Clear Motives

I found Barney Brantingham’s column “Multimillionaires Living in Poverty” interesting because my mother, Patricia C. Rosen, was subjected to the same conservators network as Margaret (Peggy) Figg-Hoblyn.

Woman Priests

Since I, like many others, regard The Santa Barbara Independent as an infallible guide to sacred scripture, I was surprised that Nick Welsh reported that the Women Priests had Mary Magdalene called “the apostle to the apostles” in “the Gospel according to John.”

Invest in Santa Barbara Now

A little over two months have passed since I introduced the Invest in Santa Barbara 2012 proposal to the voters for their consideration.

City Council Keeps Crafting Bag Ordinance

The City Council’s Ordinance Committee continued crafting legislation that would ban single-use plastic bags from grocery stores and other non-restaurant food retailers while imposing a 10-cent fee on paper bags.

Dudley Contacts Attorney General About Lending Institutions

At the urging of Occupy Santa Barbara protesters, District Attorney Joyce Dudley sent a letter to Attorney General Kamala Harris asking her to form a statewide task force composed of DA offices to investigate and prosecute wrongdoing on the part of lending institutions leading up to and during the foreclosure crisis.

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