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Julefest Parade returns to Solvang

State unveils grant program to clean up litter By MADISON HIRNEISEN THE CENTER SQUARE STAFF REPORTER

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The Julefest Parade’s iconic Viking ship shares a plunder of candy during the parade in Solvang on Saturday.

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For the first year since the start of the pandemic, the Solvang’s Julefest Parade was held in person. The parade is a celebration of Solvang’s Danish culture, and a major staple of Santa Barbara

County’s holiday celebrations. Solvang was founded by DanishAmerican settlers, and Julefest is a reflection of the city’s heritage. Anna Sparks, Solvang Julefest spokewoman, told the News-Press that this year’s parade bore a strong resemblance to the celebrations prior to

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COVID. “Symbolically, it marks a return to normalcy for the community,” she said. The parade floats included the following floats in this order: American Legion Riders Orcutt Chapter 534, the Vikings of Solvang, the Lawndale HS Marching Cardinals, the Vandenberg

(The Center Square) — The state is making $300 million in grant funds available to local communities to clean up streets and beautify transit centers and parks, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced last week. The grant funds will be available to cities, counties, transit agencies, tribal governments and other entities who submit project proposals of up to $5 million to address trash and debris in their communities. The grant funds are part of Newsom’s $1.1 billion multi-year Clean California initiative, which the governor says will remove 1.2 million cubic yards of trash from state highways each year. “Clean California is an unprecedented investment into cleaning up our state and engaging directly in our communities to create public spaces that all Californians can take pride in,” Gov. Newsom said in a statement. “The funding is also an acknowledgement of what we all already know – it’s past time to take serious action to remove the unsightly litter on our streets and highways and in local communities. Clean California will create thousands of jobs and revitalize neighborhoods in every corner of our state.” The governor expects the Clean California program to create 10,000 to 11,000 jobs over the next three years and said the program would significantly increase the amount of trash removed from California’s streets annually. Since July, Caltrans has collected 3,800 tons of trash, enough to fill 70 Olympicsized swimming pools, according to a news release from the governor’s office. Caltrans is anticipating receiving proposals from agencies across the state’s 58 counties and expects to award about 200 grants to create beautification and litter abatement projects. The grant application closes Feb. 1, 2022, and recipients will be announced March 1, 2022. Projects must be completed by June 30, 2024. “Our communities and neighborhoods are weighed down by the buildup of trash and its negative impacts on our economy, environment, safety and public health,” Caltrans Director Toks Omishakin said in a statement. “These Clean California grants are designed to help communities clean up and beautify their hometowns and local streets.”

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Dr. Khawar Gul named LVMC Physician of the Year By KATHERINE ZEHNDER News-Press Correspondent

Each year, the employees of Lompoc Valley Medical Center vote for whomever they believe best exemplifies the district’s values and maintains the trust of the community, patients and residents. This year’s award-winning physician is cardiologist Dr. Khawar Gul, who has been on staff at LVMC since August 2010. The award was given by hospital CEO Steve Popkin during the annual Medical Staff Appreciation reception. “I am in the company of very talented, smart and hard-working physicians. It is an honor to be nominated the Physician of the Year amongst yourselves. I’m at a loss for words to describe my feelings. But I am very

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thankful to be given an opportunity to help this community. I thank the employees who nominated me and accept this award on their behalf,” said Dr. Gul upon his acceptance of the award. Dr. Gul completed his medical training at Rawalpindi Medical College and his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston. He completed a fellowship in Cardiovascular Diseases and a fellowship in Cardiac Computed Tomography at UCLA. Last year, Dr. Gul donated a GE Healthcare cardiovascular ultrasound machine to LVMC and is a frequent contributor to Nurses Week and Hospital Week celebrations. “Dr. Gul is very knowledgeable in his field and shares that with his patients in a way that makes them feel comfortable and

having gained knowledge of their condition,” said one nomination statement. “He is very approachable, friendly and a real asset for our community and LVMC.” During the reception Dr. Gul was presented with a scroll of comments which were written by LVMC employee nominations. They spoke of his work ethic, dedication and responsiveness. “Dr. Gul has gone above and beyond to provide education to staff,” one nomination noted. “He has come in after hours and on weekends to provide in-services including EKG, newborn heart murmurs and more. Dr. Gul is always very approachable and loves to help staff increase their knowledge.” This is not the first time that Dr. Gul has received this award. He was also honored in 2012.

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Northbound Highway 101 will be reduced to one lane from Bailard Ave. to N. Padaro Ln. on Sunday nights from 9 p.m. to a.m., and on Monday through Thursday nights from 8 p.m. until 7 a.m. with onand off-ramps and N. and S. Padaro Lane. On Monday and Tuesday between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., the off ramp will be at Santa Monica Road. On Southbound Highway 101, traffic will be limited to one lane on Sunday nights from 10 p.m. until 7 a.m. between N. Padaro Lane and Santa Claus Lane, with on- and off-ramps at N. Padaro Lane and S. Padaro Lane. On Monday through Thursday, the same restrictions will occur

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(The Center Square) — While most Americans were legally traveling to visit relatives and celebrate Thanksgiving enjoying a few days off of work, Border Patrol agents were hard at work in Texas inundated with illegal travelers arriving at the U.S. southern border. Border Patrol agents assigned to Del Rio Sector in Texas, for example, arrested people coming from African and former Soviet countries over Thanksgiving, as well as known sex offenders from Mexico and Nicaragua. From Nov. 23-27, agents apprehended six Eritrean nationals who traveled from the northeast African country to the southern U.S. after the Biden administration halted immigration laws established by Congress. They apprehended two men from Syria on Nov. 23, and one man from Lebanon on Nov. 26, and one man from Tajikistan on the 27th, and one man from Uzbekistan. “We encounter individuals from all over the world attempting to illegally enter our country,” Del Rio Sector Chief Patrol Agent Jason D. Owens said in a statement, emphasizing how hard Border Patrol agents are working. “Our agents are focused and work hard to ensure that we detect, arrest, and identify anyone that enters our country in order to maintain safety

of our communities,” he said. Chief Owens also tweeted a photo of individuals apprehended primarily from Central America, saying, “A typical day at the office in the Del Rio Sector … A group of 107 migrants was encountered yesterday in Eagle Pass, consisting of 103 Venezuelans, 3 Colombians, and 1 Nicaraguan national. Del Rio Sector continues to see over 1,000 encounters per day!” Also over Thanksgiving, Del Rio Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended convicted sex offenders near Carrizo Springs, Eagle Pass, and Brackettville, Texas. On Nov. 25 in Carrizo Springs, agents caught and identified a Mexican national who was previously convicted in Texas of injury to a child with intent of bodily injury and sentenced to three years confinement in 2013. The man was deported in June 2019 only to return and get caught again by Border Patrol. On Nov. 26, agents caught and identified a Nicaraguan man in Eagle Pass, who had been convicted in 2016 of non-responsive cruelty to a juvenile in Louisiana and sentenced to eight years; hard labor. His sentence was later suspended and he was deported in October 2019 – only to return to the U.S. and attempt to enter illegally again. On Nov. 27, agents identified a Mexican member of the Paisa Gang in Brackettville. In 2001, in Please see BORDER on A5

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The City of Lompoc Parks and Recreation has announced the winners of this year’s Lompoc Valley Children’s Christmas Parade, which took place on Friday. The winners of this year’s parade are as follows: in the marching band category, Cabrillo High School; in the non-commercial dance/cheer category, the Vandenberg Gymnastics Team; in the commercial dance/ cheer category, Garcia Dance Studio; in the non-profit youth group category, the Lompoc Boys & Girls Club; in the non-profit non-youth group category, the Nueva Generacion Offroad; in the faith based category, the Lompoc Valley Baptist Church; and in the commercial category, the Empire Real Estate Group.

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between 8 p.m. and 7:30 a.m. During the week of Dec. 13, Southbound Highway 101 will again be reduced to one lane from N. Padaro Lane to Bailard Ave., again with on- and off-ramps at N. Padaro Lane and S. Padaro Lane. The on-ramp at Sheffield Drive is anticipated to reopen in mid-2022. In the meantime, drivers can use the southbound on-ramp at N. Padaro Lane. The off-ramp at Sheffield Drive is anticipated to reopen at the beginning of 2022. Until then, drivers can use the southbound off-ramp at San Ysidro Road.

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The community is invited to attend a ribbon cutting ceremony for the New Cuyama Greenway at Richardson Park on Friday, Dec. 10. The ceremony will be hosted by the Sustainability and Parks division of the Santa Barbara County Community Services Department. Richardson Park is located off of Highway 166 between Hubbard Avenue and Escuela Street in New Cuyama. The park is one of the only active recreational green spaces in the Cuyama Valley. The greenway includes a 0.65 mile pedestrian pathway connecting existing community buildings and park facilities via multiple public access points. As part of the project, 175 drought-tolerant trees have been planted throughout Richardson Park, the Family Resource Center, library, Community Health Center, and Sheriff’s Station. The trees were chosen to maximize carbon sequestration within local climate and soil constraints as well as to minimize water use and maintenance needs. “The Cuyama Valley community is directly impacted by drought and climate change, as evidenced by a ‘critically overdrafted’ Cuyama Basin according to state water resource leaders. Long-term sustainability was a key component for planning this community asset. This project has been an incredible collaboration between the County, Cuyama Valley Recreation District, and multiple local nonprofit and citizen groups that provide critical services to this isolated section of the county. I am thrilled to see a sustainable project such as this is being done in a region of the county with such need and excited for the many milestones this area will be used to celebrate in the future of its public use,” said First District Supervisor Das Williams, who is scheduled to speak at the ceremony. Once the newly planted trees mature, the shade they provide will enable the park to be able to be used year-round. This will enhance and encourage access to physical activity, socialization and community gatherings. Trees have been strategically planted around buildings to reduce future cooling needs as well as increase the comfort of the occupants. A local landscape architect, PlenAire Design Group, designed the New Cuyama Greenway with community input, notably from the Cuyama Valley Community Association. Construction was completed by Bruno Landscape Management & Construction, Inc. The project cost of $716,863 was funded by the California Climate Investments through the California Natural Resources Agency’s Urban Greening Program.

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The mushroom revival: Why psilocybin is popular again

ith magic mushrooms (“shrooms”) now decriminalized in Denver, Colorado, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Washington, D.C., and in Santa Cruz and Oakland, psilocybin is making a comeback — a phenomenon that has now reached Santa Barbara. The key to the revival of this mind-altering fungi is microdosing, especially among Hollywood creatives and the tech wizards of Silicon Valley, who follow one of two protocols, one called (James) “Fadiman,” the other, (Paul) “Stamets,” the latter of which advises “stacking” psilocybin with niacin and Lion’s Mane, another type of (legal) medicinal mushroom known for its ability to improve mental clarity and enhanced concentration, for facilitating the effect. (Details of these protocols are available on internet sites.) In Santa Barbara, with the right connections, psilocybin can be found in professionally wrapped chocolate bars and gummies (cherry or mango flavored). Note: Street doses should not be trusted due to their unknown strength, and those who choose to indulge should be mindful of “set and setting,” meaning your mental state and social environment. Warning: Psilocybin remains — officially, anyway — a “controlled substance” and it is illegal to possess or ingest except in cities that have decriminalized its use. That said, Senate Bill 519, which would legalize psilocybin and similar substances, was approved in Sacramento last June after clearing three committees. If enacted into law, criminal penalties for using or sharing would be quashed statewide. A local shrooms-product marketer told The Investigator, “You have some people here in town who use it recreationally and others who use it medically, especially among war veterans who have suffered trauma. Most of my customers, the older ones, are micro-dosers. The younger ones go for a macro-dose and tune in to nature for about five hours. The demand for it is getting bigger and bigger, and nobody’s even secretive about it anymore.” Chocolate bars (figure four grams of shrooms—a regular, visionary dose is 1 gram and a micro-dose is one-tenth of a gram) trade hands for $50.

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One Santa Barbara-based micro-doser told The Investigator, “When I dose, I find that I have the best time at parties without drinking as much alcohol as I normally might. I’m more open than usual and totally in synch with the moment, along with everyone and everything going on around me.” The psilocybin revival began in the late 1990s when researchers at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore were finally given a greenlight by the Federal Drug Administration to resume experimentation with psilocybin three decades after they were forced to shut it down. Since then, Bellevue Hospital in New York City, Columbia University and UCLA have also developed pharmacological research programs incorporating psilocybin, which is a synthesized version of the red-and whitecapped mushroom that grows wild.

