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Who can forget the October 2007 Buckweed fire that blackened tens of thousands of acres of brush, killed countless wild animals and decimated a Canyon Country neighborhood?

	Finicky fruits and cubby-holed bureaucrats Drive out Highway 126 from Castaic Junction to the Pacific Ocean and take a good look at the orange and lemon groves, strawberry patches, flower factories, palm forests and avocado jungles that line the Santa Clara River. All told, that's a $700 million industry annually.
	Signal Editorial Board: Balancing took careful planning How bad is the economy? If you only read our headline earlier this week about a "$68.6 Million Budget Reduction," you would think it is so bad that the city of Santa Clarita is slashing its budget by nearly one-third - from $241 million last year to just $172 million for the fiscal year starting July 1.
	No Hooters or high schools allowed Will the William S. Hart Union High School District ever manage to build a high school campus in Castaic without getting caught in the middle of other people's petty land wars?
	Our View: California needs some serious CPR Cut, cut, cut. Boo-hoo, I lost. Now we’ve got to cut, cut, cut. That was our governor’s girlie-man response to the May 19 whupping he took at the ballot box. What happened to the Great Reformer we elected in 2003 to replace a clueless sap who could barely manage his bad ’70s hairdo, much less the world’s seventh-largest economy? That’s what Supervisor Mike Antonovich and Sen. George Runner would like to know. In recent weeks, ...
	How are things with SCV’s ‘other’ local government? With a single City Hall and one set of council members to represent the majority of the people in the Santa Clarita Valley, some folks forget that there are actually two municipal SCV governments.
	Our View: Voters should just say ‘NO’ on Tuesday Arnold Schwarzenegger spent last week stomping around the state, threatening to sell off landmarks like the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, making dire predictions about the future, engaging in what many call “scare tactics” to get voters to approve Tuesday’s ballot measures.
	Real stimulus for Santa Clarita — city and valley People tend to focus on their elected leaders - the president, the school board, the City Council - when things are going well or going wrong, and shower them with the commensurate praise or blame.
	Our View: Good leaders are reasonable leaders "That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves."