Finding Understanding Through Al-Anon Family Groups
Fifteen million Americans over the age of 12 suffer from alcohol use disorder, and for alcoholics in particular, the disorder can lead to a variety...
A Family Searches for Housing
Rentals in Santa Barbara County are the worst. Due to my sister being disabled and my father being a diabetic, I live with my family...
Don’t bend to calls for a global tax cartel
When all you have is a hammer, everything does indeed look like a nail. This is the best way to describe government officials’ unoriginal and...
Will the tanking stock market doom President Biden and the Democrats?
President Biden’s honeymoon phase with the stock market has officially ended. In President Biden’s first year in office, the benchmark S&P 500 seemed to only...
Governor’s proposed budget is not sustainable, it’s time to live within our means
Californians are living through tough times. Sky-high inflation. Crippling drought. Rising crime rates. Growing homelessness. Increasing wildfires. Learning loss among students. Crumbling roads. Disjointed supply...
End California’s Corridors of Corruption
Our election season is in full swing and once our mailboxes are no longer jammed with campaign flyers, Californians rightfully expect the winners to vote...
A bankrupt argument for single-payer health care
Are Americans going bankrupt because of medical debt? Leading progressives seem to think so. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., recently called for all medical debt to...
The Fight for Ukraine in Our Minds
The Russian invasion against Ukraine has now passed three full months. Thousands of peaceful Ukrainians have been killed, many of them tortured by the Russian...
If students don’t return soon, community colleges are facing a financial crisis
Despite an offer of free tuition, Californians are shying away from community colleges. Although public investments in two-year public institutions have animated many political leaders...
California housing war rages as construction lags
So how goes the war between the state and many — but not all — California cities over housing policy? The war broke out a...
Honoring the life and legacy of Friedrich Hayek
“‘Emergencies’ have always been the pretext on which the safeguards of individual liberty have been eroded — and once they are suspended it is not...
We must do more to help victims of crime: George Gascón and Cristine Soto DeBerry
There are countless people in our community who have experienced serious physical harm. Sometimes, they want a prosecution to occur, and sometimes they don’t. Some-times...
Free speech and trivial lawsuits
Everyone knows that the Constitution protects free speech under the First Amendment. But many may not realize that the First Amendment also protects commercial speech,...
California can start to fix legal cannabis market by ditching the cultivation tax
It’s long been obvious that California’s high taxes were limiting the legal cannabis industry’s ability to compete with less expensive products on illicit markets. But...
A ‘disinformation’ board inspired by a dystopian novel
SACRAMENTO – Dystopian fiction always has fascinated me because writers such as Philip K. Dick and Ray Bradbury based their stories on real-world trends –...
Baseball Adventures with the Cactus League
Logan Webb, ace of the Giants pitching staff | Craig Harris And the 3-2 pitch. Swung on and hit deep to left center field. Back...
Banning the sale of menthol cigarettes may do more harm than good
The Food and Drug Administration has announced plans to ban the sale of menthol cigarettes. According to the 2020 National Survey on Drug Use and...
The Supreme Court overturning Roe won’t boost Democrats’ chances in the midterms
In light of the leaked Supreme Court draft opinion indicating that Roe v. Wade is set to be overturned, some Democrats are optimistic that the...
Christy Lozano: The Last Best Hope for Santa Barbara Schools
Christy Lozano For those who don’t know, Christy Lozano is running for Santa Barbara County Superintendent of Schools. Electing Christy on June 7 may be...
Beyond Recycled Untruths
In his 1964 book Why We Can’t Wait, written after the infamous Birmingham campaign where fire hoses and police dogs were turned on Black children...
It’s time to fix rising gas prices: Jay Obernolte
Over the past several months, gas prices have spiraled to new heights here in California’s 8th District and across the country. I have heard from...
Putting some WD-40 on the U.S. supply chain
Politicians, the Federal Reserve, and Fed and administration apologists like to claim that the inflation we face is caused by supply constraints. This claim goes...
Why is Rob Bonta suing the Postal Service?
California Attorney General Rob Bonta is suing the United States Postal Service. You’d think after California passed a law requiring the USPS to practically run...
A Floating Sewer Line in the Ocean?
The reaction to Heal the Ocean’s April 19, 2022, letter to the editor of the Montecito Journal regarding Bob Hazard’s piece “Should the Montecito Water...