THE WAR ON DRUGS It was President Richard Nixon’s “War on Drugs”— later described by his key lieutenant and domestic policy adviser John Ehrlichman as being politically motivated against youth opposed to the Vietnam War and African-Americans — that scared the public away from mind-manifesting organic substances and their synthesized counterparts. The White House devised a propaganda campaign to paint all drugs as extremely dangerous, which led to the termination of critical medical research through the 1970s, 1980s into the 1990s. As Mr. Ehrlichman put it directly to a reporter from Harper’s magazine in 1996: “We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or blacks, but by getting the public to

associate hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities.“ It is generally understood in research circles that the indiscriminate use of LSD as a party drug among college students in the 1960s along with the antics of publicity-loving Timothy Leary — labeled “the most dangerous man in America” by Mr. Nixon — provided the government with the ammunition it needed for its crackdown. The late Terence McKenna, self-proclaimed Mouthpiece of the Mushroom, wrote, “Psychedelics are illegal not because a loving government is concerned that you may jump out of a third-story window. Psychedelics are illegal because they dissolve opinion structures and culturally laid down models of behavior and information processing. They open you up to the possibility that everything you know is wrong.” Renewed experimentation at Johns Hopkins first dealt with terminal illnesses such as cancer. The results were extremely positive, putting anxious patients at ease with their upcoming appointments with the grim reaper and mortality in general. The university’s focus has since changed. Nathan Sepeda, research program coordinator at the Pharmacology Research Unit at Johns Hopkins, told The Investigator, “Our current studies are focused on nicotine addiction, depression, anorexia and Alzheimer’s disease.” Results in all areas — add alcohol addiction and PTSD to the mix — are way beyond promising, to a point that in a few years, psilocybin could be the new cannabis, legalized and dispensed by licensed professionals in many states. It is also believed psilocybin could be the ultimate solution to chronic pain due to how it creates new pathways linking parts of the brain that don’t normally communicate with one another. As if that’s not enough, it was recently discovered in clinical trials that psilocybin is effective in treating anxiety and cognition issues among those on the autism spectrum. Said Dr. Marvin Hausman, chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board of Nova Mentis Life Science

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Corp., a biotech company developing patents to treat neuroinflammatory disorders, “The results are exciting and have shown that psilocybin corrects cognitive deficits and mitigates the anxiety-like traits observed in an environmental model of autism.” If you think all this is crazy, be mindful that a slew of biotech companies, including Mind Medicine and Field Trip Health (both based in Canada), are already trading on NASDAQ with a view to eventually commercializing their products. And in Denver, a “visionary temple” called The Sacred House of Eden, offers psilocybin retreats with guided visionary experiences. One testimonial on their website reads: “Hands down the most magical and transformative experience of my life. If the world had more places like this, it would be a much happier and peaceful planet.” There are now transformational festivals and conferences, classes and workshops all around the United States, with many devotees believing entheogens are desperately needed for humanity to survive and revamp the planet into a better, healthier place. Psilocybin is neither addictive nor generally toxic and is a gentler, softer hallucinogen

than, say, peyote (used by Native Americans, who are allowed a special religious exemption by the FDA), ayahuasca (popular among shamans in South America), 5MeO-DMT (Sonoran Desert Bufo toad venom, favored by boxing champ Mike Tyson and Hunter Biden) or LSD. In micro-doses — it is reported by users — psilocybin provides clarity, a general feeling of wellbeing and an appreciation of the moment — as in Buddhism and nowness.

A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE New research suggests that every mystical vision in history, starting with those in ancient Greece who attended “The Mysteries” of Eleusis (the world’s first spiritual capital), was likely the result of entheogens — i.e. mind-opening substances such as magic mushrooms, ayahuasca (DMT), peyote (mescaline) or ergot (a fungus associated with rye bread and grain), from which LSD is synthesized. Some historians believe that the sacramental beverage at Eleusis was laced with Claviceps, the fungus ergot. Socrates, Plutarch, Plato and Aristotle all walked a road called The Sacred Way from Athens to Eleusis to take part in the annual vision-manifesting rituals.

SACRED KNOWLEDGE Says Roland Griffiths of Johns Hopkins, “The ecstasy witnessed in the lab is virtually identical to that reported by prophets and visionaries.” “Sacred Knowledge,” a book by William Richards, one of the earliest pioneers of experimenting (at Johns Hopkins) with entheogens (he coined that word in 1979), identifies the feelings one experiences after dosing: Transcendence of time and space, intuitive knowledge, sacredness, deeply-felt positive mood, ineffability. “And,” adds Dr. Richards, “these are the tenets of knowledge that hang together following mystical experience: God, immortality, interrelationships, love, beauty, emerging wisdom.” And since these feelings and tenets are way beyond government control, little wonder psilocybin and other entheogens were outlawed and mostly remain so, though as this new visionary culture evolves into a global entheogenic reawakening, governments will be pressured to relent. Robert Eringer is a longtime Montecito author with vast experience in investigative journalism. He welcomes questions or comments at reringer@gmail.com.

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Thousands of San Diego city workers could face termination over vaccination requirement By MADISON HIRNEISEN THE CENTER SQUARE STAFF REPORTER

(The Center Square) — More than 2,000 unvaccinated San Diego city workers are at risk of losing their jobs next month after a new vaccine mandate for all city employees went into effect Wednesday. The San Diego City Council voted 8-1 Monday to require all city workers to show proof of vaccination or obtain a medical or religious exemption by Wednesday. Noncompliant employees then have 30 days, or until Jan. 3, 2022, to be fully vaccinated, get an exemption or be terminated. As of Monday, 2,081 out of 11,322 city employees were unvaccinated, which equates to about 18% of the city’s workforce, according to city data. Of the six unions representing city employees, the Police Officers Association (POA) has the highest number of employees not fully vaccinated at 703 out of 1,979 workers. San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria said Monday he hopes that the vaccine mandate will spur unvaccinated workers to get their shot, saying that the mandate will give city residents the ability to “to interact with the city workforce with confidence.” “(The city council) understand the times we find ourselves in, and they understand that bold action is necessary to get out of this pandemic,” Mr. Gloria told reporters at a news conference shortly after Monday’s vote. “And let me be clear - vaccines are the way out of this pandemic.” The city’s vaccine mandate, initially announced in August, has faced pushback from the city’s police union in recent weeks. The POA was the sole union out of the city’s six labor unions that was unable to reach an agreement over the mandate after several rounds of negotiations, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune. The POA did not offer comment on the city’s vaccine mandate that was enacted Wednesday

but previously called the city’s mandate a “heavy handed approach” that would threaten the strength of the department. The POA favored offering alternatives to a vaccine mandate, such as weekly testing, but the city is not offering any other option besides medical or religious exemptions. Chief Operations Officer Jay Goldstone told reporters Monday that 619 employees had submitted requests for medical or religious exemptions as of Monday, though the requests had not been processed yet. Several city council members attended Monday’s press conference to show support for the mandate, saying that the requirement is in the best interest of residents and city employees alike. “I am very proud of all of our 11,000 plus employees, incredibly proud of the work our San Diego police officers do every day to put their lives on the line to keep our citizens safe, but part of keeping our citizens safe is preventing a transmissible disease,” Councilmember Marni von Wilpert said. “And that’s why we’re asking people to get vaccinated.” The sole councilmember who cast a dissenting vote, Chris Cate, said in a Twitter statement Monday that, while he encourages all eligible San Diegans to get vaccinated, he believes the mandate creates an “alarming situation” where the police department could lose hundreds of officers overnight. “There is too much at risk to not recognize the dangerous consequences of a city-wide vaccination mandate,” Mr. Cate said. Since the pandemic began, 1,300 city employees tested positive for COVID-19. Between lost work and sick days, the city lost more than $3.6 million between October 2020 and September 2021, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported. Madison Hirneisen covers California for The Center Square.

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Supreme Court to consider Maine religious school case By CHRISTIAN WADE THE CENTER SQUARE CONTRIBUTOR

(The Center Square) — The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments this week in a Maine lawsuit that challenges a state law prohibiting the use of tuition funds for religious education. A lawsuit filed by the Institute for Justice and First Liberty Institute on behalf of several Maine families seeks to overturn a state law that prohibits the use of taxpayer dollars for students to attend religious-based schools. The Maine Department of Education provides tuition dollars for families who live in far-flung towns that lack public schools to send their children to public or private schools in other communities. But the tuition reimbursement program excludes religion-based schools. Michael Bindas, a senior attorney for the Institute for Justice who will argue the case before the high court, said by excluding only religious religious schools from its tuition program Maine is violating the U.S. Constitution. “Religious schools satisfy Maine’s compulsory education laws and meet every secular requirement to participate in the tuition assistance program, yet parents are barred from selecting them simply because they also

provide religious instruction,” he said in a statement. “That is religious discrimination, and the Constitution does not tolerate it.” Plaintiffs in the case, Carson v. Makin, want Maine to pay for tuition at Bangor Christian School in Bangor and Temple Academy in Waterville, according to the lawsuit. Kelly Shackelford, chief counsel for First Liberty Institute, said discrimination against parents “because of religious choices for their children is not only unconstitutional, it’s wrong.” “We are hopeful the Supreme Court will put an end to these violations, not only for the sake of the Carsons and the Nelsons, but for the sake of all parents in America,” she said. Maine Attorney General Aaron Frey argues that religious schools are excluded from the tuition program because the curriculum they provide isn’t equivalent to a public education. “Parents are free to send their children to such schools if they choose, but not with public dollars,” Mr. Frey said in a recent statement on the legal challenge. “I am confident that the Supreme Court will recognize that nothing in the Constitution requires Maine to include religious schools in its public education system.” The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit has upheld the

state’s exclusion of religious schools for tuition reimbursement in three separate rulings, the most recent in October 2020. “Their attempts to secure government funding to subsidize religious education are a direct assault on the very right to religious liberty they claim to support,” they wrote in a legal brief filed in opposition to the lawsuit. Audio of the arguments before the Supreme Court will be livestreamed. But the families appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court, which has agreed to take up the case. Dozens of advocacy groups, teachers unions and state and federal government agencies on either side of the issue have filed legal briefs in the landmark case arguing for or against lifting the restrictions. Lawyers for EdChoice, an Indiana-based nonprofit that advocates for school choice, wrote in an amicus brief filed in support of the plaintiffs that Maine school children are “being forced to choose between generally available education funding and the free exercise of their religious beliefs.” But lawyers for the Wisconsinbased nonprofit group Freedom From Religion Foundation argued that Maine’s tuition policy doesn’t discriminate against religion.

LOCAL FIVE-DAY FORECAST MOLLOY, William

William “Bill” Joseph Molloy, 82, of Santa Barbara, CA passed away Tuesday, October 26th at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. Bill was born September 8, 1939 in Emmetsburg, IA, the son of Joseph and Teresa (Drew) Molloy. He attended college at DeVry Institute of Technology in Chicago, IL and graduated in 1961. Shortly following graduation, he married his wife of 60 years, Patricia “Pat” (Brennan) Molloy on September 9, 1961. Following their wedding Bill took a job with Northrop in Rapid City, SD. While living there he and Pat welcomed WKHLU ÀUVW FKLOG 0LFKHOOH ,Q WKH IDOO RI KH DQG Pat moved to Santa Maria, CA when he took a job with Lockheed at Vandenberg Air Force Base. Over the next two years Bill and Pat were joined by a son, Tom and second daughter, Peggy. During the fall of 1965 they moved to Santa Barbara where they’ve lived until present. While in Santa Barbara Bill worked for various companies including Delco Electronics, Santa Barbara Research Center, Kidde Dual Spectrum for whom he enjoyed many years of traveling abroad on military assignments. Bill will be remembered by many for his quick Irish wit and long winded stories. Also, for his generosity and kindness, as he was always willing to give time or labor, whether it was for family, friend, or stranger. Bill cherished, and was cherished by, all ten grandchildren and had a knack for developing a unique relationship with each of them. Whenever possible, Papa shared with them his impassioned love for the Los Angeles Dodgers. He found great enjoyment in spending time with his wife Pat watching their grandchildren playing youth, high school, and college sports. He also treasured his time with other family and friends. He is loved and will be deeply missed by his wife Pat, and children: Michelle Spatz, Tom (Lynn) Molloy, Peggy (Jack) Martin. By his grandchildren: Danielle Burch, Anthony Martin, Christine Burns, Courtney Douglass, Alex Spatz, Laurie Spatz, Jacob Molloy, Merrick Goodman, Kate Molloy, and Olivia Goodman. His nine great-grandchildren. $QG ÀQDOO\ E\ KLV EURWKHUV -RVHSK 5XWK DQG 0LFKDHO KLV VLVWHU .DWKU\Q 7RQ\ Catalano, Ruth (Max) Norvell, Janet (David) Brown, and Joann (Rick) Boylan, his brother-in-law Tom (Jennifer) Van Oosbree, and his sister-in-law Ruth Molloy. He was preceded in death by his parents, sister Helen Van Oosbree, brothers Jerry and Robert, and son-in-law John Spatz. A Funeral Mass will be held at 10 A.M. on Dec. 17, 2021 at St. Raphael Catholic Church in Goleta, CA

ISHKANIAN, Byron Mardiros September 3, 1929 – November 18, 2021

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FROST, Kathleen “Kay” Ryan 5/25/1930 – 11/25/2021

Kay, the widow of prominent local musician and composer Robin Frost, did not wake up on Thanksgiving morning after a long illness. With her husband she had been a lifelong active supporter of the Santa Barbara Symphony. She was predeceased by brother Philip Ryan and stepson Peter Frost.

