Limit Industrial Marijuana Cultivation in Santa Barbara County
Civic group urges Planning Commission to hold the line and heed impacts on neighboring parcels.
Author: Jean Yamamura
Good Farmers Can Be Great Neighbors
Our fundamental mission is to develop the highest standards in cannabis cultivation.
Police Investigating Olive Street Homicide
Man found fatally wounded a block from Santa Barbara High School on Saturday.
If Young People Are the Future, Has America Failed Its Students?
We the people have to invest in our college students and address increasingly high tuition costs.
Genuine Service
My husband, pets, and I would all be dead if it weren’t for him.
Doubletake
I had just finished praising the Santa Barbara Independent to my husband …
Armchair Warriors
Mr. Paul Driscoll travels back in time to the 1880s where he gets drawn into a dinner conversation with a man who considers himself to be something of a “virtual” patriot.
Conception and Life
How ironic that you would run a photo of Norma McCorvey in the Voice “Threats to Roe v. Wade.”
State and Enviros Take on Federal Oil Leases
Attorney General and eight groups file separate lawsuits against newly opening fossil-fuel drilling and fracking lands.
Literacy Is a Human Right
Like 20 percent of the population, I was — and remain — dyslexic, but the nuns in my elementary school were well-schooled in the art of teaching reading.
