Santa Barbara News-Press: December 19, 2021

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6th Circuit reinstates Biden’s workplace vaccine mandate Supreme Court battle looms

By DAN MCCALEB THE CENTER SQUARE EXECUTIVE EDITOR

(The Center Square) — The 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on Friday reinstated President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccination mandate on larger employers, overturning another federal court’s injunction and setting up a showdown at the U.S. Supreme Court.

The mandate, depending on how the Supreme Court rules, would require employers with 100 workers or more to require their employees be vaccinated against COVID-19, undergo

weekly testing or face stiff fines. “[I]t is difficult to imagine what more OSHA could do or rely on to justify its finding that workers face a grave danger in the workplace,” the 6th Circuit Court wrote.

OSHA, or the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, was charged with administering the workplace mandate.

The 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans previously blocked the mandate, citing “grave” constitutional concerns.

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Travellers stroll inside Santa Barbara Airport on Wednesday.

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As the world tries to return to some sense of normalcy in the face of the ongoing pandemic, holiday travel is returning. But even as travelers are venturing out for the holiday season, a new variant of the COVID-19 virus recently reared its head, making it difficult to predict what holiday travel will look like this Christmas season.

When looking at travel numbers, “We aren’t comparing to 2020, we are comparing to 2019, because travel was so astronomically low in 2020,” Deanna Zachrisson, airport business development manager for the Santa Barbara Municipal Airport, told the News-Press.

“Compared to 2019, we are overperforming, 2019 was our record year,” Ms. Zachrisson told the News-Press, pointing out that 2,220 passengers were processed at the airport on the day before Thanksgiving, compared to 1,953 in 2019.

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Santa to drive through Montecito Santa Claus will be doing a drive-by around the Montecito community today at 11 a.m.

He will be making stops along the way at Coast Village Road (11 a.m.), Montecito Country Mart (11:30 a.m.), Butterfly Beach (12 p.m.) and at the Miramar Beach Bar from 1:30-3 p.m., waving

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TRAFFIC, CRIME AND FIRE BLOTTER Construction update Northbound Highway 101 Sunday nights from 9 p.m.-7 a.m. the highway will be one lane from Bailard Ave. to N. Padaro Ln., with closures to the on- and off-ramps at N. Padaro Ln. and S. Padaro Ln. and the off-ramp at Bailard Ave. On Dec. 19 from 9 p.m.-7 a.m., the highway will be reduced to one lane from Bailard Ave. to N. Padaro Ln., with closures to the on- and off-ramps at N. Padaro Ln. and S. Padaro Ln., the off-ramp at Bailard Ave, and the on-ramp at Linden Ave. Monday - Thursday nights from 8 p.m.–7 a.m., the highway will be reduced to one lane from Bailard Ave. to N. Padaro Ln., with closures to the on- and off-ramps at N. Padaro Ln. and S. Padaro Ln. and the off-ramp at Bailard Ave. During the week of Jan. 3 from 8 p.m.–7 a.m., the highway will be reduced to one lane from Bailard Ave. to N. Padaro Ln., with closures to the on- and off-ramps at N. Padaro Ln., S. Padaro Ln., and Bailard Ave.

Southbound Highway 101 Sunday nights from 10 p.m.-7 a.m., the highway will be reduced to one lane from N. Padaro Ln. to Bailard Ave. with closures to the on- and off-ramps at N. Padaro Ln. and S. Padaro Ln. Monday-Thursday nights from 8 p.m.–7:30 a.m. the highway will be reduced to one lane from N. Padaro Ln. to Bailard Ave., with closures to the on- and off-ramps at N. Padaro Ln. and S. Padaro Ln. During the week of Jan. 3 from 8 p.m.–7:30 a.m. the highway will be reduced to one lane from N. Padaro Ln. to Bailard Ave. as well as on- and off-ramps at N. Padaro Ln., S. Padaro Ln., Casitas Pass Rd., Bailard Ave. The on-ramp at Sheffield Dr. is anticipated to reopen in mid-2022.

Drivers can use the southbound on-ramp at N. Padaro Ln. until it reopens.

The off-ramp at Sheffield Dr. is anticipated to reopen early in 2022, drivers can use the southbound off-ramp at San Ysidro Rd. in the meantime.

Between December 27 - 30, flaggers will direct traffic as needed between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m. at San Ysidro Rd. over Highway 101 and S. Jameson Ln. between Olive Mill Rd. and San Ysidro Rd. Consecutive ramps in the same direction will not be closed at the same time to allow drivers to use a ramp before or after a closure. To view timelines, detours and maps, please visit www.SBROADS.com and select the project segment.

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Eight arrested at DUI checkpoint One driver was arrested at a DUI checkpoint on Friday. The checkpoint was at the 700 block of North Broadway from 6 p.m. to 3 a.m.

Seven drivers were cited for operating a vehicle unlicensed or with a suspended/revoked license. A total of 250 vehicles were screened and no drivers were arrested for other criminal charges.

Checkpoint locations are based on a history of crashes and DUI arrests. The primary purpose of DUI checkpoints is to promote public safety, by deterring drivers from driving impaired, and not to make arrests.

Another DUI/Driver’s License checkpoint will be held by the Santa Maria Police Department in the upcoming months.

Funding for this checkpoint was provided by a grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety, through the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.

- Katherine Zehnder

Construction continues on Highway 101.

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Authorities are asking for help identifying this woman, known as Ventura Jane Doe, who was found dead in Ventura County 41 years ago.

DNA Doe Project, Ventura County Sheriff’s Department ask for help from public Over 41 years ago, a young woman was found in a parking lot in Ventura. Her identity has remained unknown, and she has been known as “Jane Doe.” Now the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department and investigative genetic genealogists of the DNA Doe Project are now one step closer to identifying the young woman and are asking for the public’s help.

On June 18, 1980, Ventura County Sheriff’s Deputies were called to a parking lot at Westlake High School, where a young woman was found dead. It was determined the young female was Hispanic and/or Native American, age 15-25 years, 5 ft. 2 in. tall, 110–115 lbs., brown eyes, and black shoulder length hair with bleached tips. She was 4 months pregnant.

This year, detectives at the DNA Doe Project were able to identify the father of Doe’s unborn child.

Investigators from the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department have been in contact with him, but have been unsuccessful in uncovering new information.

The father is a Honduran immigrant who was associated with a community of Central American immigrants in the

Koreatown district of Los Angeles near the intersection of West 9th St. (James M Wood Blvd) and South Westmoreland Ave. However, there is no specific information that Ventura Jane Doe associated within that social circle.

