Archive By Author - Signal Staff
Oscar Dominguez: How to determine if you can afford a home
In today's challenging economic climate, it is all the more important for Santa Clarita Valley residents considering the purchase of a home to determine the price range they can afford prior to their search.
Illogical answers
Regarding Peter Kavounas' opinion column, "Got questions about water rates? Logical answers await," Aug. 2:
Reader Meter results, Aug. 7-14, 2009
Here are the results of The-Signal.com's latest Reader Meter poll. The-Signal.com visitors cast a total of 329 votes from late afternoon Friday, Aug. 7 to late afternoon Friday, Aug. 14, 2009. Question: "Should high school and junior college athletes be tested for performance-enhancing drugs?" * Yes, mandatory (252 votes) * Yes, voluntary (18 votes) * Only during school year (15 votes) * No way (44 votes) Click here to vote in The-Signal.com's current Reader ...
McKeon to host health care town hall phoner tonight at 7
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Rep. Howard P. "Buck" McKeon (R-CA) is set to host a health care tele-town hall on Monday, Aug. 17 at 7 p.m. PT for constituents of the 25th Congressional District of California to discuss current proposals being debated in Congress to reform the nation's health care system. Fellow Member of Congress, Dr. Tom Price (R-GA), will also be a participant in the tele-town hall and available to serve as a medical resource ...
College of the Canyons auditions
The College of the Canyons Theatre Department is holding auditions for five of next season's biggest productions, which include Broadway, Shakespeare and a variety of other genres.
SCV's Most Talented
D.E.E. Studio Productions Performing Arts Academy is hosting a talent search for Santa Clarita's "Most Talented Performer." The contest is open to vocalists, musicians and actors. There are four age categories: 5 to 8, 9 to 12, 13 to 17 and 18 and up (including seniors). This year's Grand Prize includes: a $2,000 cash award and a recording session valued at $1,000 (for a winner who is a vocalist or musician) or a screen test ...
24 Hour Theatre at REP Sunday
Twenty Four Hour Theatre kicks off at the Repertory East Playhouse in Newhall this Sunday, Aug. 16, at 8 p.m. Contrary to what the name might indicate, this is a roughly hour-long show of short comedic plays. The actors and directors are given their scripts the night before the show, and they have 24 hours to prepare. The theme for the scripts is "You've found it," which should provide a great opportunity for laughs.
'Beyond Therapy' opens at the REP tonight
The Repertory East Playhouse will continue its 81 Series on Friday, Aug. 14, at 8 p.m. with the critically acclaimed comedy, "Beyond Therapy" by Christopher Durang. The opening night wine reception begins at 7 p.m. with the curtain at 8 p.m.
Video Game Review: 'Wii Sports Resort'
How do you create a sequel to a product that changed the way people think about video games? In November 2006, "Wii Sports" - the software that's packaged with Nintendo's Wii - introduced the U.S. audience to a new way to play. It served as a perfect demonstration of the new console, putting the Wii's motion-sensing controls at the service of familiar pastimes like golf and tennis. And it was so easy to pick up ...
Two Women on Wine: Wine country trips
We just returned from five great days in the Napa-Sonoma wine country. If you have a trip planned or are even thinking about it sometime down the road, we'd like to offer a few suggestions to enhance your experience.
Review: 'District 9'
I suppose there's no reason the first alien race to reach Earth shouldn't look like what the cat threw up. After all, they love to eat cat food. The alien beings in "District 9," nicknamed "prawns" because they look like a cross between lobsters and grasshoppers, arrive in a spaceship that hovers over Johannesburg. Found inside, huddled together and starving to death, are the aliens, who benefit from a humanitarian impulse to relocate them to ...
Review: 'The Time Traveler's Wife'
Clare is in love with a man who frequently disappears into thin air, leaving behind his clothing in a pile on the floor. "It can be a problem," he observes. Henry is a time traveler, and his trips are out of his control. Another problem is that whenever he arrives at another time, or even returns to the present (whenever that may be for him), he is naked. Well, that makes sense. You wouldn't expect his clothes to travel.
