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Posted on June 25 at 12:56 a.m.
What a nightmare. Poor little Goleta, being morphed into another Santa Babylon.
I guess the folks at the wheel either haven't noticed what a toilet SB has become in the past 20 years, or they think that living in a toilet would be wonderful and can't wait to swim in one of their own.
Well, yet another reason for me to NOT go anywhere NEAR the major Santa Babylon area....now including Goleta.
I can do without the traffic, crowds, lines, filthy air, gangbangers, college brats, drunk yuppies on "wine tasting tours" driving ginormous SUV's. and noxious tourists in general, thanks.
Best thing I ever did was get out 3 years ago and move to the Santa Ynez Valley. Sorry SB and Goleta, I held out for 32 years and I just couldn't do it anymore.
Best of luck!
Posted on June 12 at 2:24 p.m.
First, I'd love to see the pretentious valet parking at the main hospital in SB just go away. That area right in front of the doors used to be a parking lot with a number of handicapped spots in addition to regular ones, accessible to the public.
Now you MUST use valet parking (and pay for it, thank you very much) in order to be permitted to leave your car there.
Sounds like a little ADA issue to me...
Second, I'd like to see the birthing center at Goleta Valley stay where it is, instead of being closed and absorbed into the juggernaut at the main monolith in SB.
Third: PLEASE put some resources into the WONDERFUL facility at Santa Ynez Valley! It is a marvelous hospital, with caring staff who are not hurried or frantic. There is no ugly bulletproof glass, no airlocks, bars or any of the other frightening stuff that exists at the SB main facility. You know when you go to a hospital and everything is locked down, with staff and patients locked in and the public locked out that you are in a dangerous and crime-riddled area. It's obvious when you go to the SB ER that there is danger there. The nurse is in a bulletproof cubicle like a bank teller, and that's just the beginning.
SYV is warm, inviting, quiet, peaceful and conducive to healing. And they are struggling, getting the leftovers and crumbs after the monster on Pueblo St gets the lion's share of everything.
We live here. We need our own hospital. We love our little hospital and want to see it survive and thrive to serve our communities. In the Valley...NOT in SB....45 miles and $5.00 a gallon away.
If the "Cottage Health System" (ugh!) isn't up to the job of providing us with a hospital that can meet our needs (without transferring everyone down to the hellhole in SB), then maybe one of the many billionaires up here might start a local organization to fund our hospital here. SYV deserves the support.
Enough has been given to SB Cottage. It has sucked up everything in its path and left this county with nothing.
It should be someone else's turn now.
Posted on June 11 at 2:09 a.m.
Gregory Ghan was a homeless RESIDENT of Isla Vista. He was not a "transient".
Our society's chickens are coming home to roost in flocks nearly every time a homeless person is assaulted and/or killed. The media continues to depersonalize homeless people by assigning derogatory and inaccurate terms to describe them.
"Transient" is a derogatory and inflammatory term used to carefully and systematically dehumanize those human beings who fall outside society's preferred socioeconomic strata.
The process is working well. Teenagers and pissed-off young adults have been carefully trained to view the poor, disabled, homeless and generally unattractive people who dare to share a planet with them as being less than human and thus, OK to victimize.
Good job, Independent. Congratulations on throwing in your lot with the News-Suppressed, KEYT, and the rest of the mainstream, establishment media by referring to human beings as "transients".
It's a hard job to con the public into believing these people aren't human and are thus OK to beat up and kill, but it's working!
Haven't we seen this movie before....and didn't it suck the first several times around? Please review your history; this is a re-run.
Posted on June 11 at 1:59 a.m.
How bloated and fragile of an ego does one need to accuse those of differing opinions of being "mean spirited"?
Hmmm...
Guess I join all the "mean-spirited" folks in saying that this is yet another make-a-job deal for Caltrans, and no matter what the public thinks, wants or observes, we are getting the fence. That's what gub'mint does: they come up with inane ideas, pretend to seek the input and approval of the public, then pat us on the head, tell us to sit down and be quiet, and do what they want anyway.
Just like the Adventure Pass.
Same scam, different name.
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Posted on May 28 at 9:55 a.m.
ssshhhhhh El Barbareno....don't tell them what "Santa Barbara" really means!
It'll be our secret:-)
Posted on May 23 at 12:35 a.m.
"As an obnoxiously self-satisfied lifelong bicycle commuter, I naturally was drawn to the idea."
This says it all.
How lovely for you that you are young and not disabled. I am neither. Bicycling is not an option for me, neither is depending on buses. I am very grateful for my little car, it is my freedom.
Yet you obnoxiously self-satisfied bikers think only of yourselves, and demand that everyone else live and move as you do; or else.
It's absolutely PC and de rigeur in Santa Barbara that the bikers are always right and everyone else is always wrong. It's OK to kick at cars, to spit on pedestrians who get in your way, and to throw things at vehicles who dare to actually stop at a stop sign and impede your progress as you whiz through.
So...all of us who are seniors and/or disabled should just sit down, shut up and sit quietly in our houses so that you can have the whole road and sidewalks to yourselves as one big unimpeded bike lane?
I don't think so.
Posted on May 23 at 12:24 a.m.
Yippee! More booze-based-businesses!
All alcohol...all the time.
Yep...pound down some of that grog and then get behind the wheel of the ole jacked-up SUV and let 'er rip.
Bottoms-up...bombs away!
Posted on May 23 at 12:21 a.m.
Bars, nightclubs, drunk college brats and yuppies peeing in the alleys and fighting with each other. Gangbangers, graffiti, choking traffic. Noise, lines, crowds and everybody jammed in like sardines. No parking, no left turns, suicidal bicyclists and idiots in SUV's.
These are problems the tourist-worshippers should be addressing. Because these are the reasons people who live in and those who visit the area stay OUT of downtown. It's a toilet, using designer beer and wine instead of water, and it needs to be flushed.
Instead of facing the real truth...as usual, they're figuring out better-organized, more profitable, new and creative ways of legalized socioeconomic cleansing of the SB landscape of its poorest citizens lest the tourists see them.
Let's see....downtown Santa Barbara is a fancy toilet (but a toilet nonetheless), so we'll blame the homeless residents of the city for the proliferation of bars and nightclubs, gangs, yuppie scum and college brats.
Boy do those homeless people ever have a lot of power!
I wonder if they can do something about the fires and tornadoes?
Just sayin'
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Posted on June 25 at 1:12 a.m.
yada-yada-yada...so many words, saying so very little. All that "good neighbor" and "social conscience" hooey is nothing but a cover up for greed.
Social conscience my eye; if these people HAD a social conscience, they wouldn't treat the neighborhood like a giant nightclub.
So John McCain came to town; big deal. I'm sure the Museum made a bundle off the hall rental.
Cuz they sure as heck didn't donate use of Fleischmann to the "cause" of healing the earth, or our social fabric, or anything else. Ask their management how much they charge for a shindig like this. If they were really so socially conscious, they'd have donated the facility, gratis, for this and other "town hall" meetings.
The truth is that this facility will do anything for a buck.
For those living in the neighborhood, it's a never-ending parade of year-round noisy booze-soaked parties, weddings, "wine tastings" (more booze), and sordid soirees of all sorts, unleashing drunk drivers and noise on us and the entire city..
Don't let the nice little lofty "Natural History Museum" title fool you; this is nothing but a very beautiful, but very much "for rent to the highest bidder" commercial party facility.
I know. I used to live in the neighborhood.
Quit polishing your self-installed halo at the area's expense, Dr. Hutterer. The Museum is nothing but a very pretty cash cow for your organization and its management at the expense of the area.
And your neighbors all know it.
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