“We’re asking for everyone to take a look at this artist’s rendering of our Jane Doe and to let us know if they think they might have known her or her family members in the 1980s,” said Steve Rhods of the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department.

Anyone with information or tips about this case is asked to contact Steve Rhods at coldcase@ventura. org or 805-384-4736.

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Woman charged with felony after allegedly driving off road intentionally Santa Barbara County DA Joyce E. Dudley announced on Friday that a felony complaint has been filed against Christina Watanabe, 10, of West Hills. The charges are from a single vehicle collision on Dec. 7, in Summerland.

Ms. Watanabe was driving a Chevy Silverado pick-up with four passengers southbound on Highway 101, when she allegedly intentionally drove off the roadway in the area of the Evans Ave. offramp. The vehicle went down a 100-ft. embankment and landed on its side about five feet from the railroad tracks. The Amtrak Pacific Surfliner was able to stop in time to avoid a further collision.

Ms. Watanabe’s passengers included three juveniles who suffered minor injuries and one elderly woman who suffered moderate injuries. All passengers were treated and released from Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital following the incident.

Ms. Watanabe is charged with the following felony counts: assault with a deadly weapon in violation of Penal Code section 245(a)(1), three counts of child endangerment in violation of Penal Code section 273a(a), and one count of elder abuse in violation of Penal Code section 368(b)(1).

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Santa Barbara City College Board of Trustees elects new officers

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The Santa Barbara City College Board of Trustees elected Kate Parker president, with Jonathan Abboud elected vice president.

Jose University in 2015. She says she is dedicated to advancing educational opportunities for all ages, but especially first generation college students.

Mr. Abboud joined the Board in December of 2014 and represents Isla Vista, UCSB and Hope Ranch

(area 6). Mr. Abboud is a firstgeneration American. Born and raised in LA, he has lived in Isla Vista since 2010. Mr. Abboud earned his BA in Political Science from UCSB in 2014. During his undergraduate career, he became especially involved in

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Goleta City Council to select mayor pro tempore

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The Goleta City Council meeting will be held over Zoom on Tuesday at 5:30 p.m.

At the meeting, the council will select from among its members a new mayor pro tempore for the coming year.

A public hearing will be heard during the meeting to consider adoption of urgency and non-urgency ordinances for bringing the city into compliance with Senate Bill 9.

The recently enacted SB 9 requires cities to allow single-family lots to be split, roughly into halves, with resulting lots as small as 1,200 square feet, thereby allowing up to two single-family dwellings to be developed on each single-family residential lot. A copy of the staff report is available at https://tinyurl.com/ bdht3nrr.

The City Council will also discuss the ordinance banning the sales of flavored tobacco, which was adopted on Oct. 5 with an effective date of Dec. 4. Following adoption, a petition was circulated and has been verified by the Santa Barbara County Registrar of Voters office as having the required 2,040 signatures, requiring the council to reconsider the ordinance Ordinance No. 21-09. The staff report is available at https://tinyurl.com/ yc3a9kk7.

The council will discuss Senate Bill 1383

Organics Ordinance and adding a mandatory organic waste disposal reduction ordinance to the Goleta Municipal Code. SB 1383 directs public agencies to reduce organic waste disposal by 75% and increase edible food recovery by 25% by 2025. In accordance with SB 1383, by January 1, all California state jurisdictions must have a mandatory organic waste disposal reduction ordinance in place.

The ordinance presented will enact a new Goleta Municipal Code Article V entitled Mandatory Organics Waste Disposal Reduction Ordinance, which adds and amends sections to Chapter 8.10 of the GMC. The full staff report is available at https:// tinyurl.com/4pbf7yb4.

The council will consider opting into settlement agreements with distributors and manufacturers of opioids, Amerisource Bergen, Cardinal Health, and McKesson, and opioid manufacturer Janssen (owned

by Johnson & Johnson). Litigation brought by states and cities across the United States against these opioid distributors has resulted in a proposed settlement where counties and cities would receive an allocation.

Staff recommends the council opt into the settlement agreements and designate the settlement funds to be received by the County of Santa Barbara and used by the Department of Behavioral Wellness consistent with the opioid remediation measures pursuant to the

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Kate Parker was elected as president of the Santa Barbara City College Board of Trustees, and Jonathan Abboud was elected vice president during the board’s regular monthly meeting on Dec. 16.

Ms. Parker joined the board in 2018, and represents Santa Barbara (Area 7). Ms. Parker was born in the Philippines and moved to Santa Barbara in 1977, attending schools in Carpinteria before earning her undergraduate degree at UC Berkeley. After earning her bachelor’s degree she returned to Santa Barbara in 1992, where she and her husband raised three children.

She was first elected to the Santa Barbara Unified School District Board of Education in 2006, where she served three terms.

Ms. Parker graduated with her master’s degree in Library and Information Science from San

the student movement against budget cuts in the early 2010s, and served as the Associated Students President during his senior year. Upon graduation, Mr. Abboud co-founded the Isla Vista Self Governance Initiative that appeared on the November 2016 ballot. The initiative succeeded in designing, lobbying for and passing the Isla Vista Community Services District, a specialized form of local government.

The members of the SBCC Board of Trustees now include Ms. Parker (Area 7 - Santa Barbara), Mr. Abboud (Area 6 - Isla Vista, UCSB and Hope Ranch), Dr. Peter O. Haslund (Area 1 - Carpinteria and Montecito), Robert Miller (Area 2 - Goleta), Veronica Gallardo (Area 3 - Santa Barbara), Dr. Anna Everett (Area 4 - Santa Barbara), Marsha Croninger (Area 5 - Mission Canyon and Santa Barbara) and Student Trustee Chernor A. Diallo.

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Looking back at 2021: From Vladimir Putin to Ty Warner to COVID-19

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t is worth using a column once in blue moon to update past topics, lest the issues we’ve covered (like old acquaintances) be forgotten.

(As they say, today’s newspaper is tomorrow’s bird cage liner …)

There is no better time to do so than year-end when our calendarmotivated human condition puts the past 12 months under review and, with hopeful resolutions (mostly short-lived), we look to a healthier, happier New Year. (And after the last two years, I think everyone agrees it would be swell if the powers-that-be would sit back, shut the heck up and let us fearlessly roar into the ’20s.)

PUTRID PUTIN We reported from London on whether a high court judge would agree with Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich that his defamation claim against Catherine Belton’s bestselling book, “Putin’s People,” should go forward.

In late November, Justice Amanda Tipples ruled that nine of the 26 passages to which Mr. Abramovich objected shall proceed to trial, which is not expected to take place for very many months.

