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In the fight to protect school children from radical curricula, the canary in the coal mine was a California coastal community once home to former President Ronald Reagan’s personal ranch and now home to ultra-wealthy white liberals as well as a large underclass of poor Hispanics. Critical Race Theory (CRT), which holds that American institutions and culture are systemically racist and categorizes people as either victims or oppressors based on skin color, has generated a backlash in recent years from parents. But a parents group called Fair Education Santa Barbara began fighting four years ago, filing what is believed to be the nation’s first lawsuit against CRT and related pedagogy, which critics say poison the minds of young children. Although a federal judge ruled in 2019 that the group lacked standing to assert its claims of intentional discrimination on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, and sex, the suit foreshadowed a national fight for curriculum transparency. “Fair Education’s first-in-thenation lawsuit lit the spark for the prairie fire that has spread across America, to provide parents with the information and knowledge needed to fight the racially divisive, antiAmerican, sexually over-the-

Current gas prices are shown at a Fuel Depot gas station, which until recently was a Shell gas station, at the corner of Fairview Avenue and Calle Real in Goleta on Sunday. The average price of gas in California is $5.964, while in Santa Barbara County the average is $5.953. In nearby counties, San Luis Obispo County’s average is $6.153, Ventura County’s is $6.014 and the average in Los Angeles County is $6.013.

City council considering eminent domain for bridge project By KAITLYN SCHALLHORN NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

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Border observers: Illegal immigration surge helped fuel U.S. drug overdose spike By CASEY HARPER THE CENTER SQUARE

(The Center Square) – Drug overdoses spiked last year alongside a significant rise in illegal immigration, raising questions about how the increased traffic at the border could be leading to more drug deaths. Newly released data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed a significant rise in drug overdoses last year at a record 107,000 deaths. At the same time, U.S.

Customs and Border Patrol reported a surge in illegal immigration in 2021. “In FY 2021, CBP recorded a total of 1.72 million enforcement encounters, including 146,054 encounters of unaccompanied children, 478,492 encounters of individuals in family units, and 1,098,500 encounters of single adults,” the agency said. Illegal immigration has continued to soar this year as well. CBP said in March this month, border patrol agents encountered 221,303 illegal immigrants.

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Border agents also have continued to seize large amounts of illegal drugs at the border. Customs and Border Protection’s Air and Marine Operations reported interdicting 62 tons of illicit drugs in the first three months of this year alone. The seizure of some substances in the U.S., like fentanyl-laced pills, have skyrocketed. Those pills are a key cause of overdoses since users are often unaware they contain fentanyl or of how much fentanyl they contain. Please see BORDER on A6

The Santa Barbara City Council will discuss using eminent domain for the De La Vina Street Bridge replacement project on Tuesday. The council is considering adopting a resolution deeming eminent domain necessary for the project located on upper De La Vina Street between Alamar Avenue and Vernon Road. The project includes the removal of the bridge — initially built in 1916 but widened in 1926 — and replacing it with one meeting current seismic, safety and design standards. The city needs to acquire parcels at 2733 and 2735 De La Vina St. in order to complete the project, according to a staff report, as well as 2726 and 2728 De La Vina St. Other temporary and permanent easements will also need to be constructed at various other properties at De La Vina Street and Vernon Road, according to the plan presented

in the staff report. According to the staff report, city staff and a consultant have been working with the owners of the property but negotiations have stalled — thus resulting in the eminent domain issue before the city council this week. The bridge design is 95% completed with construction slated to begin next year, according to the report. Additionally Tuesday, the city council will continue to hear an update on its 2023 Housing Element Goals. This is a continuation of a joint meeting of the city council and Planning Commission in late April. The city council is scheduled to meet Tuesday at 2 p.m. at City Hall located at 735 Anacapa St. The meeting will be held in person but can also be viewed online at https:// santabarbaraca-gov.zoom. us/webinar/register/WN_ BHXU9bk1SWq0ntGHplRq0Q or http://www.santabarbaraca. gov/CAP. email: kschallhorn@newspress.com

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top indoctrination occurring daily in our schools beginning in kindergarten,” Sheridan Rosenberg and James Fenkner, local parents and co-founders of the group, wrote in a January submission to the Santa Barbara News-Press. The parents charged that the district required all students to take extreme “ethnic studies” courses as a condition of graduating, put a radical activist group in charge of other programming, and refused to allow parents to see the curriculum. One specific claim asserted that the district segregated students for “training” sessions, telling white children that all whites are racist. One student allegedly contemplated suicide because he felt deep shame over not speaking Spanish. Opponents say CRT is part of a larger, radical curriculum being imposed on public school children under a series of names that seem to change when opposition builds. School officials and Democrats claim, despite clear evidence, that CRT isn’t in schools while also vehemently opposing growing efforts to ban it. While the battle is new for some, Santa Barbara parents have seen it play out longer than most. They say activistteachers have been working to turn children into political foot soldiers, and they warn that the radicalism steadily ratchets up over time. “Ethnic studies” is a particularly militant cousin of CRT. In 2011, an ethnic,studies program in Phoenix was canceled after the state of Arizona charged that it violated Please see SBUSD on A2

