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David Hegg | Outrage Is Outrageous

By David Hegg Editor’s note: This column was originally published Feb. 23. If America were a pot of water, we would say we’re steaming, if not...

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Suzette Martinez Valladares | Clean Energy, Common Sense, Coexisting

My family and I just got back from a summer camping trip in our new-to-us RV. It was the kind of trip that reminds you why we live in California […]...

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Jim de Bree | On the Fed, Economics, Interest Rates

In the spring semester of 1972, I was a college sophomore who had just changed my major to accounting. As part of that change, I took my first...

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Gary Horton | The Cost of Regret, and the Power of Family First

I missed my mother’s last breath by two minutes …while I was trying to make a software sale. This was over 30 years ago. My mom was 69. Her body...

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Pilar Schiavo | Standing Up to Big Oil to Make Life More Affordable

Too many in our community are struggling to get by. As a commuter city, with people making long drives to work and back every day, one thing I hear...

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David Hegg | Tell Me What to Think

By David Hegg As we plunge deeper into the information culture, it is clear many want to do our thinking for us. Issues swirl around us, and each news...

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Jason Gibbs | Asking for Your Trust in the 27th District

Over the years, I have had the pleasure of writing columns that appear in The Signal, opining on local, state, and national events that are affecting...

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Jim de Bree | The Economics of Immigration Reform

One of the most divisive issues facing America is illegal immigration. The Trump Administration wants to deport those who reside here illegally, while...

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Gary Horton | The Silence That Costs Us Everything

Back in 1958, economist John Kenneth Galbraith warned that America’s greatest danger wasn’t poverty — it was abundance. Fueled by mass...

23.07.2025 3

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George Whitesides | Lowering Costs, Creating Jobs, Improving Safety

One of my top priorities as your representative in Congress is bringing federal funding home to the Santa Clarita Valley. That means lowering the cost...

22.07.2025 3

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David Hegg | Why Not Be the Best?

By David Hegg For a long time, it has been common to hear athletes motivate their teammates by exhorting them to “represent.” It is a call to be...

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Patrick Lee Gipson | While Newsom Campaigns, California Sinks

While Gov. Gavin Newsom floats dreams of a future presidential campaign, California is drowning — and he’s holding the hose. From rising crime to...

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Gary Horton | Just Give Me the Truth

I’ve had enough of reading things By neurotic, psychotic, pig-headed politicians All I want is the truth Just give me some truth – John...

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Jonathan Kraut | Reflecting on the Big, Blunderful Bill

On the day of his second inauguration, President Donald Trump signed an executive order creating the Department of Government Efficiency,...

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David Hegg | Help, I’m Drowning in Information

By David Hegg It has been said that we are presented with more new information every day than Jonathan Edwards, an 18th-century theologian and...

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Neil Fitzgerald | RHRN This Week: Lite Here, Lite Now

“She is uniquely qualified in her capacity as a lawyer to benefit our Planning Commission decisions. She is also involved in many local nonprofits...

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Gary Horton | California Corporatizes Senior Care

Landing at Burbank Airport always feels like stepping back in time. No jetways here — just a long ramp to the tarmac, painted lines and a gate built...

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Andrew Taban | Celebrating Independence as the Republic Burns

Another month has passed, and with it, the predictable chorus of complaints about Pride Month. Every June, like clockwork, we hear the same...

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David Hegg | Being Independent, Dependently

By David Hegg I love July 4 and all it stands for. I remember lying on my back in a massive park in Boise, Idaho, watching the magnificent fireworks...

06.07.2025 3

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Suzette Martinez Valladares | State’s $321B Will Cost You More Than You Think

Imagine sitting down to plan the family budget for the year. You set aside money for rent, food, transportation, health care and fun activities. ...

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Pilar Schiavo | Budget Wins That Put the Community First

Let’s be honest — this wasn’t an easy budget cycle. Uncertainty from the federal level, looming cuts and divisive rhetoric cast a long shadow....

01.07.2025 3

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David Hegg | In Pursuit of Joy

By David Hegg The great American pastime is no longer baseball, or for that matter, anything even remotely related to sport. No, it is much more...

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Gary Horton | Dr. Strangelove Still Rides the Atomic Bomb

The final scene in Stanley Kubrick’s dark classic, “Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,” ends with Slim...

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Jonathan Kraut | Trump, Xi Share Same 6 Failures

A criticism of the communist system includes that modern communist regimes are all about diminishing freedoms and squelching any opposition in order...

24.06.2025 8

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George Whitesides | Celebrating, Supporting Local Students

Every June, as caps fly and diplomas are handed out, our community takes a moment to reflect on the accomplishments of its students and the journeys...

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David Hegg | Don’t Use What You Don’t Believe

By David Hegg I rarely use this column to advance purely religious or theological ideals. And while this one may look religious, it is really all...

