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Very soon, the well informed, the barely informed, and the clueless will head into voting booths and pass important laws in the form of propositions. One thing all the talking heads are discussing this year is taxes. In fact, they misinform or purposefully deceive about the consequence of income-tax changes.
It is difficult to escape a nagging sense that aggressive but fair reportage in American journalism has been superseded by something coarser and much less concerned with truth.
A lot of people think that marijuana does not affect your body organs the way alcohol affects your liver, which might be true if you do not consider the brain to be an organ.
Huguette Clark is very much in the news currently. She is the owner of the intriguing mansion that looms above East Beach and across from the Andree Clark Bird Refuge, the “duck pond” donated to the public by the heartbroken Clark family when Huguette’s sister died very young of meningitis.
I ask myself and my fellow Muslims, what have we been doing to educate people about Islam?
The face of AIDS has changed since the cold, misty morning in 1991 when 500 community members showed up for the first annual AIDS Walk in Santa Barbara County. The clients coming to our AIDS food pantry today, and visiting our nurse and social worker, represent the working poor.
The beach show artists did their part and came up with the plans that would have put a lot of profit in the city’s hands. So here we are, with nothing changed, our budget still is red. The city could be richer… ah, but now the summer’s dead.
Pappas (pap pas). v.t. To take away people’s voting rights by registering them to vote, but failing to meet the legal requirements for submitting the voter registration forms.
I do not support violence, period. But that does not make it my duty to sit idly by while racist, bigoted behaviors, of the sort that have surrounded the ninth anniversary of 9/11, are directed toward my family and me.
Can creative artists within a community be sorted according to a hierarchy of winners and losers? I think not.