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SWANSON, Robert

Robert “Bob” Swanson passed away on November 25, 2021. He is survived by his daughters, Victoria Bosnar of Las Vegas, NV and Cathy Mallet of Austin, TX, his much-loved sons-in-law Joe Bosnar and Eric Mallet, and grandchildren Julien and Claire Mallet. Bob was born in Chicago on September 16, 1932 to Edwin and Geraldine Swanson. He attended the University of Notre Dame, where he received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in English, and was active in the campus radio and television stations. He married the love of his life, Arlette, in 1962 in the Log Chapel at Notre Dame. 7KHLU (XURSHDQ KRQH\PRRQ ZDV WKH ÀUVW RI WKHLU PDQ\ travels. Bob and Arlette spent the early years of their marriage in Chicago, where their daughters were born. Bob and Arlette always dreamed big, and a highlight of their early married life was quitting the “rat race” to devote a year to traveling throughout Europe, the US, and Mexico with their two young children. On this trip, they visited and fell in love with Santa Barbara, where they moved in 1972. %RE ZRUNHG IRU PDQ\ \HDUV DV D 5HDOWRU ZLWK D VLGHOLQH GRLQJ À[HU XSSHUV +H DOZD\V believed that with hard work and a positive outlook, no undertaking was too daunting. Deciding to try his hand at television writing, he borrowed a book on screenwriting from the Santa Barbara library, wrote several “spec” scripts, and was soon making a living as a television writer. He wrote episodes for many popular police and mystery series, including Kojak, Starsky and Hutch, Ellery Queen, and MacMillan and Wife. In the early 1980s his friend and colleague Peter Fischer invited Bob to join the staff of a new series: Murder, She Wrote. Bob had a long tenure with Murder, She Wrote, as a writer, story editor, and producer. Bob and Arlette traveled widely, enjoyed cruises to Hawaii, the Caribbean, and the 0HGLWHUUDQHDQ DQG PDLQWDLQHG D ÁDW LQ /RQGRQ IRU \HDUV %RE WRRN KLV ODVW /RQGRQ trip at the age of 89, just a month before his passing. Bob’s beloved Arlette passed away in 2018. Bob was fortunate to have a wide circle of wonderful friends who supported him in his grief and made sure he maintained a thriving and happy social life. His family visited frequently. Bob was a true Renaissance man: a talented painter and sculptor, a lover of classical music and opera, a political news junkie, a lifelong learner, and a voracious reader his particular favorite was Montaigne. Bob was an avid tennis player and made many lasting friendships on the court. He played regularly all his adult life, and was out on his home court hitting his daily regimen of 200 balls just days before he died. He passed peacefully on Thanksgiving day, with his daughters and sons-in-law by his side. A celebration of Bob’s life will be held at a later date.

NAVARRO, Raul

On November 23 Raul Navarro, 83, passed away peacefully after an extended illness, at his home, with family by his side. Raul was born February 6, 1938 to Carmen and Rosario Navarro in Santa Barbara, CA, where he lived his entire life. Raul was one of six children, leaving behind his last living sister, Lupe Gomez. He is survived by his wife of 5 years, Louverna Navarro, and his three children. He attended Santa Barbara High School graduating in 1956. Raul was married to Georgia Worth Navarro from 1957 to 1977. After they divorced they remained best of friends until she died in 2009. Together, they had three children. Shelly Goodman (husband Kevin), Jeff Navarro (wife Lilia) and Susan Navarro. He was blessed with 7 grandchildren and 7 great-grandchildren. Raul’s priorities were serving the Lord and spending time with his family and friends. He adored his grandkids and great-grandkids. He loved to tell amazing stories and have fun wherever he went. He travelled to many parts of the world and had wonderful experiences. For 20 years Raul looked forward to his standing lunch date every Friday, with his good friends, at Joe’s Cafe. In the 1960s Raul owned/operated Navarro’s Furniture Den. In 1980, when Raul obtained his contractor’s license, he started his construction business, Navarro Construction and Development, with great success until he retired 40 years later. Raul was always very active in his community. In the 1950s he was involved in opening the Santa Barbara Boys Club. During the ‘60s he served as a board member for the Chamber of Commerce and March of Dimes organizations. He was also a member of the Jaycees and was instrumental in the 1963 opening of the Santa Barbara Zoo. In 1970 he was appointed by Governor Reagan as a commissioner and board member to Camarillo State Hospital for the mentally ill. He was involved with the Santa Barbara/ Puerto Vallarta Sister Cities organization from 1980 thru 2018. His greatest joy and honor was that for 32 years he served as an Usher at the Santa Barbara Old Mission Sunday Services. Raul leaves a deep void and will be missed dearly. Services will be determined at a later date.

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Shown is today's weather. Temperatures are today's highs and tonight's lows. Maricopa 59/42

Guadalupe 71/46

Santa Maria 68/45

Vandenberg 65/50

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Los Alamos 74/42

Buellton 74/38

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Wind northwest 4-8 knots today. Waves 1-3 feet with a south-southwest swell 2-4 feet at 14 seconds. Visibility clear.

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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 92,013 acre-ft. Elevation 711.52 ft. Evaporation (past 24 hours) 9.2 acre-ft. Inflow 4.5 acre-ft. State inflow 36.7 acre-ft. Storage change from yest. +0 acre-ft. Report from U.S. Bureau of Reclamation

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Above, a live Nativity scene was shown by the Capichan Franciscans during the parade. Below, Santa also made an appearance at the event.

A group of miniature farm animals delightS crowds during the Julefest Parade in Solvang on Saturday.

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‘Julefest is a COVID-safe event in that almost all activities are outdoors’ “Organically, Julefest is a COVID-safe event in that almost all activities are outdoors, that

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influence. He was sentenced to three years’ probation and 45 days in jail. He was last deported in August 2021 only to reenter the U.S. illegally again. In all of FY2021, from Oct. 1, 2020, to Sept. 30, 2021, Del Rio Sector agents encountered people entering the U.S. illegally from 106 countries. Most recently, in October 2021, Del Rio Sector agents encountered 28,111 foreign nationals entering the U.S. illegally coming from more than 50 countries. November numbers are not yet available.

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Casey Harper works at The Center Square’s Washington, D.C., bureau.

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(The Center Square) — Critics are questioning a taxpayer-funded program that trains students in critical race theory. The backlash comes after The Center Square uncovered federal grant documents from the Department of Education that showed the federal government has awarded millions of dollars to a program that trains future educators in critical race theory. Experts said the program disproves claims that critical race theory is not being pushed at K-12 schools. “Critical Race Theory is inherently bigoted and it is a lie,” U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, said in response to news about the grant funding. “The federal government should not be funding the training for a Marxist ideology that teaches people to hate America. That’s why I introduced legislation earlier this year to block federal funding for CRT.” Mr. Cruz’s legislation is one of several Republican efforts to stymie the spread of critical race theory, a school of thought which teaches that American history is best read through the lens of racism. The New York Times’ “1619 Project” captured and popularized the idea, reframing the history of the U.S. as not beginning in 1776 with the signing of the Declaration of Independence, but in 1619, when the first enslaved Africans arrived in what was then the colony of Virginia. “This is exactly why Governor [Kristi] Noem signed an executive order this year to block federal civics and history grants in South Dakota,” said Ian Fury, spokesman for the South Dakota governor. “We will continue working to ensure that our students learn America’s true and honest history.” Department of Education grant records show that in 2016 under the Obama administration, the federal government awarded its first five-year grant of $1,116,895 to North Carolina Central University (NCCU) for training college students in critical race theory. That program is named, “The Research Institute for Scholars of Equity,” or RISE. As part of the

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federally-funded program, participating students receive a $5,000 stipend, travel allowance, and money for food and housing. According to promotional materials and grant documents, RISE students are taught to use critical race theory as a framework by which to evaluate teacher quality, among other things. Many of the participating students will likely go on to be teachers. The program also emphasizes training students with “research careers that will inform policy and practice in education” on a wider scale, helping spread critical race theory ideas into policy-making conversation nationwide. NCCU has partnered with several colleges around the country in the program, which provided one-year fellowships to about 60 students. The “principal investigator” for the RISE program, NCCU faculty member Wynetta Lee, was approved for another five-year grant of $1,533,384 under the Biden administration in July of this year. This second grant puts RISE at over $2.6 million in taxpayer funding. Pennsylvania State University has partnered with Ms. Lee for the second grant, called RISE 2.0, though other educational institutions will likely send students or faculty to participate. Ms. Lee did not answer repeated inquiries about RISE and the role of critical race theory in her program. From the 2016 grant: “One core feature of the fellowship is the eightweek summer research institute in which fellows will be introduced to critical race theory (as well as mixed-methods research techniques) as a means of studying issues such as teacher quality, education policy, and race and social justice in education,” the 2016 grant reads. “In addition to coursework, fellows will conduct several short research projects and begin conducting research related to the RISE theme as part of research interest groups (RIGs) under the supervision of their faculty mentors. Fellows will continue to conduct research through their RIGs during the academic year.”

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the back wall was a girl and boy dressed in military fatigues and a symbol of the U.S. postal service, meant as a salute to our troops overseas. The Solvang City Council made its appearance on an electric trolley from the Solvang Trolley and Carriage Company, followed by the mayor in a pick-up truck. The trolley and carriage company also provided transportation for the Solvang Senior Center in the form of a horse drawn carriage.

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Cate edged out Bishop Diego 60-58 in a suspenseful boys basketball game Friday at the Nordhoff tournament. “The last five minutes of the game were neck and neck with each team taking the lead,” Cate Coach Andy Gil told the News-Press in an email. “We came out eager and ecstatic to give one of the best teams in Santa Barbara a good game!” “The Rams had an extremely balanced attack and great leadership all around. Our bench was loud, and all players contributed today and got in the game,” Gil said. Cate senior Mason Oetgen finished with 12 points. Senior Tyler Tom scored 13 points, and Babacar Pouye led the Rams with 18. Tyler Williams for Bishop led all scorers with 20, and Kai Morphy scored 12 points. “Cate got off to a hot start, leading 20-9 after the first quarter,” Bishop Coach James Coronado told the News-Press in a separate email. “Bishop closed to within 3 points a couple of times in the second half but could never get over the hump,” he said. “All the credit goes to them (Cate). They played way harder than we did, period. We couldn’t stop them at all, and this was our poorest effort in a very long time. “We have to be much better than this on defense if we want to win any game, and today we just didn’t have the effort,” Coronado said.

SANTA MARIA DEFEATS SANTA YNEZ Santa Maria beat Santa Ynez 52-44 Friday in girls basketball. J-Lyn Brandford led the Pirates with 11 points, 15 rebounds, 5 steals and 2 assists. Giszelle Hrehor scored 7 points and made 15 rebounds. Nayeli Torres scored 8 points and made 5 assists. “The girls are playing better together but

let down in the second quarter,” Santa Ynez Coach Jennifer Rasmussen told the NewsPress in an email. “We battled back, scoring 22 points in the fourth quarter, the same amount in the first three quarters. Game by game, we are seeing improvements and working hard, learning from each game.”