Justice Tipples’ ruling was based on “what meaning a reasonable and ordinary reader” would take away from the offending passages, which were presented in Ms. Belton’s book as fact, not opinion. (First rule of investigative journalism: Without documentary evidence “It is alleged…” or “I believe…” or “In my opinion…”.)

The British journalism establishment made its voice and sympathies known on this matter by bestowing upon author Catherine Belton the 2021 Magnitsky Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism.

Sergei Magnitski was a Russian tax lawyer whom the Putin regime imprisoned, tortured and beat to death because they were displeased about what he had uncovered: rampant corruption at the highest levels.

Bill Browder, an anti-Putin campaigner who brought worldwide attention to Mr. Magnitsky’s plight, wrote in a Tweet: “She (Ms. Belton) has exposed the crimes of the Putin regime in ways that nobody has ever done before. She’s now paid a very dear price in their retaliation with multiple abusive lawsuits.”

A former senior official of Her Majesty’s Secret Service (MI6) told The Investigator he is hopeful the British government will soon crack down on the origins of money brought into the U.K. by Russian oligarchs (presumably to include Mr. Abramovich).

On another front (pertaining to our September column about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s Montecito exile), our MI6 friend was also able to enlighten us on the nickname in James Bond circles for Prince Harry’s wife Meghan: “Me Again.”

CRITICAL RACE THEORY Last June we wrote about Critical Race Theory, a new form of teaching that fixates on ethnic differences instead of equality.

While this new-fangled “woke” curriculum has taken the nation by storm via pressure groups, indoctrination programs disguised as tutorials and school boards, parents have been storming back, a backlash that has resulted in a highly politicized U.S. Justice Department (under the leadership of U.S. Attorney General Merrick “Parent Threat Tag” Garland) targeting parents who protest (if much less offensively than the rioters, looters and arsonists of summer 2020 and “smash-and- grab” criminal gangs in L.A. and Chicago) as if they were terrorists.

For example, while homeschooling her kids, a Grand Junction, Colo., mother named Sherronna Bishop recently answered the pounding on her door to an FBI swat team, who clasped her wrists in cold steel while searching her home after alleging she was suspected of “intentional damage to a protected computer,” which the mom claims to know nothing about.

Meantime, thousands of miles away across the pond, Robin Appleby, the head of school at my alma mater, the American School in London, was forced to resign by that $40,000-a-year private school’s board of trustees after numerous parents complained that she had been indoctrinating her student body by imposing “the controversial divisive” ideology of CRT onto the curriculum and into classrooms from first grade through high school.

Students claimed they were accused of “white fragility” and “white guilt” and lamented about “a culture of fear.”

At a Nov. 3 closed-door faculty meeting, some teachers reportedly referred to dissenting parents (many from racial and ethnic backgrounds) as caring more about anti-Semitism than racism and, ironically, one or more had referred to such parents as “Nazis.”

A spokesperson for The Campaign Against Anti-Semitism (in the U.K.) said, “There are claims that ‘Nazis’ were used.

Although the school denies this extreme language referred to American parents, it does not dispute that these terms did appear in their discussion, which also featured language suggesting that anti-Semitism and racism are different.”

The parents’ letter to trustees stated that “every subject, from art to literature to history, is now being taught through a prism of race and gender.” Even physical education classes were not immune; normal gym activities were replaced with “politics in sport discussions.”

Ms. Appleby then extended her teaching “philosophy” beyond the academic curriculum to establish after-school clubs that segregated students — in addition to creating an “affinity group” of 13- and 14 year olds, for the purpose of seeking them to question their gender with a view, presumably, toward surgically altering it.

Her “resignation” is effective Jan. 1, 2022.

Said a parent: “Although it has been presented as a resignation, Robin Appleby’s sudden and unexpected departure as head of school is being viewed as a decision imposed unilaterally by the school’s board of trustees.

Unfortunately, she leaves behind many senior members of the school’s administration and

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The Four Seasons Resort The Biltmore Santa Barbara remains closed. The Montecito hotel and its owner, Ty Warner, were among the topics columnist Robert Eringer covered this year.

faculty who appear resolute in their determination of this racist and toxic ideology.”

In other words, a step in the right direction but more trash to take out. (We wish we were back there to assist.)

Bringing it home to Santa Barbara, oral arguments took place at the Court of Appeal 10 days ago in a case by which Fair Education for Santa Barbara contests the $1.7 million (your tax dollars) given by our unified school district to an organization that purports to “train” educators in CRT. The plaintiff claims that Just Communities Central Coast is an unworthy recipient of public funds because those doing the “training” are themselves untrained — and, more important, there was no bidding process involved.

Breaking news on Dec. 16. That appeal has been denied, as was reported in the News-Press.

This lawsuit was the first legal action in the U.S. against CRT indoctrination in K-12 education.

“Purveyors of CRT are approved by woke school boards

and paid for by taxpayers,” a person involved with this case told The Investigator. “CRT’s antipolice agenda is still being pushed by the Santa Barbara Unified School District, whose board on Dec. 14, discussed removing all special resource officers even though SROs have been successful in limiting violence and sexual abuse on school campuses.”

Audrey Nafziger, who works for the Ventura County district attorney and has been a sex crimes prosecutor for 27 years, told The Investigator (speaking as a Montecito mom, not on behalf of her office), “In my experience, removing SROs has significant ramifications for teens who experience sexual abuse. SROs historically have been one of the only safe places teens can report sexual abuse and obtain protection. Removing SROs from Santa Barbara County campuses will leave our most vulnerable students in the crosshairs of predators with nowhere to turn.”

And now we learn that Santa Barbara City College has spent more than $600,000 on CRT

training in the last calendar year, some of it on a grievance group called Allies to Accomplice, which offers schools “equity audits.”

This expense comes at a time when SBCC is expected to show a budget deficit of $3.7 million.

In other words, SBCC spends money it doesn’t have (and hopes to collect from you, the taxpayer) to pay for indoctrinating students with CRT.

BELLOSGUARDO We caused a major local uproar with our column about the Bellosguardo Foundation and the Clark Estate.

Most of what we reported was accurate. Some of it was not, a case of those running Bellosguardo doing themselves an injustice by not being communicative with us.

In the interest of fairness (because there are always two sides to every story), we feel an obligation to balance our reporting with the foundation’s perspective.

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SUNDAY, DECEMBER 19, 2021

Goleta to mark 20th birthday TURNER, Charles J.

NELSON, Edward Olof

Charles attended Cole Country School and graduated from Alcester High School in 1959. Shortly after graduation he moved to Los Angeles, then Santa Barbara California where he had a long, successful career with VONS grocery company. He also has made his homes in The Virgin Islands, Hawaii and Nevada.

