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Author: Jean Yamamura
Save the Mural!
The mural of George Floyd is a reminder.
Beneath the Wounder’s Knee
I do not claim to know what you’ve been through / Nothing in my white-woman-privileged life / Can understand
Inalienable Rights?
Yet what some of us take for granted, others never experience.
Made Up Lies
I just read the letter “Keep ‘Em Coming.” Publishing this letter just proved my points. Anyone with a different view
Deadbeat Species
I don’t believe many living today can deny that most world citizens currently enjoy the clearest air inhaled in day-to-day life, post industrialization.
Evicting Veterans a Losing Proposition
The City of Solvang is reopening old wounds with the latest proposal to pave over the Vet’s Hall and do a development with Mr. St. George.
Our Next School Superintendent
Hilda Maldonado is the leader the Santa Barbara school district needs at this transformational time.
When the Badge Gets Tarnished
Sadly, what we saw happen in Minneapolis on Memorial Day tarnished all of our badges. —Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown.
‘Pacific Standard’ Finds Harbor at Grist
Magazine archive acquired by online magazine.
