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Salud Carbajal vs. Brad Allen Congressman wants to address climate change, codify Roe v. Wade Editor’s note: This is one of the articles on local candidates in advance of Tuesday’s general election. By DAVE MASON NEWS-PRESS MANAGING EDITOR

U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal wants Congress to continue to work to tackle inflation, support economic opportunities, address climate change and codify a woman’s right to an abortion. Those are among the Santa Barbara Democrat’s goals as he runs against Summerland Republican candidate Brad Allen

in Tuesday’s general election. The federal legislation designed to protect a woman’s right to an abortion — Women’s Health Protection Act — passed along party lines in the House, but fell short of the votes it needed to rise above a Republican filibuster in the Senate. “That was a real disappointment,” Rep. Carbajal told the News-Press. “Codifying Roe v. Wade and federal access to abortion has been an important issue of mine.” In June, the U.S. Supreme Court Please see CARBAJAL on A9

Allen wants to tame inflation, improve security By DAVE MASON NEWS-PRESS MANAGING EDITOR

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Brad Allen is running for Congress because he sees America going in the wrong direction. He cites crises such as an insecure southern border, mismanagement of the pandemic and out-of-control government spending. “The Inflation Reduction Act is a typical Washington health care solution,” said Dr. Allen, a pediatric heart surgeon who lives in Summerland. “You pay more to die sooner.

“They’re not addressing why drugs are expensive. And they’re going to cut R&D (research and development) to miniscule amounts,” Dr. Allen told the NewsPress. “You’ll pay more for health care, but you won’t get the pills you need to fight the disease. You’ll die sooner because you won’t have the new drugs. “If I had a hospital, I would never bring in a politician to fix it,” said Dr. Allen, the Republican candidate who is running against U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal, DSanta Barbara, for the 24th Please see ALLEN on A9

Homeless on State Street The Natural Cafe owner complains about aggressive misconduct; neighboring businesses agree on some of his points By NEIL HARTSTEIN Recent interviews with restaurant/bar owners and managers on lower State Street reveal support for some but not all allegations of misconduct by homeless people made by the owner of The Natural Cafe. In a small sampling of half a dozen businesses, some said they saw evidence of illegal drug use and outdoor urination similar to what Kelly Brown, owner of The Natural Cafe, said occurred outside his restaurant at 508 State St. But no one said they have encountered the aggressive panhandling described by Mr. Brown. Nor have they experienced problems with transients using their restrooms

to bathe in their part of downtown Santa Barbara. Clay Holdren, whose restaurant Holdren’s Steak and Seafood, sits next door to The Natural Cafe at 512 State St., says things have only gotten better since the downtown promenade was created during the COVID epidemic. “It’s cleaner and safer than it’s been in the last 10 years,” he said. “There’s not a lot of panhandling on our street.” Sean Bayly, manager of Night Lizard Brewery, 607 State St., agreed. “I haven’t noticed any aggressive action,” he said. And Gina Rodriguez, a supervisor at Patxi’s Pizza, 515 State St., said the only time she’s seen homeless people near her restaurant become aggressive is Please see HOMELESS on A10

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The tears of November: The loss of President Kennedy

As for myself, I watched these events unfold and I even heard the wailing siren of an ambulance as it coursed down Wilshire Boulevard past midnight on June 5, 1968 on its way to the Ambassador Hotel downtown where RFK lay dying from an assassin’s bullet. But it was a few years later, after I’d moved to London and finished high school that I, inexplicably, became fixated on the JFK assassination. And maybe that’s why my quirky choice of higher education was near Hyannis Port (and the famed Kennedy compound) in Massachusetts and why I addressed my public speaking class at Cape Cod Community College on Friday, Nov. 22, 1974

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created by the CIA in 1967 to thwart and ridicule those who criticized the Warren Commission, have long speculated this mound to be the true location from which a shooter stood. It is certainly closer to an ‘X’ permanently taped onto Elm Street marking the spot where Kennedy took a fatal head shot, a trajectory that makes far more sense than Oswald’s distant perch from on high and more consistent with a frontal bullet impact so graphically captured by Abraham Zapruder’s infamous eight-millimeter film. “Walking around the Museum Café and Gift Shop full of cheap souvenirs from China, this thought reverberates around my aching skull: Put him on a 50-cent piece and they’ll get over it.” Well, I’m not.

THE SUSPECTS It took more than reading over 100 books and magazine articles plus my own journalistic skills to get to the bottom of this. What it really took was my entry into the shadowy world of intelligence to finally sort out what was fiction (often planted) and what was real— and in the end the answer was not so complicated but obvious to some as far back as a half-century ago. Some believe the Russians conspired to kill JFK but this is nonsense. Following the Bay of Pigs debacle in 1962, JFK sought to secretly improve his relationship with Soviet Chairman Nikita Khrushchev (who reciprocated through regular correspondence through a trusted un-swampy channel) and sought to de-escalate the Cold War in a way that left the U.S. industrial-security complex discombobulated and somewhat threatened. Some pointed at Fidel Castro in the belief that the bearded one acted in retaliation over having been targeted for assassination (exploding cigars…) by the CIA in the late 1950s into the early 1960s. But Castro was no fool, and he knew that such a foolhardy act would have resulted in Cuba’s forced enjoinment with Atlantis deep beneath the ocean. Spy novelist and former CIA officer Charles McCarry tried to blame it on the South Vietnamese in his highly acclaimed novel “Tears of Autumn,” but this was fanciful and quite possibly a stab at disinformation. President Diem was assassinated on Nov. 2, 1963. It takes far longer than 20 days to organize a hit in general — and of a president of the United States? Not possible. Moreover, there are no connections of any kind between the Vietnamese and the circumstances surrounding the murder of JFK. Others believe LBJ ordered the hit on the basis of “Who had the most to gain?” True enough that Vice President Lydnon B. Johnson, who referred to JFK in the late 1950s as “that spavined hunchback,” had grown tired of JFK’s Irish mafia’s sobriquet for him, “Uncle Cornpone,” and was weary of being ignored and ridiculed by President Kennedy’s kitchen cabinet. Furthermore, a looming corruption scandal in Texas involving Billie Sol Estes and others threatened to get LBJ dumped as JFK’s VP in 1964 and end his political career. All of this was hushed up and buried

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THE KILLERS Which brings us to the real assassins of JFK. Quite likely the person most responsible for putting JFK into an early grave was James Angleton, who after his stint in post-war Italy became the CIA’s very powerful (some say legendary) counterintelligence chief. His second-in-command on this heinous op would have been Cord Meyer, who headed the agency’s directorate of plans (covert action). In addition, both were quite likely responsible for the murder on Oct. 12, 1964 of Cord Meyer’s exwife Mary Pinchot Meyer, with whom JFK had been having an affair and whom the President considered his soul mate. (They even took LSD together in the White House, as supplied to Mary by Harvard’s Timothy Leary,). Ms. Meyer was livid over the Warren Commission’s bogus findings and immediately upon their release one month before her murder had raised hell among her very influential D.C. friends including Washington Post honcho Ben Bradlee. She was shot and killed by a hitman while taking her normal walk along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Please see INVESTIGATOR on A11

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(literally, bones and all) after LBJ became president. (This comes directly from Walt Perry, ace undercover agent for the IRS who duped Billie Sol in a masterful sting operation.) For years I believed that the Italian Mafia, enraged by how JFK (and especially his brother RFK as. attorney general) turned on them after all the assistance they provided swinging the 1960 election for “Joe the Bootlegger’s boy.” (Family patriarch Joseph Kennedy made his fortune importing illegal hooch during Prohibition.) Specifically, this theory put the spotlight on two Mafia godfathers, Santos Trafficante of Miami and Carlos Marcello of New Orleans and even more specifically their henchmen Johnny Roselli and Sam Giancana — the latter two murdered soon after receiving subpoenas to testify before a congressional committee investigating JFK’s slaying. Roselli was sawn into pieces and stuffed into an oil canister, then dumped into the Atlantic Ocean. Giancana was shot at close range as he prepared a late-night sausage and pepper sandwich in the kitchen of his home. The Mafia had a very strong motive to murder JFK but not the means, though they were tied into the CIA’s efforts to remove Castro in the expectation that their once highly profitable gambling franchise in Havana could be returned to them. An overlap between the two was proven to exist stretching back to early CIAMafia cooperation against the communists in Italy post World War II, overseen on site by a young CIA officer named James Jesus Angleton. It was Mr. Trafficante who proposed, at a mob pow wow bugged by the FBI, putting a contract on Robert Kennedy, who, in addition to seriously riling Jimmy Hoffa had also arranged for Mr. Marcello to be deported to Guatemala. Having snuck back into the United States, Mr. Marcello countered by saying, “If you cut off the dog’s tail, the dog will only keep biting.” He proposed hitting the top enchilada. And so indeed the Mafia was delighted to play a role in assassinating JFK, not as the instigators (which to their delight they discovered unnecessary) but instead as part of a peripheral if integral presence and trailmuddying, as confided to me three decades ago by senior CIA operations officer Jim Fees.

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with an impassioned speech about JFK’s assassination that drew applause from my fellow classmates. (This was a first for me, the poor student I was due to ADD or ADHD but managing to escape diagnosis and Ritalin because it thankfully arrived after my time.) Late that afternoon I took a long walk on Craigville Beach, and till then had never felt so high and low at the same time. Thereafter, the truth became my quest. And when I switched over to The American University in Washington, D.C. I pursued an interest in everything that did not get reported by the news media. I read everything we’re not supposed to read, learned stuff we’re not supposed to know and endeavored to spread the truth any way I could. (Turns out I went into a profession — journalism — that had no future, but no matter since I was always in it for the knowledge, not the money.) It took me a few decades to visit Dealey Plaza in Dallas (life got in the way), but when I finally got there, everything I ‘d ever learned about the killing of Kennedy fell into place as it did. As it did for Rolf Mowatt-Larsen, a 22-year veteran of the CIA who was station chief in Moscow before becoming European division chief. About Dealey Plaza, Mr. MowattLarsen has said: “Everything was so easy to control, so easy to manipulate in a setting that was so conducive to everything that day.” Not exactly what an unstable 24 year-old “lone-nut” can configure. I’d like to revisit my Dealey Plaza experience in this column and quote from my journal, starting with the LBJ Library in Austin, Texas: “We’re supposed to learn how Johnson anguished over Vietnam with no mention of his Texas cronies profiting on armaments and war support services while millions of lives on both sides were snuffed out and countless more lives destroyed by drug addiction or from losing loved ones and no mention of the so-called ‘domino effect’ and how Johnson lectured the American public that if we didn’t take a stand in Vietnam, the rest of Southeast Asia would fall and Communist combatants would roll up onto the shores of Hawaii. No mention also of napalm or of Rolling Thunder, the sustained bombing campaign that cost so many lives of innocents and led to America for the first time in history losing a war albeit one it was never justified to fight. “An exhibition on the assassination of JFK glosses over the horror that allowed Johnson to move into the White House and actually glorifies the findings of the long-since disgraced Warren Commission. “But what truly causes the bile in my stomach to revolt is a serial on a TV screen showing something called Times of 1957-1965 that includes an old TV commercial advertising Alka-Seltzer that immediately follows JFK’s delivery of the most inspiring line of his inaugural address (‘Ask not what your country can do for you…’), no editing accident you can be certain. “This is not a memorial library but a hellacious monument in honor of whitewash and prevarication.” Then onward to Dallas: “I knew it would be a tedious trek, but I did not count on just how depressing and surreal it would be in Dealey Plaza where a U.S. president was violently slain and the course of U.S. history diabolically diverted into decline. “The three-hour drive feels like six as the unmerciful heat fights to penetrate our air-conditioned bubble through every crack or just by broiling the windshield along a dreary flat road. “The Dallas skyline finally appears and a jumble of highways suck us into its ‘historic’ downtown where moments later we find ourselves smack outside the Texas State Depository from which Lee Harvey Oswald supposedly shot John F. Kennedy as he rode in an open limousine down Elm Street. “We ascend to the sixth floor museum though the only real ‘attraction’ is the corner window from which Oswald may have concealed himself and taken aim and shot. “We descend and alight from the building to inspect the infamous grassy knoll. So-called ‘conspiracy theorists,’ a term

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he assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which took place 59 years ago this month, is one of the reasons I became a journalist. Evoking an old cliché about remembering where you were that fateful day on Friday, Nov. 22, 1963: I was 9 years old at Beverly Vista Elementary School in Beverly Hills when my neighborhood chum Paul Small ran up to me on the playground at recess near 11 a.m. and cried “Kennedy got shot!” and ran off. (The classroom thereafter was somber, and a pall was cast over that late autumn weekend leading to no school Monday.) The big question ever since has been, shot by whom? The answer got muddled very quickly because, as we’ve since discovered, just about everyone had a motive: The Russians, the Cubans, the anti-Castro Cubans, South Vietnamese loyal to President Ngo Dinh Diem (overthrown and assassinated in a coup supported by the CIA under JFK), the Italian Mafia, Texas oilmen, the CIA — and maybe the odd husband or two of women who slept with the 35th president of the United States. But the Warren Commission, as appointed by President Lyndon Baines Johnson and orchestrated by former CIA Director Allen Dulles, through the process of selective evidence, the cherrypicking of witnesses and their preferred reasoning, decided that “lone nut” Lee Harvey Oswald was the sole culprit. Everything was easier and cleaner that way (for the commissioners and the culprits). Loose ends were supposedly tied up as we recklessly lowered the temperature of the Cold War with Russia and began a full scale war in Vietnam, costing our country needless money and the lives of 58,000 military servicemen even though the Commission’s conclusion was the biggest pile of poop ever laid on the American public. JFK was no angel, mind you. He was inexperienced and had teed off a lot of folks (hence the multiple motives) including his own wife Jacqueline with a slew of nonstop infidelities including his embarrassing dalliance with Marilyn Monroe. (“Happy Birthday, Mister President…”). However, JFK had been democratically elected, and that’s how the system works, how it’s supposed to work, in the United States of America. The nagging problem is that Lee Harvey Oswald did not kill JFK but was set up as the patsy he claimed to be a day before getting whacked himself on live TV by mobbed-up nightclub owner Jack Ruby. (The true killers could not abide such claims — nor Oswald’s future testimony.) The deal (in Ruby’s mind) to break him out of prison and set him up a millionaire in Mexico went unfulfilled. As was the deal promised Oswald for showing up at his place of work that day, mailorder rifle in hand. And so the years went by, and we witnessed the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King and shortly thereafter the murder of U.S. Sen. Robert F. Kennedy after it seemed increasingly probable within seven months he would move into the White House. RFK knew precisely who killed his brother and the culprits knew he knew, and they could not chance that he would be elected President and go after them with the same tenacity he went after Teamster labor union boss Jimmy Hoffa, as he most certainly would have, only ten times more tenaciously.

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Louise Smith runs for Solvang City Council District 3 Editor’s note: This is one of the articles on local candidates in advance of Tuesday’s general election. By KATHERINE ZEHNDER NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

Louise Smith, a business owner who says she has often reinvented herself, has a new destiny in mind. She wants to join the Solvang City Council. Ms. Smith is running for the District 3 seat against David Brown in Tuesday’s general election. She received her bachelor’s in sociology in 1984 from Washington & Jefferson College and her master’s in business administration in leadership and management in 2004 from the University of La Verne. “I love Solvang! I have had the distinct pleasure of calling Solvang home for over 13 years and have been working in the Santa Ynez Valley for almost 20 years,” Ms. Smith told the NewsPress in an email. “We need diversity on the City Council to truly represent our amazing community. I own my own business and have the flexibility that allows me to dedicate the time our citizens need and deserve, and I believe I can be a true representative on the Solvang City Council.” The News-Press asked Ms. Smith how her career has prepared her for the council. “I’ve reinvented myself so many times, I’m never sure if it’s because I have a short attention span or because I am really interested in so many different things! I started my career as a family counselor and child advocate in Southwest Pennsylvania, then managed my family’s telephone answering service in Santa Barbara. When that business closed, I became an ethics adviser for a large hospital chain. “When the main office for that company moved to Dallas, Texas, I wanted to stay in Santa Barbara County and was asked by the HR manager at the Santa Barbara Chapter of the American Red

Cross to help handle the mass amounts of generous donations coming in for victims of Hurricane Katrina and the rebuilding of that community,” Ms. Smith said. “At the same time, I was building my catering and private chef business and learning more about food and wine pairing and started working and then managing various winery tasting rooms throughout Santa Ynez Valley. “Over the past 10 years, I have also taught an eight-week course on winery tasting room sales and service at Allan Hancock College,” Ms. Smith said. “My passion for listening to and representing people is a top priority for me,” she said. “I have worked with various populations and believe my compassion and fairness will be a perfect fit for a seat on the Solvang City Council.” Ms. Smith discussed her goals if elected. “I want to be the best representative for the residents and business owners in District 3 as well as all Solvang citizens,” she said. “We have many issues facing our community including becoming water-independent, creating affordable housing and being responsible with development and growth. With these concerns, I believe that every development proposal that comes to the city council needs to come with a component to conserve water, with incentives and resources to saving water, include a housing element and be mindful of the impact the development has on residents, businesses, parking, traffic and even the environment. “Solvang is a tourist destination, and we rely on those guests and their dollars to keep our community thriving,” she said. “All these elements need to be considered.” The News-Press asked Ms. Smith why she felt she would be better for this position than her opponent. “I think my unique and varied background provides me with the skills, resources and compassion needed for this position. As a self-employed business owner, I rely on residents, businesses and

How to cast your ballots There are multiple ways for voters to cast their ballot in Tuesday’s general election. Every registered voter should have received a ballot in the mail, according to Joe Holland, county clerk-recorder, assessor and registrar of voters for Santa Barbara County. Voters can cast their ballot by dropping them in the mail no later than 5 p.m. Tuesday. No postage is required, but voters need to sign their ballot carefully. There are also 30 drop box locations across the county. You can also drop off your ballot at one of the 86 polling locations across the county, Mr. Holland said.

