Indy Staff, Author at The Santa Barbara Independent

Letters By Robert Baruch, Goleta (formerly) | Wed Jul 16, 2025 | 9:23am

Shameless Bootlicker Syndrome

When asked if Donald “Lord of the Lies” Trump was required to uphold the Constitution, Attorney General Pam Bondi responded that judges who ruled against Trump (even those he appointed) are “deranged.”

Announcement By Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara | Wed Jul 16, 2025 | 8:45am

Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara Welcomes Four New Board Members

Santa Barbara, CA — Four accomplished community members have been elected to the Board of Directors for the Scholarship Foundation

Announcement By UC Santa Barbara | Wed Jul 16, 2025 | 8:37am

UCSB Appoints Jill Sharkey as Interim Dean of the Graduate School of Education

SANTA BARBARA – Jill Sharkey, Professor of School Psychology at UC Santa Barbara, has been appointed Interim Dean of the Gevirtz

Letters By Michele Harris-Padron, S.B. | Wed Jul 16, 2025 | 8:05am

Eight! Stories

I have been following the progress of the proposal for an eight-story (!) apartment building directly behind the Old Mission in Santa Barbara, hoping it would somehow disappear.

Letters By Nancy Hill, Summerland | Wed Jul 16, 2025 | 7:53am

No Poison, Please

Stop the killing of wildlife, please.

Voices By Darrell McNeill | Tue Jul 15, 2025 | 5:53pm

The Unparalleled Sly Stone

Sly & The Family Sone was one of the first self-contained, multi-gender, interracial, genre-fluid bands to ever top the charts, a progenitor of “funk” whose flamboyant streetwear set a new standard for rock fashion.