By The Signal Editorial Board Never count Cemex out. Ever. That’s the lesson to be drawn from the news that Cemex, the multinational mining giant, has filed a federal lawsuit

By The Signal Editorial Board If the early fundraising totals are any indication, it’s not a stretch to conclude that the Republican Party has already written off the 25th Congressional

By The Signal Editorial Board Local infrastructure decisions can be tough. Take, for example, the debate over the Wiley Canyon bridge.  Back in the early 1990s, when the city of

By The Signal Editorial Board There’s no denying the Santa Clarita Valley has grown by leaps and bounds over the past several decades. Some see that as a good thing,

By The Signal Editorial Board Reflecting on the 2019 Santa Clarita Fourth of July parade, one thought keeps coming back to our minds: Thank you. First, in this moment, we

By The Signal Editorial Board If you’re reading this online, sometime soon you might be able to read it faster. That is, this and anything else you access on the

By The Signal Editorial Board Well, that was a bit of a scare. Word went out last weekend that Castaic High School, just weeks away from opening, still didn’t have

By The Signal Editorial Board Suppose you have a choice to help two children in need. One of them is a perfect stranger, and the other is your own flesh

By The Signal Editorial Board Charter schools aren’t for everyone. But then, neither are mainstream public schools. California’s 1992 Charter School Act cleared the way for a new breed of

By The Signal Editorial Board Anyone living in the Santa Clarita Valley today owes a debt of gratitude to Carl Boyer III, who died this week at the age of

By The Signal Editorial Board Here’s a familiar tune: Environmentalists have once again sued to stop the Centennial project on Tejon Ranch, 45 miles north of Santa Clarita. This project

By The Signal Editorial Board Rock. Santa Clarita. Hard Place. That about sums up the situation the Santa Clarita City Council was in this past week, when council members faced

By The Signal Editorial Board We need to restore civility. But for either side of the political debate to claim the moral high ground is disingenuous, to say the least.

By The Signal Editorial Board The reactions to the report by Special Counsel Robert Mueller have been nothing if not predictable, particularly from the left. Blinded by their hatred of

By The Signal Editorial Board It’s weird sometimes how something can be both long-awaited and seem sudden at the same time. Take, for example, the new Santa Clarita Valley senior

By The Signal Editorial Board In the midst of an unusually wet rainy season, when back yards in an American Beauty neighborhood began to show signs of cracking and slippage,

By The Signal Editorial Board It’s a classic case of denial. Like a jilted lover who won’t accept the finality of a breakup, or the employee who shows up to

By The Signal Editorial Board There’s a stereotypical plot line in the “slasher” horror movie genre and it goes something like this: The killer’s intended victims defend themselves and the

By The Signal Editorial Board It’s a decision that’s been a long time coming: 91 years, to be exact. On March 12, 1928, the St. Francis Dam burst, sending a