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tourists to hire my company and help my business thrive, so I am concerned about everyone who lives in this amazing place we call home. I have no agenda or special interests and have even limited the amount of money supporters can donate to my campaign, and I am actually funding it mostly myself. “My voice is for the constituents of District 3 and all who live and work in Solvang,” she said. “I truly care about this community and want to be their voice on this city council,” Ms. Smith said. “I am available to talk, answer questions and share my views at any time … I have no special agenda or interests other than to be an honest, compassionate, transparent and available representative for the people of Solvang.” email: kzehnder@newspress.com

FYI To learn more about candidate Louise Smith, visit smithforcitycouncil.com. She can be reached through her website or at louise@louiseskitchentable. com or by calling or texting her at 805-403-9649.

If you have lost your ballot, you can request a replacement ballot by coming into the election offices — 4440-A Calle Real, Santa Barbara, and 511 Lakeside Parkway, Suite 134, Santa Maria. Replacement ballots can also be requested at any polling place on election day, according to Mr. Holland. Offices are open 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. today, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday and 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday. All polling locations are open 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. on election day. For more information, visit countyofsb.org/1148/ Voting-Options.

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Santa Barbara school Mansur challenges Muñoz for school board seat board president seeks re-election Editor’s note: This is one of the articles on local candidates in advance of Tuesday’s general election. By JARED DANIELS

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Phebe Mansur, a small business owner who operates CopyRight Printing Systems in Old Town Goleta, is hoping to bring her private sector experience to the Santa Barbara Unified School District board in her race to unseat one-term incumbent Rose Muñoz. If elected, Ms. Mansur told the News-Press that her top three priorities will be to expand career technical education,

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Rose Muñoz, the current president of the Santa Barbara Unified School District’s board and the first social worker to be elected to the body, is running her first re-election campaign since joining the board in 2018. She is running against Phebe Mansur, a small business owner and community activist, who operates CopyRight Printing Systems in Old Town Goleta. If re-elected, Ms. Muñoz told the News-Press that her top three priorities will be to increase literacy rates and student achievement in mathematics, ensure safe campuses and learning environments for students, and increase teacher and staff retention throughout the district. “Contemporary education should include instruction, intervention and support,” Ms. Muñoz said of her vision for K12 education in our current era. “There is a framework called multi-tiered systems of support, and this framework helps teachers identify how students best respond to the curriculum and also addresses their behavioral needs. Not all students will respond in the same way, some need more support than others, and I think that’s an improvement in terms of what our students are needing.” “The other thing is also universal access to education,” she continued. “For example: if students that have been in honors class are in the same class with students that have been struggling more academically, all the students benefit. They’re all brought up and their achievement is brought up, and those kinds of approaches, I think, are what we need to do to be able to make improvements in how students

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achieve in school.” One aspect of K-12 education that Ms. Muñoz is seeking to change relates to the “college for all” mindset that has dominated American educational objectives for the past two decades. “Not everyone wants to go to college, and not everyone is geared to go to college,” Ms. Muñoz said. “Vocations are a real strength and something that should be advocated for strongly. There are students that are more hands-on that can go into apprenticeships, for example, with the construction union (or) with the ironworkers union. They could become contractors, they could go into the field of graphic design, they can go into the art field. We don’t necessarily have to prepare every student to go to college, and I think by doing that we’re setting up for failure.” When asked about the nationwide trend of hostile interactions between community members and local school boards and how she would address it, Ms. Muñoz stated that she would work to find the common ground between different groups and beliefs, and encouraged community members to voice their opinions. “I think that there’s been a lot of anger on certain contentious issues — the way that I would best address it is to listen to the Please see MUNOZ on A8

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reverse declining scores in literacy and mathematics, and improve school safety. “I’ve been hearing a lot of commentary from independent commentators about school, school scores, and the declining trend in literacy and math — and what I was hearing from (them) matched what I was seeing here in my store with people that I was training and students that I was interacting with,” Ms. Mansur said of her decision to run for SBUSD Trustee Area 4. “ I think that I have a unique perspective as a business owner because I’m an end user. Small businesses employ almost half of the nation’s workforce, so small business owners like me are the ones that

(non-college bound) students are going to.” When asked how she believed K-12 education should look in our contemporary era, Ms. Mansur stated that more time should be dedicated to instructing students in core curriculum such as math and reading. “I think something that we could do is conduct a critical assessment of how students’ time is spent during the school day … and carve out an extra 30 minutes to allocate for reading and extra 30 minutes for math.” she said. “Because the numbers have just come out recently, and they’re abysmal. Particularly, we’ve seen a significant drop in third grade Please see MANSUR on A8

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La Berge seeks seat on Santa Barbara school board Editor’s note: This is among the articles on local candidates in advance of Tuesday’s general election. This story focuses on Santa Barbara Unified School District board candidate Dan La Berge. The News-Press reached out to his opponents — Efigenia Banales and Gabe Escobedo — for interviews, but they didn’t respond. By JARED DANIELS NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

Dan La Berge, the executive director of the Mothers’ Helpers nonprofit and a former member of the Adelante Charter School board of directors, is one of three candidates seeking to replace incumbent Kate Ford on the Santa Barbara Unified School Board after her decision to not seek re-election. He is running against retired educator Efigenia Banales and Santa Barbara Planning Commission chair Gabe Escobedo. If elected, Mr. La Berge told the News-Press that his top three priorities will be to better connect parents to their children’s education, improve how the district manages its budget and human resources, and work with other board members to address complicated issues that “are not black and white.”

“I’m running mostly because of what I’m seeing our children endure at the moment,” Mr. La Berge said of his decision to pursue the open seat for SBUSD Trustee Area 1. “They have gone through the kind of disruption that no child really can really make sense out of, let alone come out the other end and thrive. We see that nationwide with our students, achievement scores are dropping dramatically.” “But even prior to (the COVID19 pandemic), we saw that the achievement was not at ideal levels — it’s been dropping since the late 70s, and it’s a multiheaded problem,” he continued. “I have reached the point both personally and professionally where I had an opportunity to give back … and schools seemed like the most prudent and best opportunity for me to apply both my experience and my zeal.” When asked what K-12 education should look like in our contemporary era, Mr. La Berge stated that schools should work to ensure that students are meaningfully engaged and feel connected to the curriculum. “Kids (in grades K-3) are going to operate best through handson interaction, trial and error, and experimentation — not rote memorization and repetition,” he said. “They’re going to learn by applying things and they’re going

to be most engaged by things that create interest, create fun, create excitement, and create opportunities for them to use their own personal experiences as well as the combined experience with their peers.” “But then when the kids get older, one of the things that I see just slipping and then when we look at the drop off of engagement, we look at the drop off of scores — well, your key is right there: The kids aren’t engaged. They’re not connected to the program anymore because all our budgetary efforts and teaching limitations have gone to just teaching the core academics,” Mr. La Berge continued. “When I was a student, many years ago, you had lots of other avenues for kids to learn. Whether this is tech programs, whether this is shop programs, home economics — things to allow kids to engage, but then tie in academic components to that.” Mr. La Berge also believes that schools need to do a better job of ensuring that parents are connected to their children’s education, pointing to the local example of Franklin Elementary School’s success in bringing parents back to the table. “(Franklin Elementary) has overcrowding issues, lack of resources, they have a very high

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population of not only emerging language learners, but they also have a high population of what are deemed homeless students,” he said. “And their current principal, Ms. Kilgore, has turned that school around, and she’s done it from many ways — but one of the biggest key components is she chased parents down to get Please see LA BERGE on A12

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Cindy Kaiser, owner of LaKaiser Jewelry, said she knew the charming city of Santa Barbara would be ideal for her business.

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LaKaiser Jewelry will host the grand opening of its new location Thursday at 1101 State St. The Santa Barbara store’s grand opening is set for 5:30-8 p.m. “My fiancé and I spent a lot of time in Santa Barbara during and before our daughter was born,” said Cindy Kaiser, founder, designer, and owner of LaKaiser Jewelry. “From then on, I knew right then that the charming town of Santa Barbara could be the

perfect location for our first retail store!” Ms. Kaiser told the NewsPress. “La Kaiser is simple and elegant in essence, and I felt that the laid back little town of Santa Barbara would complement my design aesthetic. Ms. Kaiser said Thursday’s grand opening will partly be a charity event, with half the proceeds going to My Trees Trust. “But it is also going to be our opening bash!” she said. “We will be serving hors d’oeuvres and wine all night long, and we have just launched a new birthstone and charm collection that we are

so excited about. You will be able to create your own customized birthstone charm pendants in store as well as get sparked (the ever-popular infinity bracelets that we all love!) “Our entire collection will be on display along with a couple

special One Of A Kind pieces,” Ms. Kaiser said. “The director of the My Trees Trust will be giving a presentation during the event too, so we are all looking forward to that!” The News-Press asked Ms. Please see JEWELRY on A8

he question on everyone’s mind these days seems to be: What will happen with the housing market moving forward? Change is occurring, compared to the past 24 months, and while there are positive takeaways from the current market conditions, consumer sentiment and confidence may be reaching the tipping point. That sentiment and confidence are two of the factors I follow as indicators of the future regarding the economic outlook. Readers who follow my monthly market updates and receive my mid-year and year-end market reviews have seen how the factors consumer sentiment and confidence, among others, can play into housing prices and affect long- and short-term market conditions. What is consumer sentiment? The Consumer Sentiment Index is a statistical measurement of consumers’ opinions regarding the overall health of the economy. It considers personal and general economic financial health, as well as economic growth looking forward. Consumer confidence is seen as a measurement of how optimistic or pessimistic consumers are, regarding their future financial situation. In a nutshell, the interpretation is that if consumers are more optimistic, they are more likely to spend on big ticket items such as real estate, and, therefore, stimulate the economy. They

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parents who are engaged with their children’s education and those whose parents are not,” and that parents have a right to know and make decisions about what their students are being offered in terms of curriculum. One area where Ms. Mansur believes parental involvement in education is essential relates to sexual health education, a topic she believes has played a large role in the nationwide trend of hostile interactions between communities and local school boards. “In Santa Barbara, there’s been a lot of pushback from parents objecting to the health curriculum that’s Santa Barbara board has endorsed called Teen Talk,” she said. “There is an alternative, and it’s called HEART (Health Education and Relationship Training) and it is approved by the California Healthy Youth Act. That act states that parents should be included in the selection of the sexual health curriculum, and from what I can see, that’s not happening.” “The schools have graphic novels, some I’ve seen and held in my hands, (that) would have been considered pornographic (when I was in school),” she continued. “I would remove that. That’s not what kids are in school for. They’re in school to learn the core subjects: reading, math and science.” email: jdaniels@newspress.com

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concerns and try to find a common ground,” Ms. Muñoz said. “I really appreciate the involvement of the community and their interest in having the best schools available for our students and families and our community … I really feel it’s important to include those voices and try to be a liaison in terms of decisions around the schools.” Along this vein, Ms. Muñoz also stated that she supported including parents in the decision making process, stating that “(the district) should be communicating with the parents all along the way,” and that “(parents) should have a voice in decisions about their students at school.” In terms of her views on teachers unions, Ms. Muñoz stated that she believed them to be a net positive in K-12 education and that “unions … are a really strong backbone in our country because they advocate for benefits, they advocate for good retirement and for salaries for their members.” However, she also expressed that she would approach charter schools in a productive manner “to see that they are inclusive, that their budgets are responsibly managed and that … they have the support that they need from the school district to be successful.”

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“I originally studied Jewelry Design & Metal smithing at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa before I went on to dabble in the fashion industry in LA. After my brief stint in the fashion industry, I knew I wanted to get back into jewelry design, and I apprenticed for a year with an amazing jeweler in downtown Los Angeles. “I then started La Kaiser as a hobby back in 2012,” Ms. La Kaiser said. “It took several years of grueling hard work doing trade shows and small little makers markets before the brand started to grow steadily. “Finally in 2016, La Kaiser took off with a boom and I couldn’t have been more thrilled!” she said. “My dreams of having a profitable business that was able to give back and give me the freedom to be in control of my own time came true. It’s always an important reminder to myself that nothing worthwhile comes easily!” “We sell jewelry that is perfect for stacking and layering (particularly rings and pendants),” Ms. Kaiser said. “Our pieces are simplistic in design and minimalistic, with a touch of contemporary and pops of color through the use of semi-precious gemstones. We love highlighting certain gemstones within our pieces, especially opals, rainbow moonstones and diamonds. I want our customers to feel elegant and comfortable when wearing our designs.”

“Customers always comment on how dainty and elegant La Kaiser pieces are and how timeless they are,” Ms. Kaiser said. “I think the way in which we keep our collections very simple and wearable mixed with our use of certain eyecatching gemstones is what sets us apart. We are also priced very competitively!” “We are a company that gives back to where we are from (Zimbabwe) and felt that My Trees Trust aligned with our mission,” Ms. Kaiser said. “My trees and the Zambezi Elephant Fund are both run by James Egremont Lee, and he’s dedicated to helping Zimbabwe. We decided to assist in the cause by donating and bringing awareness to his nonprofit organization.” James Egremont-Lee, founding trustee and executive director of My Trees Trust, told the News-Press that the nonprofit is “excited to partner with Cindy Kaiser of LA Kaiser Jewelry, whose roots stem from Zimbabwe. “Her willingness to highlight our great work in collaboration with the store’s grand opening will support the community and biodiversity of Zimbabwe,” Mr. Egremont-Lee said in an email. “My Trees’ mission to reduce the rate of natural woodland loss in Zimbabwe is important to us and to the global ecosystem.” email: kzehnder@newspress.com

‘Buyers no longer feel they have to jump in with both feet’ CLARKE

Continued from Page A5 all agree that there has been a change in the marketplace, which I think is good for the long term in our local real estate markets. The frenetic pace we experienced in 2020 and 2021 could not, and should not, be sustained for a healthy market to exist. The current pause in market expectations, with prices stabilizing and, in some cases, showing reductions, was expected, and may continue for the near term. That is not to say our market is negative, but that it is more representative of what a normal marketplace should be. Real estate located in prime locations and in A+ condition will

still garner substantial interest, while properties with perceived negatives in condition or price point will see resistance. Buyers no longer feel they have to jump in with both feet — coming in over asking price and with no contingencies. That was never “normal.” Nor should we expect it to be. We still have limited inventory levels and pent-up buyer demand, however, so expect prices to hold in the short term but expect a choppy start to early and mid2023. As always, if you have any real estate questions, please feel free to contact me at 805-886-9378, or cristal@montecito-estate. com, and be sure to check out my website, montecito-estate.com, for up-to-date listings and community information.

