By The Signal Editorial Board Tuesday, Feb. 8, could turn out to be a day to remember. Tuesday, Feb. 8, might be a day to

By The Signal Editorial Board It takes courage to stand up for something when you are outnumbered — and we’ve praised county Supervisor Kathryn Barger

By The Signal Editorial Board L.A. County residents are getting another bite at the apple. We suggest taking a very large one — because the

By The Signal Editorial Board The Santa Clarita Valley’s congressman, Mike Garcia, took to the House floor on Wednesday during time set aside for general

By The Signal Editorial Board If you serve in the military and you die defending your country, your family receives a $100,000 payout from the

By The Signal Editorial Board It’s a classic case of a solution looking for a problem. Bay Area attorney Scott Rafferty has threatened the city

By The SignalEditorial Board Violent youth criminals should be incarcerated, but they should be incarcerated safely — and it’s clear that Camps Scudder and Scott

By The SignalEditorial Board On Thursday, Merrick Garland, attorney general of the United States, sent a letter to the Federal Bureau of Investigation ordering the

By The SignalEditorial Board We Americans have notoriously short attention spans. It’s always been true that we become absorbed in the major events of a

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