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Continued from Page A1 a law prohibiting schools from teaching resentment towards a race or class of people or promoting the overthrow of the U.S. government. A top administrator found that students were being “exploited” by community activists and college academics, who convinced Hispanic students they were part of the long-extinct Aztec culture. Mark Stegeman, a college professor and then-Phoenix Board of Education president, recounted visiting the class, which included the teacher telling students they were “still in the struggle” and having them chant: “We must be willing to act in a revolutionary fashion.” What he witnessed mirrored a book he had read about the psychological dynamics of cults and prompted a chilling realization, he recalled thinking. “This is a cult,” Mr. Stegeman scribbled in his notepad. A few years later, a handful of activists used identical methods in Santa Barbara, operating under the banner “Ethnic Studies Now!” They sought to make Ethnic Studies a requirement for graduation, and found support on the liberal city’s all-female school board, whose members refer to each other as “sister board members.” The activist group quickly began to exert its influence on the Santa Barbara Unified School District, bringing in a range of radical curricula and left-wing consultants to inculcate children in fringe theories. Key figures in the Ethnic Studies Now! Santa Barbara chapter are disgraced history teacher Matef Harmachis and his wife Diane Fujino. For years, Mr. Harmachis and Ms. Fujino regularly visited a prison to see an inmate convicted of conspiring to overthrow the government. Mr. Harmachis remained a mainstay at school board meetings even after he was convicted of battery against a student in 2017. A lawyer for the student says it was done in a sexual manner. Before he was fired in 2020, Mr. Harmachis preached his militant beliefs to a captive audience of students in a classroom adorned with pictures of communist killers like Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. He took his adopted surname from the name of a god worshiped by an ancient Egyptian cult. Before enraptured youth at one event, Mr. Harmachis declared himself “an African” and said, “I’m going to tell you what leadership means to African people… you must love, love, love your people, unfortunately sometimes to death so your people

can live… We take orders, and we follow them to the letter on behalf of our people.” According to public records, Mr. Harmachis’ real name is Leigh Barker, he is originally from Riverside, and he now lives in a home valued at some $1.6 million, blocks from the beach. SBUSD embraced the activist groups and absorbed their agendas, furthering them with taxpayer dollars. It hired Artnelson Concordia as Ethnic Studies coordinator, budgeting $129,000 for the position. Mr. Concordia said he raises children to be “disrupters of the white supremacist, patriarchal, heteronormative, imperialist hegemony.” Santa Barbara children chanted Mayan prayers, despite the fact that Mayans were known for their ritualistic killing of children as sacrifices to the gods. Mr. Concordia later helped write a statewide ethnic studies curriculum approved by the state Board of Education that called for students to engage in an “ethnic studies chant” to “bring the class together.” For years, SBUSD turned over portions of its curriculum to activist nonprofits. Many were funded by the Fund for Santa Barbara, of which Mr. Harmachis’s wife, Diane Fujino — a professor of Asian American Studies and onetime director of the Center for Black Studies Research at UCSB — serves on the board of directors. “They bond to each other as educators and learners, because as they get a consciousness about their power of being sexual beings.” One nonprofit, which the fund paid to provide “social emotional learning certification workshops,” is called AHA! Santa Barbara (Attitudes, Harmony, and Achievement). It gathered students into circles alongside adults, including one who served time in prison, to share intimate details of their lives. The program was created by Jennifer Freed, a “certified astrologer & psychotherapist” who tells people she can understand them based on “cosmic DNA.” Some AHA circles focus on the sex lives of the high schoolers. “I had great sexual experiences with guys in junior high and high school,” Ms. Freed said in an interview with the popular sex tips podcast “Sex With Emily.” “We do an afterschool group for young women called Sexual Wisdom, and one for guys … they bond to each other as educators and learners, because as they get a consciousness about their power of being sexual beings.” (On the material that parents see, AHA advertises a “Girls Relationship Wisdom Group.”) Ms. Freed explained to the

podcaster: “This is what we do with the teens, once we’ve heard from them all their basic misconceptions about sex, like guys only want girls who have completely shaved pubes and then find us disgusting unless we’re bare. Then we go ‘OK, how’s that working for you?’ ” SEL is marketed to parents as something that “can help address various forms of inequity and empower young people and adults to co-create thriving schools and contribute to safe, healthy, and just communities.” Other groups and individuals played key roles in the deep radicalization of Santa Barbara’s school system. The Association of Raza Educators, a group that says its mission is “to promote critical pedagogy as the principle [sic] means of addressing the question of how to teach our children,” had the ears of district officials. (Critical pedagogy is the application of critical theory, including critical race theory.) Another group, Just Communities, received more than $1 million in grants from the school district to push a radical agenda under the guise of promoting “equity.” Run until recently by Jarrod Schwartz, Just Communities held a district-funded summer camp where students were supposed to “learn from activities that focus on ethnic and racial identity, stereotyping, communication, family issues, racism, homophobia, sexism, and classism.” Just Communities is an offshoot of a now-defunct group called NCCJ, whose offspring have a disturbing record of mistreating children in the name of social justice. At another NCCJ-related camp in Northern California, students were “ordered to separate by race, ethnicity and sexual orientation… while their peers are instructed to call out every slur and stereotype they know about them,” the San Francisco Chronicle reported in 2018. After students called out “good at math” for Asians, staff yelled out “small penises.” Adults called blacks “porch monkeys” and ordered Hispanics to clean up. If students were too kind, the adults twisted the dagger by using the most painful of stereotypes, according to the report. After students called out “good at math” for Asians, staff yelled out “small penises.” Adults called blacks “porch monkeys” and ordered Hispanics to clean up, the Chronicle reported. Richard Valenzuela, a teacher and director of “Camp Diversity” in Northern California, acknowledged mistreating students. “I hit the ‘blind’ people in the