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Continued from Page A1 Congressional District seat. Dr. Allen is emphasizing his goals in his Contract to Restore California, which he said was inspired by former Republican House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s Contract with America. The contract features goals such as: • Tame inflation by restoring fiscal responsibility. Dr. Allen said that means a balanced federal budget. “We’ve got to stop Congress from spending money that we don’t have,” Dr. Allen said. “They keep running up the national debt.” “We have to get back to what’s causing the inflation,” Dr. Allen told the News-Press. “Two years ago, we didn’t have this inflation. Gas prices weren’t high. Rent and housing weren’t through the roof. What happened? “The guys in Congress only know how to do two things — tax and spend,” Dr. Allen said. “The debt is up to $21 trillion. The interest on the debt will soon surpass $1 trillion a year, which is higher than health care, defense and Social Security. This is unsustainable. “The first thing we have to do is to stop spending money we don’t have,” Dr. Allen said. • Reduce regulations to let businesses prosper. Dr. Allen said excessive regulations are hurting the supply chain, increasing inflation and, because business costs are too high, preventing the creation of jobs. “That’s passed on to the consumers in the form of inflation,” he said. • Support law enforcement to bring back public safety. Dr. Allen said Congress is defunding law enforcement by the House Democratic leadership’s refusal to allow a vote on two bills designed to fund more police officers and improve their training. “They (Democrats) say they don’t want to defund them (police),” Dr. Allen said. “But by just not giving them the extra funding, they’re defunding them. And crime is going through the roof.” In addition to supporting funding for law enforcement, Dr. Allen is calling for the creation of federal penalties for people who target law enforcement officers with violence. • Improve education by giving parents support and choices. Dr. Allen stressed parents have

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the right to be involved in their children’s education. He also called for an emphasis on math, science and literature instead of gender identity and critical race theory. • Lower energy prices by increasing domestic production. Dr. Allen explained he’s referring to more production for all sources, from fossil fuels to nuclear and renewable sources such as wind and solar, while recognizing the need to protect the environment. He said the answer isn’t importing oil from nations such as Venezuela. “We have to stop looking at energy as if we make California clean, the rest of the world is clean,” Dr. Allen said. “If you move carbon from one area of the world to another, you haven’t made the planet cleaner.” • Stop government mismanagement of COVID. “I’m a doctor. I knew two years ago the lockdown would not stop the spread of COVID,” Dr. Allen said. “We shut down our schools when they weren’t doing that in Europe,” Dr. Allen said, adding studies pointed out the harm to students. And Dr. Allen told the NewsPress he would like to decrease health insurance costs by allowing people to buy insurance across state lines. On the issue of abortion, Dr. Allen said he agrees with the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that the issue should be decided by the states. He noted the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg thought so. “Dobbs did not outlaw abortion as some people are trying to say,” Dr. Allen said. “Dobbs said it goes

back to the states, back to the people.” He said women continue to have a right to abortion in California and that society isn’t reverting to the time before the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case. On foreign policy issues, Dr. Allen said the U.S. should continue to give Ukraine what it needs to stop the Russian invasion. “I think this was one of the easiest wars to prevent,” Dr. Allen said, blaming past foreign policy decisions in Washington, D.C. He said America waited too long to implement economic sanctions against Russia. “What did Putin learn from the last 10 years from the United States?” Dr. Allen said. “He went into Georgia. We only talked, did nothing. He went into Crimea. We only talked, did nothing. He went into Syria. We talked, did nothing. “When we told him not to go into Ukraine, he thought, ‘The last four times, they talked, but did nothing,’” Dr. Allen said. He said he would be in favor of Ukraine joining NATO, but only after the war with Russia is over. Dr. Allen’s Contract to Restore California also calls for securing the southern border with a “permanent resident and modern-day Bracero program to provide the workers American farmers and businesses need. This will enable immigrants to legally find jobs, pay taxes and go home and return to the United States without penalty or fear.” He noted the smuggling of fentanyl across the border is the No. 1 killer of young adults. email: dmason@newspress.com

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towpath, not far from where she lived and worked as an artist in Georgetown — a murder without rape or theft that has never been solved. It was not the CIA as an institution that murdered JFK or Mary Pinchot Meyer. Jim Angleton and Cord Meyer were running a rogue operation (much easier back then), and it is doubtful CIA Director John McCone (a JFK-political appointee) knew about it, because a somewhat suspicious and griefstricken Robert Kennedy asked him pointblank, “Did the CIA kill my brother?” and Director McCone said no. Said former CIA officer Rolf Mowatt-Larsen: “Only the very top people in our organization [CIA] could have done something like this. I mean, the best operational minds. To keep it a secret. To take it to the grave.” One person who was briefed and went along with the plan as a passive participant was LBJ. And the Warren Commission? Again, Mr. Mowatt-Larsen: “A CIA cover story, a media legend by experts in the craft of intelligence.” That would be commissioner Allen Dulles, whom JFK fired as CIA director after he felt illadvised over the Bay of Pigs

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failure and who even authored a book titled The Craft of Intelligence. Mr. Dulles whipped the other commissioners into shape by invoking “national security” as means of pushing over the hump any commissioner who dared dissent. According to Mr. MowattLarsen, four elements were needed for a successful assassination: One: Motive. Check, for reasons ascribed above and to prevent JFK from further damaging (in their opinion) the CIA. Two: Opportunity to misappropriate CIA resources. (Easy for Angleton and Meyer with their black budgets.) Check. Three: Access to recruiting Oswald. (That would be David Atlee Philips, a senior CIA operations officer who befriended and recruited Oswald under the cryptonym Maurice Bishop.) Check. Four: Ability to provide Oswald a cover story and sell him a false bill of goods. Again, Mr. Atlee as Maurice Bishop. Check. So now you have three rogues: Jim Angleton, Cord Meyer and David Atlee Philips. Add to the mix: William Harvey, a former FBI agent who — disliked by J. Edgar Hoover — transferred over to CIA and had Mafia connections. Mr. Harvey was the link to Mafia support, which was compartmentalized on a “need-to-know” basis.

Two others: David Sanchez Morales, part of JMWAVE, the CIA station in Miami that ran antiCastro operations. And Frank Sturgis, also JMWAVE and later one of the Watergate burglars. (This dude got around.) Another Watergate burglar and JMWAVE CIA alumnus, E. Howard Hunt, was invited to the party (as he confessed to his son when close to death) but (he claimed) declined. There were three shooters on the grassy knoll that day. Two were Mafia-related hit men. Both were quickly flown off on a private plane and disposed of instead of provided with the rewards they were promised. The other was a Corsican mafia assassin believed to have pulled the trigger on the bullet that literally blew JFK’s brains out. That would be Lucien Sarti, who was smart enough to refuse the flight of no return taken by his ill-fated fellow hitmen —t hen disappeared forever. If the CIA as an institution ever uncovered the truth about the involvement of its most senior rogue officers it clammed up because, explains Mr. Mowatt-Larsen, “that would have been the end of the CIA.”

POSTSCRIPT As I wrote at the beginning of this column, many folks had a motive and that’s why it was so easy for the real culprits to muddy the trail. And just like everyone had a motive, everyone else has a

theory and will believe what they choose to believe. Unfortunately, we will likely be long gone when the archives we paid for are opened, and the truth is revealed. But if you live long enough, you’ll discover everything written above is about as true as it gets. Sadly, the newer generations will not care (already no one cares much) because for them, it will be nothing more than a history lesson and, in any case, they will be groomed to anticipate such news so that it doesn’t come as a devastating surprise, but instead, uh-huh, we expected that, just like how the public is finally being warmed up to the existence of UFOs. And that is why high-level crimes and the ensuing cover-ups like the assassination of JFK perpetuate (and Martin Luther King Jr. and RFK) and will always be the norm as society becomes ever more distracted by the magician’s sleight of hand and does what they are told by a mainstream narrative fed by the government to a corporatized media, which poops out their indoctrinating message and spreads it around like fertilizer to grow the obedience of the general population and the control over it they seek. Robert Eringer is a longtime Montecito author with vast experience in investigative journalism. He welcomes comments at reringer@gmail.com.

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by homeless people who sleep inside their outdoor patio. She said she’s seen puddles of pee there and near their fence. Mr. Bayly said he hasn’t seen such puddles, but can smell the stench of urine when he walks up and down State Street. “You may not see it happening, but the nose knows it,” he said. Estimates of the number of homeless in the area ranged from a few to a lot. Ms. Knight said more homeless congregate a few blocks north where there are several vacant storefronts, including a former RiteAid. And the manager of a restaurant in the 400 block of State Street said large groups of homeless gather across the street near the 99 cents store. But Mr. Holdren said that’s not the case on the 500 block, where “there are a few homeless people.” Ms. Knight said more homeless were there before the Promenade was built, when they would lounge on outdoor benches and beg passers-by for money. Those benches have been removed, she said. Those homeless who still roam the 500

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(The Center Square) – After another clash with foreign nationals illegally entering the U.S., the union representing Border Patrol agents is urging Americans to vote on Nov. 8 for candidates who will defend them, the rule of law, and the southern border. On Monday, mostly single male Venezuelans, Mexicans and Hondurans crossed the Rio Grande River and attempted to illegally enter the U.S. near El Paso, Texas, and allegedly assaulted Border Patrol agents demanding to be let into the country. The National Border Patrol Council, the union representing the agents, said, “Make no mistake, all of this madness taking place at our border is on Joe Biden. Every single bit of it. We’re stuck with him for two more years and he’s not going to change, but you have the opportunity on Nov. 8 to vote his enablers out of office and put a dent in his agenda.” The clash at the border came after agents oversaw more than 2.7 million enforcement actions last fiscal year – a U.S. record – and after at least 33 counties in Texas have called on Gov. Greg Abbott to declare an invasion and repel foreign nationals from illegally entering Texas. U.S. Customs and Border Protection issued a statement, saying, “a group of Venezuelan nationals attempted to illegally enter the United States while protesting. One of the protesters assaulted an agent with a flagpole. A second subject threw a rock causing injury to an agent at which time agents responded by initiating crowd control measures,” including an authorized “less-lethal force pepperball launching system.” “The crowd then dispersed and returned to Mexico,” it said, adding that Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Professional Responsibility would be reviewing the incident. Several videos of the incident were published on social media; The El Paso Times reported on it also posting a video, as did other news outlets. Yahoo! News reported the foreign nationals were protesting “on Mexico’s Ciudad Juarez asking to be allowed to enter the U.S. Protesters also held a large U.S. flag with the phrase ‘We the migrants built America’ written on it.” The ACLU said what happened was “the latest in a long line of abuses carried out by CBP. Our government’s failed attempts at preventing people from seeking

protection in the U.S. lead to death and suffering. The Biden administration must restore a humane process for seeking asylum.” But the majority of those entering illegally don’t appear to have valid asylum claims, former and current Border Patrol agents have explained to The Center Square. And those assaulting federal agents would have likely disqualified themselves from any asylum claims as well. The NBPC published the section of federal law governing legal entry, adding, “Fact: Aliens crossing our border between ports of entry, for any reason, is a crime. Fact: That criminal act is punishable by imprisonment. Fact: Civil penalties in addition to, not in lieu of imprisonment. Fact: Biden/Garland just choose not to enforce the criminal statute.” It also took issue with media coverage, saying, “A large group of illegal aliens storms into the U.S. and violently attacks B.P. agents while waving flags of other countries, calling it a ‘protest.’ Nearly 24 hours later not one peep about it from the MSM. Why? It doesn’t fit the narrative they want to feed the American people.” It defended the agents, saying they “showed great restraint,” noting that “many agents have been hospitalized with serious head injuries from rock attacks. Assaults on agents with any weapon, including flagpoles, will not be tolerated.” In response to the ACLU, it said, “the ACLU is upset that B.P. agents have the audacity to defend themselves. We have a response for them. Go to hell.” Former acting Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Mark Morgan told The Center Square, “Once again the mainstream media immediately pushes a false and misleading narrative. As a massive crowd of illegal aliens rushed our borders and attacked Border Patrol agents the headlines vilified the agents; falsely accused them of using rubber ‘bullets’ and described the actions of the angry mob of illegal aliens as ‘protests.’” “Sound familiar?,” he asked, referring to remarks made by President Biden, DHS Secretary Mayorkas and the media last year claiming agents whipped Haitians in Del Rio, Texas, when they hadn’t. Mr. Morgan said the agents “demonstrated incredible restraint while employing nonlethal pepper balls and deescalation crowd dispersing tactics. And it was effective! Where is Secretary Mayorkas using the White House press room Please see BORDER on A12

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(The Center Square) – Newly released federal data show the economy created more jobs than expected but unemployment rose in October. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released the data, which showed the economy added 261,000 jobs in October, higher than the Dow Jones estimate of 205,000 new jobs. “Notable job gains occurred in health care, professional and technical services, and manufacturing,” BLS said. The unemployment rate rose to 3.7%, up 0.2% and worse than expected. The number of Americans who want full-time work but are working part-time for economic reasons increased as well. The number of unemployed people is actually much higher, though, but is not included in BLS unemployment rate. “The number of persons not in the labor force who currently want a job was little changed at 5.7 million in October and remains above its February 2020 level of 5.0 million,” BLS said. “These individuals were not counted as unemployed because they were not actively looking for work during the 4 weeks preceding the survey or were unavailable to take

a job.” Unemployment varies by demographic. “Among the major worker groups, the unemployment rates for adult women (3.4 percent) and Whites (3.2 percent) rose in October,” BLS said. “The jobless rates for adult men (3.3 percent), teenagers (11.0 percent), Blacks (5.9 percent), Asians (2.9 percent), and Hispanics (4.2 percent) showed little or no change over the month.” Job gains also varied by sector. “In October, employment in health care rose by 53,000, with gains in ambulatory health care services (+31,000), nursing and residential care facilities (+11,000), and hospitals (+11,000),” BLS said. “So far in 2022, health care employment has increased by an average of 47,000 per month, compared with 9,000 per month in 2021.Professional and technical services added 43,000 jobs in October. Employment continued to trend up in management and technical consulting services (+7,000), architectural and engineering services (+7,000), and scientific research and development services (+5,000). Monthly job growth in professional and technical services has averaged 41,000 thus far in 2022, compared with 53,000 per month in 2021.”

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Under general supervision assists in developing laboratory safety programs including Laboratory safety reviews, training and new PI orientations. Implements comprehensive laboratory safety programs related to chemical and physical hazards and promotes safe behaviors and a good safety culture in assigned laboratories. Facilitates compliance with all applicable legal requirements, university policies and best practices. Specific safety programs include the Chemical Hygiene Plan, the personal protective equipment plan, safety training and awareness, and emergency preparedness and response. Educates and coordinates with the research community to facilitate these programs via a variety of outreach programs. Reqs: 1-3 years environmental, chemical or safety experience. Advanced or expert knowledge/understanding of broad range of EH&S fields and familiarity with all EH&S fields or equivalent experience / training. Advanced or expert knowledge and skill in applying and interpreting applicable local, state, and federal regulations and related standards, guidelines and, as appropriate, recommend organization policy or equivalent experience / training. Notes: Maintain a valid CA driver’s license, a clean DMV record and enrollment in the DMV Employee Pull-Notice Program. Satisfactory conviction history background check. $62,300.00 - $75,000.00/yr. The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/ Affirmative Action Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. Open until filled. Apply online at https://jobs.ucsb.edu Job # 44834

PUBLIC NOTICE UNMET TRANSIT NEEDS How could bus systems, dial-a-ride, and paratransit services better serve your needs in Santa Barbara County? The Santa Barbara County Association of Governments staff will be conducting a virtual listening session 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on December 7, 2022, to learn about the transit needs of the residents of Santa Barbara County. Please plan to attend anytime during the two-hour listening session. WHAT: Unmet Transit Needs Virtual Listening Session WHEN: 4 p.m. to 6 p.m., December 7, 2022, (Visit us virtually anytime during the two-hour listening session). WHERE: Virtual Zoom Webinar: ∞ Webinar ID: 889 5904 1577; Passcode: 799248; OR ∞ Telephone: (669) 900-9128 If you cannot attend the hearing, you may still submit written comments up until December 9, 2022. You may e-mail them to comment@sbcag.org or mail via U.S. Postal Service to SBCAG at 260 North San Antonio Road, Suite B, Santa Barbara, CA 93110. In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act, individuals needing accommodations to participate in a meeting should contact SBCAG by Monday, December 5, 2022, at (805) 961-8900. The meeting will be Spanish-language accessible. Favor de llamar a SBCAG al 961-8900, para más información del reunión. Las audiencias serían accesibles en español. NOV 5 / 2022 -- 58803

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‘There simply still are not enough places for people to seek shelter’ HOMELESS

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Natural Cafe said he agreed with the mayor about that. But he stuck to his guns about his restaurant being besieged by assertive transients, and he remains determined to shut down his restaurant after 30 years in part because of it. He also said he’s had “private conversations” with other restaurateurs who have experienced similar problems but do not want to come forward. But most of all, he stressed that he’s only been talking about “the criminally homeless” — those who break the law by urinating, drinking alcohol or using illegal drugs outdoors, and who act out by aggressive panhandling and invading his restrooms. “I have no problem with homeless people” in general, he said. Robin Elander, executive director of Downtown Santa Barbara, said some businesses have shared that they have experienced issues, “but most have shared that issues related to homelessness and or drug activity have been significantly worse in the past and they have seen improvements. “Issues like these are common in any urban environment,”

she said. “If any business or member of the public witnesses or experiences something criminal, they should definitely call the police as well as work with the Downtown Organization to assist with mitigating issues.” As for Mr. Brown, she said, “We are going to miss him and hope he will change his mind, but we wish he would have reached out sooner for support for the issues he was having.” The Downtown Organization of Santa Barbara has processes to assist with getting resources to people in need as well as mitigating issues with business owners experiencing challenges, she said. “We have several mechanisms to address issues, none of which to my knowledge the owner of Natural Cafe took part in over the past two years, though I wish he would have so we could have supported him. I have reached out to him directly but have not heard back.” Regarding the number of homeless people on Santa Barbara streets and throughout the county, she said that, similarly to downtowns across the nation, downtown Santa Barbara has its own challenges, “but ours in comparison to other cities are actually small. Our county has approximately 1,962 homeless individuals experiencing

homelessness in Santa Barbara County as of February 2022 from the countywide point in time count. In comparison, Los Angeles County has 69,144 that were counted at the same time in February.” Sarah Clark, the city’s downtown parking and plaza manager, said The Natural Cafe “has been a fixture downtown for years, so it’s unfortunate that they’ve decided to close their State Street location. Our goal is to create a safe, inviting downtown district where our local businesses can thrive. To that end, we work closely with the downtown business community to understand the challenges they face. “Downtown Parking staff, including the Downtown Ambassadors, often issue warnings and work directly with the homeless population to try to discourage illegal or inappropriate behavior in the Promenade,” she said. The issue of homelessness is an extremely difficult and frustrating problem, not least for the people experiencing it, Ms. Clark said, adding that the city coordinates closely with a variety of service providers to try to connect the city’s homeless residents with the services they need, including shelter and housing.