BISHOP DIEGO LOSES TO HOLY MARTYRS Holy Martyrs defeated the Bishop Diego girls basketball team 52-38 during the Bird Cage Classic. Bishop Diego’s Clara McDonald led the Cardinals with 10 points, and Eliana Urzua was right behind her with 9. “We started out strong taking a 15-14 lead in the first quarter,” Cardinals Coach Jeff Burich told the News-Press in an email. “We just couldn’t get in double figures in any of the teaming quarters. We were outscored by 5 in every quarter afterwards. “I was very happy with our effort tonight,” he said. “Lily and Clara were very aggressive underneath the basket. Eliana and Siena Urzua made things happen and attacked the basket. We had great opportunities, but a few shots rimmed out that would have changed things. “We got it down to 6 several times in the second half but credit Holy Martyrs for some clutch shooting,” Burich said. “We will get better. We gave up too many second chance possessions, and I need to do a better job in changing some defensive looks. We definitely left it all on the court tonight, and this will only make us better.”

LAGUNA BEACH BEATS SAN MARCOS The Laguna Beach Breakers defeated the San Marcos Chargers girls water polo team 148 Friday in the season opener. “I thought we had some moments of great water polo, and we had more moments in the area of growth,” Chargers Coach Chuckie Roth told the News-Press in an email. “We learned a lot about ourselves. We were trailing 2-3 at the end of the first (quarter) and 5-6 at half time. “Early in the third (quarter), we tied the game at 6-6,” Roth said. “However in the third quarter, we made a few offensive turnovers that led to quick goals. “We are 0-1 on the season, and we played a great team tonight that helped us identify areas of growth,” the coach said. “We will learn, study and get better.” Ava Stryker scored 6 goals. Kate Meye and Brooke Ingram each scored a goal. Elaia Hamilton made 7 saves.

CARPINTERIA DEFEATS COASTAL CHRISTIAN Carpinteria edged out Coastal Christian 2120 Friday in girls basketball. Coach Henry Gonzales praised his team for its determination during the hard-fought victory. “We found ourselves down four points at the end of the first period but were able to storm back and take the lead at halftime by three points,” Gonzales told the News-Press in an email. “We were led by sophomores Lizbeth Alpizar and Amarisse Camargo with 9 and 8 points, respectively. “The third period saw Coastal Christian charge back and take the lead by 6 points,” the coach said. But Carpinteria fought back in the fourth quarter to defeat Coastal Christian 10-3. “We continue to learn and have a positive outlook on the season,” Gonzales said. “ I’m very happy with our attitude and work ethic.”

SANTA YNEZ SPLITS WATER POLO GAMES Santa Ynez won one game and lost another during a girls water polo tournament Friday. The Pirates defeated Newbury Park 10-8, with goalie Jessie Ray Flynn standing out with five saves. “Hannah Allen had two goals, two assists and two steals, as well as drawing a positive kick out,” Coach Jen Nash told the News-Press in an email. “Fallin Brady had one goal and one assist. Sydney Gills had three goals, one being an amazing 5-meter shot, and Tabitha

Pearigen led with four goals and one assist.” The coach said the second game was a rough one against Oxnard, which ended up defeating Santa Ynez 20-10. “Jessi Rae Flynn had four saves,” Nash said. “Cierra Cloud had 2 goals, 1 assist and 1 steal. Sydney Gills had 2 goals. Hannah Allen had 3 goals, 2 assist and 3 steals, Tabitha Pearigen had 3 goals and 1 assist. “SY Pirates fought till the end!”

CATE DEFEATS CARPINTERIA Senior forward Peter Wood’s four goals led Cate Friday to a win over cross-town rivals Carpinteria in boys soccer. “Sophomore Seb Sutch put the Cate Rams on the scoreboard in the first minute of the game,” Coach Jorge Reynoso told the NewsPress in an email. “Eight minutes later, Peter Wood recorded the first of four goals in the evening off a converted PK after Seb Sutch was taken down in the box in the 9th minute. “Cate took 16 shots on goal but was unable to capitalize those opportunities and took a 2-1 lead at the half,” Reynoso said. “The scoring opportunities continued in the second half for Cate, and this time Wood was able to earn a second half hat trick,” Reynoso continued. “The midfield combination of Samuel Anum, Uriel Beltran, and Jae Lim did an outstanding job of controlling the tempo of the match and creating scoring opportunities for their teammates on the attack,” the coach said. “The Rams were able to maintain their composure defensively and hold on for the 5-2 victory,” Reynoso said. Cate (2-0) will travel to Ojai Tuesday for another rivalry match against Thacher.

A DRAW FOR CARPINTERIA, CATE Carpinteria and Cate tied 1-1 Friday during a girls soccer game at Carpinteria Valley Stadium. “Carpinteria got into the lead in the 23rd minute with a goal from a sophomore player that was called up for the match: Isela Zamora,” Coach Alfredo Martinez told the News-Press in an email. “The striker put away a free kick cross from senior midfielder Keren Gamez. “Zamora would get another chance five minutes later when she collected a mis-cleared ball but hit the post,” Martinez said. “On the other end of the field, goalkeeper Ariana Launsbury got five great saves. “Unfortunately with 8 minutes to go, a defensive breakdown allowed a free Cate player to finish inside the box to end the game in a 1-1 tie. “I was very pleased with the overall performance from the girls today. and although there was disappointment for not being able to hold the lead to the end of the match, a massive step toward becoming a consistent and competitive team was achieved today,” the coach said. “I was very pleased with the performance from Juniors Ashley Verduzco and Ariana Lounsbury, and I know their continued efforts will get us where we need to be for league play,” Martinez said. “Next up for us is a game with traditionally tough Santa Clara on Thursday afternoon. Our record is now 1-1-1.”

BUENA BEATS DOS PUEBLOS Buena beat Dos Pueblos 1-0 Friday night in girls soccer. The Chargers coach talked about the game in Ventura. “The game was back and forth the entire match, but Buena got the only goal in the game. Our team played some of the best soccer we have all season during the first half,” Coach Ivan Luna told the News-Press in an email. “We would like to mention Katie Peterson for helping control the midfield and distributing passes. She played a fantastic game! I would also like to mention Gizela Zermeno, who worked hard to create chances and get shots on goal.” The team is now 0-3-1. email: dmason@newspress.com

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The UCSB men’s basketball team (4-2) got back on track Friday night, defeating Pepperdine (28) 86-74 in front of a huge Gaucho crowd thanks to a second half surge. After going into the half tied, the Gauchos outscored the Waves by 12 points in the second period to pick up their fourth win of the season. During the home game, Calvin

Wishart led all players with a career-high 23 points off the bench, all of which came in the first half, and added three assists, two rebounds, and two steals. Five Gauchos landed in double figures including Miles Norris who nearly had a double-double with 13 points and nine boards, and Amadou Sow who narrowly missed it with 11 points and nine boards of his own. UCSB outshot Pepperdine shooting 53.1% from the field while holding the visitor to 43.3%.

The Gauchos found 15 points on second chance opportunities and 19 on Wave turnovers. Both teams struggled in the early going with the Gauchos committing seven turnovers in the first 10 minutes of play, but managed to find their footing shooting 57.9% from the field Pepperdine’s offense found 15 field goals in the period but each time they scored, Wishart found a way to even it up, having careernight in the first half alone. Wishart ended the half a perfect

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ORANGE BEACH, Ala. — The season came to an end Thursday for Westmont women’s soccer (132-5) in the quarterfinals of the NAIA National Championship. The Warriors fell 3-1 to the topranked and top-seeded Crusaders of William Carey (Miss.), who improved to 21-0. “I felt like we started reasonably strong except for some defensive breakdowns,” said Westmont Head Coach Jenny Jaggard. “We gave them two goals that came too easily and were very preventable. “I was proud of how we fought back. We had some moments where I thought we were going to capitalize. We showed that they have vulnerabilities but the moments we had weren’t quite quality enough. Against a team like that, as the clock ticks down it gets harder and harder.” The Eagles’ first goal came in the 14th minute, when Kauany Sousa scored from 19 yards in front of the goal. Twenty minutes later, William Carey scored again on a Kaylie Agostine goal, assisted by Veronica Herrera. In the 54th minute, the Eagles extended their lead to 3-0 with a goal from Maria Corral Pinon from 17 yards out. Westmont’s Grace Duckens prevented the shutout in the 84th minute. Kendall Morton served a ball forward along the ground from beyond midfield. The ball got past the Eagles’ back line of defense and Duckens raced for the ball as Carey’s keeper, Jaina Eckert, came out from her goal. As Eckert slid for the ball just inside the 18 yard box, Duckens shot the ball past her and into the goal. “It felt good to get on the scoreboard,” stated Jaggard. “I was happy for Grace and that we were able to make some kind of statement. We just needed more of that energy sooner.” Two Warriors played in their final game of their collegiate careers – Teagan Matye and Katie Stella. “Teagan played almost every minute of this game,” said Jaggard. “She did so much defensive work for us today. She will be extremely missed because of the ground that she covers and the work rate she has. She is very intelligent on the ball and keeps us in possession. She will be really hard to replace. “Stella, who scored twice here in Orange Beach, is very cheeky and a very technical player,” observed Jaggard. “A good finisher is always hard to come by. I was proud of her getting through her injuries this year. It has taken a while to get her running at full throttle, but she has stayed healthy over the last month and put in some great minutes for her team.” Three other players caught the eye of the coach today. “Daisy Alvarez, Karly Kingsley and Taylie Scott were standout players in this game,” said Jaggard. “They did some really good work for us. Daisy, coming off an injury, took ownership of her spot and did a great job shutting down one of the best players in the country. “Karly is so versatile, she played center back, outside back and the outside of the diamond today. She is a smart player who had some

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Westmont Head Coach Jenny Jaggard good ideas today. We just weren’t able to connect with them and find the back of the net. “Taylie is a rock in the back. Her defending is hard to beat. “Another player who I thought had a really good day was Grace Hotaling. She did a ton of defensive work and gave us a couple of good scoring opportunities.” The Warriors returned to the quarterfinals after missing out on a trip to the final site a year ago. “Getting the players experience at the final site is a huge piece,” said Jaggard. “We have younger players that have never experienced nationals. Our seniors have experienced it twice and now our sophomores and juniors have experienced it. “Today, they played against the team that is favored to win the whole thing, which is what happened in 2019. The team we lost to then went on to win the whole thing. Playing the best teams gives us some context of where we are. We are really close, we are in this. It also shows us some of the things we need to work on to improve and be the one to hold the trophy the following year.” Despite the disappointment of the loss, Jaggard expressed her appreciation for the team’s accomplishments. “The trajectory of this team’s growth this year has been remarkable,” expressed Jaggard. “We are a good team and I am happy for them that they got to experience going to the final site. I am proud of the growth. We have gotten better in every area of the field – in the finishing aspects and in team-defending aspects.” The Warriors made their 23rd appearance in the NAIA National Championship, winning three out of four games this season and improving to 41-13-8 (.714) in national championship play. Ron Smith is the sports information director at Westmont College. email: sports@newspress.com

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“We are a good team and I am happy for them that they got to experience going to the final site. I am proud of the growth. We have gotten better in every area of the field – in the finishing aspects and in teamdefending aspects.”

UCSB limited its turnovers, committing just four in the half, and got it done in the paint, outscoring the Waves 24-12 after losing that battle in the first half. Pepperdine cut the lead down to seven with just over five minutes to go, but that’s as close as the visitors came to making a late comeback. Norris saw 10 points and six boards, Sow had nine points and six boards, and Sanni notched a team-high 11 points in the second period. “The team that is mentally tougher will always win in college basketball. The team that defends and rebounds will always win,” Head Coach Joe Pasternack said. “I thought our guys really grinded out every single possession and this was a really a growing-up stage for our team, and we are starting to

Pepperdine cut the lead down to seven with just over five minutes to go, but that’s as close as the visitors came to making a late comeback. understand what it takes to win.” UCSB closes out its fivegame homestand this afternoon when the Gauchos welcome Cal Lutheran to the Thunderdome. Daniel Moebus-Bowles works in communications/media relations at UCSB. email: sports@newspress.com

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That’s the Spirit! Carpinteria artist creates iconic horse and other artwork

Art has always been part of Carpinteria resident John Godkin’s life.

