Signal Editorials

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

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

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

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,

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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,”

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

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

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

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

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