Jonathan Castillo, chief regional officer for the PATH homeless shelter, said the impacts of homelessness on State Street “are certainly not new, but there simply still are not enough places for people to seek shelter.” He stressed that the criminal behavior of some individuals “should not be used to attribute all safety issues to people experiencing homelessness.” The pandemic and the ongoing housing crisis have resulted in an increase in the unsheltered population, Mr. Castillo noted. “Shelter availability in Santa Barbara is severely lacking,” he said. “We know that because recent Point in Time count data showed that there are over 500 unsheltered people in the city. PATH and all the other service providers that we partner with are doing the best we can with the resources available. We need more outreach services and need more interim housing. “PATH understands the impacts of the large unsheltered population on the community, and we understand the harsh realities unsheltered people face every day. That is why we need to pursue these short-term solutions now and work toward the long-term solution of more housing.” email: nhartstein@newspress.com

‘We don’t want to increase capacity on the freeway without increasing capacity on side streets’ ROUNDABOUT

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Jameson Lane, the northbound Highway 101 off-ramp and the southbound Highway 101 on-ramp. Event speakers included Santa Barbara Mayor Randy Rowse, lst District Supervisor Das Williams, U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal and Caltrans District 5 Director Tim Gubbins. “This morning’s event was really well attended, and the project is a collaboration between the county, city and Caltrans. The project will handle the traffic increase from HOV lane to the 101 and will increase capacity, and we need greater capacity on side streets,” Mayor Rowse told the News-Press after the ceremony. “This is really a prerequisite to the freeway improvements because we don’t want to increase capacity on the freeway without increasing capacity on side streets. “Construction will begin later this month, and it will impact drivers’ ability to get on the southbound freeway,” Mayor Rowse said. “Hopefully people will be able to follow the signs and get on at Garden Street or Milpas Street.” Rep. Carbajal, D-Santa Barbara, said the intersection has needed to be updated for many

FYI For more information about the Olive Mill Roundabout, visit www.sbroads.com, call 805-845-5112 or email info@ sbroads.com.

years. “The various streets and freeway ramps that intersect it have made it a challenge that I’ve heard about from Central Coast residents all the way back to when I was a county supervisor for this area,” Rep. Carbajal said. “I am pleased that we are moving forward with a solution that addresses Montecito’s mobility needs. As with the federal funds that helped this project get off the ground, I will continue to work in Congress to deliver the investments needed to improve the commutes and meet the transportation needs of every Central Coast resident.” In a news release, Mr. Gubbins said Caltrans is pleased to continue its working relationship with the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments, Santa Barbara County and the city of Santa Barbara to construct the road improvement. “This really is a beautifully designed roundabout and will enhance traffic circulation for the local streets as well as the busy Highway 101 on- and off-ramps at Olive Mill Road,” Mr. Gubbins said. During the ceremony, 1st District Supervisor Das Williams said the roundabout is designed to get Santa Barbara and Montecito moving. “We have known for years that getting these local roundabouts in place prior to the freeway improvement would help our community,” Supervisor Williams said. “In fact, the modeling really showed that if we didn’t do it ahead of the freeway construction that there could be dramatic safety consequences — i.e. queuing on the freeway in the morning commute which leads to

accidents… “The importance for this business district is illustrated anytime you just look at this intersection,” he said. “I dare you to count for a little while how often people actually use the intersection correctly. Meaning how often they wait for all other users that have been in the intersection earlier than them to go before going. It is a rare occurrence.” The Olive Mill Roundabout is funded by regional funding coordinated by the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments. Crews will close the northbound off-ramp at Olive Mill Road and the southbound on-ramp at Olive Mill Road to allow space for the contractor to work and to reduce the amount of traffic moving through the construction area. Motorists are advised to expect initial safety fencing and grading on the southeast corner near the closed ramps. Throughout construction, drivers will have access through the intersection, but Caltrans said there will be night work as needed. Caltrans expects delays of 5-10 minutes throughout construction. At Friday’s ceremony, Supervisor Williams urged Santa Barbara residents to do some Christmas shopping on Coast Village Road. “It’s really important that we support our local businesses through this time so think of Coast Village Road. Think of Santa Claus Lane,” Mr. Williams said, referring to the popular Carpinteria street. “All the businesses are going to be suffering a lot through this season because we have got to get some of

this construction project done … Prioritize your trips so that if you are not patronizing a business, you stay on the freeway. “It’s also important to note that this partnership has meant that we are getting this done early. We’re distributing the pain over a longer time period but enabling people to still get through the intersection,” he said. “It’s technically difficult to keep an intersection like this open during construction so we really want to thank Caltrans for being willing and able to have a construction staging plan that allows the intersection to be used … “Please expect delays if you do drive through this intersection during construction. Be a good neighbor and let cars merge into traffic from neighboring lanes,” Mr. Williams said. “Watch for construction workers. It’s a dangerous job, particularly during these darker months, and unfortunately there have been casualties in other areas of the state recently and tragically. So let’s keep an eye out for them and know it might be 30 seconds of our life, but it might be the rest of their life. Drive slow and be alert. “A lot of people seem to think that driving in the corridor when it says 55 means 70,” Supervisor Williams said. “It actually means 55. And it means 55 also on weekends because the orientation is not designed for people driving 70 even without workers in place. Our team is committed to working on an efficient schedule to get this roundabout built by summer. That’s a fast schedule. So let’s celebrate this start together, and let’s get Santa Barbara moving.” email: kzehnder@newspress.com

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them engaged. She’s committed to making sure parents are involved one way or another … she’s doing whatever it takes, and that’s the kind of attitude we need in all our campuses.” In terms of the impact of teachers unions on K-12 education, Mr. La Berge stated that he saw them as being a “net

neutral” necessity. “With any union, you get mediocrity for some,” he said. “But what we see here in our community (is that) we have people that have sacrificed their entire careers to our school district only to retire and not even be able to afford to live here … So if an employer, in this case the district, can’t create compensation that provides a reasonable standard of living for its

employees, then unions are necessary to speak with a unified voice to make sure that they’re protected.” Having put his own students through charter schools in the area, Mr. La Berge is a strong supporter of the alternative educational model as a means to provide “customizable and unique programming that can provide opportunities for students of all different needs and representation.”

Mr. La Berge, who did not begin college until the age of 24, also supports moving away from the “college for all” mindset that has defined American educational objectives for the past two decades and called for more “exposure to other forms of professional access … (such as) auto shop, HVAC, plumbing, wood shop, and home economics.” email: jdaniels@newspress.com

‘Violence and lawlessness runs rampant across our southern border’ BORDER

Continued from Page A11 to address the American people about what the images’ conjure-up’ of citizens of a foreign country waving a flag of their home country as they aggressively charge across our open border clashing with federal agents. Maybe invasion?” Kinney County Attorney Brent Smith,

who’s called on Gov. Greg Abbott to declare an invasion at the southern border, told The Center Square, “Our border security has deteriorated to such a point that persons attempting to illegally enter our country now brazenly carry their Venezuelan flag while they assault our border patrol agents. Violence and lawlessness runs rampant across our southern border. America’s front door is being kicked in. This is what an invasion looks like.”

What happened evidences “the patchwork policy of selective border enforcement, degradation of the rule of law, and loss of respect for U.S. sovereignty, all caused by the ineptitude of the Biden Administration,” international law expert Jonathan Hullihan told The Center Square. The agents’ capabilities, he added, evidenced “that if a political will existed in Washington, D.C., the United States has a way to use duly enacted legal authority” to secure the border.

CARTER, Shirlie

On Saturday, October 22, 2022, Shirlie Carter, loving grandmother, and four-time great-grandmother, passed away on her birthday, having just turned 96 years old. Shirlie was born on October 22, 1926, in Santa Monica, CA to Robert Clark and Agnes Carhart. She was married to her high school sweetheart, Ed Carter, following the end of WWII, on October 13, 1946, at the age of 19--a marriage that lasted over 63 years until Ed’s passing in 2009. They had one son, Joe, who was raised in Santa Barbara. Shirlie was a longtime employee with the Santa Barbara County Public Works Department as an administrative assistant; she retired in 1988. Shirlie was known for her wit, sense of humor, and a personality as colorful as the award-winning orchids she grew. She was passionate about family, gardening, genealogy, history, traveling, square dancing, painting, and giving back to the community through volunteering. Shirlie was preceded in death by her husband, Ed, and her son, Joe. She is survived by her two grandchildren, Vanessa, and Ed, and her four great-grandchildren, Aria, Ava Shirlie (her namesake), Cora, and Joey. In lieu of ﬂowers, consider a donation in her honor to The Santa Barbara Botanic Gardens.

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LOCAL FIVE-DAY FORECAST TODAY

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Mostly sunny and cool

Cool with partial sunshine

A couple of showers

Cool with periods of rain

Warmer with clouds and sun

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63 35

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Pismo Beach 68/50

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Shown is today's weather. Temperatures are today's highs and tonight's lows. Maricopa 64/50

Guadalupe 68/50

Santa Maria 69/50

Vandenberg 64/51

New Cuyama 63/43 Ventucopa 63/43

Los Alamos 72/48

Buellton 71/48

Solvang 71/47

Gaviota 68/51

SANTA BARBARA 67/49 Goleta 67/49

Carpinteria 66/50 Ventura 63/50

AIR QUALITY KEY Good Moderate

Source: airnow.gov Unhealthy for SG Very Unhealthy Unhealthy Not Available

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POINT ARENA TO POINT PINOS

Wind west 4-8 knots today. Wind waves 2-4 feet with a south-southwest swell 2-4 feet at 16-second intervals. Visibility clear.

POINT CONCEPTION TO MEXICO

Wind west 4-8 knots today. Wind waves 2-4 feet with a south-southwest swell 2-4 feet at 16-second intervals. Visibility clear.

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8:17 a.m. 8:39 p.m. 7:45 a.m. 8:28 p.m. 8:13 a.m. 9:15 p.m.

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NATIONAL CITIES Atlanta Boston Chicago Dallas Denver Houston Miami Minneapolis New York City Philadelphia Phoenix Portland, Ore. St. Louis Salt Lake City Seattle Washington, D.C.

Wind west 6-12 knots today. Wind waves 1-3 feet with a west-southwest swell 1-3 feet at 8-second intervals. Visibility clear.

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MARINE FORECAST

SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL

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At Lake Cachuma’s maximum level at the point at which water starts spilling over the dam holds 188,030 acre-feet. An acre-foot is 325,851 gallons, equivalent to the amount of water consumed annually by 10 people in an urban environment. Storage 62,449 acre-ft. Elevation 693.64 ft. Evaporation (past 24 hours) 15.8 acre-ft. Inflow 0.0 acre-ft. State inflow 0.0 acre-ft. Storage change from yest. +0 acre-ft. Report from U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

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Santa Barbara Wine Auction bidding to be gala benefit at the Bacara By MARILYN MCMAHON NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

estaurateur and philanthropist Chef Daisy Ryan, coowner of Bell’s in Los Alamos and Bar Le Côte in Los Olivos, has been named the Santa Barbara Wine Auction’s 2022 featured chef and will develop the menu for the black-tie gala Friday and Nov. 12 at the RitzCarlton Bacara, Santa Barbara. “My fellow vintners and I are more than just fans of Chef Daisy’s amazing food,” said Jessica Gasca, Santa Barbara Vintners Foundation president and Story of Soil owner and winemaker. “We are inspired by how she gives back to our community as both a trailblazing business leader and a philanthropist with her charity, Feed The Valley, that works to fight food insecurity in the Santa Ynez Valley. We are excited to partner with her for this year’s gala.” The Santa Barbara Vintners Foundation is founded on the ethos “Grounded in Giving,” and the biennial Santa Barbara Wine Auction is the nonprofit’s main fundraising event. This year’s soiree will be emceed by celebrity auctioneer Billy Harris. Grassini Family Vineyards is the 2022 Vintner Honoree. Tickets are $3,125 for two. All monies raised will go to SBVF’s longtime philanthropic partners, Direct Relief, the Goletabased international humanitarian organization, and Community Health Centers, which provides

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The Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s takes place at 10 a.m. today at Chase Palm Park in Santa Barbara. SANTA BARBARA WINE AUCTION PHOTOS

Jessica Gasca, Santa Barbara Vintners Foundation president and Story of Soil owner and winemaker, visits a farm where workers receive medical attention from Community Health Centers. The foundation is overseeing the Santa Barbara Wine Auction 2022, which will raise funds for CHC and Direct Relief, a Goleta-based nonprofit that provides medical aid around the world.

medical services to Santa Barbara’s farmworker community. In addition to the black-tie gala on Nov. 12, there are several fun ways to take part in the weekend and support the Santa Barbara Wine Auction’s mission to provide free healthcare to Santa Barbara’s farmworker community. There will be three separate charity winemaker lunches on Friday at Lumen Wines in Los Alamos, Presqu’ile Winery in Santa Maria and SAMsARA Wine Co. in Los Olivos. Each will feature a winemaker host along with a few of their fellow winemakers throughout Santa Barbara County. Tickets are $200, and proceeds will benefit Direct Relief and Community Health Centers of the Central Coast. Anyone can bid on items in the silent auction, which closes

at midnight Nov. 12. Included are rare wines, private pleasure cruises and decadent chef dinners. To register, visit sbwineauction. org/#auction. The last auction, held in February 2020, proved essential to the CHC’s pandemic efforts. Money raised at the gala contributed directly to the CHC’s 39,515 free vaccinations, the opening of Los Alamos clinic in April 2022 and expansion of the CHC’s mobile clinic program. A native of Santa Ynez Valley, Chef Ryan graduated from the Culinary Institute of America and spent several years working in some of New York City’s preeminent kitchens, including Gramercy Tavern, Chef’s Fare and Per Se. She and her husband Greg Please see BACARA on B2

The crowd, including TV star Jane Lynch (seated in front, holding the sign “310”), makes its bids at the Santa Barbara Wine Auction in 2020. This year’s auction will take place Friday and Nov. 12 at the Ritz-Carlton Bacara, Santa Barbara, 8301 Hollister Ave., Goleta.

Soweto Gospel Choir connects with kids at The Granada

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The Soweto Gospel Choir infuses its song with energetic movements and rich melodies during a concert this week at The Granada.