By MARILYN MCMAHON NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

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Spirit will stand proudly again in Santa Barbara County. Artist John Godkin has created a replica of his metal statue, which previously stood in Santa Barbara. The replica, which is “Spirit 2,” a corten steel sculpture finished this year, will grace the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club in Carpinteria.

or 44 years, the lifesized metal horse sculpture — its hind legs rearing up and its front legs pawing in the air — was a fixture on upper State Street near Hope Avenue. His name was Spirit, and he was created by John Godkin, longtime Carpinteria resident. In 2016, Spirit was removed to make way for a new condominium development, much to the chagrin of numerous Santa Barbarans. Inquiring minds who want to know whatever happened to Spirit will be happy to learn that he has a new home at a ranch in San Luis Obispo. Not only that, but Mr. Godkin has designed a replica of Spirit, which was 13 feet tall and weighed 2,500 pounds. “It took me three years. I just finished about eight months ago,” he told the News-Press. “This one is made of corten steel, which is more durable than the steel original whose legs had rusted.” When plans to place Spirit 2 in the same location fell through, Mr. Godkin found a new site at the Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club in Carpinteria, where it is on consignment should someone wish to purchase it. “Art has always been a part of my life, but it’s a sideline to making a living. I have applied my design skills to building custom homes,” said Mr. Godkin, who

earned his bachelor of fine arts degree at the Santa Barbara Institute of Fine Art. After earning his secondary teaching credential at Cal State Lutheran, he taught clay sculpture at Adult Ed in Santa Barbara. “I had really good teachers — Douglas Parshall and James Armstrong — at the Fine Art Institute, where I began painting portraits in oil,” he said. Currently he is focusing on painting portraits from photographs of Native Americans taken by his great-grandfather in the 1870s and 1880s. “Many of his photographs were considered so rare or unique that they are on permanent display in the Smithsonian Museum. Through the Internet, I found his photos in collections all over the country. What is notable about them is that he didn’t only photograph the men, but he also took pictures of their wives and children and their everyday lives. I’m learning more history through this than I ever did in school,” said Mr. Godkin, a 1963 Carpinteria High School graduate who served in Vietnam. His foray into serious sculpting began when working on a project with Kevin Joyce, whose family owned a quarry in Ireland. “Kevin lived in Santa Barbara at the time, saw some sculptures I had created and felt I needed quality materials to work with,” Mr. Godkin said. “He had a pallet Please see GODKIN on B4

At left is The Spot, a famous burger stand across the street from Carpinteria State Park. At right, Mr. Godkin likes creating art portraying horses and Native Americans. Currently he is focusing on painting portraits from photographs of Native Americans taken by his great-grandfather in the 1870s and 1880s.

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t’s the holidays, and some things are almost normal. Bing Crosby still sings “White Christmas” like no one else, Brittany put up her tree in October to add some light to her life, and most people seem more than ready for a good holiday season. But this year it also feels surreal. We are still in a pandemic, and while this country has made progress, some states are seeing winter surges. Meanwhile, so much of the rest of the world is struggling far more. All of this means that the holiday spirit may be a bit elusive for those trying their best to survive and get through this difficult time. When you feel trapped, you naturally want to get out, and it can also raise your anger levels, and many of us are still feeling the negative effects of living in the new normal that is “life with COVID in America.” Life is harder now. Everything is more expensive, and many things take

more time. Millions are not quite ready to get back out there again, and that’s OK. There is nothing wrong with a low-key holiday. It may be hard to be in the spirit of the season when you encounter people on the testy side in stores and driving to and from them. I don’t understand aggression during what is supposed to be a time of peace and joy. You get to choose how you want to celebrate as long as it doesn’t hurt anyone else. That being said, people are holding grudges like never before, and that’s going to make a lot of gatherings awkward, to say the least. All I really want for the holidays is for people to start being kinder to each other. Every religious holiday this time of year encourages human kindness. This year it makes sense to

protect ourselves, to be safe and smart enough to keep up the protocols for staying healthy. As one-third of the new cases are breakthrough infections of fully vaccinated people, now is not the time to get cocky. But staying healthy is compatible with being kind. Vaccinated or not, let’s spend this holiday taking care of not just ourselves but also those less fortunate. Our holiday will be spent in our home with people we have never met, because they cannot afford to celebrate, and giving them a holiday with all the trimmings will be a gift for us as well. I know this is not for everybody, but the feelings we will share are what these occasions are really all about. Adopting other families for the holidays turns me into a skinny, bald Santa for the day, but the good feelings last much longer.

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Harmon for the Holidays is this season’s holiday giving campaign conducted by Ventura Land Trust and Topa Topa Brewing Co. In support of the Harmon Canyon Preserve, Topa Topa will match up to $10,000 in donations to VLT, who is one of the company’s local 1% planet partners. “We are proud to partner with VLT as one of our 1% for the Planet beneficiaries this year,” said Jack Dyer, founder and CEO of Topa Topa Brewing Company. “As stewards of our community, we are beyond excited about the great work VLT does to protect and steward the open spaces that make Ventura the wonderfully vibrant outdoor community that it is. “At Topa, so many of our employees and customers have a shared passion for the outdoors and preserving space for folks to roam. Doing so makes that beer after your hike, jog, bike or surf taste that much better. Help us help VLT this holiday giving season,” Mr. Dyer said. The Harmon Canyon Preserve, which is in Ventura, was in development for 10 years prior to its opening in 2020. “This is our first real opportunity to invite the community to directly support the conservation of Harmon Canyon Preserve. We really believe that connecting to the land and connecting to the community go hand in hand, so we couldn’t be more pleased to partner with Topa Topa for this campaign,” said Ventura Land Trust Executive Director Melissa Baffa. Harmon for the Holidays will benefit VLT’s work to protect and maintain the 2,123-acre preserve, which includes 1,000 acres of coastal sage scrub. The preserve is open for free from dawn to dusk, where visitors can enjoy nature with 10 miles of trails for hiking and biking. With an online donation of $10 or more, Harmon for the Holidays supporters (21 and older) can receive a free six-pack of Spectro Hazy IPA beer. To get that, show a Ventura Land Trust donation e-receipt at Topa Topa’s Colt Street or Thompson Boulevard tap rooms in Ventura. Limit is one free six-pack per person per taproom visit. To donate online, go to www. venturalandtrust.org/doublethestoke. email: kzehnder@newspress.com

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Goleta launches online gift card marketplace GOLETA — The city of Goleta has launched a website for holiday shopping needs. The platform is a digital gift card marketplace, created by Giftbar, featuring almost 30 Goleta businesses. Anyone who visits the site can purchase gift cards from Goleta businesses featured on the site. Additionally you can include an email featuring a personalized message or video for your family member or friend. According to a news release, the platform is designed to be a gift that keeps on giving to local Goleta businesses, which will boost local spending and help them recover from the economic dent that was created by the pandemic. The city of Goleta encourages businesses to take advantage of a free listing. To sign up or buy a gift card go to www. goodlandgoodshopping.com.

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Continued from Page B1 of marble shipped here. I made 20 pieces with the stone, most of which I sold or gave away as gifts, three of them to Kevin, who moved back to Ireland, where an article was written about him with one of the photos showing him beside one of the sculptures.” His works have been collected around the world by patrons located in Canada, Sweden, Ireland and England. Among his collectors is basketball Hall of Famer Wilt Chamberlain.

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Locally displayed artwork includes portraits of Carpinteria Hall of Fame athletes exhibited in the high school gym. He also paints scenes of the Carpinteria area. Mr. Godkin traces his inspiration to create Spirit back to his childhood in rural Nebraska, where he rode a horse to a oneroom schoolhouse.

“Later in life, I found a story about the Lakota Chief Crazy Horse that inspired the sculpture’s name. When Crazy Horse was a boy, he had a vision of himself riding his horse in the spirit world, which was like a shadow of the real world that danced and shimmered beyond. “My sculpture is not the real horse but a shadowy representation of the grace, beauty and strength of the horse’s spirit.” email: mmcmahon@newspress. com

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Just Communities training sessions took place at Casa de Maria in Montecito. During the ordeal, there were discussions of “white privilege” that pit people of color against white people: “They’d have us do these exercises that would divide us and make whites feel bad for the privilege that they’ve had growing up,” she recalls, “and how people of color are way in the back and they’re underprivileged.” She believes the intention of the training was to learn to accept bad behavior by “people of color.” She has had one particular student who swears in class, refuses to listen or participate and continually interrupts. She sends him to the principal’s office, whereupon he is dismissed for the day only to return the next day empowered by his early dismissal and is even more disruptive. He is again sent out of the class, released and allowed to return the next day.

fter receiving many calls this week, Did You Know? has read the memorandum dated Nov. 15, 2021, to Acting City Administrator Rebecca Bjork from Mayor Cathy Murillo and Councilmember Oscar Gutierrez with the subject line Advancing Tenants Protections. Mayor Murillo (who’s on her way out), along with Councilmember Gutierrez, asked Ms. Bjork to place an item on the Santa Barbara City Council agenda as soon as possible that would cap annual residential rent increases at 2%. In 2020, California voters overwhelmingly defeated Proposition 21, which would have given the local government the right to enact rent control. But after the state legislature passed a law capping annual rent increases at 5%, our local social justice warriors decided they could do even better. Anytime council members have to have an item placed on the agenda, they must provide a reason that it is within the jurisdiction of the city council to consider that matter and why it is important to do so. Here’s Ms. Murillo and Mr. Gutierrez’s justification: “Our city council is responsible for the well-being and housing security of our residents, many of whom are renters. The General Plan’s Housing Elements defines goals related to protecting housing stock and residents who rent their homes.” I must have missed the part in the City Charter where it says that the city council is responsible for the “housing security” of all residents. In any case, such a radical policy will bring with it a host of new intrusions into our lives. For starters, a “rent registry” that tracks the current price of every rental unit in the city will have to be established. Who will pay for this rent registry? Will they start a new multimillion dollar department to handle it? Will they put a change on the landlords to pay for it? Would such a charge allow an equivalent increase to the rent on the units, or will the landlord simply have to absorb the cost? Weren’t they supposed to have a report on the AUD rentals before taking further action in this complicated field? Will there be any privacy concerns? Will this rent registry include room rentals? If so could anyone do a public records request to see what a son pays his mom for living in her house? Or a sister that rents a room from her sister? If they are receiving a break will they only be able to raise the rent to the new person that rents that room at 2%, if their relative ever leaves? If the son is renting a room or a home to his parents at a low rate because he wants to give them a break — when they pass away, can he only raise the rent by 2%? The same people who vote to increase our electrical, water, and trash rates, with no percentage limits, are happy to impose much more drastic restrictions on the citizens who pay their salaries. The city council also voted that you must renew leases forever or pay three times the rent in moving expenses to compensate the renter. California already enacted the Tenant Protection Act of 2019 (AB 1482 - 5% plus CPI rent cap and just cause). Mayor Murillo and Mr. Gutierrez acknowledge this as they mention it in their memorandum. We need to see the rent increases on city-owned properties — for example, the Art Pavilion at East Beach. The city of Santa Barbara

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Students protest the proposed windowless Munger Hall dormitory at UCSB. In his commentary today, Sullivan Israel said housing is among the issues showing why UCSB and Santa Barbara City College students should be in the same supervisor district.

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UCSB should be in same supervisor district as SBCC because of issues such as housing

very 10 years, governments ranging from school boards to Congress take on the difficult task of redrawing political boundaries to balance population with updated census numbers. While most pay attention to this process at the federal level due to the impacts it can have on the balance of power in Congress, far fewer pay attention to the lines being redrawn at the local level, right here in Santa Barbara. The lines the Santa Barbara County Citizens Redistricting Commission will draw in the coming weeks will affect Santa Barbara residents for the coming decade. The Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors is composed of five districts whose

representatives manage the from Lompoc, Santa Ynez or over $1 billion county budget, Santa Maria, these communities which funds programs involving are worlds apart. (I haven’t met a health care, social services, local single UCSB student who has been environmental issues and more. to any of these places). Likewise, Of particular concern is the fact the homeowners of North that the current supervisor lines County see their communities as split the communities of significantly different Sullivan UCSB and Isla Vista off than the university area. Israel from a significant portion On the contrary, Santa of Goleta and Santa Barbara City College and The author is UCSB have a symbiotic Barbara City College. a former SBCC relationship. I went to SBCC and am student now at UCLA. Due to the Between 2006 and pandemic keeping me in 2011, 71% of SBCC’s Santa Barbara most of this year, transfers to the UC system went I ended up spending much more to UCSB, and one of every three time at UCSB than my own school, UCSB transfer students came where I have made many friends. from SBCC. The majority of UCSB Students at UCSB work, live, students live in Isla Vista, along visit and spend time in Santa with nearly 20% of SBCC students. Barbara. For most students, The schools reside in the same despite being only 30 minutes school district and UCSB students

and staff vote in SBCC governing board elections. These shared interests in representation are evidenced by the fact that UCSB students drove Johnathan Abboud, Isla Vista’s Community Service District general manager, to win a seat on the SBCC governing board. Compare that relationship with that of UCSB and Allan Hancock Community College in Santa Maria. Allan Hancock students are more likely to commute from their homes, less likely to rent, and there is no student housing on campus. The student population of Allan Hancock is widely dispersed throughout the North County while UCSB and SBCC students and faculty are largely concentrated in the same neighborhoods.