Ted graduated from University of Detroit High School before earning a Bachelor’s and Master’s Degree in Engineering from the University of Michigan.

Charles J. Turner was born July 12, 1941 in Alcester, SD to Elmer and Maurine (Anderson) Turner. He died November 21, 2021 in Henderson, Nevada.

Charles is survived by his children; Gregory (Brenda) Turner of Forney, TX and Kathleen (Michael) Magazino of Santa Barbara, CA. Grandchildren; Micheal, Timothy, Kenna and Angelo. Brothers; Thomas (Lucille) Turner of Tehachapi, CA, Dennis (Margaret) Turner of Sioux Falls, SD and Eldon (Debra) Turner of Hudson, SD. Preceding him in death are his parents and brothers Richard and Merton.

Charles was a joyful and gentle man who loved to laugh. He loved his family and friends dearly. He will be missed by many.

WAGNER , D. William

D. William “Bill” Wagner, 78, passed December 7th, 2021, at home in Santa Barbara, CA surrounded by his wife and sons. Bill was born to Earl and Lois Wagner in Dixon, IL and raised in Sterling, IL. A lifelong love of language and people led him from consecutive statewide debate championships for Illinois in 1960 and 1961 to Northwestern University to study Political Science and Government, continuing at Northwestern University School of Law where he graduated Cum Laude and was a member of the Law Review.

Bill started practicing law in Chicago and moved to Los Angeles in 1981 as a partner at Sidley & Austin, specializing in corporate and commercial real estate law for over forty years. He was a champion of human and legal rights for all. His advocacy began early with work for the National Institute for Education in Law and Poverty in Chicago and continued with thirty years of service as a board member for Housing Options for People to Excel (HOPE) transitional housing in Venice, California. After moving to Santa Barbara, he served for eight years as vice chair on the steering committee for Human Rights Watch and as a board member for the Legal Aid Foundation. %LOO ZDV SUHFHGHG LQ GHDWK E\ KLV ÀUVW ZLIH %DUEDUD DQG VXUYLYHG E\ KLV VLVWHU 0DUFLD loving wife Sue Aldrich Wagner, sons Peter and Nicholas, their wives and his four grandchildren. He was a remarkable human being, beloved by family and friends, and will be remembered for many gifts, but perhaps most prominently for always being ready to share a companionable smile and a kindred voice. Those wishing to do so are invited to make a donation in his name to the Legal Aid Foundation of Santa Barbara (www.lafsbc.org, 301 E. Canon Perdido Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101) or Santa Barbara Human Rights Watch (11500 W. Olympic Blvd. Suite 608, Los Angeles, CA 90064.)

DEMETRIOS, Aristides “Aris” Burton

Aristides “Aris” Burton Demetrios was born in Lincoln, Massachusetts, on February 17,1932. He was born to a family of celebrated artists. His father was classical sculptor George Demetrios, who was a student of Bourdelle, who had studied with Rodin. His Mother was Virginia (Jinnee) Lee Burton, celebrated author illustrator of children’s books, including Mike Mulligan and His Steam Shovel, and Caldecott prizewinner The Little House, although Aris’ favorite was Choo Choo, because it was dedicated to him. His grandfather, Alfred Edgar Burton, was the Dean at MIT, and his Uncle Harold Burton was a United States Supreme Court Justice, having been appointed to the court after his tenure as the United States Senator from Ohio.

In 1932, his family moved to Gloucester, Massachusetts, because they were attracted to the number of artists who resided in this ocean side town, that had the feel of an idyllic European village, and a very diverse population of people from Greece, Finland, England, Italy and the like. Aris’ brother Mike was born shortly thereafter; he was the model for the little boy in the Mike Mulligan book. The family home was the inspiration for the illustrations in the book, The Little House.

Aris attended Gloucester public schools. After graduating from Gloucester High School with highest honors, he went to Harvard University on an NROTC scholarship, where he obtained his bachelor’s degree, with a dual major in history and literature. Throughout KLV SOXV \HDUV DV D FRQWHPSRUDU\ VFXOSWRU WKH LQÁXHQFH RI KLV KLVWRU\ DQG OLWHUDWXUH majors was always evident. Every sculpture had a story that was intended to captivate those who admired the art. $IWHU JUDGXDWLQJ IURP +DUYDUG $ULV VSHQW WKUHH \HDUV LQ WKH 1DY\ DV DQ RIÀFHU ULVLQJ to the rank of Lieutenant. He then returned to Gloucester for three years to study with his father at his drawing school, where he learned the basics of illustration and sculpture. Trained as a classical sculptor, Aris was nonetheless anxious to carve out a unique artistic style of his own; he chose contemporary art as his preferred medium. He worked primarily in bronze and steel. Most of his early pieces are either volumetrics RU ÀJXUDWLYH In the early sixties, Aris moved to northern California and started to enter national sculpture competitions; he gained tremendous acclaim and recognition when he won the competition to design and fabricate a fountain for Stanford University for two students whose lives were tragically cut short. The water in the fountain was intended to symbolize the fact that one would never know what path these young men might have taken, which is why the pattern of water is never the same. The fountain he designed was called the White Memorial Fountain, but it was quickly dubbed “Mem Claw” by the students, a name that stayed with a fountain that for the last 60 years, has been an icon on the Stanford campus, recognized worldwide by Stanford alum. Indeed, 60 years after the fountain was designed and installed, the Stanford Student Association this last year asked Aris’ permission to make a replica of his fountain for the logo for their hats and other Stanford paraphernalia, which they now proudly wear.

Shortly after winning the Stanford competition, Aris won the competition hosted by David and Lucille Packard to design the fountain to grace the entry to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. The fountain he designed and fabricated was called Forms Sung In A Kelp Forest; the bronze pieces were meant to emulate the kelp in the aquarium. On the heels of these two early artistic successes, Aris was commissioned to do the sculpture for the Bataan War Memorial in Corregidor, the Courthouse in Sacramento, and ultimately for hundreds of other public spaces. Almost all of these commissions were for large scale YROXPHWULF RU ÀJXUDWLYH SLHFHV UDQJLQJ LQ VL]H IURP IHHW WR WKH · :LQG +DUS LQ 6DQ )UDQFLVFR $ WULS IURP /RV $QJHOHV WR 1RUWKHUQ &DOLIRUQLD ZRXOG EH ÀOOHG ZLWK FRXQWOHVV opportunities to see Demetrios Sculptures, in a variety of wonderful settings.

