What Is Your Role?
It is heartbreaking to know that when we often read about in headlines is happening right here in our own community.
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The Colonel, Me, and a Brave Little Girl
The key bilateral nuclear agreement between the U.S. and Russia — the New START Treaty — expired in early February of this year.
Knowing Right from Wrong, Truth from Lies
I am not red and I am not blue. I’m a window, crystal clear, and here’s my heart jutting out and my soul in pieces.
Diablo Gets Its Permits
Today, the storyline for extending the state’s five-year extension for Diablo Canyon Power Plant — originally to power the state through a summer heat wave — rests heavily on the projected need for AI Data Center power.
On Exile, Anger, and Home
I am stunned that the County of Santa Barbara has chosen to thwart my ability to build a caregiver unit on my property, the very same unit the the county approved, over three years ago, as consistent with all applicable standards.
SBPD: Stick to Local Policing
Best practices suggest the ICE agents should have cordoned off the area with tape and later utilized federal or a fed-contracted towing service to a federal facility.
There Is No “Both Sides” When Power Is Unequal
The middle of the road is only comfortable if you are not the one being tackled, pepper-sprayed, or dragged from your home.
On ICE and Protecting the Public
Given that professional inter-agency cooperation from federal authorities is now gone, our police can and should legally and defensibly take these actions to best protect the public within their jurisdiction.
The Growth of Indigenous Solidarity in Support of Immigrant Rights
For many Native leaders, the administration’s extreme enforcement measures are not an isolated policy shift, but the latest chapter in a centuries-long story of violent colonization.
The Cure for High Rents Is More Housing
As people talk about the rent freeze in Santa Barbara, with some blaming landlords and some blaming the renters, in fact, the increases in rent are the fault of neither of them.
