Archive By Author - Signal Staff
Reform health care now
I want to see health care for all Americans because I am one of 15 siblings. My father died of both brain and lung cancer when I was only 12 years old. This devastated my family leaving my mother to take care of the family. I also had a brother who passed away two years ago from heart disease. Lack of health care has hurt so many families and caused financial ruin. I find that ...
Bob Werner: Vakay’s Gitmo: Just some more right-wing fear-
Lynn Vakay's "It's all about Gitmo, stupid" opinion column (The Signal, June 18) calls for a direct response.
Not the way to go
I fail to comprehend our state legislators who feel that California's budgetary problems can be solved solely by cutbacks.
Oscar Dominguez: How new credit-card rules will affect everyone
Effective February 1, 2010, Santa Clarita Valley residents will be among the millions of credit-card users nationwide to experience extensive credit-card reforms featured in the Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility, and Disclosure (CARD) Act of 2009, recently signed into law by President Barack Obama.
Customer service alive and well
In the last year, I have become more selective about the restaurants I frequent. I obviously want to get the most for my money. Yesterday, I chose our local Elephant Bar for a birthday lunch with friends. Unfortunately it didn't start out well and then just when we were thinking that we had wasted our hard-earned money, Christina (the assistant manager) and James (the general manager) saved the day. They truly went above and beyond ...
Leave the logo alone
I was very disappointed to read the article about the city logo and the addition of "In God We Trust" that will be forthcoming.
Church celebrates 118th birthday
More than 90 members of the First Presbyterian Church celebrated 118 years of worship and community last Sunday at William S. Hart Park in Newhall.
The Signal.com's Daybreak: June 20, 2009
Hello, Santa Clarita Valley! Welcome to The-Signal.com's Daybreak, your point of entry for the day, and a quick journey through the past, present and future. Let the adventure begin:
Father’s Day: Dads and doughnuts
Santa Clarita Little People Day Care and Preschool held a Dads and Doughnut Fathers's Day event.
UPDATED: Suspected car thief eludes deputies
Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station deputies have ended their search of the area around Sand Canyon and Lost Canyon Roads in Canyon Country for a suspected car thief without finding the suspect, according to authorities.
Reader Meter results, June 12-19, 2009
Here are the results of The-Signal.com's latest Reader Meter poll. The-Signal.com visitors cast a total of 316 votes from late afternoon Friday, June 12 to mid-afternoon Friday, June 19, 2009.
Two Women on Wine: Enjoy a festival of summer wines
Summer is right around the corner and we couldn't be happier. We've dusted off the patio furniture and are ready for candlelit patio dinners with family and friends on balmy nights. Our grill goes into overtime during the summer. We cook just about everything on the grill, from chicken or fish kabobs to steak and baby-back ribs, vegetables, hamburgers and hot dogs.
‘Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead’ at the Tre Stage Theatre in Hollywood
Five SCV residents appear in "Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead," which opens at the Tre Stage Theatre in Hollywood on June 27, and continues on July 4, 11, 18 and 25. Written by Bert V. Royal, the "unauthorized parody" of the famous "Peanuts" comic strip takes a look at the gang in their high school years.
Video games: 'Ghost Busters'
Movie comedies rarely lead to funny sequels. Take "Ghostbusters," whose blockbuster success in 1984 led to "Ghostbusters II" five years later. Critics, fans and, reportedly, some of the cast, felt let down by the result.
Video games: Wii MotionPlus
The Wiimote - the motion-sensing wand that controls the action on Nintendo's Wii - serves many purposes. It doubles as a sword, a gun, a racket, a steering wheel or whatever else a game designer might dream up.
Articles By Author - Signal Staff
Diving great Greg Louganis to marry in fall
NEW YORK (AP) - Former Olympic diving champion Greg Louganis plans to get married this fall.
Ed Koch's tombstone engraved with wrong birth date
NEW YORK (AP) - Former New York City Mayor Ed Koch meticulously planned his own funeral, but his tombstone has the wrong birth date.
House takes up far-reaching anti-abortion bill
WASHINGTON (AP) - House Republicans on Tuesday make their most concerted effort of the year to change federal abortion law with legislation that would ban almost all abortions after a fetus reaches the age of 20 weeks.
Chrysler expected to formally refuse Jeep recall
DETROIT (AP) - In one of the biggest-ever showdowns between an automaker and the government, Chrysler on Tuesday is expected to file papers explaining its refusal to recall 2.7 million older Jeep SUVs that are at risk of catching fire in rear-end collisions.
Arrests: Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station, June 18, 2013
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Military leaders plan for women in combat
WASHINGTON (AP) - Military leaders are ready to begin tearing down the remaining walls that have prevented women from holding thousands of combat and special operations jobs near the front lines.
LA council to vote on banning plastic bags
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles may be joining the battle against the bag.
Port of LA unveils plan for marine research center
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Los Angeles port officials on Monday unveiled plans to create a $500 million marine research center called AltaSea.
Bieber's car hits photographer
LOS ANGELES (AP) - Video shows Justin Bieber running into a photographer with his white Ferrari in Hollywood, but police say there was no crime and the injuries aren't life-threatening.
Serial murder suspect delivers opening remarks
SAN RAFAEL (AP) - Serial murder suspect Joseph Naso delivered an hours-long personal history Monday replete with childhood photos, as he launched his defense, denied the decades-old slayings of four women and claimed he is not the "monster" prosecutors have made him out to be.
Obama: NSA secret data gathering 'transparent'
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama defended top secret National Security Agency spying programs as legal in a lengthy interview Monday, and called them transparent - even though they are authorized in secret.
N. Calif. wildfire brings evacuation of 150 homes
MARIPOSA (AP) - A wind-whipped wildfire near the main route into Yosemite National Park in the Sierra foothills forced the evacuation of at least 150 houses Monday and was threatening more, state fire officials said.
Will Durst: Your ever-vigilant friends at the NSA
Dear U.S. Citizen,
Charlie Vignola: Giving up freedom and privacy for security
Two weeks have gone by since Edward Snowden, a 29-year-old computer tech working as an NSA contractor, leaked information about classified government information to the press, effectively exposing top secret programs designed to combat terrorism and save American lives.
John Rosemond: Living with Children
If my parents told me once, they told me at least one hundred times, "Don't talk to anyone about their religious or political beliefs." They meant, of course, that those topics are likely to generate tension and angry conflict. As such, they were not the stuff of polite social conversation. Notwithstanding the fact that I find religion and politics to be the two most interesting of all conversational topics, a third caution should be added ...
