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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

By The Signal Editorial Board For many sports fans, the end of the football season marks the beginning of that torturous waiting period — the dead, interminable days of winter

By The Signal Editorial Board At least five homes in the American Beauty and Trestles housing tracts are suffering death by a thousand cuts, as the hillside separating them gradually

By The Signal Editorial Board The Saugus Union School District board of trustees has been making news lately, but not for the kinds of reasons that school boards typically like

By The Signal Editorial Board It’s not often that the flag salute in a school board meeting makes news. But that’s exactly what’s happened this month as a video has

By The Signal Editorial Board When an inmate being held in lieu of more than a million dollars’ bail walked away from the Pitchess Detention Center in Castaic sometime Sunday

By The Signal Editorial Board The two Superior Court plea deals provided an interesting and potentially disturbing juxtaposition of how our court system handles crime and punishment. On Wednesday, a

By The Signal Editorial Board Who “owns” the record-setting federal government shutdown? That’s a fair question and it’s entirely debatable.  It seems the blame could be apportioned in some varying

By The Signal Editorial Board It was a false alarm, yes, but it was also a stark reminder of the world we live in, and the importance of preparedness: When

By The Signal Editorial Board Here’s what some of our nation’s leaders have said in the past about illegal immigration: 1) “It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation

By The Signal Editorial Board Governments like to use euphemisms. It makes things sound less onerous or gruesome than they are. For example, the military uses special reinforced coffins to

By The Signal Editorial Board You’re probably familiar with the story of the Christmas Truce of 1914. It was just five months after the outbreak of World War I, the

By The Signal Editorial Board This was not Santa Clarita’s finest hour. On Tuesday night, the City Council met, as it does each December, to celebrate the accomplishments of the

By The Signal Editorial Board There’s a certain amount of common sense that you want to point out when people are surprised by holiday traffic. Take this past Thanksgiving, for

By The Signal Editorial Board There’s a long and storied history of Santa Clarita Valley residents playing the role of David versus one Goliath or another. In the 1980s, Sacramento

By The Signal Editorial Board Forgive us for still feeling a little Thanksgiving afterglow, but today we’re especially thankful for a current example of the power of teamwork. And in