Signal Editorials

By The Signal Editorial Board Next time you’re filling up at the pump, and you’re lamenting the price of each gallon of gasoline, only to venture out onto a failing,

By The Signal Editorial Board They’re making lemonade out at the Cali Lake RV Resort. Perhaps not literally, but right now it might seem appropriate to raise a lemonade toast

By The Signal Editorial Board Shoot first, ask questions later. That’s the M.O. of Democrats in Congress who seem especially desperate to find something, anything, that will give them cover

By The Signal Editorial Board Homelessness is an increasing problem in Southern California, and the Santa Clarita Valley is no exception. It seems like everyone who enters the conversation agrees

By The Signal Editorial Board Sometime in 2020, you might call for an Uber or Lyft ride, and experience sticker shock unlike anything you’ve seen under the so-called “surge” pricing

By The Signal Editorial Board Mike Kuhlman will take over as superintendent of the William S. Hart Union High School District at the end of this school year, replacing the

By The Signal Editorial Board Sometime in the next few years, when a mentally deranged person who should have been in the custody of law enforcement commits a horrific crime

By The Signal Editorial Board After we broke the news last week that Cemex had filed a lawsuit seeking to restore its federal contracts for sand and gravel mining in

By The Signal Editorial Board Never count Cemex out. Ever. That’s the lesson to be drawn from the news that Cemex, the multinational mining giant, has filed a federal lawsuit

By The Signal Editorial Board If the early fundraising totals are any indication, it’s not a stretch to conclude that the Republican Party has already written off the 25th Congressional

By The Signal Editorial Board Local infrastructure decisions can be tough. Take, for example, the debate over the Wiley Canyon bridge.  Back in the early 1990s, when the city of

By The Signal Editorial Board There’s no denying the Santa Clarita Valley has grown by leaps and bounds over the past several decades. Some see that as a good thing,

By The Signal Editorial Board Reflecting on the 2019 Santa Clarita Fourth of July parade, one thought keeps coming back to our minds: Thank you. First, in this moment, we

By The Signal Editorial Board If you’re reading this online, sometime soon you might be able to read it faster. That is, this and anything else you access on the

By The Signal Editorial Board Well, that was a bit of a scare. Word went out last weekend that Castaic High School, just weeks away from opening, still didn’t have

By The Signal Editorial Board Suppose you have a choice to help two children in need. One of them is a perfect stranger, and the other is your own flesh

By The Signal Editorial Board Charter schools aren’t for everyone. But then, neither are mainstream public schools. California’s 1992 Charter School Act cleared the way for a new breed of

By The Signal Editorial Board Anyone living in the Santa Clarita Valley today owes a debt of gratitude to Carl Boyer III, who died this week at the age of

By The Signal Editorial Board Here’s a familiar tune: Environmentalists have once again sued to stop the Centennial project on Tejon Ranch, 45 miles north of Santa Clarita. This project

By The Signal Editorial Board Rock. Santa Clarita. Hard Place. That about sums up the situation the Santa Clarita City Council was in this past week, when council members faced