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Our View: A dark hour for discussion

Santa Clarita’s reputation as a great place to live—a neighborly city where people are friendly and we all help each other out—took a huge hit Tuesday night. Sadly, the blow

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Our View: Time to roll up our sleeves

The state of discussion in the American political arena – an apt term now more than ever – leads us to wonder aloud from time to time: “Are we still

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Our View: Taking out the trash talk

It seems that when good fences aren’t enough, good lawyers will have to do. The news of a pair of lawsuits by the operators of Chiquita Canyon caught us, and

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Our View: Preparing for primary election

The 2018 election season is starting to heat up as the June 5 primary gets closer. Up before voters locally are the major statewide offices including governor, US Senate for

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Our View: Helping out with city growth

We all understand that Santa Clarita is growing. Let’s understand this, too: That growth isn’t going to stop. In the first 18 years of this century alone, Santa Clarita gained

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Sanctuary request needs research

The Santa Clarita City Council needs to step back and do some research on the request by Councilman Bob Kellar for the city to declare itself a non-sanctuary city. Step

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Prescribed solutions to an epidemic

At the beginning of March, the White House held an Opioid Summit to discuss the administration’s efforts to combat a growing national addiction crisis—one that claims the lives of 115

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A teachable moment

It has been a long time, since perhaps the days of the Vietnam War, that young people in this country have become politically engaged. Years went by as each generation

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A stinging study on our state

This hurts. This really hurts. In a recent article in U.S. News & World Report, California ranked dead last in quality of life in a survey ranking the best states

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Our View: The pride of Santa Clarita

“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe.” John Muir, “My First Summer in the Sierra,” 1911 Nature has

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Our View: No better time for discussion

Our View Feb. 24   No better time for civil discussion   When we were going to school, we worried about the next algebra test. Or the upcoming science fair

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Our view: Lines of reality blurring

After discussing the news of the week, The Signal’s Editorial Board felt a prevailing sense of how prescient the movie “The Truman Show” was for today’s society. For those who

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Our View: Making those hard decisions

The Santa Clarita City Council’s discussion of climate change at its most recent meeting was both interesting and frustrating. At Councilman Cameron Smyth’s urging, council members had before them a

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A proposal that’s bad for business

Few will forget the dramatic impact that the Aliso Canyon gas leak had in the region. The clear skies above Porter Ranch became permeated and the nation’s second largest natural

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Our View: Stay aware, help fight Cemex

It’s a new year, but a very old issue is still dogging us here in the Santa Clarita Valley. It’s the proposed Cemex mining operation. That company has been wanting