back of the head so they can feel how it is to be harassed, how it feels to be violated,” he told the newspaper. He also taunted Jewish students about the Holocaust, asking, “You Jews waiting for the train or what?” Other teachers trained black students to mistrust police, dressing as officers and planting mock drug paraphernalia on them. At night as the students tried to sleep, counselors haunted them by playing chainsaw noises. Mr. Schwartz told the paper that he rejects some of Mr. Valenzuela’s methods. But teachers and parents said even sessions happening in school buildings had similarities to Mr. Valenzuela’s nightmarish student camps. Theresa Petino, an immigrant and mother in Santa Barbara who sent her middle schooler to a three-day Just Communities program at the junior high because she thought it would advocate unity that aligned with her beliefs as a Democrat, complained to the school board that her child returned “very upset.” “When I contacted one of the teachers from Just Communities and told her the state of my child and asked her what was taught in the class, she responded to me by saying that my child said he was a disgrace to his family,” she told the board at a September 2019 meeting. “She never told me what was taught in class that day.” Ms. Petino later learned that what upset her child were lessons that instilled into middle schoolers the idea that Latinos and blacks were unlikely to achieve success in America. “These kids are at a very vulnerable age and some of them can get very discouraged and affected psychologically. Making them not even try to succeed,” Ms. Petino told the school board. Perhaps even more disturbing was the fact that camp counselors cultivated relationships with students that continued after the camp. Ms.Petino was shocked when Just Communities later texted her child directly to invite him “to go for a hike and bring a friend.” “I never gave Just Communities my child’s number,” Ms. Petino said. “Just Communities had my number, and they never contacted me informing me of such an invitation. My child is a minor; is that even legal?” Shortly after Ms. Petino addressed the board, a youth who described himself as a “queer brown low-income person” said he initially did not want to go to a Just Communities “Institute,” but “within I would say an hour I just formed my family. I understand that while we do have a blood family, we also have a family that we create ourselves. And I believe I have found mine.”

“These are ideological predators,” Ms. Rosenberg told The Daily Wire. “People should be just as vigilant protecting their children from ideological predators as they are sexual predators.” Ms. Rosenberg, the Santa Barbara parent who went on to co-found Fair Education Santa Barbara, said she got a familiar feeling from the activism techniques being used – including the confiding of deeply personal information, having children lie down and pretend to be dead as a form of protest, the urgency evident in “Ethnic Studies Now!” and its demand to make its curriculum required. Having grown up in the 1970s in the rural California community of Ukiah, Ms. Rosenberg recalled a local teacher who ran a home for troubled teens while building a base of followers for what he called “Apostolic Socialism.” His name was Jim Jones, and he would later convince more than 900 of his followers to die in a mass suicide in Guyana by drinking cyanide-laced fruit punch. “These are ideological predators,” Ms. Rosenberg told The Daily Wire. “People should be just as vigilant protecting their children from ideological predators as they are sexual predators.” Despite the local backlash, the Santa Barbara school district refused to cut ties with Ethnic Studies Now! and Just Communities (though it now says it

has declined to renew its contract this year). It was equally adamant that parents not be able to see Just Communities’ materials. When Ms. Rosenberg’s group sued the school district and the nonprofit in federal court, alleging that the district gave Just Communities no-bid contracts and that Just Communities practiced racial discrimination and segregation, the nonprofit hired the powerful, Democratconnected law firm Perkins Coie. The Washington-based law firm has come under the scrutiny of Special Counsel John Durham for its work on behalf of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee prior to the 2016 election. Documents revealed under the discovery process of a lawsuit are typically public, but Perkins Coie fought to keep Just Communities’ paper trail sealed. In an email to opposing counsel, its lawyers said materials should be “designated Attorney’s Eyes Only” unless ordered by a court or agreed to otherwise. The district had so many lawyers that the judge had to seat some in the jury box. It won the case, and the victory was later affirmed on appeal. Luke Rosiak is an investigative journalist for the Daily Wire and the author of the book “Race To the Bottom: Uncovering the Secret Forces Destroying American Public Education.” Editor’s note: This series will continue in Tuesday’s News-Press.

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Despite the local backlash, the Santa Barbara Unified School District refused to cut ties with Ethnic Studies Now! and Just Communities (though it now says it has declined to renew its contract this year), according to the investigation by The Daily Wire.

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UCSB beats Dixie State in extra innings By DANIEL MOEBUS-BOWLES UCSB SPORTS WRITER

No. 9 UCSB (35-11, 21-3) baseball continued to run the show at Caesar Uyesaka Stadium, winning the series against Dixie State (19-30, 12-15) 7-6, going extra innings on an arid Saturday afternoon. Starting pitcher Mike Gutierrez matched his career high of nine Ks after 5.1 innings pitched, only giving up three hits and two runs in his outing. The hidden gem of the game was Jordan Sprinkle, who went 4-for-5 with a run and stolen base. Christian Kirtley and Bryce Willits have now reached base in 35 and 33 straight games respectively. Willits ended the game with two hits and a RBI double. John Newman Jr.’s consistency was felt as he went 2-for-2 with a run and a double. Nick Vogt had two hits, one of which was a monster home run, his fifth homer of the season and sixth in his career. Kyle Johnson had a walk-off two-run single in the bottom of the tenth. The Trailblazers were awake and alert today as they ended the first frame tacking on two runs to the scoreboard. Guiterrez kept the damage at that, and Dixie State was unable to reach home again with him on the mound. UCSB responded with haste at the bottom of the second. John Newman Jr. took the first pitch he saw

