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disAbility Awareness Days

Touching Young Hearts and Minds

Thew ordsa re notspa cedc oreec tly. Read story.

Pit Bull in a Miniskirt

Sometimes good insurance agents make bad decisions. Read story.

Sleep with Dogs, Wake with Flea Powder

Poodle's provides an instantly obsolete take on the showdown over freeway widening. Read story.

More Mesa’s Nine Lives

The lovely expanse has dodged more than its share of bulldozers over the years, but it now faces a ... Read story.

Can 007 Save the Whales?

If you’ve got James Bond and Greenpeace on your side, how can you lose? Answer: When you’re fighting the ... Read story.

disAbility Awareness Days

Touching Young Hearts and Minds

Thew ordsa re notspa cedc oreec tly. Read story.

This Year's Preakness Stakes

A Four-One Exacta

Whether you're at the track, lounging at a betting parlor, or watching NBC Sports' live coverage, it's nice to have a couple of picks in mind. Read story.

Owning 225

These Streets Should Be Controlled by the City

On May 21, the Santa Barbara City Council will make a final decision on whether or not to accept ownership of State Route 225 (Cliff Drive and Las Positas Road) from Caltrans. Read story.

Guns, Congress, and the Commander-in-Chief

Legislative Branch Given Power to Define Military Weapons

Overlooked in the debate over the Second Amendment is a very important paragraph in the Constitution. Read story.

Fair Trade Should Matter to You

Special Infographic on the World of Coffee

Learn more about the world of coffee with this special infographic. Read story.

Hindering or Helping 101?

I find it almost impossible to believe that Nick Welsh would "pan" the efforts of a citizen group attempting to find ways to save $53 ... Read Letter

Needs Practice

Eric Hvolboll's article on his family's stand against the panga boat invasion was fascinating, both for its historical perspective as regards smuggling, and for the ... Read Letter

Crypto Tea Partiers

Santa Barbara County resident Robert Jeffers wrote an interesting Voices piece in “Getting Back to Our Grassroots.” He is very honest in noting that the ... Read Letter

That's No Way to Change the World

Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, perpetrators of the Boston marathon bombing may never have read The Way of the World. The Way of the World ... Read Letter

Open Letter to the Mission Band

My heart soars and I get a knot in my gut every time I see or read about the Mission Band of Chumash Indian leaders ... Read Letter

More Like That

Thank you for publishing Paul Relis's excellent, important story of how Carpinteria Valley agriculture came to be protected back in the '70's. Similar issues are ... Read Letter

Gaviota Rangeland

I know very little about raising cattle and what I know about ranching comes from watching old cowboy movies. But I do know the beauty ... Read Letter

Save Isla Vista Clinic

They saved the Santa Barbara parking lots, and we need to save The Isla Vista Neighborhood Medical Clinic from being sold and turned into another ... Read Letter

Creeping Kafkaesque Reality

Governor Brown’s proposed budget makes excessive additional cuts to court funding. Budget cuts of the past two years slashed it by over half. Local trial ... Read Letter

4-H on the Chopping Block

This past Friday, Santa Barbara County released its draft budget in advance of hearings during the week of June 10-15. On the chopping block is ... Read Letter

Barking Up the Wrong Ban?

Regarding Buellton’s ban on head shops, I find it hypocritical that in a community where alcohol sales and consumption are so prevalent and increasing rapidly, ... Read Letter

Naive Notion

Nick Welsh's diatribe against Israel is counterproductive and ill-informed. He falls prey to the naive notion that if the United States didn't support Israel then ... Read Letter

Easy to Criticize

Nick Welsh is correct that Richard Falk’s most recent diatribe against U.S. and Israeli policy in the aftermath of the Boston Marathon bombings was not ... Read Letter

Convenience vs. Environment

The letter "What’s the Harm?” missed the mark about Santa Barbara’s proposed plastic bag ordinance and perpetuates misinformation being put out by plastic bag industry ... Read Letter

UC Santa Barbara's 22nd Annual Reel Loud Film Festival

Now in its 22nd year at UCSB, Reel Loud is ... Read More