2019 - The Santa Barbara Independent

Living By Tom Jacobs | Tue Dec 31, 2019 | 4:15pm

UCSB Digitizes Long-Forgotten Carpinteria Newspaper

Copies of the ‘Carpinteria Chronicle’ reveal Depression-era attitudes and controversies.

Film & TV By Travis Weedon | Tue Dec 31, 2019 | 4:05pm

Review | ‘Watchmen’: Bizarre World Is Hauntingly Familiar

‘Watchmen’ may be full of masked heroes and supervillains, but it’s our country’s own fraught history and dubious morality that grinds the gears.

News By Nick Welsh | Tue Dec 31, 2019 | 3:59pm

Last-Minute Deal Averts Hospital Crisis

A last-minute understanding was reached between Cottage Health and the insurance giant Anthem Blue Cross, allowing the two parties to

Letters By Mary vanBibber Harris, S.B. | Tue Dec 31, 2019 | 3:26pm

A Das Nod

I’m not surprised that the Santa Barbara Women’s Political Committee, like the Sierra Club, County Firefighters, and the Deputy Sheriff’s Association, has just endorsed Das Williams.

Opinion By Becky Hoffman | Tue Dec 31, 2019 | 3:00pm

For Whom the Cat Meows

Neighborhood website not immune to incivility over a cat.

About Us By Kelly Mcdonald | Tue Dec 31, 2019 | 1:54pm

Kelly Mcdonald, Garden Guardian

He keeps the Independent’s office looking green and healthy.

Letters By Laurence Hauben, S.B. | Tue Dec 31, 2019 | 1:15pm

Trust but Verify?

Why is a county generally notorious for its indifference to the painfully drawn out permitting process for local businesses so eager to speed up cannabis applications?