to the gap towards left center field for a double; he went on to score the first run for the Gauchos with assists by Nick Oakley’s ground-out and Sprinkle’s base hit. A 425-foot homer towards dead center by Vogt brought home Willits and gave the Gauchos the lead for the first time in the game. Dixie State was unbothered as they tied the game with a bases loaded walk in the sixth. Willits doubled to right field to bring home Sprinkle, who had a base hit and stolen base to put the Gauchos on top again. It became a back and forth game as both teams scored in the next few innings. However, the Trailblazers came out with a one run lead by the last frame when the Gauchos missed a scoring opportunity at the bottom of the eighth with the bases loaded and only one out. Vogt’s home-run saving catch ended the top of the ninth frame to allow for a chance at redemption. Mortensen came through with a single to bring home Sprinkle who advanced to second base after a base hit and an error, tying the game. With a hit-by-pitch by Vogt and a single from Brown, Willow’s sac bunt advanced the runners to third and second, respectively. Johnson slapped a walk-off single to drive the latter two home to win the series. Daniel Moebus-Bowles writes about sports for UCSB. email: sports@newspress.com

Gaucho men finish 3rd, women 6th on final day of Big West Championships By MICHAEL JORGENSON UCSB SPORTS WRITER

The UCSB track and field team closed out the Big West Championships Saturday at Woody Wilson Track, claiming two more first-place finishes to bring its total medal count to 14. Redshirt senior Brian Schulz followed up Friday’s 10K gold by winning the 5K on Saturday with a time of 14:26.97. On the women’s side, the 4x100 relay team of

Alexa Cuevas, Emma Barthel, Jessica Boyd and Sophia Pardo crossed the finish line first with a beautiful time of 46.80, beating out second-place Hawaii by less than two-tenths of a second. In the end, the UCSB men (140.5) finished third overall at the conference championships, doing their best to keep pace with favorites Cal State Fullerton (200) and Long Beach State (173.5). It was the highest team finish for the Gaucho men since 2017. The

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UCSB women’s water polo celebrates 2022 season, give out team awards at end-of-year banquet By MICHAEL JORGENSON UCSB SPORTS WRITER

After a pair of COVID-shortened seasons, the UCSB women’s water polo team recently wrapped up its 2021-22 campaign and held its first end-of-year banquet in several years, where it handed out team awards and selected its captains for next year. “I am proud of the passion, pride, and perseverance team 2022 put in throughout this season,” head coach Serela Kay said. “I have no doubt the strides we will take in the future will be big due to the little moments we endured together. Exciting times ahead!”

Co-MVPs – Caitlyn Snyder and Leigh Lyter From the outset of the season, utility Caitlyn Snyder and attacker Leigh Lyter filled up the box score for the Gauchos. They would go on to lead UCSB with 42 goals apiece, resulting in co-MVP honors as voted by their teammates. The Gauchos’ lone representative on the 2022 AllBig West Team was Snyder, and with good reason, as she enjoyed her most productive year yet during her redshirt junior season. The Fresno, Calif. native led the Big West in assists for the first time, registering 50 – 13 more than the next-highest player in the Big West. Her 92 total goal contributions ranked third in the conference, the most of any Gaucho under head coach Serela Kay. Lyter meanwhile was phenomenal in her second year with the team, putting up 12 goals in the first weekend of competition alone at the UCSB Winter Invite. The former Mira Costa High School star ended up with five of UCSB’s nine four-goal performances this season. Active on both sides of the ball, Lyter led the Gauchos with 29 steals as well and had the secondhighest shooting percentage (.467). One of her most memorable moments came early in the season when she helped give UCSB its first win over a top-20 team, sending in an incredible buzzer-beating game-winner from near the middle of the pool to knock off thenNo. 19 Princeton 15-14.

Co-Most Improved Players – Taylor McEvilly and Millie Mackay Two key Gaucho defenders were recognized for their growth as the team’s Co-Most Improved honorees. Freshman Taylor McEvilly wound up playing the most games at goalkeeper, starting in 13 of 20 appearances. She finished with a team-leading 64 saves to go along with seven assists and 17 steals. One of her best performances saw her post a season-high nine saves (.643) and an assist in a 10-7 win over No. 24 CSUN on Mar. 11. It was the fewest goals UCSB allowed against a ranked opponent all season. Defender Camilla Mackay continued to get better

throughout the course of the season, playing in every game over the final two months of the season. She ended her redshirt freshman year with six steals, including one in each of the final three games, and had an assist in the Big West Tournament First Round.

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Defensive Specialist of the Year – Claire Kelly Another crucial piece of the defense was Claire Kelly, who was voted the team’s Defensive Specialist of the Year. Kelly battled hard in the defensive third of the pool all season, tallying 22 steals and five field blocks. She also finished with 10 goals, was second on the team with 28 assists, and fourth with 16 drawn exclusions. The redshirt sophomore opened her year with a career-high three goals against No. 23 Wagner and went for a season-high four assists in each of her next two games. Over that span, she contributed to 14 total goals, making her the only Gaucho other than Snyder and Lyter to accomplish that this year.

Rookie of the Year – Annie Kuester Utility Annie Kuester appeared in 23 of 24 games this season and did not disappoint. She ended her freshman campaign with the fifth-most goals (27), resulting in her being named the team’s Rookie of the Year. Kuester was deadly efficient when she decided to go for goal, finishing with UCSB’s highest shooting percentage (.563). She was also just one of four Gauchos to collect 20 steals, also recording 13 drawn exclusions and three assists.

