Letters to the editor, columns, and voices published in the Santa Barbara Independent.
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There is a fundamental difference between criticizing government policy and voting to harm one of our country’s most important allies by eliminating security assistance that has helped Israel defend itself during an unprovoked and ongoing war that Iran, Hamas, and Hezbollah launched on October 7-8, 2023.
Climate change is more than a health and environmental issue; it impacts every household budget.
There is no need to impose new barriers, especially at a time when immigrant communities already face heightened fear and scrutiny.
The maternal field serves as humanity’s most enduring source of peace.
After six years, a gaggle of consultants, and long committee meetings to decide the future of our main street, the results are in. We have discovered what doesn’t work.
When women with breast cancer ask for an FDA-cleared and approved intervention to reduce hair loss caused by chemotherapy, insurers too often call it cosmetic. That double standard is indefensible.
One reason that housing prices are so high in our region is that UCSB has not fulfilled its plans to develop more than 1,800 units of faculty and staff housing, while delaying for a decade the promised dorms to house 5,000 additional students on campus.
On the anniversary of the Glass House raid, we remember the life of Jaime Alanis Garcia, and the 2,153 fathers, mothers and children abducted from Ventura and Santa Barbara counties since 2025.
Donald Trump and his followers are attempting to rig the November election by defying the Constitution to change voting rules, firing elections commissioners, defunding election security measures, and gerrymandering.
A permanent rent cap is a direct assault on my constitutional property rights and, given my age, constitutes a form of elder financial abuse.
