

06.10.2024 8

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Suzette Martinez Valladares | It’s California, But It’s Not Impossible

California, the Golden State, where dreams are meant to come true, has become a nightmare for too many families. The cost of living is out of control,...

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Gary Horton | Party Aside: Valladares for State Senate

The choice comes down to who’s honest, who’s local, who relates, and who has the required experience and connections.  If we throw away party...

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Jonathan Kraut | Recommending ‘No’ Votes on Most of the Props

Part 2 of 2 While reviewing Propositions 32, 33, 34 and 35, these proposals in this upcoming election generally revolve around the state...

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David Hegg | Our Addiction to Extraordinary

By David Hegg It is increasingly apparent that what makes for a good news day and a good life are polar opposites. As a nation, I greatly fear we are...

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Jason Gibbs | It’s Election Season. Ready for a Barrage?

Ladies and gentlemen (is that still appropriate to say?), it is election season! Candidates at all levels of government vying to be your...

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Jim de Bree | Troubling Agenda to Reform Health Care System

During a recent interview on “Meet the Press,” Republican vice presidential candidate J.D. Vance set forth a brief, but troubling, agenda for...

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Gary Horton | Only You Can Prevent COC Dumpster Fires

Attentive readers know four College of the Canyons trustees recently engineered an insurrection against COC leadership, subsequently injecting...

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Pilar Schiavo | Reminders That Our Kids Deserve Safety at School

This is my last column before we face the five-year anniversary of the Saugus High School shooting in November. For parents, school shootings are our...

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David Hegg | At What Point?

By David Hegg Recently, I had an engaging afternoon conversation with a young businesswoman who had just returned home after a successful managerial...

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Mike Garcia | Protecting Social Security, Medicare

I have long maintained that when Americans sit down and get together to talk, we end up agreeing on 70% of the issues. Without polarization from...

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Gary Horton | Donald Trump, Pet Protector

Readers may remember the iconic Jim Carrey movie, “Ace Ventura, Pet Detective.” Funny because of its outlandishness, aspects of that movie...

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David Hegg | Who Me Change?

By David Hegg Given the fast-paced technological world we live in, it is common to hear how many people hate change. Leaders are cautioned to go...

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Neil Fitzgerald | COC Is at a Treacherous Crossroads

When I first moved to the Santa Clarita Valley in 2012, I quickly felt at home with the community feel, the sense of service and people being so...

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John Boston | The Inmates Are Running the Asylum at COC

Eons ago lived a giant of a man, six cubits and a teddy bear head in stature. Tom Neuner was a local political influencer, troublemaker and bottomless...

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Mike Garcia | Honoring Our Commitment to Veterans, 1st Responders

On the morning of Sept. 11, 2001, I watched the attack against our nation unfold alongside all other Americans with a mixture of horror, grief and...

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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...

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Suzette Martinez Valladares | ‘Hell No’ to Ignoring Victims’ Rights

According to the California Department of Public Health, one in six homicides are due to domestic violence. Last year in Santa Clarita alone, the...

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Gary Horton | Who Cares If You’re Excited? Just Stop It

I’m so excited, and I just can’t hide it  I’m about to lose control, and I think I like it  I’m so excited, and I just can’t hide it  And...

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Jonathan Kraut | A Look at the November Propositions

Part 1 of 2 While our attention has been drawn toward national politics, 10 state propositions will be on the ballot this November. It would be wise...

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David Hegg | The Privilege of Repentance

By David Hegg Remember when you were a child and acted disrespectfully to your Grammy? Remember when you stole that packet of gum from the corner...

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Scott Wilk | Progressives’ Public Safety Flip-Flop

Have you ever dealt with someone who just can’t admit when they’re wrong? And even when they’re clearly proven wrong, they gaslight and twist...

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Cher Gilmore | Food Waste Recycling Benefits Planet

If you’ve been paying attention to scientific reports, international news, or even our local weather patterns, you know that we have a serious...

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Gary Horton | A Reminder: The People Make Us Great

Our company had our annual “Dodger Night” last Friday. I’m sorry I missed it because something uniquely special happened in baseball during that...

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Maria Gutzeit | Why We Will Still Need the Human Factor

The William S. Hart Union High School District’s College and Career Fair and the Valley Industry Association’s Connecting to Success are both...

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David Hegg | On Societal Conscience

By David Hegg Several events around the nation have led pundits and observers alike to label specific actions “unconscionable.” The word defines...

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