Staples hosts giveaway for teachers
Staples is hosting its annual Teacher Appreciation Day from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday for Santa Clarita-area educators. The first 100 teachers will receive an EcoEasy bag of supplies such as notepads and writing tools to assist them with supplies they need for their classrooms.
COC to host nonprofit fair Sept. 16
College of the Canyons will host the second annual nonprofit fair from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sept. 16, bringing together more than 25 nonprofit groups and organizations to reach out to students and community members and explain how they can help further their nonprofit causes.
Election brings two more candidates for Castaic
Two more candidates are in the race for three seats on the Castaic Union School District board.
Articles By Author - Signal Staff
IRS supervisor in DC scrutinized tea party cases
WASHINGTON (AP) - An Internal Revenue Service supervisor in Washington says she was personally involved in scrutinizing some of the earliest applications from tea party groups seeking tax-exempt status, including some requests that languished for more than a year without action.
Steady rain falls as crews work against Colo. fire
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - With evacuees anxious to return, firefighters worked Sunday to dig up and extinguish hot spots to protect homes spared by the most destructive wildfire in Colorado's history.
Kathryn Lopez: Semantic gymnastics rationalize abortion
t a recent Thursday-morning press conference, House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi was asked to explain the moral difference between the 20-week-old babies whom Dr. Kermit Gosnell killed in his Philadelphia clinic and the unborn children that legislation sponsored by Arizona Republican Rep. Trent Franks would help protect.
Rick Jensen: Democrats are OK with Obama spying
Liberals are slurping at a new yet familiar theme trough: Republicans are hypocrites because they're against NSA surveillance now but were all for it during the Bush administration.
Steve and Cokie Roberts: Out of their minds
Have these men lost their minds?"
Santa Clarita Valley Young Marines bid farewell to three graduates
Standing at attention, Master Sgt. David Stratton of the Young Marines fought a smile of pride and shook his father's hand as he graduated from the Santa Clarita Valley unit of the national coed organization.
Dodgers stumped by former Bruin Gerrit Cole
PITTSBURGH (AP) - Gerrit Cole is off to a perfect start in the major leagues. The rookie, however, feels he has been far from perfect.
UCLA baseball wins first game of College World Series
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) - Adam Plutko and two relievers limited LSU to five hits, and UCLA turned both of the Tigers' errors into runs in a tense 2-1 victory at the College World Series on Sunday night.
Manu Ginobili sparks Spurs to Game 5 win
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - With the old Manu Ginobili back, the San Antonio Spurs looked like champs again.
North Korea changes tack and tells US: Let's talk
PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) - After months of threatening to wage a nuclear war, North Korea did an about-face Sunday and issued a surprise proposal to the United States, its No. 1 enemy: Let's talk.
Putin says Super Bowl ring was gift
LONDON (AP) - Russian President Vladimir Putin is denying insinuations that he stole New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft's Super Bowl ring that's on display in the Kremlin, but says he's ready to buy him another ring as a gift.
Rose breaks 43-year England drought, wins US Open
ARDMORE, Pa. (AP) - Fly the Cross of St. George next to those red wicker baskets. The U.S. Open has an English champion for the first time in 43 years.
UPDATE: Brush fire near Paradise Ranch Mobile Home Park extinguished
Firefighters knocked down a brush fire near the Paradise Ranch Mobile Home Park in less than two hours Sunday afternoon thanks to a swift cooperative effort between two local fire agencies, a fire station captain said.
Officials: NSA programs broke plots in 20 nations
WASHINGTON (AP) - Top U.S. intelligence officials said Saturday that information gleaned from two controversial data-collection programs run by the National Security Agency thwarted potential terrorist plots in the U.S. and more than 20 other countries - and that gathered data is destroyed every five years.
Solar-powered plane lands near Washington
WASHINGTON (AP) - A solar-powered plane nearing the close of a cross-continental journey landed at Dulles International Airport outside the nation's capital early Sunday, only one short leg to New York remaining on a voyage that opened in May.