Nick Johnson Inspiration Award – Mary Beth Heffelfinger Redshirt freshman attacker Mary Beth Heffelfinger was awarded the Nick Johnson Inspiration Award, given to the player who exemplifies traits such as selflessness, teamwork and extraordinary work ethic both inside and outside of the pool. Heffelfinger played in nine games this season, totaling two goals, three assists and three steals.

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Team 2023 Captains – Caitlyn Snyder and Sarah Owens Next year’s co-captains will be two of the team’s top producers and veteran leaders in Caitlyn Snyder and Sarah Owens. Both will be in their senior year in 2022-23, their fifth overall with Gaucho women’s water polo. Michael Jorgenson writes about sports for UCSB. email: sports@newspress.com

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Continued from Page A3 redshirt sophomore Gabriela Sanchez (47.06m) took bronze and sophomore Saloni Khandhadia (44.61m) also brought in points finishing in sixth. Redshirt junior Kendall Martin took fourth in the javelin with a mark of 44.07m. On the track, redshirt junior Lauren Gerhart finished fourth in the 800m at 2:10.31 and freshman Ruby Sirota-Foster (2:13.48) went sixth. Sophomore Abigail Monti represented UCSB in the 400m hurdles and claimed sixth with a time of 1:03.00. Following up her 4x100 relay gold medal, Boyd also took seventh in the 100m dash with a time of 12.20.

DAY 2 MEN’S HIGHLIGHTS Redshirt senior Brian Schulz capped off a tremendous weekend becoming the only Gaucho at the championships to win two golds, finishing nearly three seconds ahead of second-place to take first in the men’s 5k (14:26.97). The Gauchos also got top-8 finishes in the event from redshirt junior Brandon Cobian (14:49.08) and sophomore Gus Marshall (14:56.06), who went seventh and eighth, respectively. In the 800m, redshirt senior Jarrett Chinn came up big with a time of 1:49.66 to win UCSB’s only silver medal on the day. The Gauchos got more great efforts in the triple jump, as redshirt junior Glenn Mbamo (15.00m) took third and redshirt sophomore Anthony Victa (14.72m) finished fifth. Redshirt sophomore Jared Freeman claimed fourth in the hammer with a 60.13m. Also finishing fourth was freshman Eitan Goore in the pole vault (4.86m). The Gaucho men were solid in the relays, taking fourth in the 4x100 (41.36) and 5th in the 4x400 (3:15.38). Finally, in the 110m hurdles, freshman Tyler Holl rounded out UCSB’s top-5 finishers with the conference’s fifth-best mark of 14.77.

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Buyers need 40% more income to purchase homes in top metro areas, report finds By BETHANY BLANKLEY THE CENTER SQUARE CONTRIBUTOR

(The Center Square) – Demand for homes in certain areas of the country has caused supply to dwindle, prices to skyrocket and buyers needing nearly 50% more income than they would have last year to even enter top markets, according to a report by the real estate brokerage firm, Redfin. “Housing is significantly less affordable than it was a year ago because the surge in housing costs has far outpaced the increase in wages, meaning many Americans are now priced out of homeownership,” Redfin Deputy Chief Economist Taylor Marr said. Because more people are working remotely and can live anywhere to work, many are flocking to cities in the Sun Belt, with the most popular destinations being Tampa, Phoenix and Las Vegas. They are also the most expensive, with potential homeowners needing more than 40% more in income than they did last year to buy. Buyers are flocking to the Sun Belt “partly because they’re relatively affordable compared to pricey coastal job centers, but the resulting rise in home prices may make them less popular in the future,” the analysis found. Tampa has quickly become the least affordable market, with homebuyers needing 47.8% more income than they did

a year ago, more than in any other metro area in the U.S., the report found. Home buyers in Tampa would need to earn $67,353 annually to afford a monthly mortgage payment of $1,684. Last year, they needed to earn $45,562. Most workers don’t make a $21,791 increase in their salary in one year, let alone in a decade. That means many who might have been able to afford to buy last year have been priced out. But those who can are buying with the median sale price hovering at $363,750. Phoenix home buyers need to earn $87,026, an increase of 45.7% from the previous year, to afford a monthly mortgage payment of $2,176 in the area. The median sale price is $470,000. Las Vegas buyers need to earn $79,620, up 45.6% from a year ago, to afford a monthly payment of $1,990. The median sale price is $430,000. Homeowners need nearly 40% or more income to buy in Orlando and Jacksonville, Florida, in Austin, Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas, in Anaheim and San Diego, California, and in the metro areas of Nashville, Atlanta and Charlotte, North Carolina. Redfin analyzed median home sale prices between March 2021 and March 2022. It focuses on affordability based on buyers taking out loans, not paying cash. It defines a monthly mortgage payment to be one that is no more than 30% of a

While housing costs skyrocket, wages are increasing but not at near the same pace. The average hourly wages in the U.S. grew by 5.6% last year, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Over the last decade, median home prices increased by roughly 30% while household incomes increased by 11% over the same time period. homebuyer’s income. Nationwide, Americans are migrating despite high costs, or because of them. A seller leaving New York with a median home sale price of $677,654, for example, is more likely to afford purchasing a home in Las Vegas or in Tampa even if the homes are overvalued there because they are far less expensive than in New York. Likewise, the cost of living is less, and Nevada and Florida levy no state income tax. A record 32.3% of Redfin.com users nationwide looked to relocate to a different metro area in the first quarter of this year, a separate Redfin analysis found. That’s up from 31.5% a year earlier, and up 26% from 2019. “Skyrocketing home prices and rising mortgage rates have made relocating to a more affordable area the only viable option for some prospective homebuyers,” the report notes.