In the eighties, Aris shifted his focus to doing more commissions for private collectors; many of his works from this period are of a smaller scale. In 1998, already a hugely successful sculptor, he moved to Santa Barbara with his wife Ilene H. Nagel; he set up an atelier on the UCSB campus and for two years, trained a number of students who went on to become successful local artisans. Between 1998 and when Aris passed away in 2021, he did over a hundred sculptures for private collectors in Santa Barbara, and throughout California.

2Q WZR RFFDVLRQV $ULV ZDV DZDUGHG WKH 6DQWD %DUEDUD %HDXWLIXO $ZDUG ÀUVW IRU his sculpture Mentors, on the Santa Barbara City College Campus, and more recently for the sculpture the Dance of Life, which graces the entry to the Ridley-Tree Cancer Center. Mentors was commissioned by philanthropists Michael Towbes and Eli Luria; The Dance of Life was commissioned by Herb and Elaine Kendall. In addition to these two iconic local sculptures, the sculptures of Aris Demetrios have been featured in Museum and Gallery shows throughout California. His works are also shown in Japan, in Missouri, in New York, and across the United States.

Philanthropist Richard Goldman and his wife Rhoda Haas commissioned Aris to design the sculpture that serves as the award for the Goldman prize, which is annually given to the individual on each of the seven continents who contributes the most to saving the environment. And he designed the Mother’s Day Award as well, given annually by the Santa Barbara VNA to the Mother of the Year.

In October 2021, Aris and his wife Ilene attended a week-long celebration of Aris’ life and work in his hometown of Gloucester, Massachusetts, where they unveiled and installed his latest sculpture, an 8’ stainless steel volumetric piece entitled Etruscan King and Consort at the new Wilber and Janet James campus of the Cape Ann Museum.

This latest sculpture has been met with widespread acclaim.

Aris passed away on Sunday, December 12, in the early morning, surrounded by family.

He was a brilliant sculptor, a model of generosity, a devoted husband, and a dedicated father, who enjoyed the friendship of an enormous number of Santa Barbara residents who loved his infectious smile, his lust for life, and his warm and gracious personality.

Aris is survived by his wife Ilene H. Nagel, his son Eames Demetrios and his wife 6KHOOH\ 0LOOV DQG KLV JUDQGVRQV ;DQGHU DQG *XWKULH 'HPHWULRV ,Q OLHX RI ÁRZHUV the family invites those who wish to honor Aris’ memory to make donations to the Aris Demetrios Sculpture Program Fund at the Cape Ann Museum in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

Ted Nelson, 89, of Monterey, CA, passed away on December 5, 2021. He was born to Adolph and Ada Nelson in Detroit, MI.

He is survived by a sister, Sigrid Artman, and 17 nieces and nephews. His four brothers (Bob, Dick, Don, and Joe Nelson) and sister Mary N. Berry predeceased him.

No services are planned.

TERRY, Audrey Murray

Audrey Murray Terry passed peacefully on the morning of December 1, 2021 in Grand Junction, CO. Born June 11, 1931 in Burnaby, B.C., Canada, she was the daughter of the late M.K. and Ivy Murray. Audrey was raised in Burnaby and South Westminster until the family moved to Los Angeles in 1949. She married William “Bill” Terry, Sr. in 1953 and lived in the San Fernando Valley until moving to Santa Barbara, CA in 1970. She and Bill established Santa Barbara Movers in 1972 and retired in 1994. Audrey was a devoted animal lover. People brought injured animals and birds to her for care. Some left animals in her yard when they could no longer keep them. As a longtime member of Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic, many children and adults have heard her beautiful voice. Audrey was also an avid lawn bowler from her 70s to mid-80s and won or placed in several coed Over 80’s tournaments. Audrey was preceded in death by her parents and her husband of 50 years. Audrey is survived by her sister, Valerie Hendlin of Santa Barbara; daughter, Suzon Bishop of Grants Pass, OR; sons, Patrick (Shona) Terry and William “Bill” Terry, Jr. (Barbara) of Grand Junction, CO; grandson, Jordan Terry, granddaughters, Adelle, Dayna & Kelly Bishop and Samantha Abeyta (Lance); great-grandchildren, Brycen & Berkley Abeyta and several nieces and nephews.

A Celebration of Life will be held during the summer in Santa Barbara, CA. Please email Bill to be contacted once the arrangements have been made: williamterry1956@ gmail.com ,Q OLHX RI ÁRZHUV SOHDVH FRQVLGHU PDNLQJ D PHPRULDO FRQWULEXWLRQ WR WKH $O]KHLPHU Assn. or your local pet rescue.

WILCOX, Philip Scott

Native Santa Barbaran and lifelong resident, PHILIP SCOTT WILCOX, died peacefully at his Montecito home on October 30, 2021, a week shy of his 90th birthday.

Born at Cottage Hospital, November 7, 1931, to Dr. Alfred Bulkeley Wilcox and Marguerite Bone Wilcox, he attended Roosevelt School, La Cumbre Junior High and Santa Barbara High School (Class of ‘48), where he was editor of The Forge. At age 16 he went to Stanford University, earning both undergraduate (BA 52) and law (LLB 54) degrees, followed by two years in the US ARMY stationed in California and France.

Returning to Santa Barbara in 1956, he began his 39 years RI OHJDO SUDFWLFH ÀUVW ZLWK &ODUHQFH 5RJHUV LQ WKH ROG &DUULOOR $GREH DQG VXEVHTXHQWO\ with close friend Bill Gordon, and the last 23 years with Mullen and Henzell. In 1958 he married the love of his life, Sally Fernamberg, of Wauseon, Ohio, who survives him, as do their 3 children, James Scott Wilcox (Lisa), Sara Anne Wilcox and Charles Philip Wilcox, all of Santa Barbara, with grandchildren; JP (James Philip) Wilcox and Jenna Wilcox. Philip is also survived by his sister Alita Wilcox Rhodes (Don) and brother Jonathan Wilcox -- along with many nieces and nephews; Paul Wilcox (Kira), Heather Wilcox, Chris Rhodes, Jesse Rhodes, Marybeth Rhodes Woodruff (Matt), Lauren Wilcox Schmitz (George), Daniel Wilcox-Free (Laura), and Megan Wilcox-Free. His brother Douglas Wilcox and wife Yvonne preceded him in death.

Phil’s “memorable achievements” include presidencies of the Santa Barbara Foundation, Family Service Agency, Sansum Medical Research Foundation, and other RIÀFHU GLUHFWRU SRVLWLRQV ZLWK WKH &RWWDJH +HDOWK ,QVWLWXWLRQDO 5HYLHZ %RDUG 0RQWHFLWR Library, Montecito Association and the Montecito Union School Board. He was an active and life-long member of All Saints-By-The-Sea Church. After retirement Phil enjoyed numerous Adult Education classes studying Shakespeare, music and poetry. He also volunteered at Cleveland School in the reading program.

