Signal Opinions and Editorials

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

Our View | Christmas Truce: A Call for Social Media Peace 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,

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

Our View | Mayoral Debacle: Lessons to Learn, Hatchets to Bury 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

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

John Boston | Anyone Speak Mumbled Airline Trout Mouth? 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

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

Our View | Barger Takes Steps to Stop the 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

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

John Boston | Breastfeeding & My Dinner with City Hall 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

So, this is happening:

John Boston | Ask Not For Whom the Crow Caws… 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

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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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.

Jonathan Kraut | Fed Fraud on Fraud Prevention 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

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

Steve Lunetta | My Mom Was Right: We All Need Skepticism 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

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

Gary Horton | Have Americans Lost Our Minds? 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