Nationwide, homebuyers need to earn $76,414 annually to afford a monthly mortgage payment of $1,910, an increase of 34.2% from the previous year. The national median home sale is $412,687, a 17.3% increase from last year. While housing costs skyrocket, wages are increasing but not at near the same pace. The average hourly wages in the U.S. grew by 5.6% last year, according to Bureau of Labor Statistics data. Over the last decade, median home prices increased by roughly 30% while household incomes increased by 11% over the same time period, a Bankrate analysis found. From 2019 to 2021, “the average houseprice-to-income ratio increased from 4.7 to 5.4 — a 14.9% increase and more than double the recommended ratio of 2.6. In other words, homes cost 5.4X what the average person earns in one year,” an analysis by Clever Real Estate

found. It also notes that since 1965, after accounting for inflation, home prices increased by 118% while household incomes increased by only 15%. As home prices outpace wages, inventory continues to decline. An analysis by the National Associations of Realtors and Realtor.com points out that a household earning $75,000 to $100,000 can afford to buy 51% of the active housing inventory today compared to being able to purchase 58% of the homes for sale in 2019. One possible course correction could come from the Federal Reserve raising interest rates, and thereby mortgage rates. Mr. Marr notes, “The good news is that there’s a positive side to rising mortgage rates, too: They will likely slow price growth and curb competition for homes, providing a reprieve for some prospective buyers.”

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Continued from Page A1 While drug seizures did not see a significant change last fiscal year, it is impossible to know how many illegal immigrants, or illicit drugs, made it through the border undetected. With border patrol agents facing the surge in migrants, experts say even more drugs could have slipped by unnoticed. Mexican cartels control much of the drug trafficking at the southern border, and experts say they purposefully overwhelm border patrol agents in targeted areas to create a weak spot where they can then traffic drugs across the border. “There is absolutely a connection between drug trafficking and the surge in illegal immigration at the southern border,” said Preston Huennekens, government relations manager at the Federation for American Immigration Reform. “Cartels control both drug trafficking and human smuggling at the border – and profit from it

enormously. The cartels send massive groups of migrants across the border, who are then apprehended and processed by Border Patrol. While BP is dealing with all of this, the cartels will then send over their drug operations – free from any interference because [border patrol] is too busy processing the migrants who came before. “There is no question that these phenomena are connected and deeply intertwined,” he added. “The cartels control both drug flows and the flow of people – it’s that simple.” As border agents become more overwhelmed, experts say this provides opportunities for drug smugglers. “Since late 2020, through 2021, there have been reports of federal agents finding drugs, and particularly fentanyl, in the desert,” said Jonathon Hauenschild, ALEC director, Task Force on Homeland Security. “Drug cartels are seizing on the lack of border security for the opportunity to transport their products into the United States in ways that they believe will evade detection or prosecution. The

result is an increase in deadly drugs, which in turn helps spur the increase in drug use and overdoses.” Many border patrol agents are pulled off the front lines to process the large number of migrants, decreasing the resources CBP has for patrols. “At least 50%, and as many as 80% at times, of Border Patrol agents have been pulled off the frontlines to handle these responsibilities, leaving major gaps that the cartels and smugglers have been quick to exploit,” said Mark Morgan, Heritage visiting fellow and former acting commissioner of Customs and Border Protection. “The growing absence of Border Patrol agents has allowed these groups to flood our country with untold amounts of fentanyl and other deadly narcotics, which inevitably make their way into our communities, devastating hundreds of thousands of lives.” The inflow of drugs has a major cost to Americans, in lives and tax dollars. “The link between historic levels of illegal immigration and the devastating rise in overdose

deaths among Americans is clear and undeniable,” Mr. Morgan said. “The leading cause of death among Americans aged 18-45 is now fentanyl, 95% of which comes into our country across the southern border, per the [Drug Enforcement Agency]. Record amounts of fentanyl have been seized coming across the border since President Biden took office – and that is just the fentanyl we know about. It’s the drugs that aren’t being seized that are the critical problem.” Mr. Hauenschild said the border traffic has been a drain on state resources as they struggle to deal with the increased flow of drugs. “A lack of border security impacts more than just immigration,” he said. “For most states, the lack of security on our southern border leads to increased violent crime, overdoses, and other burdens. States have to divert resources originally dedicated to protecting communities to dealing with the fallout from the federal government - and the Biden Administration specifically

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School board’s newest member

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“I would like kids to feel more empowered and less like decisions are just made for them,” said Kavya Suresh, a San Marcos sophomore who will join the Santa Barbara Unified School District board this fall as its student representative. “I want them to feel decisions are made with them and to help them and to represent them.”

San Marcos sophomore Kavya Suresh is ready to make a difference By KAITLYN SCHALLHORN NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

At 16 years old, Kavya Suresh isn’t quite sure what she wants to pursue after high school, but whatever she decides, she knows she has to be a changemaker. Yet, Kavya is already doing just that, making an indelible difference in her community. She was recently selected to be the next student member on the Santa Barbara Unified School District Board of Education, and although her term doesn’t technically start until the new school year, the outgoing teenager is already hitting the ground running. Kavya, a sophomore at San Marcos High School, has grown up in Santa Barbara and has been a part of SBUSD since she was in seventh grade. She is incredibly passionate about representation — ensuring students’ from all walks of life are heard and included and successful — and is heavily involved in her community through GENup Santa Barbara, the Santa Barbara Youth Council, Ethnic Studies Now, Youth Making Change and much more. “When you’re in a position of leadership, especially as a student, so many people know who you are and so many people care about you, and you get to care about so many people,” Kavya told the News-Press. “That’s the biggest thing for me: I want people to know that I’m here for them, and I support them, and I want to uplift them.” It’s the “unified” portion of the school district’s name that Kavya is honed in on as she gets ready to join the board. She said she wants to address linguistic and ability segregation seen throughout the school system, describing it as “different tracks in our education.”