GOLETA — The city of Goleta is hosting a community event to commemorate Goleta’s 20th birthday.

On Feb. 5, the city will be celebrating this milestone with live music, food and more at Rancho La Patera and Stow House located at 304 N. Los Carneros Road. The event will take place from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.

In addition to live performances

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The State of California Labor Market Information Division (LMID) has released its monthly press release on unemployment and industry sector job growth/ decline in Santa Barbara County for the month of November.

The Santa Barbara unemployment rate for November is down to 3.9%, the lowest it has been since March of 2020. Additionally, the California unemployment rate is down 5.4%.

The Workforce Development Board (WDB) is dedicated to serving the workforce needs of businesses, adults, laid-off

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Beginning in Illinois, and continuing for several years after moving to Santa Barbara, Joan suffered from agoraphobia, a panic disorder that kept her from driving and caused GHELOLWDWLQJ IHDU RI SXEOLF SODFHV $IWHU PXFK KDUG ZRUN DQG ÀQDOO\ ÀQGLQJ HIIHFWLYH medical care, she overcame this condition, which shaped her attitude of never giving up, and staying active and engaged in the community. She was proud to share her story when it gave hope to others who were suffering from the condition she triumphed over.

Joan was an active volunteer and philanthropist. She co-chaired the Planned 3DUHQWKRRG %RRN )DLU LQ WKH V VKH ZDV DFWLYH LQ WKH )DFXOW\ :RPHQ·V &OXE DW UCSB, she served on the board of the Santa Barbara Genealogy Society, and also served on the board of the Santa Barbara Symphony League. She and Bob were passionate SDWURQV RI WKH DUWV DQG VXSSRUWHG 0XVLF $FDGHP\ RI WKH :HVW DQG 6DQWD %DUEDUD Symphony.

-RDQ WUXO\ IRXQG KHU YRLFH WKURXJK OLWHUDWXUH DQG ZULWLQJ FODVVHV VKH ÀUVW WRRN WKURXJK Santa Barbara City College’s Adult Education programs, and continued through Vistas Lifelong Learning. She found a particular passion for poetry, and was published in several anthologies. She also self-published a collection of her poems, “Verses and Images.”

Joan is survived by her daughter Rebecca Roling and son-in-law Mark Roling, nephews 'DYLG 5RVVGHXWFKHU DQG *HUDOG :DVVRQ QLHFHV 3DPHOD %HQDGLED DQG .DWKOHHQ Hartin.

Friends and family of Joan are invited to join her loved ones at a Santa Barbara Symphony concert and reception, Sunday January 16th, with the concert beginning at 3pm at the Granada Theatre in Santa Barbara, followed by a reception in the theater’s Founders Room. Complimentary concert tickets will be provided, please RSVP here: bit.ly/JoanJacobs To remember Joan, please consider a donation to Santa Barbara Symphony or Serenity House (VNA Health).

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Joan Jacobs passed away in July, 2021 after battling pancreatic cancer. True to her nature, she fought valiantly, and kept her positive attitude throughout. Caretakers and medical personnel frequently commented on her hopeful spirit and the kindness she showed, even through extreme pain and discomfort. Her oft-repeated phrase was “Nothing is so bad that it couldn’t be worse.” She spent KHU ÀQDO GD\V DW 6HUHQLW\ +RXVH EHLQJ FDUHG IRU E\ WKH compassionate hospice staff. Her daughter Rebecca and son-in-law Mark Roling were at her side when she died.

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workers and youth throughout Santa Barbara County. The WDB is a public/private partnership created by the Federal Workforce Innovation & Opportunity Act and is staffed by the County of Santa Barbara.

Job seekers and employers can take advantage of free services at two America’s Job Center of California locations to help find work for new employees.

Programs include employment services for job seekers, the latest labor market information and regional workforce research for businesses, as well as training that specialize in helping people gain the skills and confidence necessary to find and obtain a job.

More information can be found at http://www.labormarketinfo. edd.ca.gov/file/lfmonth/satb$pds. pdf.

Santa Barbara unemployment at record low since March of 2020

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As Phil once wrote, “Being blessed with a wonderful family and the chance to spend my life in Santa Barbara has been a gift for which the most profound thanks would not do justice.” What mattered most to him was his love of family and his wide range of friends.

and food available for purchase, Kona Ice will be providing free shaved ice and the city will premiere a 20-year reflections video. There will also be hay rides, a community mural signing, guest speakers and more.

People or organizations interested in adding to the event are invited to reach out to Community Relations Manager Kelly Hoover at khoover@ cityofgoleta.org.

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It transpires that Bellosguardo was in no legal position to begin the process of opening the Clark Estate until December 2017 (when the estate was transferred to the foundation).

The Jan. 9, 2018 Montecito debris flow, followed by COVID lockdowns, slowed an already interminably sluggish city planning and permit process that would allow the foundation to open the estate to the public.

On a positive note, plans are under way to gain permits for work that must be done — parking, toilet facilities, etc.— to meet a city of Santa Barbara greenlight for allowing public access.

Hiring out for private events (such as weddings) to bring in money for affecting such improvements is a necessary and accepted form of fundraising. The city issues permits for such access on an event-by-event basis.

A couple of questions remain unanswered but, hopefully, from this point on it is full speed ahead as Bellosguardo endeavors to open the Clark Estate for tours available to all and, eventually, public events that will celebrate culture and the arts.

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Employees of the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department went shopping with children at Walmart in Lompoc at Dec. 12’s Shop with a Cop event.

Shop with a Sheriff brings joy to 17 families The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Department hosted Shop with a Sheriff on Dec. 12, partnering deputies, custody deputies and dispatchers with children at the Lompoc Walmart, where they loaded carts with toys, clothes, and treats.

“The Sheriff’s Office is proud to once again partner with the DSA, Walmart and Domestic Violence Solutions in this heart-warming program that serves children in need. Thanks to the generosity of all the participating organizations, this will be a bright and merry Christmas for the young people involved. In addition to receiving toys and other gifts, the children also get the opportunity to interact one-on-one with some of the finest role models in our community: the men and women of law enforcement,” said Sheriff Bill Brown.

Seventeen families and 42 children participated in the event, and were referred through Domestic Violence Solutions of Santa Barbara. The event was hosted by the Santa Barbara Deputy Sheriff’s Foundation

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attorneys general, business groups and others filed lawsuits challenging the executive order.

