Signal Editorials

By The SignalEditorial Board Our leaders are elected to represent all of us. And when they fail to uphold that responsibility, there are mechanisms in

The United States and the United States military have a long-standing and well-publicized policy of no one being left behind.  This concept was perhaps made

By The Signal Editorial Board If you’re familiar with the concept of states’ rights — the idea that powers not constitutionally delegated to the federal

By The Signal Editorial Board Santa Clarita dropped a CEQA bomb on L.A. County’s plans to ship all of its violent youth offenders to Saugus

By The Signal Editorial Board Any illusions that Los Angeles County might consider community input before shoving a new detention facility for violent youth offenders

Editor’s note: The following is a reprint of a Signal editorial published July 4, 2020: By The Signal Editorial Board Today we celebrate our nation’s

Prison or camp?​ Lockup or diversion programs? Those are big, serious, important and complex questions that need to be decided. They are questions that require

There’s a long and storied history of federal, state, county and Los Angeles city officials looking to the Santa Clarita Valley as a location for

We’ve been alarmed, in principle, about the approach L.A. County District Attorney George Gascón is taking to criminal justice. We’ve decried his policies as a

“Captain… is awake. Vitals are a little low. Engineer is going to be DOA.” That radio transmission came from Fire Station 81. Urgent, while remaining

Our courts are supposed to be public.  The reason for that is simple: Conducting the state’s legal business out in the light of day, rather

It was a little confusing. Facing criticism from a couple of residents over the City of Santa Clarita Human Relations Roundtable after the group took

George Gascón’s policies have come home to roost in the Santa Clarita Valley. We predicted that the new Los Angeles County district attorney and his

Santa Clarita is a great city. We love working and living here and being a vital part of this city. One of the essential qualities

George Gascón is a menace. That’s not an outrageous statement. It’s the inescapable conclusion for any sane person who has been monitoring the L.A. County

District Attorney George Gascón is a cagey one, that’s for sure.  This week, there’s been a lot of media buzz about the potential that Gascón

2020’s most quiet disaster, as we stated in our editorial of Dec. 12, is becoming less and less quiet. “The least reported, most consequential election”

What’s that we see at the end of the tunnel? Is it… light? Perhaps. And we like to think so. We need our businesses and

Question: When is $380 million not very much money? Answer: When it’s the only money allocated for COVID-19 relief out of a 591-page, $1.9-trillion COVID-19

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is at it again — picking winners and losers in the COVID-19 pandemic. Everyone is familiar with the