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 House, and issued his remarks on the end of the first year of the Joe Biden administration. Garcia expressed some pretty simple requests, and they capture the wants and desires
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
“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
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
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
George Gascón’s policies have come home to roost in the Santa Clarita Valley. We predicted that the new Los Angeles County district attorney and his
Santa Clarita is a great city. We love working and living here and being a vital part of this city. One of the essential qualities
George Gascón is a menace. That’s not an outrageous statement. It’s the inescapable conclusion for any sane person who has been monitoring the L.A. County
District Attorney George Gascón is a cagey one, that’s for sure. This week, there’s been a lot of media buzz about the potential that Gascón
