Comments by Goletaman
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Posted on July 21 at 7:25 a.m.
If we want City Council to pull back from approving every project that comes down the road, electing Easton and Connell makes a lot of sense. Jean Blois just approves everything Bennett, Onnen and the Chamber of Commerce tell her to.
Posted on July 7 at 7:37 a.m.
Clearly the City of Goleta needs new negotiators. Maybe even a new majority that is prepared to be, and capable of being, reasonable.
Are those crow feathers sticking out of Michael Bennett's mouth?
Posted on April 11 at 5:13 a.m.
Take a look at Smyser's contributors. Big money from outside the County always knows where to go for the answers it likes. Watch this process in the Goleta City Council as well. Big talk but shady deals.
Posted on March 24 at 9:38 a.m.
Boy, that ain't the only thing wrong at the Water District. They really have no idea what they are doing there.
Posted on March 11 at 8:35 a.m.
The questions raised by the Indy's article had to do with the processes by which the arrest was made, evidence gathered and the verdict arrived at. Apparently, and without making any judgments about Frimpong's guilt or innocence, some police and prosecutorial errors were made which could have prejudiced the outcome against the defendant.
I was not there, I know none of the parties involved, but it does behoove us all to understand that the errors described created questions which tarnish the verdict, and sentence. A thorough review by a higher judge seems to be in order. We would not tolerate the prejudicial errors made were we the defendant.
I have served on a criminal jury and know how much juries are allowed to hear of all the evidence and circumstances.
Judicial review is needed here, despite the emotional urges for revenge and retribution.
Posted on February 21 at 10:22 a.m.
With the Goleta Chamber of Commerce now running the City Council, we will wish we had stayed in the County. I remember Jean Blois used to say she supported keeping Ag land as Ag. I guess she changed her mind when she got the word from the Chamber. Pity.
Posted on January 14 at 7:40 a.m.
Big Surprise! Brooks Firestone's clone.
Posted on January 10 at 9:45 a.m.
It will be hard for the Council to say no to its out-of-town backers. They feel like they've bought and paid for this little town, now it's time for the payoff.
Watch the Council squirm.
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Posted on July 23 at 10:48 a.m.
It will be a different world, and by our standards, a far lesser one. I suspect every generation has thought that as they passed along. But global population growth does not impact Santa Barbara negatively. Continual growth of employment and in-migration seems to me to eventually be what will.
If our discussions are not about the realities of how the area will be changing (see the UCSB study about the change in demographics as the world's rich retire here) we will keep trying to add everything everybody wants and never realize that the change that will happen here cannot be more people, but slowly changing our economics from what is now to what will be later.
That is planning, as opposed to reacting. We can and must plan to get what we want. I don't think we want to continue to grow incrementally until what makes this place good vanishes slowly under the crowds.
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