“I would like to see us collaborate and integrate and really get to know one another and create an education system that allows all students to feel like they’re able to achieve, regardless of their ability or their language or their background or their class or their ethnicity,” Kavya said. To attain that, Kavya is advocating for more student representation throughout various committees and groups in the school district. “I would like kids to feel more empowered and less like decisions are just made for them,” she said. “I want them to feel decisions are made with them and to help them and to represent them.” To that end, Kavya praised the current board members for their compassion and dedication to students. She said they have made it clear their role is to serve students, and she’s ready to get to work with them. She’s also excited to visit different schools and hear firsthand from other students — after all, she’s a selfdescribed extrovert who loves being around other people — to get a general idea of concerns from her peers. Kavya is a collaborator, and she wants to work with students, parents, teachers, community stakeholders and anyone else on creating a vision to make SBUSD a better place. Kavya exuberates a warm strength when she talks about her passion for advocacy and education. When she says she wants her fellow students to know, foremost, she is their friend and partner, it’s clear she is being forthright. “The biggest thing I would want all students to know is before all, I’m their friend and their ally, and I’m their support. I just want to see everyone be

“I want people to know that I’m here for them, and I support them, and I want to uplift them,” Kavya Suresh, 16, said.

successful,” Kavya said. “I want everyone to thrive, and I want everyone to create the change that they want to see, and I want everyone to feel empowered to do that.”

“I’m here to support them and uplift them and empower them,” she said of her classmates. Kavya’s term on the school board will run through the next school year

until June 30. Dawson Kelly, a junior at San Marcos High School, is the current student board member. email: kschallhorn@newspress.com

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Hillside’s annual soirée set for Saturday Hillside will hold its annual soirée, “Rooted in Strength, Growing in Opportunities,” on Saturday. The 18th annual event will be held from 4:30 to 8 p.m. at the Rockwood Santa Barbara Women’s Club, 670 Mission Canyon Road. The Santa Barbara program will benefit the 59 individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities who live at Hillside. The event will also recognize various people, including Bob and Patty Bryant, the recipients of this year’s Person of Purpose Award. The Bryants are being honored for their contributions to Hillside and its events as well as their work with the Council on Alcoholism and Drug Abuse. Martin Jimenez, Hillside’s dietary director, will be presented with the Advancing Abilities Award for his decades of service to the nonprofit. The event will include hors d’oeuvres, wine and live jazz by Kim Collins and Debbie Denke. Chef Maili Halme of Maili Productions has been chosen to prepare a three-course dinner with wines selected by John Tilson. Questions about Hillside or the event can be directed to Michael Padden-Rubin, director of development, at mpaddenrubin@hillsidesb. org or at 805-687-0788, ext. 115. More on Hillside can be found at www.hillsidesb.org. email: kschallhorn@newspress.com

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Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist drew about everything from Korean War to California

.C. has a wonderful (but not very politically correct) pocket-sized book inherited from her father called Reg Manning’s “Cartoon Guide to California” (1939). It is almost in its original condition, which is important in the valuation of books. Manning, the original self-made journalist, was born Reginald West Manning (1905-1986) and had a high school teacher who taught him a few things about art, but he went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1951. The brilliant cartoon that won that prize had to do with the Korean War, featured a double palleted cartoon, of which the first image was glorious hats on a stick at the United Nations facility in Lake Success, N.Y. The cartoon stated its title was “Hats”— and here we see shiny and wonderful tops hats on a hat stand, in a bare field with no background. Yet the next image is a lonely grave maker in Korea, a cross with a helmet, stating the title “Hats: Korea.” It’s a simple lonely grave marker of a cross with a soldier’s helmet at the apex. That was the cartoon that won the Pulitzer Prize at the height of the Korean War in 1951. Manning was syndicated in 170 US newspapers (1948-1971), and his editorial cartoons were discussed around water coolers for 40 years. Although born in Kansas City, Mo,, he traveled to the West to St. Louis (where I was born). He went with his young mom to Phoenix after his mother lost her husband at the age of 39. Reg began to love the desert, satirizing the West in such books as “Cartoon Guide to Arizona” and “Cartoon Guide to Boulder Dam Country” and the exemplary “What Kinda Cactus Izzat?” He discovered Arizona golf and published a book “From Tee to Cups” — and finally after really getting to know Arizona, “What is Arizona Really Like?”(1968). In his later years, he bought a diamond edged wheel, whereby he etched crystal, with images of his beloved desert — and cactus — on vessels of glass. His etched glass works were published in a book ”Desert in Crystal” (1973). Some people do fall in love with the desert, and he did wholeheartedly. His signature in his syndicated cartoons was a little cactus with a big nose, then his signature “Reg Manning.” E.C.’s book was intended as a tourist guide to California, and it had a fold-out map. It included California history as it could be understood in 1939, and cities of note, and a visitor’s guide, as well as geographical oddities, as only a person from the Midwest could see those oddities in California. Dealers who regularly sell Manning’s vintage books are kind of crazy themselves, as is K and B Books, in Tucson, who write that they specialize in outlier genres such as books on outlaws, lawmen, Tombstone and those people who in the day sought their fortune. In short, such book dealers sell to Wild West aficionado collectors. Who knew that was a genre? That pushes the valuation up. E.C.’s book was published in 1939 by — of all places — in New York by Augustine Books. The University Library of Wichita State University holds Manning’s archive, and if you browse his archive, you will see that Manning won the Freedom

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An undamaged shape “Cartoons of California” by Reg Manning can bring $125 or more.