After the 5th Circuit halted the mandate, the lawsuits were consolidated and sent to the 6th Circuit.

The latest ruling is sure to find itself before the U.S. Supreme Court.

“A bad decision by a left-leaning panel (Bush and Obama judges) of the 6th [Circuit],” Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton tweeted. “It’s un-American to force an [unconstitutional vaccination] mandate on private [business], forcing people to choose [between] unemployment [and] an irreversible [medical] procedure. I will immediately take this to SCOTUS to seek a reversal.” email: dmccaleb@thecentersquare.com

We reported, in September, that Beanie Baby tycoon Ty Warner is keeping his hotels in Montecito and New York City shut down until a management agreement with Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts expires and he can reopen without that company’s involvement.

The Real Deal (New York real estate news) confirmed last month that Ty and the Four Seasons are butting heads: “Warner wants payments to the Four Seasons adjusted based on profitability, while the brand does not.”

In the meantime, Mr. Warner has filed a $2.7 million lawsuit against Zilli, a luxury retailer that leased space on the ground floor of Four Seasons New York, for skipping out on rent during the COVID-19 lockdown.

(It’s not like Zilli could open and sell merchandise with the hotel closed and locked down!)

So: More lawyers and litigation for Ty as he continues to sing the blues (amid — we constantly hear — little sympathy for him around Montecito due to his shutdown of The Biltmore and Coral Casino and his indifference to career employees at both who have been left out in the cold for a second Christmas).

THE BIDEN BUNCH A new book entitled “Laptop from Hell” reveals that Hunter Biden and his uncle James entered into a deal with CFEC, a Chinese energy company linked to the government of China, for which dad/brother Joe was expecting a 10% cut.

Author Miranda Devine also reveals that CFEC Chairman Ye Jianming gifted Hunter with a 3-carat diamond worth $30 million.

The State Department under the current administration has no moral right to exert pressure on other countries to clean up corruption and graft so long as blatant (and ignored) corruption takes place within our own rafter of turkeys at the White Wattle.

PASS THE SHROOMS, PLEASE Response to our column on psilocybin’s comeback was mostly from folks wanting to know how to gain access and indulge. But because possession and ingestion of magic mushrooms is illegal except in a handful of cities that have decriminalized its use, the only advice we can offer to readers with such requests is this: Do your own research on the Internet focusing on those places — Oakland and Santa Cruz; Denver; Ann Arbor, Mich., and Washington, D.C. — where such use is lawful and MDs may be willing to assist and dispense.

WORLD WAR III? Last week we reported that Dr. Philip Petersen, a former Defense Intelligence Agency officer and Pentagon official, had departed to Eastern Europe to assess the mood of those he claims are on the frontlines if Vladimir Putin invades Ukraine.

From Warsaw, earlier this week, Dr. Petersen reported back to The Investigator: “I don’t believe that the Poles will accept a Russian border with themselves; if the Russians enter Ukraine from the East, I expect the Poles to enter Ukraine from the West in alliance with Ukraine, with a guarantee, that is, for Ukrainian sovereignty. This will lead to an automatic escalation from a border squabble to a European War.”

COVID-19 We had the largest avalanche of emails ever from this column one month ago, none of it negative, which tells us there are plenty of independent thinkers around town, not just sheeple hypnotized by a longwinded group fantasy that, if allowed to continue, will destroy democracy

and bankrupt our economy.

Or, as George Friedman wrote earlier this week with regard to COVID-19, “Demonizing everyone can be a disease in its own right.”

Rod Serling had it figured 61 years ago when he broadcast a “Twilight Zone” episode called “The Monsters are Due on Maple Street.” Watch it to understand how fear and suspicion can cause once friendly neighbors to turn on one another.

Here is a smattering of responses: Irene: “You covered all the bases.

I believe your article will wake up some who are still sleepwalking into what may be a personal hell. It is not every article that may actually save someone’s life, or the quality of their life, but this is one of those.”

Note: We’re blushing.

Eric: “Your analysis is brilliant.”

Gordon: “Unquestionably, one of your best ever. Exactly what is needed, a fact-based revelation of the truth.”

D.L.: “Please continue to dig, discover and spread the truth. We must break apart the mass psy-op being played out by the ruling cabal.”

Susan: “Thank you for everything you do for our community via news and information.”

Note: Our pleasure.

D.D.: “I’m grateful to see that truthseeking journalists still exist. You give us hope in a world overrun by too many corporate-funded narrators.”

Julie: “I just wanted to say thank you for telling the truth. I can’t even watch any news stations anymore because of how much they push the vaccine. They never tell stories of the deaths and injuries. No mention of our governor and his mysterious health issues. It’s like we live in North Korea.”

Heather: “I am an acute care RN in Hawaii. I’ve watched everything unfold before my eyes exactly as your article depicts.”

Note: Scary.

Cheryl: “Thank you, brave soul, for Standing Tall.”

Note: “Walking Tall” starring Joe Don Baker (the 1973 version) was my favorite movie as a young adult.

Walking tall has always been my objective.

And finally: Dear reader, I would like to wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

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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“If we come close to a million passengers, then we will have done that in approximately April through December only threequarters of the year,” said Ms. Zachrisson, explaining that January through March in 2021 were bad months for the travel industry.

“We are cautiously optimistic about 2022, but the concern for COVID is still there. I can tell you the airline has not yet seen any impact from the Omicron variant. It seems unlikely at this point, unless something dramatic happens. So far in the recovery, it is a leisure travel driven recovery, business travel has not returned.

Only about 50% of business travel has yet to come back,” said Ms. Zachrisson. Up to a 10% increase in leisure travel is expected this holiday season, based on estimates from Thanksgiving’s numbers.

“Flights are full over the holidays and travelers are flying both domestically and internationally for the holidays …

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“The concern we would have is essentially that people are planning ahead for getting to the

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We are running a shuttle service from the economy lot,” said Ms. Zachrisson. Early morning flights from 5:30-8:30 a.m., heading east, are the busiest and you should plan to arrive at least an hour before your flight. If you will be taking the shuttle from the economy lot, you should factor

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The Santa Barbara County Public Health Department, Veronica Springs Neighborhood Association and the Hidden Valley Homeowners Association partnered with Hillside to present the event. The ‘sold-out event’ was a great success, with over 120 staff, neighbors and community members receiving vaccinations.

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Forward Bart Muns of the Santa Barbara City College men’s soccer team was named the WSCNorth Offensive Player of the Year and was joined by nine other Vaqueros in garnering postseason accolades, the conference announced.