By DAVE MASON NEWS-PRESS MANAGING EDITOR

ore than 1,100 fourth- through sixth-graders applauded enthusiastically this week after the South Africa-based Soweto Gospel Choir performed inspirational music at The Granada. It was the first time students had been bussed to a special Granada concert since the pandemic started, said Celesta Billeci, executive director of UCSB Arts & Lectures, which presented the Thursday morning concert. The students came on buses from elementary schools in the Santa Barbara Unified and Goleta Union districts. The Soweto Gospel Choir

featured a couple dozen or so vocalists who sang with spirit in native African costumes and accented their music with dynamic dancing and powerful rhythms. The choir sings about issues such as civil rights and South Africa’s previous history with apartheid, but also expresses pure joy in songs like “This Little Light of Mine.” At times, the choir stood still and embraced quiet strength in songs stressing rich tones and harmonies. Whatever the mood of the song, you could see the connection with the kids. When the vocalists pantomimed some actions to go with their lyrics, some students pantomimed those actions back in return. Ms. Billeci told the News-Press that the choir, which made its

fourth appearance this week in a UCSB Arts & Lectures concert, is known for its stories of hope. “They sing about civil rights. They sing about apartheid. They sing about deep and meaningful issues,” Ms. Billeci said outside The Granada. “At the same time, they’re bringing a lot of joy. They’re bringing uplifting music. Right now, we need that. “Inspirational is the perfect word,” she said. “In our mantra for Arts & Lectures, it’s ‘educate, entertain and inspire.’ That’s exactly what the Soweto Gospel Choir does.” “Hopefully the kids will walk out today and will talk about it all day long,” Ms. Billeci said. “They’ll remember this experience. “We talk to these kids afterward,” Ms. Billeci said. “We get thank-you notes that say, ‘I

want to be a dancer. I want to be a trumpet player.’ ” One of the concert’s sponsors told the News-Press why she felt the program was an important one for kids. “It’s very important to expose young children to the arts,“ said Maxine Prisyon, whose William H. Kearns Foundation sponsored the concert. “This is an opportunity they might not have otherwise.” Shalon Edwards, a fifthgrade teacher at Santa Barbara Charter School, told the NewsPress her students were excited to experience a cultural representation of South Africa. She said that before the Granada concert, her students watched the Soweto Gospel Choir on YouTube. “The kids are really excited to be here because we’ve had limited field trips due to COVID the last

three years,” Ms. Edwards said. (At Thursday’s performance, all the audience members wore masks.) Erika Romer, one of the parents at Thursday’s concert, told the News-Press it was great for the children to be exposed to a culture they don’t normally encounter. There are more special concerts ahead for elementary school students. Ms. Billeci said that on Dec. 1, UCSB Arts & Lectures will bring 1,500 fourth- through sixth-graders to The Granada to hear ukulele virtuoso Jake Shimabukuro, who performed a few years ago at the auditorium. “You know, in Santa Barbara, sixth-graders learn how to play the ukulele,” Ms. Billeci said. “It will be a great joy for them to see Jake.” email: dmason@newspress.com

Editor’s note: A daily calendar launches today in the News-Press. It will appear Mondays through Saturdays in the “Life & the Arts” section. Items for the calendar are welcome. Email them to Managing Editor Dave Mason at dmason@ newspress.com. TODAY Various times: Taste of the Santa Ynez Valley takes place at more than 100 restaurants, wineries, tasting rooms, breweries, distilleries and entertainment venues in Solvang, Ballard, Buellton, Santa Ynez, Los Olivos and Los Alamos. For more information, go to www.tastesyv. com. 10 a.m. The Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s will take place at Chase Palm Park in Santa Barbara. To register, go to act.alz.org/ site/TR?fr_id=15397&pg=entry. Registration is also available in person starting at 9 a.m. by the park’s Shipwreck Playground, 323 E Cabrillo Blvd. The ceremony will begin at 10 a.m., to be followed by the 5-kilometer (3.l-mile) walk along East Beach. Shorter routes will also be available. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. “Wildlife on the Edge: Hilary Baker,” an exhibit of acrylic paintings from Ms. Baker’s Predators series, is on view through March 6 at the Wildling Museum of Art and Nature, 1511-B in Solvang. Hours are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekends. The museum is closed Tuesday and Wednesday. For more information, call 805-686-8315 or visit www. wildlingmuseum.org/news/ wildlife-on-the-edge. 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. The Yes Store, featuring works of art by an annual, nonprofit holiday cooperative of artists, is open in La Arcada Plaza, 1100 State St., Santa Barbara. For more information, go to theyestore.com. 11 a.m. 5K Trail Run/Hike “FUN-draiser” at Tucker’s Grove Park, 4800 Cathedral Oaks Road, Santa Barbara. The event is being hosted by Trekking Ambassadors, an international organization based in Santa Barbara. Part of the proceeds will go toward the adventure hiking team’s mission to deliver critically needed solar lights and reading eyeglasses to remote villagers in the Mount Everest region of Nepal. Registration costs $45 for an individual, $95 for a family of three to five people and $325 for team building hiking-running. To register as an individual, family or team, go to endurancecui. active.com/new/events/81809231/ select-race?regnow=aweregnow&error=login_ required&state=8c1e5d33-825047c5-8d76. 1 p.m. Football: Moorpark College at Santa Barbara City College. If you can’t attend in person, you can listen to the live broadcast, starting at 12:45 p.m. on KZSB — AM1290, the News-Press radio station. It will also stream live at AM1290KZSB.com. 5 p.m. Pierre Claeyssens Veterans Foundation Ball at Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort, 633 E. Cabrillo Blvd., Santa Barbara. Please see CALENDAR on B2

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ince the beginning of this year, we’ve seen an uptick in depression and anxiety related to personal finances, and it makes sense. When everything is going up, you’re happy, and when the value of your estate, or your paycheck, goes down, you feel bad. Feeling depressed, more vulnerable or even angry is a normal response. Almost everyone I know is freaking out a little about money right now. Some people can barely afford the same house they currently live in, let alone consider upgrades. It’s clearly time to get some perspective. Many of us have been through this before, and that’s a good thing. In my lifetime, the market has always come back. This is a temporary situation, and remembering this should lift your spirits a little. It’s not the same as seeing your 401K grow every day,

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returned to the West Coast, where she helped open The Line Hotel in Los Angeles before heading to Austin to oversee the beverage program for McGuire Moorman Hospitality. In 2018, the couple permanently relocated to California’s Central Coast, opening Bell’s in Los Alamos and launching their company, Companion Hospitality, which now includes Bell’s, Bar Le Côte, Priedite Barbecue in Los Alamos, and a new beer and wine

but you can’t allow yourself to feel bad every day, either. That just isn’t good for you. There’s no need to check your portfolio daily. Once a week or even less is just fine. Like your body weight, the market will go up and down. Your mutual fund managers will do their best to curb any losses, but it’s not going to look great for a while, so why dwell on it? If you’ve been investing for any length of time, it’s been hard not to make some money, so find some emotional balance in that fact. Likewise, if you own your own home, it’s probably increased in value over time. Go easy on yourself. During the good times, you experienced the “wealth effect.” You felt good when you saw your statements, and you dreamed of the future and what

you would do with the money. Now those dreams have been postponed or maybe even taken away, which would make anyone unhappy and nervous. Just hold fast to what you know you have and what you know you can do. We will get through this. Everyone’s situation is different, but if you listen to your heart instead of your anxious mind, you will find some balance. Another option is to use visualization to improve your outlook. Simply picture in your mind’s eye what it is you need or are working on. Use your imagination to picture the positive. Perhaps it’s a protective white light over your house or more zeros at the end of your bank statement. I invite you to give this method a try. It has helped scores of people, including me.

If visualization isn’t your thing, that’s fine. But if you’re struggling right now, you need to look for something to ease your fears and insecurity. What is that for you? Make a list of things that may help. Once you put something in writing, it will be much easier to accomplish. The most important thing here is your mental state. Don’t let the bigger economic picture or the uncertain state of your personal finances ruin your life. Things will get better. Hold on to that.

bar, The Other based in Los Room, opening Olivos. She this fall. began painting The Santa Barbara Wine Auction Since opening when she was 2022 will be held Friday and Nov. 12 at Bell’s, Chef 9 years old the Ritz-Carlton Bacara, Santa Barbara, Ryan was in a unique 8301 Hollister Ave., Goleta. For more named a Food community information, visit sbwineauction.org. & Wine Best where an New Chef, and unlikely the restaurant combination of was named to Esquire’s Best art, mysticism and Catholicism New Restaurants list. In the fall formed the fabric of her daily life. of 2021, Bell’s earned a coveted Each of her paintings evokes Michelin Star. a distinct and often strong Delmar León will be the emotional response in the viewer. auction’s featured artist. Born Her work is often described and raised in Venezuela, Ms. as mystical and otherworldly. León is a self-taught painter Her paintings will be featured

prominently at the Bacara event. The Santa Barbara Vintners Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the Santa Barbara Vintners. The biennial Santa Barbara Wine Auction is the Foundation’s marquee charity event. Since its inaugural gala in 2000, the auction has raised more than $5 million for humanitarian organizations, including its longtime beneficiary and partner, Direct Relief.

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Daniel Bodily, of Woodbury, Minn., is a robotics research engineer. Jeff Chen, of Seattle, is a professional writer and crossword constructor. Previously they collaborated on the Lincoln Memorial-themed puzzle that appeared in May. The idea for this one was Dan’s and started with 63-Across. He pondered the idea for months before reaching out to Jeff. A slew of attempts at construction ensued. ‘‘It’s really fun to see where the dust settles,’’ Dan says, ‘‘after raw ideas are filtered through the constraints of the dictionary and the grid — W. S.

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1 Shops 5 Peddling 10 Collectibles 14 A kitchen might have a good one 19 Instrument for Arachne, in mythology 20 Natural instincts 21 Word on the street, perhaps? 22 Like Superman, but not Spider-Man 23 Symbol of bravery 24 Nephew of Abel 25 One-eyed war god 26 African animal that may be spotted or striped 27 Armed force at sea? 29 ‘‘Person of the Year’’ magazine 31 Big froyo franchiser 33 When said three times, ‘‘Get off my case!’’ 34 White terrier, informally 35 Historic 36 Hockey 37 Upset 38 ____ Toy Barn (where Emperor Zurg chases Buzz Lightyear) 39 ‘‘I,’’ in the ‘‘Iliad’’ 40 You’ll have to pull some strings to play this 41 Low-scoring Yahtzee category Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 4,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year).

42 Lower back bones 45 Downsides 46 How many U.N. members have names starting with ‘‘W’’ 47 Lionel Messi’s homeland: Abbr. 48 Standoffish 49 Whiz 50 Promotional overkill 51 Capital on the Arabian Peninsula 54 Waste 55 Disposal 56 Locations 57 Things believers believe 58 The ‘‘A’’ in A.D. 59 Racket 60 Children’s book series akin to ‘‘Where’s Waldo?’’ 61 Word with nursing or training 62 N.I.H. standard 63 Read 64 Here 65 To 66 Understand 67 23 answers in today’s puzzle that don’t seem to match their clues 68 The ‘‘P’’ of E.P.S. ratio, on Wall Street 69 Adverb repeated in the ‘‘Star Wars’’ prologue 70 Calvin and Hobbes, e.g. 71 Head, in slang 72 Onetime radio host Don 74 ‘‘Mad’’ figure of fiction 76 Dazzling 77 Pattern

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Chef Daisy Ryan, a restaurateur and philanthropist, is the featured chef for the Santa Barbara Wine Auction 2022. At right, Delmar León will be the featured artist for the auction.

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46 Female nature deities 47 A charismatic person has one 50 Gets a move on 51 Some BBQ-flavored fast-food sandwiches 52 Totals 53 Letters near a conveyor belt 55 Online pop-up generator 60 How perjurers might be caught 61 ____ Mary 66 Makes beloved

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67 How Usher wants to take it in a 1998 No. 1 hit 68 The 76ers, on scoreboards 69 Disaster-response org. 70 Arctic coats 73 In the public eye 75 Headset? 76 Popular Korean minivan 77 Country with more than 100 active volcanoes

82 Device providing oversight? 84 Verizon, for one 85 Hardly genteel 87 Website overseers 88 Brain cases 89 1600 for the SAT, informally 90 No. listed on the inside of car doors, often 91 Get over it! 96 Actress Catherine who starred as Kevin’s mom in ‘‘Home Alone’’

97 ‘‘Red’’ or ‘‘white’’ wood

SUNDAY Various times: Taste of the Santa Ynez Valley takes place at more than 100 restaurants, wineries, tasting rooms, breweries, distilleries and entertainment venues in Solvang, Ballard, Buellton, Santa Ynez, Los Olivos and Los Alamos. For more information, go to www.tastesyv.com. Various times: Wildwonder, an event for women 18 and older, takes place Sunday through Wednesday at Alisal Ranch, 1054 Alisal Road, Solvang. For more information, go to alisal.com/ experiences/wildwonder. 10 a.m. The Yes Store, featuring works of art by an annual, nonprofit holiday cooperative of artists, is open in La Arcada Plaza, 1100 State St., Santa Barbara. For more information, go to theyestore.com. 6 to 7:30 p.m. Taste of the Santa Ynez Valley will present Santa Barbara County wines and craft beer, along with local bites, at the Solvang Festival Theater garden, 420 2nd St., Solvang. Featured participants include Peasants

FEAST, Coast Range, Campo del Sol, Clean Slate Wine Bar, Alma Rosa Winery, Buttonwood Farm Winery, Dana V. Wines, Kalyra, Kaena, Lion’s Peak, Lucas & Lewellen, Margerum, Royal Oaks, Toccata, and more. 8 p.m. Country band Lanco will perform at 8 p.m. at the Solvang Festival Theater, 420 2nd St., Solvang, as part of Taste of the Santa Ynez Valley. For tickets, go to www.visitsyv. com/taste-of-the-santa-ynez-valley. MONDAY 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.: The Yes Store, featuring works of art by an annual, nonprofit holiday cooperative of artists, is open in La Arcada Plaza, 1100 State St., Santa Barbara. For more information, go to theyestore. com. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.: “Tiempo sin Palabras/Time without Words,” an exhibit of art by Rafael Perea de la Cabada, will be displayed through Dec. 15 at Allan Hancock College’s Ann Foxworthy Gallery. The gallery is located inside the Academic Resource Center, Bldg. L on the main campus at 800 S. College Drive, Santa Maria. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Wednesday and 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursdays. To learn more about the exhibit, contact Jill Thayer, director/curator (interim) at 661-4284611 or jill.thayer@hancockcollege. edu.

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ARIES — You may miss friends and family who live far away, Aries. Why not make yourself a cup of tea and write some letters? It will help you feel connected in a different way than sending an email or making a call. Remember that you’re blessed to have these people in your life even if you don’t see them as often as you’d like. TAURUS — You may have recently inherited either some money or some free time. This is a real gift, and if invested wisely, it could lead to some important self-discoveries. Perhaps you could use the money to enroll in college, take music lessons, or do something else that makes your heart soar. If you received free time, you could catch up on reading, paint, or try some writing. GEMINI — Today is well suited for making new friends, Gemini. Your sense of adventure is undoubtedly up to it! You will be your usual confident self, but others will seem to respond to your charisma even more than usual. If you’re able to attend a small party, you may meet someone who lives far away who invites you to visit at a later date. CANCER — This is a very spiritual and creative day for you, Cancer. You’re especially intuitive. Any creative effort will likely resonate deeply. Even if you don’t feel you have the talent for it, why not try some form of artistic expression? You could dabble with a paintbrush or makes notes in a journal. Don’t let that pesky internal editor kick in. Create for the sheer joy of it. LEO — Today is ideal for romance, Leo. It’s great for forming new relationships or improving existing ones. If you don’t have a special someone, make an effort to expand your social circle. Attend a lecture or take a workshop. If you have a mate, do something different together that helps you get to know one another better. VIRGO — You have a good heart, Virgo, and today it expands to bestow love on all mankind. You can’t help but feel connected in a deep, spiritual way with all who have come

before you and all who follow. Even if you don’t have a lot of money, consider setting up an annual giving plan that will benefit worthwhile causes. LIBRA — You will likely find it difficult to keep your mind on serious matters with today’s playful planetary energies, Libra. You’re in the mood for romance, and you want to make sure everything is in place for a flawless evening with that special someone. You have the sexy outfit and food being delivered, and that’s just for starters. SCORPIO — Your innate talent and conscientious work ethic earn you admiration and respect. Whether you’re aware of it or not, others look up to you as someone who has it together. Yet you still have that nagging doubt that you’re an impostor. Today’s astral energies ask you to look at where these doubts originate. SAGITTARIUS — It looks as though you’re about to hop on the bandwagon, Sagittarius. Friends will try to get you to support one of their causes. Think carefully. They aren’t going to settle for a check. They want your handson support. While you might be intimidated by addressing a crowd, you always did want to use a megaphone. CAPRICORN — Love and passion are at the forefront of your thoughts today, Capricorn. Work seems tedious compared to the rich fantasy inside your head! If possible, make a point of getting together tonight with your mate. He or she is likely feeling as amorous as you. You two have much to celebrate. AQUARIUS — If you became an animal today, you’d be a puppy, Aquarius, all frisky and affectionate. By all means, put your passion to good use! Surprise a special someone with a home-cooked meal. Set a table in front of the fireplace, light candles, pour the wine, and let nature take its course. You need not bother to plan a dessert. PISCES — You have a creative and artistic nature that you might want to put to good use today, Pisces. You could have some good ideas for home improvements. Perhaps you need some bookcases to help you get organized, or maybe you want a complete redecoration. Whatever you do, Pisces, it’s bound to look beautiful.

