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2 days ago · Founded in 1986, the Santa Barbara Independent is the leading source for news, arts & entertainment, and lifestyle coverage in the greater Santa Barbara area.
Santa Barbara County Shares Backup Plan to Keep Lights on …
14 hours ago · Santa Barbara County’s electric grid is a fragile network. It is literally at the end of the line for both PG&E and SCE power lines, which are in areas prone to wildfire, floods, and debris flows. One bad disaster, and the grid goes pfft. As these natural disasters increase in frequency and scale ...
Book Review | ‘Tell Me Everything’ by Elizabeth Strout
14 hours ago · The hero of Tell Me Everything is sweet and unselfish Bob Burgess. A semi-retired criminal defense attorney, his main occupation for the first part of the novel is mooning over Lucy Barton. The two take weekly walks together, and when Bob isn’t admiring everything about Lucy while they chat and he sneaks a surreptitious cigarette (Bob’s ...
A Totally ’80s Summer - The Santa Barbara Independent
12 hours ago · A Totally ’80s Summer. Four Months. Twenty-Six Bands. One Awesomely Weird Decade. They call it the Proust Effect: when a sensation triggers a vivid and specific memory from our past. For Proust himself, the sensation was taste: a morsel of madeleine cookie melding with tea on his tongue in In Search of Lost Time.
Newsom Declares Victory over Big Oil - The Santa Barbara …
1 day ago · Only a few months delayed, Gov. Gavin Newsom finally got to take his victory lap over the oil industry on Monday. Surrounded by Democratic lawmakers and other supporters in the state Capitol rotunda, Newsom signed Assembly Bill X2-1, his proposal to address gasoline price spikes, which he called “a profoundly consequential effort to …
Why I'm Opposed to Measure P - The Santa Barbara Independent
1 day ago · In other words, Measure P asks the community to bail out poor budgeting and perpetuates unhealthy fiscal practices. Measure P will raise tax bills and rents. Another serious concern with the pro-P campaign is the repeated assertion, on signs, literature and texts, that a yes vote comes “without increasing taxes.”.
Take Back the Sidewalks - The Santa Barbara Independent
1 day ago · Not a day goes by that I don’t see human peddled and electric bicycles on the sidewalks in downtown. A month ago I was driving along De la Guerra Street toward downtown, when a young, helmetless young man raced past me on the sidewalk to my left. He then jumped the curb at Santa Barbara Street, swerved onto the street against traffic and ...
Stephanie’s Spectacular Social - The Santa Barbara Independent
1 day ago · Stephanie’s Spectacular Social. If you keep up with us on social media, you know we keep our feed up to date with as many stories as we can. This week, we want to introduce you to our social media coordinator, Stephanie Gerson, who runs it all behind the scenes. And she does more than just keeping our followers informed — she writes for us too!
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Best of Santa Barbara® 2021 - The Santa Barbara Independent
Oct 13, 2022 · Voters consistently accompanied their opinions with thank-yous and hosannas for the people and places who made their lives better in 2021. One message that came through loud and clear from this year’s results is that the people of Santa Barbara have taken the pandemic-driven initiative to support local businesses to heart.