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Wishing for Wait Times

I am compelled to respond to Michael Cregan’s recent letter which infers that Canadian wait times for surgery indicate the inadequacy of that country’s heatlh-care system.

Election Endorsements 2009

No on Measure B; Helene Schneider for mayor; Bendy White, Grant House, and David Pritchett for Santa Barbara City Council.

City 10-1

According to campaign finance reports released by City Hall on 9/24, mayoral candidate Steve Cushman has raised $103,000-$50,000 of that coming from Russian billionaire and new Montecito resident Sergey Grishin.

Elizabeth Schwyzer, Charles Donelan, and Aly Comingore

On Sunday, September 20, The Independent received the City of Santa Barbara Arts Advisory Committee’s Business in Art Award at the 45th annual Santa Barbara Beautiful Awards presentation, held at the Music Academy’s Hahn Hall in Montecito.

Don’t Tow Me Away

I think your readers might be interested in a ticketing and towing scam that has been operating in Santa Barbara for years.

James Dean

Just to fact-check your “This Week in History” blurb, James Dean’s infamous crash occurred in San Luis Obispo County just north of Cholame, at the intersection of Highways 41 and 46 (the 466 at the time).

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