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reader, J.C., sent me a photo of a book by Richard Avedon, who illustrated his autobiography with his photography. This is Richard Avedon, the great photographer. There are a few ways of interpreting our world — visual, aural, kinetic, language-based — and they are all symbolic ways of thinking, but high on my list is the visual artist who can think with his eyes. There are a few artists who changed the way we think about our visual world, and Avedon was one of them. I had the great good fortune to run into two retired models here in Montecito that he had shot, and they had some of his images of them. That guy was something. My reader J.C. has “An Autobiography by Richard Avedon.” In an illustration of what you discover about yourself at the age of 13-16, is that if you are lucky enough, you learn how you are going to understand your world — and sometimes you begin to work on that understanding. I remember tearing apart every room in my mother’s modest house to try to make it more “artistic”’at 13. When I discovered that my language was both written and visual, I had a direction, and I was 13. Likewise, Richard Avedon in his high school years discovered he was good with the visual, and he had a friend who was good with the written part of symbolic language. That friend at his Bronx high school was none other than the renowned, soonto-become great author, James Baldwin (1923-1987). In later years, Mr. Avedon had a further collaboration with Mr. Baldwin, but not before they tried out their 13-16-year-old powers. After Mr. Avedon and Mr. Baldwin got together in high school and formed the magazine The Magpie in the 1940s, Mr. Baldwin went

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If it’s a first edition, this autobiography by acclaimed photographer Richard Avedon could sell for as much as $1,800, according to columnist Elizabeth Stewart.

onto write some of the best loved classics in modern literature: “Go Tell it on the Mountain,” “Giovanni’s Room,” “The Fire Next Time,” “Notes of a Native Son,” “If Beale Street Could Talk” and “Nothing Personal.” Well, he and Richard Avedon formed a friendship that would last through the years. And that is in the book that J.C. owns — the story of their collaboration, the story of Mr. Avedon’s life as an artist, with shots of Groucho Marx to Chanel and Shrimpton and everyone in between. After high school, Mr. Avedon

went onto the photography department of the US Merchant Marine. In 1951-1965, he worked as a staff photographer at Harper’s Bazaar, then at Vogue from 1966-1988. His reuniting publication with Mr. Baldwin was the story of the early Civil Rights Movement “Nothing Personal in 1964. In 1992, Mr. Avedon became the staff photographer at the New Yorker. At this point, I can’t help myself. I have to brag that in my younger career, I worked with a ballet, and I traveled to Milan where I met Nureyev. And of

course, I have always longed to have the money to buy Richard Avedon’s photographic book about the renowned dancer of 1963. Now, when you have such a book by this level of photographer, value depends on the publisher. Various publishers picked it up, and the highest values are paid for the signed limited edition first edition, which was produced for Mr. Avedon’s show at the Whitney, who did a 1995 retrospective of his career. And he signed only 160 of those books. That boxed set had a special second book in the boxed set, which included photos of Jean Shrimpton and Jasper Johns (Paris 1970). These have a white embossed slip case and are signed by Mr. Avedon. These sell from $6,500 to $4,000 depending on condition and I bet sometimes more. The book I think J.C. has, is in a glassine protective cover, appears to be fairly coffee tablesized. But Taschen published a SUMO-sized version at 50 inches by 70 inches, which can sell for a couple of thousands especially if it is Taschen’s first edition. The average price for the SUMO Taschen is $2,590. Now if J.C.’s book is 14.5 by 12 by 2.5 inches, it is the first edition by Randall House New York 1993. It may sell in pristine shape for $1,800. The price declines based on condition to the bottom average condition at $300. But still, what a treasure. Not only is the book a treasure, but it marks a period in which the very visual amongst us collected books of photography. I think that books are a dying art, but that like all dying arts, they will resurrect like the phoenix. Dr. Elizabeth Stewart’s “Ask the Gold Digger” column appears Saturdays in the Santa Barbara News-Press Weekend. 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.

Real Talk About OTC Hearing Aids There’s been so much excitement around the topic of OTC hearing aids but patients have lots of questions as well. I’m always happy to explain to patients the difference between OTC amplifiers and hearing aids. Prior to legislation S.670, the “2017 OTC hearing aid act”, a hearing aid could only be called a hearing aid if it was tuned to provide a specific amount of volume at each frequency in order to correct a hearing loss. After the passage of this act, anything that provides sound can be called a hearing aid. The attempt of this legislation was to widen the access of hearing “assistive devices” to a larger population. Unfortunately, it has served to confuse consumers into thinking they can get the same product over the counter that they can from an Audiologist. Not all hearing devices are created equal. These OTC “hearing aids” simply amplify sound across the entire frequency spectrum (usually 35 dB of volume for low, mid and high-frequencies evenly). Unlike professionally programmed hearing aids, these OTC devices do not correct

hearing loss. In many cases (particularly if a patient has only a high-frequency hearing loss) the patient will hear background noise too loud but speech no clearer.

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The new OTC hearing devices raise more concerns for me than just my bottom line. There are already hurdles for new hearing loss patients who need professionally programmed hearing aids. Many will opt for the cheaper OTC option, but will become discouraged when they don’t get the desired results. Without proper counseling or a fitting by an Audiologist, these patients may experience further hearing loss, which makes them 2 to 5 times more likely to experience cognitive decline and dementia. Eventually these patients may choose to purchase real hearing aids, but by then it may be too late. If you have questions, please don’t hesitate to contact us at 805-322-4522. We can take a look at your existing aids and make sure they are properly programmed to your individual, unique hearing loss.

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President Joe Biden

Democrats run from border blunders “Biden’s failure to secure our border is an enormous national security threat. We are witnessing a crisis driven by Democratic politics, not policies to protect America.” — U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker, R-Pa.

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The Natural Cafe is closing after 30 years on lower State Street in Santa Barbara.

State Street needs tough love Downtown’s problems actually could be solved quickly

hough I now live in Solvang, my Santa Barbara roots began in the third grade when we moved from Pasadena. My father was looking for a smaller community to establish his business and for the wonderful climate. As you would expect, Santa Barbara was much different then. Lower State Street had strip clubs and porn shops, and you just never went there. But a few blocks up, you had a classic mom-and-pop hardware store, Ott’s, Woolworth, names long since forgotten. A recent story about the Natural Café closing after 30 years prompted me to shift my focus this week from national politics to local. One thing that has always bothered me in government is the millions of dollars spent for outside-of-the-community

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we will ever be able to accurately consultants to tell the locals what calculate. they should be doing. Such is the And politics entered the case with nearly $800,000 being picture and made an even bigger spent on an out-of-state firm to mess of it all. As public pressure figure out a long-term plan for mounted and restaurants State Street. Color me were falling faster than stupid but I don’t get it. hail during a tornado, a Kelly Brown, owner compromise was reached of the Natural Café, said because supposedly eating it himself, “We need to outside was safer than remove the parklets, inside. And voila, parklets clean up State Street and sprouted overnight. police it. Why is it so hard As was pointed out at the for the city to do these Henry recent joint Santa Barbara simple things?” Schulte Planning Commission Our federal government and Historic Landmarks and state brain trusts The author Commission meeting, had no idea what they lives in Solvang outdoor dining has been in were doing when they existence a long time and decided the best thing successfully the world over. Fifty for the country was to shut it all years ago, as a teenager, I traveled down. That would end COVID, Europe, and I don’t ever recall and they would be patted on the eating inside anywhere. Even back for a job well done protecting back then outside dining was on the people. As it turned out, they the sidewalks, and things worked screwed things up even more than

harmoniously with pedestrians and vehicles alike. As Kelly Brown also pointed out, the solution can be very simple. Have seating on the sidewalk. Still consider keeping a section of State closed, for a while or not. Enforce the walking of bikes. And if need be, use the money saved by not hiring outside services and hire part-time staff instead to make sure the rude people who don’t follow instructions are kept in line. Boom! Done! No place for rats to hide, no need to figure out how to design parklets. And Santa Barbara can hold parades again. For the love of business, give the restaurants a break, and don’t try and gouge them for more fees. Remember, the city is willing to squander hundreds of thousands of dollars to have someone else tell them what to do. Don’t put that booboo on the backs of business.

State Street went from a very shady place to a show place, and now it’s reversing course. Back in the day, the in-thing to do was wander State Street, especially over the holidays for Christmas shopping or just to get into the spirit of the season. It was fun and festive, and the sidewalks were filled with pedestrians. There was no online shopping, no Amazon, and no Paseo Nuevo or La Cumbre Plaza. All retail was focused downtown, and it was the place to be. Actually, the only place. I don’t go into Santa Barbara anymore. First, as we get older, I don’t want to deal with traffic and lots of people. And now with all the homeless mess, I’m even less motivated. Good laws are created to Please see SCHULTE on C4

Election 2022: Three days and counting

ve always thought this month-long and longer voting procedure we’ve boxed ourselves into over the past decades must end, that we need to return to a one-day or at the most two-day (weekend?) voting schedule. What we are doing now — besides offering many opportunities to steal, cheat, and debase an election — is idiotic and dangerous. Why give people with larceny in their hearts a full month or longer to skew the effort of a free and fair election? I’d go for the purple-thumb approach. (For those who don’t remember, the first Iraq election after the ouster of Saddam Hussein featured voters dunking their thumbs into a vat of purple dye after voting so that they

candidate, but beyond that, one’s couldn’t vote again.) vote counted for the person one There is also the likelihood of voted for. throwing away one’s vote if one’s Let’s get back to that. candidate drops out PURELY And now, as the end of unexpectedly during POLITICAL this upcoming Tuesday’s a long voting period midterm election season such as we have now, as draws near, let’s examine happened when Rudy where we are. Giuliani dropped out First of all, I try — I of the presidential race really do — to listen to the just five days before other side. But, but, but, the California primary, I simply can’t continue thereby negating all votes to hang on to anything already cast for him. This James Buckley being sputtered by the happens often, as various shrieking and weirdly office seekers run out of inane talking heads on money or courage and MSNBC. Two minutes of such drop out just days or weeks before dribble has me spinning into a the official Election Day. vortex of misinformation, idiotic When we had real elections observations and miscalculations. (the first Tuesday after the first I do believe that you’d need to Monday in November), there would be the occasional death of a have an IQ in the 80s or less to be

a regular MSNBC viewer, but hey, stupid people need an outlet too. CNN has — it really has — gotten better as the new regime cleans house, but it has hung on to too many of the losers it’s had for so many years. Curiously though, when their panels sit around to discuss why, say, “white suburban women” seemed to have gravitated toward the Republican Party, the subject of the educational dry well that public-school students have fallen into, along with the sexualization of elementary schoolchildren, never seems to come up. Panelists usually cite “economics” as the driving force in that turnabout, but as I see it, education and indoctrination are equally important. Fox News has got it mostly right,

though even on that cable channel, way too much credence is given to inflation and not enough to the depredations of the education industry. But back to the election. We’re where I have predicted we would be. I continue to believe Republicans will end up holding a 54-46 edge in the U.S. Senate because: Mr. Laxalt takes out Ms. Cortez Masto in Nevada; Mr. Walker ousts Mr. Warnock in Georgia; Sen. Johnson will hold his seat in Wisconsin; Mr. Budd ekes out a victory in North Carolina; Dr. Oz wins over Mr. Fetterwoman; Mr. Masters beats Sen. Kelly in Arizona, and J.D. Vance wins in Ohio. I did predict that Democratic Please see BUCKLEY on C4

here was a recent story in a Texas newspaper about a Hispanic man who traveled by bus from his home in Laredo, Texas, to Mexico to see a soccer game. Leaving the stadium, someone stole his driver’s license and passport. The police took a report and told him the closest U.S. consulate was closed until Monday. When he arrived at the border, the agent told him he could not enter the U.S. without a driver’s license or a passport. No one could help him until the consulate opened Monday. Perplexed and bewildered, he was left walking around Nuevo Laredo wondering what to do. That’s when he saw a large group of migrants huddled around a border sign that read “Asylum Seekers.” Since he spoke Spanish, he went over to mix and mingle and question how they crossed the border without a passport or a U.S. ID. While in the middle of the crowd that was moving steadily toward the border entry, within an hour he found himself back into the U.S. without nary a question asked. In a recent Pew poll, voters said their biggest concern this election was inflation and the economy; followed by violent crime, high gas prices, border security, foreign policy, gun control and global warming. Abortion and race diversity placed at the bottom of issues that concerned most voters. With the midterms under way, Democrats are hoping to distract voters from their numerous policy failures that have lowered their standard of living, with record high inflation, and high gas prices. By focusing on abortion and racial issues, they hope voters will forget about the economy, high inflation and gas prices; violence in the streets, and a border policy that threatens the lives of all Americans. Mexico and the U.S. share a 1,954-mile border, from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico. It is the busiest border in the world and a hub of commerce and tourism for both nations. This border affects the economic well-being and safety of Mexican and U.S. border states. It can also be the most dangerous space between two nations that threatens America’s safety and national security. Please see HAUPT on C4

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News-Press election endorsements The News-Press has made the following endorsements for the Nov. 8 general election.

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STATE Governor: Sen. Brian Dahle. Lieutenant Governor: Angela Underwood Jacobs. Secretary of State: Rob Bernosky. Controller: Lanhee Chen. State Treasurer: Jack Guerrero. Superintendent of Public Instruction: Lance Christensen. Attorney General: Nathan Hochman. Insurance Commissioner: Robert Howell. State Board of Equalization, 2nd District: Peter Coe Verbica. U.S. Senate/Partial Term: Mark Meuser. U.S. Senate/Full Term: Mark Meuser. U.S. House Representative, District 24: Dr. Brad Allen. State Assembly, District 37:

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Mike Stoker. SPECIAL DISTRICTS Goleta Water District, District 2: Greg S. Hammel. Los Alamos Community Services District, Short Term: Kristy Gnesa-Williams. Los Olivos Community Services District: Lisa Bertero Palmer. Los Olivos Community Services District, Short Term: Brad A. Ross. CITY COUNCIL AND MAYORAL RACES Carpinteria City Council, Trustee Area 1: Patty Boyd (write in). Lompoc Mayor: Jim Mosby. Solvang Mayor: Mark Infanti. Solvang City Council District 1: Robert Clark. Solvang City Council District 3: David Brown. Buellton Mayor: David King. Buellton City Council District

1: Tom Widroe. Buellton City Council District 4: Art Mercado. SCHOOL BOARDS Santa Barbara County Board of Education, Trustee Area 1: Rosanne Crawford. Santa Barbara Community College District, Trustee Area 1: Debi Stoker. Santa Barbara Community College District, Trustee Area 5: Sharon Salvador-Jegottka. Santa Barbara Unified School District, Trustee Area 1: Efigenia Banales. Santa Barbara Unified School District, Trustee Area 4: Phebe Mansur. Goleta Union School District, Trustee Area 1: Caroline Abate. Goleta Union School District, Trustee Area 3: Christy Lozano. Lompoc Unified School District, Short Term-At Large: Jerri Thiel. Santa Ynez Valley Union High School: Sheri Noble.

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These justice system statistics are from Santa Barbara County staff.

The expectation of failure redux

s a favorite go? No! Our woke probation author of mine department believes custody has written, time is “not appropriate” “a half-truth for these people. Instead, masquerading the probation department as the whole truth becomes a is instead intent on meeting complete untruth.” their “unmet needs” such Accordingly, let’s discuss as counseling, childcare, the criminal justice reform employment and housing. movement, which is a Where is the justice in euphemism to empty our that to the victims of crime? jails of suspects and convicts How is that making our — aka decarceration. community safer? Why not As the theory goes, every refer them to these services criminal is a victim of after they have served their circumstances, including time? their race and This failure to financial status. The appear is the direct primary results are result of another that poor people end failure to appear up with long jail and — at the polls! If prison sentences you consider the because they don’t number of adults have money to post who don’t bother bail (which is why to register to vote Andy Caldwell they want to eliminate and combine that bail entirely) and they with the number can’t afford a competent of registered voters who attorney. Whereas there fail to vote, that is ample is some truth in these explanation why our statements, the whole criminal justice system is truth is the majority of sofailing, not to mention all called low-level crimes in the other problems facing our community are never society. Elections matter. investigated or prosecuted in In this election cycle, the first place for a variety of Democrats are staying home reasons. in droves. Why? While they This has to do with the can’t yet stomach voting fact that the California for Republicans, neither criminal justice system can they support their own has been eviscerated by a party, which has crushed series of laws that emptied our economy (inflation), our prisons and forced our crashed our public jails to severely limit the education system (school incarceration of suspects closures and plummeting and convicts. The truth? test scores), and crippled our Only felons go to either jail or criminal justice system (as prison. mentioned herein). What’s worse, a slew of Strike while the iron is hot crimes that were formerly folks! Vote! For at the base of considered felonies have our liberty is common sense, been downgraded to aka self-evident truths, and misdemeanors, meaning a the concept of a government number of people that would of the people, for the people have gone to jail previously, and by the people — all of are now released upon which requires the people booking, or never arrested to exercise their sovereign at all as they are merely right to vote. handed a citation. Our government and our A significant aspect of economy are reeling out of the reform movement is to control because the critical refrain from incarcerating and crucial, personally suspects who have not yet liberating and governmentbeen convicted. Instead, constraining concept of we seek to serve them by “consent of the governed,” is way of “pretrial services.” becoming extinct by reason This, despite the fact that of the failure to appear by 20% of the accused who the electorate. were not held in custody Sans the concept of while waiting for their day consent, all we have left is in court failed to appear for a form of maniacal tyranny their court hearing, while void of common sense, law another 10-13% reoffended. and order, and decency. And get this: The probation department expected Andy Caldwell is the COLAB these people to fail via the executive director and host of assessment they use for this “The Andy Caldwell Show,” program. airing 3 to 5 p.m. weekdays What to do? Send these no- on KZSB AM 1290, the Newsshows to jail without passing Press radio station.

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Santa Barbara resident Peter LeVay objects to proposed changes for Chase Palm Park in Santa Barbara.

