By The Signal Editorial Board “I don’t trust you.” — Rep. Mike Garcia, speaking to FBI Director Christopher Wray during a House Appropriations Committee hearing Well, that needed to be

By The Signal Editorial Board Mamas, don’t let your babies grow up to be … law enforcement officers. Yes, that is a take-off of an old song popularized by Willie

By The Signal Editorial Board In Saturday’s edition, we recapped our endorsements for the California primary election. Voting concludes today. For reference, here’s a list of our endorsements in today’s

By The Signal Editorial Board In case you haven’t heard — and if some preliminary voter turnout projections are accurate, one might wonder — there’s an election coming up on

By The Signal Editorial Board It’s a stinkin’ mess. Now that we have your attention — looking at you, every elected official who represents the Santa Clarita Valley — we

By The Signal Editorial Board Scott Wilk has had an excellent run as a legislator representing the Santa Clarita Valley, first in the state Assembly and, currently, as state senator. 

By The Signal Editorial Board Mike Garcia has never forgotten where he came from — in more than one sense. Garcia, seeking a third full term in the House of

By The Signal Editorial Board They say that one of the definitions of insanity is to do the same thing over and over again and expect a different result. We

By The Signal Editorial Board There’s a crowded field of candidates to replace L.A. County District Attorney George Gascón — and making sure Gascón loses his reelection bid just may

By The Signal Editorial Board Ever since L.A. County’s 5th District voters first sent Kathryn Barger to downtown Los Angeles as their representative in 2016, she has done an exemplary

By The Signal Editorial Board The Santa Clarita Valley was, not all that long ago, considered to be solid red. As in, the politics of its residents were solidly conservative.

By The Signal Editorial Board What consenting adults do is their own business.  The key word is “adults.”  Children — well, that’s another matter. They need adult guidance and supervision

By The Signal Editorial Board We learned something unsettling this week: That is, among us in Santa Clarita, there are at least a few people who find it perfectly acceptable

By The Signal Editorial Board Let’s all ask ourselves a simple question:  How’s this “let’s keep as many people out of jail as possible” philosophy working out for society at

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 “Boys 6U” soccer summary, with

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 Saugus High School student opened

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