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Nine Years Since the Refugio Oil Spill
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Brady Bradshaw
Transfers of ownership are an oil-industry shell game to avoid paying the true costs of cleanup. Often, at the end of an oilfield’s life, the big companies sell their assets to an underfunded entity that then goes bankrupt, abdicating cleanup responsibility.
Goleta’s Project Disconnect
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Tom Modugno
Old Town merchants have always had to deal with a lack of parking, but now Goleta plans to narrow Hollister to one lane in each direction just to create a few new parking spaces, a multi-million-dollar, multi-year experiment that will be paid for by the people being used as their lab rats.
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The Changing Urban Coast of the Goleta Valley
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Wayne Martin Mellinger
Gender in a Changing World
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Levin Fetzer
When Will Housing Talk Become Homes?
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Micah Littlepage
Is the Bicycle Movement Failing Santa Barbara?
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Daniel B. Fishbein, MD
Free Speech on College Campuses
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Gale McNeeley, Santa Maria
Connection in the Classroom
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Cat Neushul
May 3 Vote Could Be the Beginning of a Housing Crisis Turnaround
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Linda Honikman