Save Chase Palm Park

love Chase Palm Park. There is nothing more iconic to Santa Barbara than the park, with its expansive field of green grass, filled with tall, majestic palms moving in the ocean breeze with the beach, ocean and blue sky beyond. There are plans afoot to make some major changes to the park. The Santa Barbara Public Works Department is going to bulldoze out all the green ice plants and replace them with “native species plants” — weeds. This is going to be a big and expensive project, taking two years to complete with a five-year follow-up. I don’t know what the “follow-up” entails. If it doesn’t work, will the department replant the ice plant? It seems to me that the poor doomed ice plant has been doing a great job. It’s virtually no maintenance. It looks nice and green and, on occasion, blooms with a pretty bright yellow flower. It does a great job of stabilizing the dunes, which protect Chase Palm Park from the damage of storms and high seas. Which is why it was placed there in the first place. Is the ice plant being picked on solely because it is a foreign species? Hell, the whole park is foreign species! In fact, all our parks are foreign species, or they’d be dirt lots full of weeds. A secondary effect of planting indigenous plants is that they can grow to five feet tall, which would block the view of the ocean and beach from Cabrillo Boulevard. This isn’t a joke and it’s not up for debate. It’s an official Santa Barbara Public Works project. I don’t know what bothers me the most, the ridiculousness of the project, or its expense. Peter LeVay Santa Barbara

Vote ‘no’ on Proposition 1

alifornia Proposition 1 would codify that there be NO restrictions. Pro-abortion supporters have been successful in defeating parental notification measures. Seriously, how many pregnant minors can assess or weigh the proximate and life-long adverse effects of such a decision on their physical and mental health? Our high school had a “robust” sex ed curriculum that all students were required to attend. While volunteering for the health education office, I overheard

the health ed teachers having a heated discussion about one of the girls in my class. Unbeknownst to her parents, one of the teachers had taken her for three abortions during school hours. She had attempted suicide after each abortion. Her parents were desperate to know what was going on with their daughter. They only found out about it after her third suicide attempt. They were very upset that they had not been previously notified. In each instance, she took the regular bus to school. Once at school, a teacher took her to and from the abortion clinic. She was then sent home on her regular school bus. This was “imperfectly” legal. How could her parents help and protect her if they didn’t know? Was she really pregnant? If so, who was involved? Was it a predator, incest, a neighbor, another relative or a boyfriend? What kind of anesthesia was used and what are the side effects? Was appropriate informed consent provided, and did the child understand it? Please vote “No” on CA Proposition 1. J. Sullivan Santa Barbara

Recommendations on propositions

nother election is before us on Tuesday that will change the world. Dozens of candidates are running for office. In California, buried in the ballot are seven propositions that may have a bigger impact than the candidates, depending on which issues are important to you. All of the propositions are listed at the secretary of state’s website, sos. ca.gov. Each proposition is reviewed with my comments and some recommendations. PROPOSITION 1 Abortion Definition Change. The existing law, the Reproductive Privacy Act, declares that every individual possesses a fundamental right of privacy with respect to personal reproductive decisions and prohibits the state from denying or interfering with a person’s right to choose or obtain an abortion before viability of the fetus, or when the abortion is necessary to protect the life or health of the person. This measure, Proposition 1, would amend the California Constitution to prohibit the state from denying or interfering with an individual’s reproductive freedom in their most intimate

decisions, which includes their fundamental right to choose to have an abortion and their fundamental right to choose or refuse contraceptives. This would allow abortion at any time. It’s far too permissive. It needs more control of abortion than permitter by this change. A “yes” vote majority will approve the change offered in Proposition 1. A “no” vote will leave the present state law unchanged. My vote is NO. PROPOSITION 26 Legalizing Online Gaming and Sport Betting. Presently, sports betting is illegal in California, but it’s legal federally. Most sports betting in California is done illegally and costs the state millions in lost revenue. Four California Indian tribes have petitioned the state to legalize sports betting by keeping it in the confines of the present casinos and horse racing parlors in California. All betting would be for age 21 or older and would be limited to the in-person betting in these facilities. A 10% tax is levied on sales, and 70% goes to the state general fund. The rest supports mental health and small tribes. Sports betting will become legal someday. This seems a reasonable approach now. My vote is YES. PROPOSITION 27 Allowing Online and Mobile Sports Wagering Outside Tribal Lands. This proposition would legalize sports betting in California where it is presently illegal. All wagering would be outside the tribal facilities, 60 casinos and four race tracks. A new statewide administration would be set up with funding from the state of California to establish this betting system. It would be very hard to manage, control and police. Phones and computers anywhere could be used as wagering tools. A 10% tax would be imposed on all betting actions and collected by the business. It could be used to pay off operation expenses, then sent to the gaming administration, where it would be used to pay down any debt and operation expenses. Little would be available, if, any to go to homelessness or to local tribes. Proposition 27 would have a very expensive impact on the whole of California and be hard to control. My vote is NO. PROPOSITION 28 The Arts and Music in Schools Funding Guarantee and Accountability Act. Please see LETTERS on C4

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Republicans should follow Florida’s lead on ESG investing

he months-long standoff between Republican officials and asset managers over environmental, social and governance investing deepened this week, as South Carolina announced plans to pull $200 million out of funds run by BlackRock, the nation’s largest asset manager. This comes less than a week after Louisiana announced a $794 million divestment from the firm. Their reasons for pulling out? Much like Texas and West Virginia this summer, they cite the impact of ESG on BlackRock’s energy investments. “Simply put, we cannot be party to the crippling of our own economy,” said Louisiana Treasurer John M. Schroeder, affirming his belief that further investment in BlackRock’s funds would harm Louisiana residents in the long run. Other states that produce fossil fuels have echoed these sentiments, while still more point out that ESG funds are merely repackaging left-wing social views. Republican congressmen have called for transparency over how ESG ratings are established. GOP leaders are right to call out the progressive infiltration of the investing world. But banning specific investment firms based on flimsy evidence doesn’t help depoliticize investing and could hurt state retirement plans’ bottom lines. States looking to combat the progressive social agenda that has taken root in ESG investment policies should look to Florida, which has barred ideological factors from state-run investments while respecting individuals’ right to invest as they choose. In August, the attorneys general of 19 right-leaning states signed on to a letter to BlackRock CEO Larry Fink, alleging inconsistency in the investment firm’s public statements on its climate agenda and accusing it of deprioritizing clients’ interests. Texas, the biggest signatory, went further, barring state entities outright from holding shares of 10 financial firms (including BlackRock) and 350 funds that the state comptroller deemed to boycott oil and gas companies. Some of these claims of boycott are poorly evidenced: BlackRock itself invested more than $100 billion in the energy sector in Texas alone. The plan also comes with a whiff of protectionism, favoring one of Texas’s biggest industries while ignoring the real problem of ideological intrusion into ESG processes. This seems especially unnecessary as free markets are already poised to punish so-called energy boycotters. As post-COVID markets have seen a slump in the ESG-friendly tech sector and a bull market in the “dirty” energy sector, the financial tradeoff between ideology and straightforward, returns-focused investing has become more stark. Texas’ move in this direction will simply reduce investment options for state plans while doing little to tackle ESG’s biggest flaws. With states like Louisiana and South Carolina following suit, this may unfortunately become the normative GOP response. Florida — which was conspicuously absent from the state attorneys general’s letter — has taken a more promising path. In late August, Gov. Ron DeSantis amended the Florida pension plan’s investment policy to affirm that the plan is meant to provide financial return for state employees. His resolution limits investment decisions to pecuniary factors — namely, factors that the board expects “to have a material effect on the risk and return of an investment.” The resolution notes that these factors “do not include the furtherance of social, Please see VIOLA on C4

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Elon Musk rightly advocates freedom of speech

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ig brother is heavy-handed censorship. watching you.” Twitter’s now departed That was the leaders reacted to criticism with pervasive punch shock, and not in the cynical line in British “Casablanca” sense. In that classic writer George Orwell’s novel movie, Capt. Renault expresses “1984.” artificial outrage about gambling Elon Musk’s purchase of going on in Rick’s Café. Twitter, after considerable Twitter’s sanctimonious censors conflict, gives the colorful actually believe in their capitalist an opportunity bullying. People they Arthur I. to change the notoriously banned include former Cyr dictatorial social media President Donald Trump, giant. who though now out of Mr. Orwell, one of the greatest office remains Public Enemy No. writers of the 20th century, was 1 for mainstream “news” and a committed socialist. Unlike infotainment media. many on the left today, however, Simultaneously, Twitter has he had personal involvement ignored truly evil hate. Iran’s with working people, because Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali he was one. He stressed Khamenei regularly calls for egalitarianism, while warning destruction of Israel, referred about dangers of concentrated to as “a cancerous growth.” power in government as well as In Twitterland, that has been corporations. acceptable while Mr. Trump Technologies now provide causes “harm.” unprecedented power to gather Apple co-founder Steve Jobs personal information about fiercely defended free speech and individuals. Today, technology privacy. In 2011, he emphasized also vastly expands individual protecting customer privacy in freedom to communicate, learn announcing a new version of the and publish. iPhone. South African Musk is a In 2016, Apple resisted U.S. magnet for controversy. He fought government efforts to secure cell to acquire Twitter, in part to phone data. The phone belonged terminate its active but selective to a married couple who carried

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out a horrific mass murder in San Bernardino. The FBI eventually broke the encryption, with outside tech help. That agency should focus on improving internal skills. The enormous concentration of capital, data collection and surveillance capabilities of today’s social media and communications corporations underscores the importance of government oversight as well as restraint. Mr. Musk also is pioneering

space exploration, using businessgovernment cooperation, now strongly established. Here, President John F. Kennedy deserves unreceived credit. In 1962, he insisted the new Communications Satellite Corp. be privately chartered, not a government agency, angering Democratic Party liberals. We recognize J.F.K.’s role in reaching the moon. Collectively, we almost universally ignore his leadership in creating the global satellite-based communications network vital to our work and life today. A wit quipped that “1984” was really about 1948, a reference to the Soviet Union. In the 1940s and into the 1950s, intense anticommunism seriously distorted U.S. domestic politics and our wider society. Leftwing and other intellectuals found their careers damaged and destroyed. Blacklisting of writers became a feature of this intimidation. That era passed, but concentrated power remains dangerous. In our fascinating, fantastic global information revolution, institutions committed to following the law and protecting personal privacy deserve our

support. Here, nonprofits are particularly important. Mr. Jobs, Mr. Musk and other entrepreneurs who resist concentrated arrogant censorship also deserve support. Unfortunately, Apple today cooperates closely with China’s government to maintain tight domestic censorship and control. In all countries, snoops try to meddle, and bullies try to intimidate, now as through history, but today control unprecedented technologies. We the people collectively also have unprecedented access to information. The absolute control of 20th century totalitarianism is no longer possible. But today’s tyrants, fueled by avarice and power, are dangerous enough. Vigilance requires more than tweets and sound bites. Arthur I. Cyr is author of “After the Cold War — American Foreign Policy, Europe and Asia” (NYU Press and Palgrave/Macmillan). He is also the director of the Clausen Center at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisc., and a Clausen Distinguished Professor. He welcomes questions and comments at acyr@carthage.edu.

The return of ‘Bibi’ Netanyahu

t turns out that, snubbed campaign appearances sometimes, the fifth time with Ben-Gvir, who is typically is a charm. derided by his detractors and With the final ballots a supine press as a “Kahanist,” now counted in Israel’s but Religious Zionism ended up fifth national election in four securing the third-most votes years, the results are officially of any Israeli political party — in: Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, behind only Likud and outgoing already the longest-serving Prime Minister Yair Lapid’s prime minister in the 74-year center-left Yesh Atid. history of the modern Jewish It is difficult to smear the state, is set to return as premier. third-highest-polling party in After four elections of Israel’s frenzied multiparty decisively mixed results, where parliamentary system as both the Right — which has been being replete with “bigots” or addled by its disgruntled “Never “Kahanists.” Indeed, all signs Netanyahu” camp — and the Left point toward Religious Zionism have consistently failed to secure being a meaningful new player a durable governing coalition, on the Israeli political scene; it is the Israeli people have finally here to stay. spoken up loud and clear: Bring Remarkably, as Likud secured Bibi back. a durable majority and What’s more, the final as Religious Zionism results are actually far cruised to a thirdclearer than many had place result, the Israeli expected. Some preLeft’s now-decadeslong election polls had Mr. collapse was only further Netanyahu’s Likud and exacerbated. Labor, its allied parties polling which dominated the highly enough to secure first three decades of Josh Hammer a bare 61-seat coalition Israeli history, will have majority — Israel’s a minuscule four seats Knesset, or national in the next Knesset. legislature, has 120 seats — Far-left Meretz, moreover, did but others did not. In the final not even qualify for Knesset count, the Likud-centric rightist representation. The upshot is coalition will attain 64 seats. that this next governing coalition, That may sound like a narrow and by extension the next winning margin, but compared Knesset, will likely be the most to the previous four indecisive religious and the most right-wing elections going back to 2019, that in the history of the Jewish state. is a monumental victory, at least The relevant question, then, comparatively speaking. is: Why did Israel finally vote so Mr. Netanyahu’s 64-seat decisively this time around, and coalition, once formalized by why did it elect such a right-wing President Isaac Herzog, will coalition? include 32 seats from Likud In Israel, just as in the U.S., the and 14 seats from Religious Right typically tends to perform Zionism, a unity ticket headed better when the public votes on by right-wingers Bezalel issues pertaining to the economy Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir and, above everything else, (the controversial newest star crime, public safety and national of the Israeli political scene). Mr. Netanyahu had deliberately Please see HAMMER on C4

Inconvenient facts

lectric cars sales are up 66% this year. President Joe Biden promotes them, saying things like, “The great American road trip is going to be fully electrified” and, “There’s no turning back.” To make sure we have no choice in the matter, some leftleaning states have moved to ban gas-powered cars altogether. California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an executive order banning them by 2035. Oregon, Massachusetts and New York copied California. Washington state’s politicians said they’d make it happen even faster, by 2030. Thirty countries also say they’ll phase out gas-powered cars. But this is just dumb. It will not happen. It’s magical thinking. In my new video, I point out some “inconvenient” facts about electric cars, simple truths that politicians and green activists just don’t seem to understand. “Electric cars are amazing,” says physicist Mark Mills of the Manhattan Institute. “But they won’t change the future in any significant way (as far as) oil use or carbon dioxide emissions.” Inconvenient fact 1: Selling more electric cars won’t reduce oil use very much. “The world has 15, 18 million electric vehicles now,” says Dr. Mills. “If we (somehow) get to 500 million, that would reduce world oil consumption by about 10%. That’s not nothing, but it doesn’t end the use of oil.” Most of the world’s oil is used by things like “airplanes, buses, big trucks and the mining equipment that gets the copper to build the electric cars.” Even if all vehicles somehow did switch to electricity, there’s another problem: Electricity isn’t very green. I laugh, talking to friends who are all excited about their electric car, assuming it doesn’t pollute. They go silent when I ask, “Where does your car’s electricity come from?” They don’t know. They haven’t even thought about it. nconvenient fact 2: Although driving an electric car puts little additional carbon into the air, producing the electricity to charge its battery adds plenty. Most of America’s electricity is Please see STOSSEL on C4

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Nonprofit hospitals need to get back to charity work

onprofit hospitals bill that insurance company at are among the most $100,000, allowing the hospital important safety net to pocket a profit of $75,000 on a institutions in the single prescription. United States. One economist recently Thousands of times each day, concluded that the 340B program they treat low-income patients had boosted nonprofit hospital without insurance at no cost to revenues by $40 billion in a the patient. In 1992, in single year, 2019. When order to support this Congress created the William S. charity work, the federal 340B program, lawmakers Smith government created thought that this the 340B drug discount The author is additional revenue should program for nonprofit be devoted to charity care with Pioneer hospitals and clinics. programs. Unfortunately, Institute in The 340B program at many nonprofit Boston allows these nonprofits hospitals, charity care to buy drugs at very steep has been declining at the discounts compared with other same time that revenue from the customers, providing substantial 340B program has been exploding. revenues for the bottom lines of A recent Wall Street Journal hospitals. analysis concluded that nonprofit Consider an example of how hospitals that secure billions this program boosts hospitals’ through the 340B program revenue. Suppose a hospital provide less charity care than forcould purchase an oncology drug profit hospitals that receive zero for $25,000, a 75% discount from revenue from the 340B program. the drug’s market price (and a “These charitable organizations, discount level not uncommon in which comprise the majority the 340B program). However, if of hospitals in the U.S., wrote the hospital dispensed that drug off in aggregate 2.3% of their to a patient with good insurance patient revenue on financial coverage, they may be able to aid for patients’ medical bills,”

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write Anna Wilde Mathews, Tom McGinty, and Melanie Evans in an investigative report for the Wall Street Journal. “Their for-profit competitors … wrote off 3.4%, the Journal found in an analysis of the most-recent annual reports hospitals file with the federal

government.” Louisiana’s Ochsner Health system drew special attention from the Journal for dedicating among the skimpiest share of patient revenue to charity care, less than 1%. Elsewhere, it was reported in February that Our Lady of the Lake and LCMC Health had committed a quarter of a billion dollars to Louisiana State University, the largest outside investment in university history. That’s all well and good until you realize that according to their June 2020-June 2021 Schedule H filing, Our Lady of the Lake contributes 0.5%, or $7.5 million — from a total of $1.54 billion — of its patient revenues to charity care. Did the hospital’s 340B funds pay for a huge investment in LSU’s research? It is true that many nonprofit hospitals have challenges with low reimbursements from the Medicaid program, labor shortages and other difficulties. Therefore, Congress could do one simple thing that may improve the 340B program and increase patient access to charity care:

transparency. Congress should require nonprofit hospitals and clinics to publicly report the amount of revenue that they are securing through the 340B program, and they also should be required to report, under a uniform definition of charity care, the level of free or discounted care they are providing. That way, policy makers could see if 340B revenues are largely being devoted to charity care, which was the intention of Congress, or if 340B funds are being diverted to executive compensation, hospital acquisitions or other expenses. Sadly, many nonprofit hospitals have lost their way and have gotten away from the mission that animated their creation: helping those in dire economic need afford healthcare. That needs to change. William S. Smith, Ph.D., is senior fellow and director of the Life Sciences Initiative at Pioneer Institute in Boston. This commentary was provided to the News-Press by The Center Square, a nonprofit dedicated to journalism.