Foundation’s Abraham Lincoln Award . The bond with the West, including Arizona and California, came early on in Manning’s life as his dad was a postal clerk with the Sante Fe Railway in the days when Missouri was the Gateway to the West. Reg’s mom must have been a trooper because Reg’s eldest brother had made a life in the West. She dragged three small boys to Arizona in the 1920s. Manning, at age 21, began designing editorial cartoons for The Arizona Republic , and said, in later life, that the key to cartooning is that “there is no humor without knowledge of experience.” If we enjoy our modern satirists on late night TV, we will hear that echo of that sentiment. Throughout his career, Manning published humorous postcards, and he liked to contrast the fabulously buxom women of the West with the scruffy cowboys of the West in the 1930-40, — and do remember — the West was a haven for divorcees. His series of “Travel Cards” issued by various publishers are in hot demand by postcard collectors today. I see that a good copy in undamaged shape of “Cartoons of California” can bring $125 or more. Dr. Elizabeth Stewart’s “Ask the Gold Digger” column appears Mondays in the News-Press. Written after her father’s COVID-19 diagnosis, Dr. Stewart’s book “My Darlin’ Quarantine: Intimate Connections Created in Chaos” is a humorous collection of five “what-if” short stories that end in personal triumphs over presentday constrictions. It’s available at Chaucer’s in Santa Barbara.

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John Mack Faragher will discuss his book “California: An American History” during a Chaucer’s Books program.

Chaucer’s Books hosting discussion with author of California history book Chaucer’s Books is hosting a virtual event with author John Mack Faragher to discuss his book “California: An American History.”

The event will take place from 6 to 7 p.m. May 26. Mr. Faragher’s book explores California’s history and support for diversity. It details the stories of people who sued for their freedom, survived genocide and more. Mr. Faragher is the Howard R. Lamar Professor of History and American Studies at Yale

Shelters seek homes for pets Local animal shelters and their nonprofit partners are looking for homes for pets. For more information, go to these websites: • Animal Services-Lompoc, countyofsb.org/phd/ animal/home.sbc. • Animal Shelter Assistance Program in Goleta, asapcats.org. ASAP is kitty corner to Santa Barbara County Animal Services. • Bunnies Urgently Needing Shelter in Goleta, bunssb.org. BUNS is based at Santa Barbara County Animal Services. • Companion Animal Placement Assistance, lompoccapa.org and facebook.com/capaoflompoc. CAPA works regularly with Animal Services-Lompoc. • K-9 Placement & Assistance League, k-9pals. org. K-9 PALS works regularly with Santa Barbara

University, where he also works as the director of the Lamar Center for the Study of Frontiers and Borders. His May 26 talk can be viewed at us06web. zoom.us/j/87460244632 or youtube.com/channel/ UCRVxV4ZOqkmnBj8TvT25NFQ. — Kaitlyn Schalhorn

County Animal Services. • Santa Barbara County Animal Care Foundation, sbcanimalcare.org. (The foundation works regularly with the Santa Maria Animal Center.) • Santa Barbara County Animal Services in Goleta: countyofsb.org/phd/animal/home.sbc. • Santa Barbara Humane (with campuses in Goleta and Santa Maria), sbhumane.org. • Santa Maria Animal Center, countyofsb.org/ phd/animal/home.sbc. The center is part of Santa Barbara County Animal Services. • Santa Ynez Valley Humane Society/DAWG in Buellton, syvhumane.org. • Shadow’s Fund (a pet sanctuary in Lompoc), shadowsfund.org. • Volunteers for Inter-Valley Animals in Lompoc: vivashelter.org. — Dave Mason

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Aries: You might need to hold your tongue today, Aries. People’s feelings are more easily hurt now, and the slightest criticism could be misinterpreted as a terrible insult. When in doubt, keep your mouth shut. Turn your attention inward and focus on your emotions. Taurus: You’ll find that you have a much better than usual connection with the people around you, Taurus. Your psychic sense is acute, and you should use this sixth sense to pick up things that other people might miss. Don’t let the busy chatter of the day disrupt your connection with deeper thoughts and ideas. Gemini: Be persistent and don’t give up the fight today, Gemini. It might seem as if you aren’t making progress and that it’s harder to make decisions about anything. You’ll find that other people are just as confused as you. Find a clever way to express what you feel. You can sort the issues out with the help of others as long as you’re in touch with your inner state. Cancer: Your current plan of attack may run into some snags today, Cancer. This might be caused by an emotional need that you may not have recognized earlier. The problem is that your head may say one thing while your gut tells you something else. You might need to put everything on hold while you sort out this inner turmoil. Leo: You may need to take a more disciplined approach to your communication today, Leo. Try not to be so harsh and limiting with your words. People respond better to comforting expressions and a sympathetic tone. Cold, abrasive facts will only aggravate an existing wound. Tone things down. Allot yourself some quiet time to be alone and contemplate your state of mind. Virgo: This is an excellent day for you, Virgo. You should find that things are running smoothly and to your advantage. Watch out for those who may want to rain on your parade by bombarding you with information that doesn’t really connect with the way you feel. This information is unrelated to the real issues - how you feel and why.

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