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Our View | Credit Weste for Doing the Right Thing

By The Signal Editorial Board A week ago, we asked Mayor Pro Tem Laurene Weste to do the right thing, and recuse herself from the City Council’s discussion of a proposed mixed-use development in Old Town Newhall. The developer seeks the council’s approval of a 78-unit, five-story condo development along with 5,200 square feet of commercial space. As part of the

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Our View | Rally Call on the Cemex Mine

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 and you were reliving “Friday

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Our View | Dealing Death in Sacramento

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 fentanyl, they’re killing someone. They

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Our View | The CVRA and Our Real Options

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 residents who testified were understandably

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Our View | Campus Crisis: Break Out the Broom

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 tirade.  All of this is

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Our View | Fentanyl Town Hall: Our Thanks

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 the Fentanyl Town Hall we

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Our View | A Lump of Coal from Congress

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 when those who were there

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Our View | COVID and the Freedom to Dissent

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,” respectively, for espousing theories that,

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Our View | A Vote of No Confidence

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 isn’t the only place where