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Thumbs up to sports pages improvements
Thank you for making continual, positive improvements in the sports section and staff at The Signal. The articles are becoming a more fair and balanced representation of what is really going on in local high school sports. Thanks and keep up the good work!
Tim Russert was one in a million
Tim Russert's sudden death is sad for his family, his friends, and his many colleagues, but it is us, the viewers, who should mourn this loss as well. So many knew he represented unbiased reporting of the issues, especially around election time, and we will now have to work harder to replace what we had come to rely on without question.
City manager responds to development issues
Growth and development have long been major issues for residents of the Santa Clarita Valley. In fact, these issues are key reasons why residents chose to incorporate in the 1980s. Cityhood in 1987 brought local home rule to the four communities of Saugus, Newhall, Valencia and Canyon Country. It enabled the new local government to retain millions every year in tax dollars, 100 percent of which are spent right here in Santa Clarita on roads, ...
Kopp should apologize to Tick Canyon residents
Gail Kopp owes me and the thousands of other residents of Tick Canyon an apology for referring to our community as "a dump" ("Park Place to be built in Tick Canyon," June 6, 2008). I assure you I have no discarded tires on my block.
Pining for the days of millionaires and moonshine
Have you noticed that our lifestyle is changing at a fast pace? Today's millionaires are nowhere near as well-off as yesterday's were. Today's millionaires are living in upscale-built homes, have a mortgage and drive themselves to work every day. They are looking forward to the day their wife retires so they can "get out of Dodge," and possibly buy a few acres of land so they can grow their own food and have a windmill ...
Forget Friday, bring back the Sunday TV guide
The Signal has always had the BEST TV guide weekly, and it was in the Sunday edition. For some reason, you changed it to Friday, and it stinks. Friday to Friday.
Planning for growth
Upon reading The Signal's recent article declaring city planners expect SCV's growth to expand to 500,000 people, I first thought, "Wow! How could our traffic infrastructure possibly handle that?"
Why not on Page 1?
I have a question which I think others in the Santa Clarita Valley may have regarding the "Newhall land files for bankruptcy" story on Page 3 of The Signal's print edition (June 9, 2008).
Cowboy clean-up
There's a cowboy in our neighborhood and he's cleaning up Soledad. Upon returning home from picking up my granddaughter at Sulphur Springs. I always see a cowboy picking up litter along Soledad Canyon Road. Wearing a cowboy hat and shirt, he's armed with a stick and garbage bag. He walks from our neighborhood, near Shadow Pines, up Soledad to Sand Canyon and back. The cowboy collects papers and trash along the way, filling a large ...
Growing up happy with two mothers
Mr. Beaumont stated in his letter ("Gay marriage ban a religious freedom issue," June 5, 2008) that he's voting yes in November to amend our state Constitution to define marriage as a union between a man and a woman.
A love poem for Father's Day
Our parents were married for 55 years on April 24, 2008. Our mother, Freda Gales, unexpectedly passed on March 20, 2008, laid to rest March 25. Our father, Claude, could not be without his wife and just as suddenly joined her, April 25. This is a tribute to their love and devotion. Dad heard Mom's faint calls today, It wasn't the first time he heard her say ... "Come be by my side, rejoice with ...
Building industry leads in water quality technology
Much has been made of the defeat of Assembly Bill 2046, which included a provision precluding water suppliers from relying on groundwater that did not meet applicable state standards when assessing their water supply.
Crime spiking near Highlands Elementary
Editor's note: The following letter was sent to The Signal and to Santa Clarita Mayor Bob Kellar. I would like to add my concerns to the growing list of homeowners who are greatly concerned with the drastic spike in criminal activity in the neighborhoods surrounding Highlands Elementary School.
Show no pity for those who gambled and lost
Why do we not hear about all of those who were speculators who purchased homes with the purpose of turning them around in two years to make a huge profit?
Kudos for preserving wilderness
As a long time resident of Santa Clarita, I was pleased to see that 13,700 acres of our local Magic Mountain and seven miles of wild and scenic Piru Creek were included in Congressman Buck McKeon's and Senator Barbara Boxer's wonderful bipartisan wilderness bill for the Eastern Sierra and Northern San Gabriel Mountains ("McKeon bill protects 42,000 acres," May 30, 2008). Not that I wasn't also excited that this bill will protect more than 430,000 ...
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Political nonsense
I quote a recent editorial contribution by a Santa Clarita City Council member: "Public participation is an essential way ... to influence the decision-making process."
Letters: Debate on climate change rages on
I read with interest the article on the effects of the Canada – U.S. pipeline and its relationship to climate change.
GOP, think about the jobs
Here is what gets me: The Republicans are always asking, where are the jobs? Well as of March 1, 2013, they are going to let thousands of people get laid off.
Older people and tolls?
The toll roads are great for the young people but how about us older ones that still like to get out and see things. ? How about making it free for older people?
An additional offense
Have you ever seen the Investigation Discovery shows such as "Solved", "Disappeared", or "Extreme Forensics"?
Letters: Texas job-poaching
I was upset hearing that Rick Perry traveled to California on a "job-poaching mission."
Letters: Obama not a socialist
In a Feb. 22 Letter to the Editor in The Signal, Brian Baker claims that President Obama is a "socialist."
Letters: What would Lincoln think?
The recent movie "Lincoln" was highly acclaimed in this year's Oscar-considerations.
Left and Right: the difference
A key difference between Left and Right is that when the Right transgresses the freedom of others, it violates its own tenets.
Fleeing business is big problem for California
Regarding Alice Khosravy's column "California is at bottom for business," (Feb. 22), Khosravy's excellent commentary was so clear and so factual citing a huge - if not t-h-e huge - problem that is at the core of California being on life support as a state, a once-thriving, enviable state.
Boy Scouts need to be accepting
The Boy Scouts of America need to allow gays into their organization because that is the moral imperative, if you will, toward "a more perfect union."