22.06.2025 10

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Patrick Lee Gipson | Left Behind at the Pump, and in the Dark

In a dusty western California town, beneath a punishing 120-degree sun, a woman walks alone. Her car ran out of gas blocks ago. She clutches an empty...

21.06.2025 9

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Jonathan Hatami | We Need Real Leadership on Immigration

As a prosecutor, I really have zero ability to affect, change or control immigration policies. That is controlled by Congress, and because we are a...

21.06.2025 2

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Jim de Bree | My Sojourn to Downtown Los Angeles

On Wednesday, June 11, I attended a not-for-profit board meeting downtown in a building on Alameda Street near Union. This is near where the Waymo...

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Gary Horton | Father’s Day, and a Father I Never Got to Know

Happy Post-Father’s Day. One thing’s true: we all have fathers — good, bad, absent, or trying their best. We didn’t get to pick ours....

18.06.2025 3

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David Hegg | The Ethics of Commitment

By David Hegg I recently watched the systematic dissolution of several married couples. All of them were good people and there was no infidelity on...

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Jonathan Hatami | Why ‘Sanctuary’ Approach Is Misplaced

Let’s start off by saying: In no world is arson, taking over freeways, assaulting law enforcement, throwing rocks and Molotov cocktails at police...

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Neil Fitzgerald | California’s Deluded Sense of Progress

The recent actions by the federal government for immigration enforcement in Los Angeles have provoked an appalling reaction from hardline criminal...

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David Hegg | What Consciousness Tells Us

By David Hegg The straightforward assertions of Thomas Nagel, a tenured university professor of philosophy and law at New York University, in his book...

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Suzette Martinez Valladares | Legislators Are All Talk on Affordability

California is quickly becoming a place where only the wealthy can afford to live. And in Southern California, we feel it every single day. Between...

07.06.2025 3

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Gary Horton | COC Foundation: Transforming Lives Via Local Giving

This past Thursday, College of the Canyons held its annual Scholarship Awards Celebration. The entry lobby of the Dr. Dianne Van Hook University...

04.06.2025 2

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Andrew Taban | Finding Words in a World Gone Mad

I find myself staring at a blank page, wrestling with an unusual case of writer’s block. Perhaps it’s the relentless chaos of this administration,...

03.06.2025 7

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David Hegg | Ethical One-Anothering

By David Hegg Except for those striving to live “off the grid” in the backwoods, we all live in community with at least hundreds of other humans....

01.06.2025 8

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Maria Gutzeit | The Most Important Bike Conversation

We’re wrapping up National Bike Month. What’s been in the news here in Santa Clarita? Heated debate about the plastic-paddle protected bike lane...

29.05.2025 3

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Jim de Bree | America’s Taxing Issue: Shrinking IRS

Over the past few months, I have concluded that the IRS is clearly imploding. Since biblical times, tax collectors have been hated, so that built-in...

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Pilar Schiavo | Supporting Victims of Crime

As a survivor myself, and someone who has made protecting victims of crime a focus of my legislation and work in the Assembly, it has been...

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David Hegg | What Do We Memorialize?

By David Hegg On this Memorial Weekend, we intentionally set aside critical time for sincere reflection to “memorialize” those who gave their...

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Steve Cassulo | An Update from Chiquita Canyon

For over 50 years, Chiquita Canyon Landfill has been a cornerstone of Santa Clarita Valley’s infrastructure, responsibly managing the region’s...

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Jim de Bree | Making Sense of Tax Legislation

On May 12, the House Ways and Means Committee released its recommended tax provisions to be included in the budget reconciliation bill that Congress...

22.05.2025 2

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Gary Horton | Today’s Change Needs Leaders, Not Cosplay

Last week, Microsoft laid off 6,000 workers — most of them coders. That followed last year’s layoff of 10,000 more. Meta, Oracle, Amazon, Google...

21.05.2025 3

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Pilar Schiavo | Clarity for the Reactionary

Let’s be crystal clear. I just voted yes on Assembly Bill 379, along with 18 Republicans, to create a new felony that protects 16- and 17-year-olds...

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George Whitesides | Honoring National Police Week

Each May, during National Police Week, we come together as a country to honor the courage and sacrifice of the men and women in law enforcement. This...

20.05.2025 3

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Jonathan Hatami | A Failing Grade on a Test of Courage

The Signal editorial board published an editorial in the newspaper Saturday, May 10. It was justly critical of the shameful display by our...

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Jason Gibbs | Is the Bizarro Code Taking Over Politics?

Do you remember “Bizarro World,” the fictional planet first published by DC Comics in the 1960s? Also know as Hrtae (“Earth” spelled...

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David Hegg | Hard Things Build Strong Character

By David Hegg As a young boy, my dad taught me not to choose the easy path in life. He was a firm believer that anything worth doing would demand...

15.05.2025 2

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