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,
We’ve asked nicely. We’ve begged. We’ve deleted too many posts to count. We’ve banned individual users, then they crop up again under fake names, even though our terms of use
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
It sounded like quite the rant. On Jan. 24, at North Park Elementary School, a student left his classroom and went on a profanity-filled, destructive tirade. All of this is
This was not the end of the conversation. But we are hopeful, and grateful for the information and dialogue that was shared Thursday night in the Fentanyl Town Hall we
What’s 4,155 pages long and spends $1.7 trillion of your money? Yes, it’s the newly enacted omnibus spending bill, passed last week just before Christmas when those who were there
During the Roman Inquisition in the 1600s, Copernicus and then Galileo were found to be “foolish and absurd in philosophy” and “vehemently suspect of heresy,” respectively, for espousing theories that,
As of this writing, it has been 10 days since the Nov. 8 General Election. And we still don’t know all of the results. California isn’t the only place where
By The Signal Editorial Board Over the past several weeks, The Signal has offered its endorsements in selected local races in Tuesday’s general election. The following is a recap of
By The Signal Editorial Board The past couple of years have proven challenging for everyone, and especially for those in the education community. Our educational leaders have had to make
By The Signal Editorial Board When Mike Garcia first took office as the member of Congress representing the Santa Clarita Valley, he filled a vacancy that was created by his
By The Signal Editorial Board When we first endorsed Suzette Martinez Valladares two years ago, she was a relative newcomer to the political scene who brought the promise of a
By The Signal Editorial Board We love Santa Clarita and we love living here. Santa Clarita is one of the safest, cleanest cities in America. We have a fiscally responsible
By The Signal Editorial Board The Santa Clarita Valley has a clean, safe and reliable water supply. When you turn on the tap, the clean water comes out. This is