By The Signal Editorial Board Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be … law enforcement officers. Yes, that is a take-off of an old song popularized by Willie

By The Signal Editorial Board In Saturday’s edition, we recapped our endorsements for the California primary election. Voting concludes today. For reference, here’s a list of our endorsements in today’s

By The Signal Editorial Board In case you haven’t heard — and if some preliminary voter turnout projections are accurate, one might wonder — there’s an election coming up on

By The Signal Editorial Board It’s a stinkin’ mess. Now that we have your attention — looking at you, every elected official who represents the Santa Clarita Valley — we

By The Signal Editorial Board Mike Garcia has never forgotten where he came from — in more than one sense. Garcia, seeking a third full term in the House of

By The Signal Editorial Board There’s a crowded field of candidates to replace L.A. County District Attorney George Gascón — and making sure Gascón loses his reelection bid just may

By The Signal Editorial Board The Santa Clarita Valley was, not all that long ago, considered to be solid red. As in, the politics of its residents were solidly conservative.

By The Signal Editorial Board What consenting adults do is their own business.  The key word is “adults.”  Children — well, that’s another matter. They need adult guidance and supervision

By The Signal Editorial Board Let’s all ask ourselves a simple question:  How’s this “let’s keep as many people out of jail as possible” philosophy working out for society at

By The Signal Editorial Board The first time Ryan Clinkunbroomer’s name appeared in The Signal, he was just 6 years old. It was an AYSO “Boys 6U” soccer summary, with

By The Signal Editorial Board Anyone who was in the Santa Clarita Valley on Nov. 14, 2019, will never forget that day.  When a 15-year-old Saugus High School student opened

By The Signal Editorial Board Sacramento is broken. The latest evidence of it came this week, when controversy erupted after a state Assembly committee blocked a bill that would make

By The Signal Editorial Board Local control. Ah, we remember it well. Those halcyon days when a local government, like the city of Santa Clarita, could establish standards for things

By The Signal Editorial Board Give the Cemex Soledad Canyon mining plan an old hockey goalie mask, and you’d think this thing was Jason Voorhees and you were reliving “Friday

By The Signal Editorial Board One of the core questions of governance is, should good behavior be rewarded? We would posit that, in the vast majority of instances — as

It’s murder. Even if the law doesn’t yet say so. When someone sells drugs to a person, knowing the drugs contain a deadly dose of fentanyl, they’re killing someone. They

By The Signal Editorial Board Chalk up a big “W” in the win column for the Santa Clarita Valley.   Thanks to the efforts of the city of Santa Clarita,

It’s time to move on. As the city of Santa Clarita began its hearing process Wednesday for the transition to district-based elections, some of the residents who testified were understandably

By The Signal Editorial Board About two weeks ago, a Chinese spy balloon appeared over the United States. We watched it fly over the U.S. from Montana to South Carolina