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	Our view: Economic reform starts here in the SCV If you lasted through the more-than-hour-long State of the Union speech last week, you heard President Barack Obama put a high priority on supporting small businesses and creating jobs.
	Our View - The people have spoken: Pay attention Praise be to the voters of Massachusetts who filled Ted Kennedy’s vacant Senate seat with — gasp — a Republican.
	Our View - Do you need more reason to prepare? We’ve now spent almost two weeks taking in the sight of absolute devastation in Haiti, caused by a magnitude 7 earthquake that took seconds to radically disrupt life in that poor island nation.
	Our View: The battle for reform must begin today Picture, if you will, the Santa Clarita Valley in 1974. The valley floor was carpeted with vast fields of onions, carrots and alfalfa. The population stood at less than 80,000. Sparse tract housing peppered pockets of the community. Traffic was at a minimum. College of the Canyons had a little more than 1,000 students. Now take a mental snapshot of the SCV as it is today, swelled to a population of some 250,000 people. Industrial ...
	Our View: No one said this would be easy The economic crisis that started more than a year ago and continues to squeeze California is rife with stories of hardship and how people and organizations are responding to it.
	Our View: Our pledge for vibrant local opinion "Trust, but verify." That bit of wisdom was made famous by Ronald Reagan in reference to the Soviet Union, but he's not credited with originating it. We won't claim credit for it, either, but it's our new mantra for the opinion page. Today we welcome local columnists back to The Signal with a pledge to both them and to our readers that we will verify their work to ensure its originality. Regular readers of this ...
	Our View: Don't forget the good times You almost certainly know the tune. You might even know the opening line: "Should old acquaintance be forgot. ..." After that things may be hazy.
	Our View: Plagiarism will not be tolerated We are disappointed. Disappointed in those local columnists who saw fit to "borrow" other people's ideas. Disappointed in ourselves, as well. In both cases of plagiarism uncovered among our columnists so far, it was outside sources who discovered the breaches of trust, the violations of honesty. We should have been more vigilant ourselves. Once again, we find ourselves apologizing to our readers. The role of community newspapers in providing a public forum is one we ...
	Our View: Yes, Virginia, there’s hope It’s likely many residents of the Santa Clarita Valley can’t relate to the charm of fresh-fallen holiday snow, but we beg your indulgence.
	Our View: The little engine that still might Cemex. The name used to strike fear into the hearts of politically conscious Santa Clarita Valley residents.
	Our View: Saluting our nation's true heroes Van Thomas Barfoot's story reads like a lost scene from "Saving Private Ryan." Born one-quarter Choctaw, a 21-year-old Barfoot enlisted in the United States Army in 1940. The Mississippi native served in non-combat roles until 1943, when he shipped off to Europe. He landed with the invasion force at Sicily in July and Salerno in September. Early 1944 found him on the beachhead at Anzio - the battle that gave "Gunsmoke's" James Arness his signature ...