By far, shared interests are most visible through the lens of housing issues. No issue has a larger impact on the everyday lives of communities in Goleta, Isla Vista, UCSB and SBCC than housing. In the wake of the resignation of architect Dennis McFadden from the Munger dorm project and the ensuing media and public ire toward the construction of the hideous structure, the question arises: while the Munger project is definitely closer to a cruel physiological experiment than a college dorm, is this outrage doing to relieve the housing crisis? The communities surrounding UCSB are suffering, and housing shortages plague the area. With the return to in-person instruction Please see ISRAEL on C4

School daze: A teacher gives a look inside SB Unified

hat exactly is being taught in schools throughout the land? I have the impression that we’ve taken a turn for the worse in the field of education. We know, for example, that the ratio of administrators versus teachers has doubled and tripled over the past few decades, and I for one don’t understand why. And, from what I can see, this is not a positive trend. My children graduated from high school more than two decades ago, so I contacted a teacher in the Santa Barbara Unified School District. She currently teaches high school but has taught in middle and elementary schools, so she knows quite a bit about what is being taught in all grades. For the moment and for this column, and especially for the sake of her career, she’ll be known as “Teacher.” Teacher is a brave soul, however,

and isn’t averse to exposing herself your system. There was a study to the public and, perhaps more done in Israel that indicates I’m importantly, her colleagues and 27 times safer than a vaccinated the various school boards in Santa person, and I believe in that Barbara. But, as mentioned, we’ll research.” keep her name under wraps … for She’s fully willing to be tested now. weekly along with Teacher has been a everyone else, and PURELY teacher for nearly 20 years, as long as she tests POLITICAL all of it within the Santa negative, she feels Barbara Unified School she should be able to District. She taught nine continue working. years in high school, four She expressed those years in junior high and six concerns during a recent years in elementary school. Zoom school board She currently teaches at the meeting, but to no avail. high school level. The board mandated James Buckley She is currently on that everyone working in the outs with the school the district must take the administration and with the vaccine immediately or school board because she does not lose their job. want to get vaccinated. “That was on a Thursday,” she “I’m not vaccinated,” she says, recounts, “and they gave us until “but I have had COVID, and I have Monday — three days! — to decide natural immunity. I’ve heard that our own fate. We had to fill out a it’s dangerous to get the vaccine form and tell them what our plan when you’ve had COVID, that was. They were going to fire us the you’re probably going to overload following Friday if we didn’t take

the vaccine.” At the next board meeting, however, the directors changed their minds and gave the reluctant outliers an extra month before they would be let go. CRITICAL RACE THEORY The administration has vehemently denied that critical race theory is being taught within the Santa Barbara Unified School District, so I asked Teacher whether it was or not. “Yes, over the last 10 years, for sure,” she says. “Even longer because (a group called) Just Communities came into Santa Barbara Unified School District around 2005, I think.” Just Communities conducted a series of training seminars of teachers and staff. “Pretty much the entire district had to go through their training,” she says. She recounts that one of the three-to-five-day, 12-hours-a-day

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Beach terminals, waiting to unload ...” This extraordinary logjam was so alarming that it prompted union-label President Joe Biden to hold an Oct. 13 press conference touting his administration’s “success” in securing commitments from the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach to begin operating 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Of course, President Biden’s intervention ignored the straitjacket ILWU-boss work rules that keep productivity on West Coast ports abysmally low at all times and have reportedly slowed operations almost to a halt in recent weeks. Consequently, it was doomed to fail By Oct. 29, the number of container ships docked outside the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach had soared to over 100! (These two ports combined

ongratulations California! We won! It’s official. It was reported we have taken the top spot as having the worst roads, the most traffic and the highest gas prices in the country. Of course, those of us living here already knew that. It’s hard not to keep circling back on the mess that continues to grow in California. Our oneparty system likes to tout how great things are, but even they know we’re in dire straits. But you have to ask why? In May it was reported that California had over a $75 billion surplus! And then there are all kinds of other numbers of additional billions coming in from here and there. Piled on top of this massive surplus, Gov. Gavin Newsom can pencil in another $45.5 billion more from Biden’s “Tax the People More Bill,” created with fake money. So how is it possible that as stated above we are on the bottom of everything? Add to the mix the highest homeless population and the highest number of people living in poverty and the highest on welfare and the worst in education. Where is the money going? I can tell you where it should go, back into the pockets of Californians. There is a law that says when we reach a certain point, the state legislature has to lower taxes or issue rebates. But as long as I can remember, even as a kid, Democrats have been known as the tax-and-spend crowd, and boy, is that on display on the federal level, but California is also the winner in that department. They certainly don’t want to give anything back. They’re intoxicated with the amount of money they can waste and give to themselves and their friends. Gov. Newsom claims he does have a plan of giving some back in a roundabout way by funding more social programs, which for the most part his chosen programs are corrupt in the sense that most of the money goes to pay exorbitant salaries and very little for those it was intended. Case in point: Back in February it was reported $13 billion had been spent in the last three years on homelessness. We now have more homeless than ever. What was that fortune used for? Another example of squandering our money is the train saga, flying ever so quietly below the radar. In six years the “train to nowhere” has already cost over $100 billion. This level of corruption is egregious and it’s hard to believe it isn’t a frontpage story every day, but then we’re in California. Controlled by a very woke dictatorship, transparency isn’t one of their virtues. How is it possible we’re being so played? Europe is covered with the best rail system in the world, and we can’t lay a single piece of track after six years that cost as much as the gross domestic product of Lithuania, Puerto Rico or Libya! With the amount of surplus Gov. Newsom and company have to play with, I imagine more of it will be squandered to keep kissing the unions’ behinds and likely to provide kickbacks to politicians who have some connection with this Great California Rip Off. Riddled with corrupt district attorneys and aided by Prop. 47, California is also the winner by showing the rest of the country and the world how to breed anarchy. When liberal communities decided that burning and looting didn’t warrant any action, that green light grew brighter and brighter to bring us to where we are today. To continue with this insanity, California law enforcement “experts” are

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uesday, Dec. 7, the facts of history and the marks the 80th aggressive impulses of an evil anniversary of empire.” Pearl Harbor, After 9/11, President George a date that will W. Bush pledged something live in infamy, as President similar, that, “Our war on Franklin Delano Roosevelt terror begins with al-Qaeda, characterized the same in his but it does not end there. famous speech that reads in It will not end until every part: terrorist group of global reach “The attack yesterday on has been found, stopped and the Hawaiian islands has defeated.” caused severe damage to Thus, America and the American naval and military world has faced off with the forces. Very many American Empire of Japan, the Third lives have been Reich, the Soviet lost. Yesterday, the Empire and the Japanese government Nation of Islam. When also launched an any empire aspires to attack against Malaya global dominance, it … Hong Kong .... Guam always ends badly. … the Philippine Unfortunately, all Islands ...Wake Island. the promises and Andy Caldwell ... and this morning intents to withstand Midway Island. treachery and “Japan has, aggressive impulses therefore, undertaken a of evil empires rings hollow surprise offensive extending with respect to China, which throughout the Pacific area. no longer bothers to hide its The facts of yesterday speak multi-decade plan to gain for themselves. The people hegemonic control of the of the United States … well world. This, by way of its understand the implications belts-and-roads initiative, to the very life and safety of which seeks to invest, indebt our nation.” and incapacitate much of FDR continued, “Always the world while gaining will we remember the control of world-wide assets character of the onslaught and infrastructure, the against us. No matter development of weapons how long it may take us to including space war capacity overcome this premeditated that would leave our invasion, the American people military (both offensively in their righteous might and defensively) deaf, dumb will win through to absolute and blind, along with their victory. I believe I interpret development of cyberweapons the will of the Congress and and artificial intelligence of the people when I assert that can cripple our critical that we will not only defend infrastructure while robbing ourselves to the uttermost, but our technology, industry and will make very certain that health sectors of precious this form of treachery shall minerals and both raw and never endanger us again.” finished materials. “This form of treachery Taken together, all this will shall never endanger us in short time spell doom for again.” These words are worth the free world without the repeating, reminiscent of the Chinese communists having to phrase “never again,” used to fire a shot. recall and vow that the Jewish Meanwhile, let’s keep holocaust would never be marketing the NBA in China, repeated. purchasing materials from Winston Churchill said their slave labor camps, about the war with the Nazis, turning a blind eye to their “You ask, what is our aim? I genocidal tendencies and can answer in one word. It is aspirations, abstain from victory. Victory at all costs — calling their bioweapon the victory in spite of all terrors; China virus, while continuing victory, however long and to declare that global warming hard the road may be, for is the biggest threat facing without victory there is no humanity. survival. Let that be realized. After all, it seems to be a No survival for the British tradition among mankind to Empire, no survival for all that ignore the peril of vicious the British Empire has stood emerging empires until after for ...” they attack. In 1983, President Ronald Reagan named the Soviet Andy Caldwell is the COLAB Union the Evil Empire, stating executive director and host of the Soviets “must be made “The Andy Caldwell Show,” to understand we will never airing 3 to 5 p.m. weekdays compromise our principles on KZSB AM 1290, the Newsand standards nor ignore Press radio station.

urge you to oppose the Biden administration’s effort to undermine the democratically elected government of Ethiopia. Failing to stand behind a legitimately elected government contradicts the deeply held democratic values of the U.S. and tarnishes its image worldwide, particularly in Africa. By alienating Ethiopia, the U.S. stands to lose a major strategic ally in the most volatile region of Africa. I implore you to: • Express your support to the democratically elected government of Ethiopia and denounce the Tigray People Liberation Front’s actions to destabilize Ethiopia. • Call on the administration to recognize Ethiopia’s inalienable right to defend itself from internal and external destabilizing forces. • Call on the administration to reinstate Ethiopia as

beneficiary to African Growth and Opportunity Act. Garedew Lemma Santa Barbara

Speaking words of foolishness, let it be

t has become apparent to anyone with a little gray hair that society from top to bottom has fallen for The Beatles’ philosophy of “Let it be.” Don’t interfere with whatever folks want to do. When they get deep into what used to be called aberrant behavior like adultery, gambling, prostitution, bankruptcy, drug abuse/alcoholism or pornography, who cares? Addiction doesn’t really hurt other people. If debtors max out credit card after credit card, and then walk away, that’s their choice, don’t get legal on them. But even if stuff does hurt other people, let it fly! Sexual harassment is waxing, not waning.