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Continued from Page C1 prevent anarchy. To maintain an organized and civilized society. We’ve become very slack in enforcing them, and when laws are no longer enforced, the “rats” take over. And on State Street, this is apparently literally as well as figuratively. I used to love Santa Barbara, and in my heart I still do. But it’s not the same place I grew up in. The city of Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara County are known the world over as one of the worst places to try and do business, especially in the dreaded world of a developer. It doesn’t have to be that way, of course. But too many people in the “decision kitchen” create chaos and pile regulation upon regulation to the point even those in charge lose track of what can

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Continued from Page C1 Under U.S. immigration law, it is illegal for anyone to travel or immigrate to the U.S. unless they fall into very narrow exceptions. They include displacement due to war and legitimate political asylum. If those foreign migrants don’t qualify under those strict exceptions, they can’t enter the U.S. legally. “The reality is these immigrants have arrived. We now need to provide for them.” — Vice President Kamala Harris On Inauguration Day, President Joe Biden issued five immigration executive orders and said he planned to open our borders with an immigration policy that was more humane and welcoming. He’d allow all unaccompanied minors into the country and assured everyone seeking asylum would be welcome here. As a result, illegal border crossings soared to all-time high in under two years — with no end in sight. In 2021 alone, U.S. Border Protection experienced 1.7 million encounters at the border; the highest number ever recorded in a single year. That doesn’t include those who evaded border patrol officers. So far this year, we’ve already sharply outpaced 2021’s record-breaking numbers. Border Patrol agents apprehended more than 100 terrorist suspects, the most in any 12-month period.

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Continued from Page C1 incumbent Ms. Hassan would squeak by General Bolduc, a Republican, in New Hampshire, but now I’m not so sure, as he could come out on top. I also wrote that Ms. Smiley had a “fighting chance to overtake” Sen. Patty Murray, a Democrat, in the state of Washington, and that’s looking pretty good too. Both Connecticut and Oregon could also surprise us come Wednesday morning.

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Continued from Page C2 This proposition would require state funds be set aside to support instruction in the arts and music for disadvantaged students. This is a narrow-issue cause that ignores many needs in other professional or manual disciplines. Vote NO. PROPOSITION 29 Protect The Lives of Dialysis Patients Act. This act brings the private chronic dialysis clinics under the control of the California Department of Public Health. It ensures that out-patient kidney dialysis clinics provide quality and affordable patient care to people suffering from end-stage renal disease. Private chronic kidney dialysis clinics must be staffed with professional medical personnel on site or remotely when in operation. Disclosure of ownership and operating personnel are required reports to the state. he cost of this act is to be borne by the private clinics and not by the state. Exemptions can be applied for if needed by the clinics. This act will increase the cost of operating these clinics but will improve safety. VOTE YES. PROPOSITION 30 Clean Cars and Clean Air Act. This act sets up a trust fund separate from the state budget to collect funds to promote the development of electric cars, vehicles, charging stations, low cost housing and wild fire control. State law would impose a tax of 1.75% on personal income in

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Only the Israeli people can deem what is best for them

and can’t be done. And if they don’t like something, they’ll create another roadblock. But that’s another story. Back to State Street. The city needs to find that happy place, work with and embrace the businesses. It’s been said when you reach a compromise and both sides are unhappy, you’ve accomplished what you set out to do. Things are still tough in America, and it’s not looking like it will be getting better anytime soon. It’s not all that complicated to make State Street a show place again, but it’s going to take some tough love. Still, the solutions can happen in weeks — not years — with solid decision makers. As Mr. Brown said, “Seems like job No. 1 to me.”

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Henry Schulte welcomes questions or comments at hschulteopinions@ gmail.com. “Those who decried Mr. Trump’s border policies on Facebook are silent now.” — Karol Markowitz Border agent records indicate we set a new historic yardstick of illegal gang members, convicted criminals, suspected terrorists and drug dealers crossing the border last year. Agents claim it is dramatically worse this year since smuggling cartels are taking advantage of Biden’s immigration policies. They estimate more than 275,000 migrants were able to sneak by agents and enter illegally. Customs and Border Protection reported nearly 2.4 million encounters with unauthorized migrants at the border so far in 2022. Records show that 2.2 million were caught by Border Patrol agents as they tried to sneak in, and the rest were caught at entry ports demanding the agents let them enter. Fearing these numbers would affect Democrats running for office during the midterms, Joe Biden ordered the Department of Homeland Security to hold off releasing these new numbers just before midnight Friday. Even critics in liberal media said it was a futile attempt to bury bad political news. “Bad news travels at the speed of light; while good news travels like molasses.” — Tracy Morgan

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immigrants at the southern border. That was the thirdhighest month on record. Among them were 20 terrorist suspects snatched trying to sneak into the U.S. from Mexico. That’s a monthly record that topped the previous high of 15 set last May. From 2017 to 2020 when Donald Trump was president, the Border Patrol arrested only 11 terrorist suspects entering the U.S. from Mexico. In 2021, Border Patrol grabbed 15 alone. This brought the total for 2022 to 98, which shattered all previous records. Patrol agents claim that these numbers indicate that when more terrorists are caught, it also means more are most likely getting through. The DHS report didn’t reveal how many of the 2.4 million total illegal migrants they caught were allowed to remain here, but based on data the agency submitted in a recent court case, it could be millions. That’s in addition to roughly 600,000 “gotaways” border agents detected but didn’t catch. Last year, a man connected to an Islamic group was charged with trying to sneak a hit squad into the U.S. He bragged he had smuggled in two Hezbollah leaders already and charged each of them $50,000 apiece. Homeland Security head Alejandro Mayorkas said this was proof that Mr. Biden’s policies worked?

U.S. Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Texas, told Fox News, “When you had 1.7 million individuals last year, and now another 2.7 million, that’s over 4.5 million individuals encountered at the border. Plus, if you add the gotaways, that adds up to over 5 million more illegal aliens in the U.S. in just two years.” President Barack Obama told us, “Elections have consequences.” With early voting under way in a number of states, Democrats are avoiding border security, inflation, violence in the streets and high gas prices while campaigning. They are relying on race and abortion to give them another trifecta this election. But not all candidates agree. Socialist Bernie Sanders said this is a formula for disaster. The pollsters are predicting close races across the nation because of one Supreme Court decision. But what the progressive gods give they can take away. With so many things voters are unhappy about and our security and safety at risk, focusing on one issue at a time when the party in power usually loses seats is a bad strategy. Political pundits have a sense of deja vu that this election could be a repeat of Obama’s midterm elections. “The job facing American voters is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country – not divide it.” — Jeffery J. Lloyd

In September alone, CBP encountered 227,547 illegal

“Terrorists might take down our tallest buildings but they can’t take down America.” — George Bush

If any semblance of this prediction holds, Republicans will come out of the 2022 election season with at least a 53/47 majority in the Senate and if the toss-up goes against Sen. Murray in Washington, a 54/46 split. If Mr. Bolduc wins in New Hampshire, a 55/45 split is a real possibility. If all the polls turn out wrong and things do go badly for Republicans, Democrats could hang on to a 50/50 Senate, and I’ll be putting on my bib for a meal of Crow stew. As a betting man, I’m going with

the momentum play, which favors Republicans. Big time. As a former president often remarks, we’ll see what happens. I also predicted a 20- to 24seat pickup in the House, but my guess is that the number of House seats that flip from Democrat to Republican could go as high as 35 to 40. Whatever happens in each individual race, Speakerin-Waiting Kevin McCarthy, R-Bakersfield, will have a comfortable majority. Oh, and don’t forget to vote for

a Republican near you. If you are inclined to vote Democrat and want this slow-moving national catastrophe to continue, please reconsider. Or barring that, stay home just this once. Please.

excess of $2 million to use for these purposes. Not mentioned is where the new power will come to support this emission-free development. This act may be unconstitutional. It is a radical environmentalist dream. Transportation choice would be eliminated by excluding fossil fuel vehicles. VOTE NO.

Instead, the board has been pursuing a sewage plant that can process two and one-half times more effluent on a site three times as large as the original plan. In violation of state law and county planning requirements, the large, centralized plant would be located outside the district’s boundaries on scenic, protected, agricultural land at the gateway to Los Olivos. And that land would be seized from its longtime owner through eminent domain. This is a big government “solution” to a problem that might not exist or might be the responsibility of someone other than district residents. Despite having spent more than four years and well over a million dollars, the board has no idea as to the existence, extent, or source of our groundwater problem. Relentlessly pursuing the largest possible system, the district has done no groundwater testing and has relied on a single problematic result from one test well drilled nearly 50 years ago. That report stated that activities north of the district could be impairing the groundwater quality, which would make it the responsibility of someone other than district taxpayers! Even with this knowledge, the board ignored the advice of its engineering firm and decided not to drill the advised test wells. Spending tens of millions of dollars, seizing property, tearing up the downtown business district, building a largescale system that will require an expensive, permanent bureaucracy to operate and maintain — this makes absolutely no sense. As President Ronald Reagan, a man who knew

and loved this valley, warned us: “Government is not the solution; government is the problem.” The board must stop wasting limited resources on grandiose solutions to undefined problems. Los Olivos needs to be the priority, not big-government South County elites.

PROPOSITION 31 Flavored Tobacco Products. This bill would prohibit a tobacco retailer, from selling to, anyone under 21 years of age, a flavored tobacco product or a tobacco product flavor enhancer, or flavored shisha products, for hookahs. VOTE YES. Justin M. Ruhge Lompoc

Los Olivos doesn’t need big government answers

os Olivos is a small, dusty, western town, while Washington, D.C., is a former swamp in northern Virginia. Unlike Washington, Los Olivos neither needs nor wants a big government “solution” in search of a problem. The Los Olivos Community Services District Board is ignoring its original plan, endorsed by voters and county regulators, for a small-scale, phased, sewage treatment solution serving and located in downtown Los Olivos.

James Buckley is a longtime Montecito resident. He welcomes questions or comments at jimb@ substack.com. Readers are invited to visit jimb.substack.com, where Jim’s Journals are on file. He also invites people to subscribe to Jim’s Journal.

Paul Rohrer Los Olivos

Here’s how to stop inflation

o you want to beat inflation? Open up the United States of America spigots of oil, gas, and get the production of nuclear generation going up again. The price at the pump will go down. The cost of fertilizer will drop. The supply of all the derivatives of hydrocarbon products will increase; transportation costs will go down for all goods and services; the country can gain from increased exports; the Strategic Petroleum Reserve can be topped off again; and the markets will react with substantial and probably immediate growth. Did you note that none of those actions mean to stop producing solar, wind, geothermal, or other forms of non-hydrocarbon energy production? We will need all of it, but prematurely tying off the veins of the most efficient ways to produce energy, electrical energy in particular, is more than just foolish. It will lead to a national heart seizure. Hugh Merrill Santa Barbara

security. Israel has generally been in a shakier place, from a public safety perspective, ever since the Jewish state’s last fullscale battle with Gaza-based Hamas in May 2021. There have been a number of terrorist attacks and shootings, not merely in Judea and Samaria but even in the liberal/secular heart of Israel, Tel Aviv, that have shocked the national conscience. Israeli-Arab violence, and even the occasional vandalism of synagogues, has at times escalated in mixed Jewish/ Arab cities. The Israel Defense Forces has also been forced to step up its counterterrorism operations to thwart the nowascendant jihad waged by the “Lions’ Den” militant group, which is based in Nablus. At the same time, the Islamic Republic of Iran, which is still dealing with the domestic fallout of its state-sponsored murder of protester Mahsa Amini, inches ever closer to the bomb. Iran poses a significant threat to the West and to the U.S., but it poses an existential threat to Israel. In fact, it is, at this time, Israel’s only true existential threat. And there is no one Israelis trust more to handle the Iran portfolio than Mr. Netanyahu, who gave a tremendous speech

to Congress in March 2015, excoriating the then-ongoing Iran nuclear deal negotiations; who oversaw the daredevil Mossad operation to expose and airlift out Iran’s nuclear secrets a few years later, and who helped achieve the 2020 Abraham Accords peace with the U.A.E., Bahrain and Morocco, which is best understood as an anti-Iran regional containment coalition. Put simply, Israelis finally sobered up and (correctly) realized that Mr. Netanyahu is the best candidate to steward the Jewish state on issues pertaining to law and order, public safety, national security and even Israel’s international diplomacy. Israelis should be applauded for this decision. The so-called international community will undoubtedly blanch at the inclusion of Mr. Smotrich and Mr. Ben-Gvir in Mr. Netanyahu’s governing coalition, but, frankly: Who the hell cares? The Israeli people, and only the Israeli people, can deem what is best for them and their country. The Biden administration, and other Western actors, should respect their judgment. To find out more about Josh Hammer and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www. creators.com. Copyright 2022 by Creators.com.

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Continued from Page C3 produced by burning natural gas and coal. Just 12% comes from wind or solar power. Auto companies don’t advertise that. “Electric vehicles in general are better and more sustainable for the environment,” says Ford’s Linda Zhang in a BBC interview. “She’s a Ford engineer,” I say to Mills. “She’s not ignorant.” “She’s not stupid,” he replies. “But ignorance speaks to what you know. You have to mine, somewhere on earth, 500,000 pounds of minerals and rock to make one battery.” American regulations make mining difficult, so most of it is done elsewhere, polluting those countries. Some mining is done by children. Some is done in places that use slave labor. Even if those horrors didn’t exist, mining itself adds lots of carbon to the air. “If you’re worried about carbon dioxide,” says Mills, “the electric vehicle has emitted 10 to 20 tons of carbon dioxide (from the mining, manufacturing and shipping) before it even gets to your driveway.” “Volkswagen published an

honest study (in which they) point out that the first 60,000 miles or so you’re driving an electric vehicle, that electric vehicle will have emitted more carbon dioxide than if you just drove a conventional vehicle.” You would have to drive an electric car “100,000 miles” to reduce emissions by just “20 or 30%, which is not nothing, but it’s not zero.” No, it’s not. If you live in New Zealand, where there’s lots of hydro and geothermal power, electric cars pollute less. But in America, your “zero-emission vehicle” adds lots of greenhouse gasses to the atmosphere. Politicians and electric car sellers don’t mention that. Most probably don’t even know. In a future column, three more inconvenient facts about electric cars. Every Tuesday at JohnStossel. com, Mr. Stossel posts a new video about the battle between government and freedom. He is the author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.” Copyright 2022 BY JFS Productions Inc.

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Continued from Page C2 political or ideological interests,” and that the investment board cannot sacrifice return or increase risk “to promote any non-pecuniary factors.” In a world where asset managers exclude industries like firearms to appease progressives — a policy that some industry publications claim to be a virtual requirement of an ESG process — this is a welcome breath of fresh air. Though Gov. DeSantis is often charged in his rhetoric, this is actually a tempered approach. He has wisely eschewed funneling state funds towards ideological investments, without precluding all consideration of environmental or governance factors when they materially affect the investment’s riskreturn profile — a fact ignored by many of his critics. Nevertheless, it would keep blatantly political rules — such as the ban on firearms — from affecting their portfolios. Asset managers’ attempts to rebut GOP criticisms are muddled at best. Their marketing often presents ESG

as making positive change in the world from what always seems to be a progressive perspective, paired with terminology like “sustainable” or “socially responsible.” When faced with criticism, they insist instead that ESG is simply the analysis of investments’ environmental, social and governance factors to reduce portfolio risk or increase returns. Though the latter description may reflect the movement in its earlier history, it’s undeniable that progressive political agendas have flavored the latest ESG trends. Despite proclamations that 2021 was the year of ESG and that the next year would bring even greater heights, 2022 actually saw record outflows from such funds. With the market’s skepticism of ESG already increasing, it’s best to let the market do its job holding it accountable while keeping state funds out of ideological investment vehicles. Mike Viola is the head of analytics at the Foundation for Economic Education (FEE). He previously spent five years in investment research, helping create one of the first databases of ESG and valuesbased investments. Find him on Twitter: @mf _viola.