Opinion

When women with breast cancer ask for an FDA-cleared and approved intervention to reduce hair loss caused by chemotherapy, insurers too often call it cosmetic. That double standard is indefensible.

One reason that housing prices are so high in our region is that UCSB has not fulfilled its plans to develop more than 1,800 units of faculty and staff housing, while delaying for a decade the promised dorms to house 5,000 additional students on campus.