We saw such an explosion of felony crime in the last half of the 20th century that misdemeanor crime today is no longer even a thing. Most felonies are free too. Good luck getting law enforcement or courts to lift a finger related to theft. Speaking of theft, if monster corporations squeeze the life out of competitors and small businesses, let ’em roll. If bankers charge triple-digit interest rates on the working poor, bully for them. Prosecution of white-collar crime by corporate CEOs has evaporated too, as evidenced by the 2008 recession do-nothing aftermath. If politicians trample the Constitution they swore to uphold, no need for impeachment. We don’t want to bother government, school and church leaders about their misbehavior either. Let it be, baby! Kimball Shinkoskey Woods Cross, Utah (Former Goleta resident)

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Supply chain crisis was made in D.C. — and Sacramento Editor’s note: Mark Mix is the president of the National Right to Work Committee.

the Journal of Commerce this April, a “long history of toxic labor-management relations, particularly on the West Coast, or nearly a century, has led to many of the issues at American employees, the heart” of U.S. container flow consumers, and today: business owners have “Huge cost increases, limited suffered ability to automate a chain of abuses by terminals, chronic Mark Mix the small contingent avoidable disruption of International during contract Longshoremen’s negotiations, and far Association and International lower productivity and working Longshore Warehouse Union hours compared with ports in Asia officials who largely control our and elsewhere around the world nation’s seaports. are at the core of the issue.” Thanks to the D.C. beltway This year, as household politicians who have endowed ILA spending rebounds after and ILWU chiefs with monopoly plummeting during the brief, bargaining power over how steep COVID-19 recession, these longshore workers are managed issues have come into even starker and compensated, our port system relief. is inefficient and lumbering by By early October, “more than 60 international standards. container ships carrying clothing, As Peter Tirschwell, a veteran furniture and electronics worth journalist specializing in shipping billions of dollars” were “stuck and trade issues, explained in outside Los Angeles and Long

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There is no vetting of Afghan refugees

ack in August, as the Biden administration prepared to dump 82,000-plus Afghan refugees onto U.S. soil, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security assured Americans that it was “working around the clock to conduct the security screening and vetting of vulnerable Afghans before they are permitted entry into the United States” and taking “multiple steps to ensure that those seeking entry do not pose a national security or public safety risk.” We were told that “the rigorous screening and vetting process, which is multi-layered and ongoing, involves biometric and biographic screenings conducted by intelligence, law enforcement, and counterterrorism professionals from DHS and DOD, as well as the Federal Bureau of Investigation, National Counterterrorism Center and additional intelligence community partners.” Mr. Biden’s DHS touted a thorough review of “fingerprints, photos, and other biometric and biographic data for every single Afghan before they are cleared

to travel to the United States.” the Dona Ana Complex in New Afghan nationals, we were told, Mexico.” The military base said “undergo a primary inspection it was adding “better lighting” when they arrive at a U.S. airport, to address the attack. No arrests and a secondary inspection is have been made. conducted as the circumstances In October, thoroughly vetted require.” Afghan refugee Zabihullah In September, thoroughly Mohmand, 19, was charged with vetted Afghan refugee raping an 18-year-old girl Bahrullah Noori, 20, was in Missoula, Mont. charged in Wisconsin This is undoubtedly with three counts of the tip of the iceberg, engaging in sexual acts given my past reporting with a minor, including on more than 60 refugeeone allegedly involving jihadists (“refujihadis”) the use of force, plus who slipped past our a fourth count of “rigorous” and “thorough” Michelle Malkin attempting to engage in vetting system over the such acts with a minor past decade. In my long while using force. The experience, independent crimes were allegedly committed efforts to track criminal arrests against 12- and 14-year-old boys of refugees and immigrants are in the bathroom and residential stymied by politically correct areas of Fort McCoy. It’s the media whitewashers who obscure same base where another the national origin and citizenship thoroughly vetted Afghan refugee, status of suspects. Mohammad Haroon Imaad, 32, How much of an illusion is the was charged in early September “multilayered,” “biometric” and with assaulting, choking and “biographic” vetting of Afghan suffocating his wife. refugees? Also in September, a female Over the holidays, with almost soldier at Fort Bliss reported zero news coverage outside the being assaulted on Sept. 19 “by a Washington Examiner and New small group of male evacuees at York Post, a Senate Republican

memo reported that “almost none of the 82,000 people airlifted from Kabul in August were vetted before being admitted to the United States, despite claims to the contrary from the Biden administration.” The memo reportedly noted that “Afghans without any identification or records were approved for travel to the United States as long as their fingerprints or other biometrics were not already in a U.S. Government database and connected to derogatory information (e.g., a known terrorist, terrorist affiliate, or criminal). Federal officials relayed that few Afghans know their birthday, which has resulted in a number of evacuees’ date of birth logged as January 1.” In October, The Wall Street Journal reported that Republican lawmakers had been pressing the Biden administration on “how many Afghans traveled without any paperwork.” No answers yet. Tick tock. Andrew R. Arthur of the Center for Immigration Studies makes a good point about how federal officials admitted they didn’t have any training, anyway,

in identifying phony Afghan documents from real ones: “What good would a requirement that evacuees provide identity documents do if those reviewing the documents cannot tell good ones from fake ones?” In early November, Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, revealed in a floor speech that “there are at least 10 evacuees who made it past all this screening into the United States prior to the national security concerns being raised and causing them currently to be detained in federal facilities as a national security threat. That’s 10. We don’t know how many more there are.” Open borders plus bleeding hearts equal a demographic nightmare. Homeland security is a joke. There is no vetting. When will you learn, America? Michelle Malkin’s email address is michellemalkinInvestigates@ protonmail.com. To find out more about Michelle Malkin and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com. Copyright 2021 by Creators.com.

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The rogue district attorneys are coming Editor’s note: David Minier is the former district attorney of Santa Barbara and Madera counties, as well as a retired Madera County judge.

he recent Kyle Rittenhouse trial in Kenosha and the Waukasha Christmas parade massacre by career felon Darrell Brooks Jr. have brought deserved criticism to two Wisconsin district attorney offices. But a greater threat to our criminal justice system is the increasing election of rogue district attorneys, or “un-D.A.s,” who coddle the offender and ignore the victim. By tradition, district attorneys are vigorous prosecutors. In my 23 years as a D.A., I cannot remember a “rogue.” District attorney candidates usually campaign as “tough

on crime,” because that’s what deputies have left his office in the public wants: protection of protest, many to join the recall their persons and property from effort. criminal behavior. In Los Angeles, District But a new breed of rogue Attorney George Gascon was prosecutors is coming, the unelected with $3.6 million of D.A.s, defining themselves as campaign donations from George “progressives,” with Soros and others. campaigns fueled Mr. Gascon has David by donations from ended death penalty Minier George Soros and other prosecutions and trial billionaires who would of unfit juveniles as radically change our adults. He has suspended justice system. the cash bail system, which For states not yet targeted Californians had just voted to by this group, the California retain, and has prohibited his experience should serve as a staff from charging sentence warning. enhancements on serious felonies. San Francisco’s district Mr. Gascon’s deputies have attorney, Chesa Boudin, whose rebelled against his policies and parents served prison terms for taken him to court. A recent murder and robbery, has called attempt to recall Mr. Gascon for closing jails and prisons. A failed, but another has begun former pubic defender, Mr. Boudin and will likely result in a recall will face a recall election next election next year. June because of his anti-law In Contra Costa County, Diana enforcement policies. Over 50 Becton was elected district

attorney through massive campaign funding by the same donors who put Mr. Gascon in office. Mr. Boudin, Mr. Gascon and Ms. Becton, with District Attorney Tori Verber Salazer of San Joaquin County, have formed the Prosecutors Alliance of California, a pretentious title for a “progressive” group of four. The alliance is “committed to reforming California’s criminal justice system” and preaching its philosophy that society, not individual will, is responsible for criminal behavior. Tennessee has recognized this threat, and last month their legislature responded by passing a “rogue district attorney” law. It provides that their attorney general can petition the state supreme court for appointment of an independent attorney to prosecute those cases the local district attorney refuses, such as riot, drug possession, petty theft

and assaults on peace officers. Such a law would not work in California, however, because the state’s attorney general, Rob Bonta, is a former Democratic assemblyman who sponsored legislation unfavorable to law enforcement and who supports unD.A.s Boudin and Gascon. The only way to remove a rogue district attorney in California is at the polls, by recall or election. Until that occurs, the D.A. can continue to cause havoc with law enforcement. The California experience provides a preview of the harm that “progressive” district attorneys can do to the criminal justice system. This new breed of un-D.A.s will not long be confined to California, but will be exported to wherever George Soros and like donors can buy elections. Other states should be warned: The un-D.A.s are coming, and the loser will be your public safety.

Why the right needs more ‘muscular’ conservatism

t last month’s National Conservatism Conference in Orlando, I used my speech to criticize “Fusionism,” the postwar conservative movement’s default political alliance built upon an attendant “Fusionist” political philosophy, and instead argue on behalf of an alternative path forward. Fusionism, as formulated and popularized by the midcentury theorist Frank Meyer, “fused” together economic laissez-faire dogma with privately held social and cultural conservatism. Fusionism remains today the philosophical lodestar for many of the leading institutions of Conservatism, Inc., such as National Review and The Heritage Foundation. In the speech, I criticized

Fusionism as “effete, limp and the critique. unmasculine” because the The “national conservative” political philosophy, which criticism of the reigning Fusionist, relies on liberalism’s purported right-liberal orthodoxy as beneficence to safeguard “unmasculine” is not private institutions’ predominantly one intergenerational passing of mere attitude or down of virtue, “removes disposition. True, it is a from the political arena ... small component of our the very value judgments broader condemnation and critical questions that of the institutional right most affect our humanity as unduly complacent in and our civilization.” the face of an ascendant Josh Hammer Some of Fusionism’s and deeply toxic woke defenders, among them ideology. As former paradigmatic rightNew York Post Op-Ed liberal David French, have taken Editor Sohrab Ahmari wrote in umbrage. Writing earlier this his (uniquely germane here) 2019 week in The Atlantic, Mr. French First Things cri de coeur, “Against accuses me of helping to foster a David French-ism,” “civility and “culture that idolizes a twisted decency are secondary values.” version of ‘toughness’ as the The problem we now confront, as highest ideal.” Rabbi Dr. Ari Lamm wrote in a True to form, Mr. French 2020 op-ed for Newsweek, where spectacularly misses the point of I am opinion editor, is “not that

we’re no longer nice and polite, but that we are increasingly losing faith in our deepest, truest values.” And there lies the rub. he overarching issue is that the Fusionism of Conservatism Inc., as a structural matter and due to the very nature of the liberal order on which it is necessarily dependent, is incapable of resisting the left’s “long march through the institutions,” let alone positing its own substantive vision of a good society and the good life. And it is incapable of doing so because it improperly relies upon the illusion of a values-neutral liberal order — a values-neutral free market, a values-neutral town square and a values-neutral U.S. Constitution — to secure its “private” culture at the same time that the progressive left champs at the bit to remold the nation in

its dystopian image and subjugate us “deplorables” into second-class citizens. History has shown that a valuesneutral liberal order amounts to a one-way cultural ratchet. The wokesters are all too happy to fill the ever-larger void left behind by a “naked” public square. Indeed, the wokesters are abetted by Fusionist right-liberals who refuse to inject any sense of overt value or morality into the national fabric as a matter of high-minded principle and who instead prefer the relative governing safety of slashing taxes and regulations and calling it a day. In a nutshell, the left knows precisely which (immoral) values it stands for, and it aggressively seeks to advance and disseminate those values. Please see HAMMER on C4

John Stossel

Fact blockers

’ve reported how Facebook censors me. Now I’ve learned that they also censor environmentalist Michael Shellenberger, statistician Bjorn Lomborg and former New York Times columnist John Tierney. Facebook’s “factcheckers” claim we spread “misinformation.” In my new video, Tierney argues that the “people guilty of spreading misinformation are Facebook and its factcheckers.” He’s right. Facebook doesn’t do its censoring alone. It partners with groups approved by something called the Poynter Institute, a group that claims “a commitment to nonpartisanship.” But Poynter isn’t nonpartisan. It promotes progressive jargon like “decolonize the media,” and it praises left-leaning journalists. Once they even proposed blacklisting conservative news sites. One “fact-checker” Poynter approved is a Paris-based group calling itself “Science Feedback.” Science Feedback objected to an article Mr. Tierney wrote that says forcing children to wear masks can be harmful. He cited a study, which later passed peer review, in which parents complained about masks “giving their children headaches and making it difficult for them to concentrate.” Facebook calls Mr. Tierney’s article “partly false.” That “partly false” label is nasty because it leads Facebook to stop showing Mr. Tierney’s work to many people. But his article was accurate. Science Feedback censored it because parents’ comments are not a random sample. But it’s obvious that such comments are not random. Mr. Tierney acknowledges that in his article. What should be labeled “false” is Science Feedback’s sloppy fact-check. It includes a “key takeaway” that says that masks are fine for children over 2. But “that’s not something that most scientists believe,” says Mr. Tierney. “Not what the World Health Please see STOSSEL on C4

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‘Fact-checkers’ want people alarmed by climate change STOSSEL

Continued from Page C3 Organization believes.” Again, he’s right. The World Health Organization says kids under 5 should generally not be required to wear masks. “There are all kinds of welldocumented effects of wearing a mask,” adds Mr. Tierney. “Workers who wear masks for a couple hours in Germany have to stop and take a half-hour break. This shouldn’t be a controversial thing to say.” No, it shouldn’t. Facebook often censors things that should be talked about. They banned discussion of the idea that COVID-19 escaped from a lab, only reversing course when the Biden administration did. Science Feedback also doesn’t like articles questioning the

“climate crisis.” That’s what got Mr. Shellenberger punished. “They censored me for saying we’re not in a sixth mass extinction,” Mr. Shellenberger complains. “We’re not! Mr. Lomborg was censored for pointing out “rising temperatures have actually saved lives.” That’s because cold weather kills more people than warm weather. No scientific study has yet proven that a recent drop in deaths was caused by the temperature rise. But so what? His main point — temperaturerelated deaths fell while the planet warmed — is true. Yet Science Feedback works with Facebook to keep that out of your Facebook feed. Mr. Lomborg says the “factcheckers” want people alarmed by climate change. “It makes it a lot easier to get people to donate money.”

