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We can do better in helping shelter

If there was ever any doubt that there is a long way to go before the Santa Clarita Valley has a homeless shelter offering full services and amenities, a tour

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Our View: Rate hikes poor way to launch water agency

With little fanfare, California Gov. Jerry Brown last weekend changed the course of Santa Clarita Valley water history by signing Senate Bill 634, creating a single valleywide water district with

Our View: Fireworks crackdown long overdue

It’s grimly ironic that the Santa Clarita City Council voted Tuesday evening to put teeth into the city’s anti-fireworks ordinance. It was just one evening after a wildfire ran rampant

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Our View: Newhall Ranch agreement a job well done

It was both a surprise and a forehead-slapping big “duh” when the owner of Newhall Ranch and a coalition of environmental groups announced a joint agreement allowing construction to move

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Step in the right direction

We are pleased this weekend to pause and congratulate both the city of Santa Clarita and the nonprofit Bridge to Home for resolving a big gap in Santa Clarita Valley

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Our View: City needs to tighten ethics rules

Santa Clarita City Councilman Bill Miranda did something recently as a public official that is truly mind-boggling. In the latest issue of a local magazine, an advertisement from a local

Learning from generous role models

We simply cannot allow another week to pass without joining our voices with another appreciative agency saying “thank you” to a couple of community benefactors who delight in quietly helping

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Memorial a triumph of SCV unity

We are pleased to pause as the summer of 2017 winds to a close to mark a community victory achieved through unity this week in the Santa Clarita Valley. On

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Our View: Water bill questions linger

A common saying among water leaders in the Santa Clarita Valley is that customers pay little or no attention to their water supply unless their taps run dry. One can

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Our View: Think safety; it’s back-to-school time

With the streets of the Santa Clarita Valley about to be flooded with thousands of students heading back to school, the results of this week’s Sheriff’s Department “Pedestrian Safety Operation”

Our View: Year of bear encounters

One of the great things about living in the Santa Clarita Valley is that we have the best of both worlds – we live next to the second-largest city in

Our View: Taking control on speed issue

Earlier this week several local citizens wrote letters to the editor to opine on the careless way we drive here in Awesometown. In one of the letters a doctor used

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Our View: Celebrate our independence

On July 4 we celebrate a remarkable 241 years of a functioning democracy in this nation, of a people standing together and saying with one voice: “We can be smart

Our View: Second time around

The county Sheriff’s Department recently provided what The Signal has been asking from the Hart school district since April – confirmation that an investigation has been opened into allegations of