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 speeches from members of the

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 government.  It’s a pittance.  And,

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 of Santa Clarita with a

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 are not the places to

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 agency to investigate moms going

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 day, then move on to

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 place for voters to replace

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 most famous by the 2001

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 government are yielded to the

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 — effectively buying the community

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 into a Santa Clarita neighborhood

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 independence, our freedom and a

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 careful consideration and collaborative solutions,

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 things they would rather not

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 criminal-friendly threat to public safety.

“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 professional and purposeful. A man

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 than under a cloak of

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 a stance in favor of