Science Feedback’s leader now plans to expand his censorship powers — so he can censor not only Facebook, but other social media. That’s frightening. I sympathize with Facebook. Some users spread lies. Politicians blame Facebook and demand the company “do something.” But there’s no way Facebook can police all the posts, so it does destructive things like partnering with Poynter Institute “factcheckers.” The fact-checkers “have a mission outside just facts,” says Mr. Lomborg. “They also want you to not know stuff. That’s not fact check. That’s simply saying, ‘We don’t want to hear this opinion in the public space.’ Frankly, that’s terrifying ... The goal is nice ... less misinformation on the internet. But you could very well end up in a place where we only have

approved facts that fit the current narrative. That would be a terrible outcome.” But that’s the outcome we’ve got. Facebook and its censors are now the enemy of open debate. “They’re trying to suppress people whose opinions and whose evidence they don’t like,” concludes Mr. Tierney. “They’re not factcheckers, they’re fact-blockers.” The world doesn’t need factblockers. We need more freedom to speak, not less. John Stossel is creator of Stossel TV and author of “Give Me a Break: How I Exposed Hucksters, Cheats, and Scam Artists and Became the Scourge of the Liberal Media.” For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www. creators.com. Copyright 2021 by JFS Productions Inc.

Government rent control inevitably leads to other controls DONOVAN

Continued from Page C1 ended the lease with the hamburger shop for the renovation project, also known as upgrades. Then when it was completed, the city increased the rent to the new tenant. Why? Did they increase it by more than 2%? Where is their example of how they want residential landlords to operate? The two bringing this to council on Tuesday should announce what they pay for rent at the meeting! Since they don’t believe it’s a privacy issue to know about every renter in Santa Barbara, this shouldn’t be a problem. And a final reminder: When you ran for office and won, you took an oath to represent all the residents of Santa Barbara, landlords and tenants alike, not just your cause.

In the U.K., the national government established rent control that was in place for more than 70 years. It was ended in 1988 by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, who wanted to develop a property-owning democracy. As part of this objective, she made all homes owned by the national and local governments available for purchase by their tenants, at significantly belowmarket prices. Many were sold to families who had never before owned any property. It became clear that those that became privately owned, were much better cared for than those that remained under government ownership. During the 70-year period of rent control, the market for private rental housing completely dried up, except in the very highpriced rentals in the exclusive parts of London.

Once the government gained control of houses for rent, the owners basically lost all control, even to the extent of not being able to sell their property, because of restrictions on evictions. If a tenant did move out, most owners took their house off the rental market and either moved in themselves or sold it for owneroccupation. Government rent control inevitably leads to other controls and a massive bureaucracy to monitor, administer and add features to the control over private rental housing, effectively managing it out of existence. This should not be brought to council until we are allowed back into chambers where they can see us! If Santa Barbara County can have 80 people, twice a day showing up for jury duty selection for the past three weeks, in one room, with no social distancing,

why can’t we be in the city council chambers with a mask on? They have already lined up their team to call in and it will be a long meeting. You need to join this Zoom meeting on your computer to be able to speak. How fair is this for the older mom-andpop landlords? Are they even on computers? We don’t see anything in this memorandum showing any appreciation for the landlords who haven’t raised rents on longterm tenants. We don’t see any appreciation for the landlords that go in every six months and replace filters, batteries, light bulbs and check for leaks to maintain quality rentals. Bonnie Donovan writes the “Did You Know?” column in conjunction with a bipartisan group of local citizens. It appears Sundays in the Voices section.

‘I am somebody who wants to hear the truth’ BUCKLEY

Continued from Page C1 And there is nothing Teacher can do but repeat the cycle continuously if she wants to maintain some discipline in her class. The student is spoken to but never punished, as far as she knows. As for CRT itself, she says it is currently being taught to her daughter in Advanced Placement World History. “They’re teaching them that Christopher Columbus murdered the Native Americans, and he is perceived as a monster. I mean,” she says, “if there’s truth to anything, I am somebody who wants to hear the truth. “I’m sure Christopher Columbus did not do everything right,” she

adds. “But to make it so bad or just really emphasize the negative side of history is wrong. “When we learned restorative approaches,” she explains, “the purpose for bringing up something bad that somebody had done was to restore the situation. So there would be an apology or there would be some sort of resolve. You wouldn’t walk away from the situation feeling bad.” But there is never any such resolution in the kind of training served up by Just Communities. She and the rest of the teachers apparently leave those sessions feeling bad about one another; white people feel bad and the people of color feel bad, “and there is never a restorative aspect to the conversations. “So to me,” she adds, “drumming up all of this negativity doesn’t do

anybody any good. If you want me to apologize to a Native American for something my ancestors did, that I never took part of, OK, I’ll apologize. ‘I’m sorry if that happened. I would never treat somebody that way.’ I could say that. But there is never any of that.” She recounts another session wherein all the people of color sat in a circle and all the white people sat around the outside of the circle. The people of color were asked to write down every bad thing that ever happened to them on a sticky note and to stick those notes on a board in front of the group. Some of them became angry and some were yelling at the white people, “and we just had to sit there and watch. It was very uncomfortable. “There was never any resolve, there was never any coming together to say, ‘Hey, I’m really

sorry that happened to you. And I personally would never treat anybody like that, but if somebody did that to you, it’s wrong.’ “ Next week, we’ll examine lesson plans geared toward preschoolers, and first- and second-graders that include “Exploring Gender Stereotypes w/Role Plays,” and reading of the book “My Princess Boy.” We can ponder why anyone would think that introducing a transgender character is important in the education of a 4-, 5- or 6-year-old. We’ll also look at the all-in devotion to the Black Lives Matter agenda within the school district. James Buckley is a longtime Montecito resident. He welcomes questions or comments at jimb@ substack.com.

The issues confronting us have fundamentally changed HAMMER

Continued from Page C3 Against such an unrestrained adversary, Fusionism’s plea for liberal procedural neutrality rings hollow. The predictable result has been the unprecedented metastasis of the woke ideology through more and more of the nation’s leading institutions, from elementary school classrooms to Fortune 500

boardrooms. Against this terrifying new threat, the Fusionist playbook that reached its zenith during Ronald Reagan’s presidency is largely impotent. It makes no sense whatsoever to spout platitudes about corporate tax cuts and slashing unnecessary red tape when the new threats look more like critical race theory indoctrination in the classroom and forcing Christian bakers to bend the knee and “bake

the damn cake” for a same-sex wedding. The issues confronting us have fundamentally changed. Any conservatism worthy of the name in 2021 must, to use a phrase associated with the “very online” right, “know what time it is.” A conservatism that “knows what time it is” is one that robustly asserts and fights for its values in the public square, and that refuses to cabin itself to appeals to “live and let

live” liberal bromides. The conservatism demanded by the moment is one that fights the culture war with the aim not of “neutrality” but of outright victory. In that structural sense, it is “muscular” and “masculine.” To find out more about Josh Hammer and read features by other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators. com. Copyright 2021 by Creators.com.

saying we can’t call them looters because it has a racial connotation. That’s how they try and minimize and play the “nothing to see here” game. Stealing what doesn’t belong to you or destroying property knows no color. Don’t try and downplay a wrong, whoever they are. They’re thieves! How many of you parents who still use critical thinking, raised your kids by telling them they can steal anything they want and as much as they want? You deserve it, so help yourself. And, if you feel like it, burn the building down on your way out. So, California, keep up the good work. Teach these young minds the old adage with an addendum: It’s much better to give than receive or just steal it. It’s difficult to watch the videos of so many lawbreakers swarming through the stores like retail locusts. It’s disgusting! We can only imagine what we must look like to the rest of the world. We’re literally coming apart at the fault lines and California, especially San Francisco, is

leading the way. So, while the state Gov. Newsom is supposed to be running is crumbling at his feet, and before he took off on vacation, Mr. Newsom said he won’t tolerate this kind of lawlessness. It’s his fault! Be a man and take some responsibility, Gavin. He’ll fix it with a task force, he says. How about putting people back in jail? He has enough money to pay for their incarceration and maybe build mega jails. Make them look like a Nordstrom. While he’s at it, put the corrupt district attorneys and politicians in jail as well for the crime of putting all our lives in danger. California COVID politics destroyed the lives and welfare of the middle class and continues to do so. And small businesses are the forgotten children. While on the other hand, Illegals, unions and big tech are well fed and protected. Why are we paying Gov. Newsom and the rest of them in Sacramento to destroy the state? They’re just as much a part of this criminal element. They’re just stealing in a different way.

Our community is stronger together ISRAEL

Continued from Page C1 this fall, the school resorted to housing students in hotel rooms. Rental prices in Isla Vista have already held the spot of “most expensive per bedroom in Santa Barbara county” for years, and the best solution UCSB has come up with so far is a windowless dorm akin to a prison. The city of Goleta, home to a large population of students and professors, has resorted to suing the university due to the damages that overenrollment and underdevelopment are causing for the Goleta economy and housing market. The UCSB a long-term Development Plan had stated that before 2025 or the student body exceeds 25,000, they would build more housing, yet in 2018 had already exceeded that student population by nearly 1,000, and had built no additional housing. The community is fracturing under the weight of these issues, and that division is fed by the fact that these communities are represented by two different supervisors with conflicting goals and priorities.

To start bringing some unity to this issue, combining representation of communities with like interests to encourage cooperation over conflict would be a great place to start. Isla Vista, Goleta, UCSB and SBCC have complex, interwoven interests and should be kept together in one district. The current lines split this unique community and place half of it with distant cities that share absolutely no commonalities with the Santa Barbara area. Our community is stronger together. We need a representative who can speak for all of the university community in Santa Barbara, for everyone who is feeling the effects of the housing shortage, and for the most diverse and environmentally conscious area in Santa Barbara. This year the Santa Barbara County Citizens Redistricting Commission has the opportunity to right the wrongs of10 years ago. They should draw UCSB and SBCC, along with all of Goleta and Isla Vista together in the same district to ensure that we can bring real, consensus solutions to issues facing our beautiful community.

Repeal all laws favoring Big Labor

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Continued from Page C2 handle as much as 40% of total U.S. export/import volume every year, and respectively rank No. 328 and No. 333 globally for container port performance, according to the World Bank.) Even if ILWU-controlled crane operators were transferring containers from ships to trucks diligently, recent interventions by Big Labor legislators in Sacramento would likely ensure a shortage of truckers available to distribute the goods efficiently. The most onerous of the multiple obstructions to port commerce imposed by unionlabel Sacramento politicians is A.B. 5, which was adopted in 2019. This outrageous scheme is designed to help union bosses corral Californians into unions by making it virtually impossible for them to work as independent contractors. Litigation has held up its implementation in the trucking industry, but in the near

future it could effectively bar truck owner-operators, even though an estimated 80% of the truckers who serve the L.A. and Long Beach ports are owneroperators. Many drivers who wish to continue being owneroperators have undoubtedly already left the state. The genuine solution to America’s chronically underperforming ports is to repeal all federal and state laws that authorize and promote Big Labor monopoly control over longshore employees. But the political establishments in Washington and Sacramento are apparently not ready to do anything as sensible as that. Until then, California may be in danger of getting passed over completely by shippers, who can traverse the Panama Canal and unload in ports located in Right to Work states along the Gulf and Atlantic Coasts, where a number of ports are still able to “supplement their unionized labor force with non-union workers” and productivity is far higher.