Muns also earned All-Region and All-State selections after registering conference-leading marks of 17 goals, seven game-winners and 40 points in 18 appearances. From Sep. 24 to Oct. 12, the Amsterdam, Holland native helped SBCC out to a four-game win streak – its longest of the season – scoring in all four games for a total of six goals.

He also found the back of the net five times in three outings late in the season, including his lone hat trick in a 4-0 win over Moorpark on Nov. 5. He joins Victor Chavez (2017) as the only Vaqueros to be named WSC North Player of the Year since 2014.

SBCC landed four other First Team picks in Paulo Carrillo-Weisenburger, Juan Zarate, Joep Wouters Van den Oudenweijer, and Tanner Stevenson. Midfielder Carrillo-Weisenburger led the WSC in assists with 10 while adding three goals.

Zarate was a key member of the Vaquero defense that also made consistent contributions on the offensive end, tying for third on the team with four goals.

Stevenson spent time both at forward and in the midfield, ending his year with four goals and five assists. He came up big by scoring and assisting on both of SBCC’s goals in a big 2-1 win over LA Mission in the Vaqueros’ final home game of the season.

Van den Oudenweijer tallied four assists out of the midfield.

Forward Bart Muns also earned All-Region and All-State selections after registering conferenceleading marks of 17 goals, seven game-winners and 40 points in 18 appearances. From Sep. 24 to Oct. 12, the Amsterdam, Holland native helped SBCC out to a fourgame win streak – its longest of the season – scoring in all four games for a total of six goals.

Making the All-WSC North Second Team were forward Will Demirkol, midfielder Stanley Nash and defender Sam Pinto. Demirkol finished second on the team in points (19) and goals (7). He provided one of the goals of the year to put SBCC on top in the final minutes against Antelope Valley 2-1 on Oct. 7.

Rounding out the Vaquero honorees are Honorable Mentions Jahir Valdez and midfielder Jake Dunn.

The 10 selections were the second-most of any WSCNorth school and are tied for the program’s secondhighest total in the last 10 years.

Michael Jorgenson works in communications/media relations at Santa Barbara City College. email: sports@newspress.com.

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seven shutouts with 66 saves and a .767 save percentage. She along with defender Citlali Zambrano (First Team) anchored a Vaquero defense that allowed just 20 goals in 19 games. From Oct. 15 to Nov. 9, they allowed just one goal over seven games. Pule becomes the first Vaquero ever – men’s or women’s – to earn WSC Goalie of the Year honors.

Forwards Theresa English and Monica Pizano ended the year as SBCC’s top producers on offense.

English finished with team-highs in points (25) and goals (10), while Pizano came in second in both categories (9 goals, 22 pts).

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Analea Pule was named WSC North Goalie of the Year and seven other members of the Santa Barbara City College women’s soccer team earned AllConference recognition for their play during the 2021 season.

Theresa English, Monica Pizano and Citlali Zambrano all earned First Team selections.

Hanna Crawford and Delaney Kenney were named to the Second Team, and Sofia Orozco and Bella Loflin were All-WSC North Honorable Mentions.

Pule started every game at goalkeeper for SBCC, racking up

Delaney Kenney ended the year with 10 and 9 points, respectively.

Crawford tallied four goals and two assists. Kenney was tied for second on the team with five assists.

Forward Sofia Orozco recorded a team-leading seven assists to go along with four goals en route to an All-Conference Honorable Mention. Defender Bella Loflin joined Orozco on the list, posting one goal and three assists.

Michael Jorgenson works in communications/media relations at Santa Barbara City College. email: sports@newspress.com.

UCSB, Florida to play men’s basketball game tonight; Idaho State to visit on Wednesday

By DANIEL MOEBUS-BOWLES UCSB SPORTS WRITER

The UCSB men’s basketball team will host Florida A&M at 7 p.m. tonight at The Thunderdome.

The Gauchos will go on to host Idaho State at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Thunderdome.

In accordance with the California Department of Public Health regarding COVID-19, spectators are required to show proof of their full vaccination status or provide a proof of a negative COVID-19 test within 72 hours of the start of the event. Masks are required.

Tonight’s match marks the UCSB Men’s Basketball Canned Food Drive where the Gauchos

are encouraging fans to donate canned foods for local organizations.

Wednesday’s matchup with the Bengals from Idaho State will be free for all UCSB staff and faculty with ID. Both games will air live on ESPN+ with Max Kelton and Gaucho legend Jerry Pimm on the call for UCSB. Additionally live stats can be found at UCSBGauchos.com.

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His photos are presented here as the News-Press today launches a series showing holiday decorations around the community. More photos will appear throughout the week.

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large amount of Christmas cheer. And as you can see from one of today’s photos, people like to visit the neighborhood, which you could call Santa Barbara’s version of the North Pole.

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HOROSCOPE Horoscope.com Sunday, December 19, 2021 ARIES — Your week begins with a strong case of wanderlust as you yearn for action and adventure when Mars enters Sagittarius on Monday. Mars will be in your expansion zone for the rest of the year, making you fearless enough to travel the world or make important discoveries.

TAURUS — Monday brings opportunities for learning and personal growth when Mercury enters Capricorn and your expansion zone, where it will be for the rest of the year. If you’ve been thinking about going back to school or investing in some career training, this is the time to do it.

GEMINI — Start the week by having some tough money conversations when Mercury enters Capricorn on Monday.

Your ruling planet will be in your intimacy zone for the rest of the year, bringing some conversations about responsibility.

CANCER — Compromise is the name of the game when Mercury enters Capricorn on Monday. Mercury enters your partnership zone, making it an ideal time for negotiations. While it’s important to compromise to reach a shared goal, Cancer, don’t give too much away.

LEO — Your week begins on a very creative note when Mars enters Sagittarius and your pleasure zone on Monday. Mars makes you feel bold and unafraid to express yourself and empowered to get to work on your dreams. Take a gamble, Leo. It just might pay off.

VIRGO — Start the week with creativity and entertainment when Mercury enters Capricorn on Monday, moving into your pleasure zone. This is a great time to work on creative projects and even post them on social media. Show off your talents as you improve your skills.

LIBRA — The start of the week brings plenty of travel opportunities, especially business trips, when Mars enters Sagittarius and your communication zone on Monday. Your natural charm and great ideas can win over very important people.

You might even earn a holiday bonus.

SCORPIO — It’s all about the money right now, Scorpio, when Mars enters Sagittarius on Monday. Your ruling planet enters your value zone, making you extra ambitious to make money so you can buy some fancy things during the holidays.

SAGITTARIUS — You’re ending the year strong with amazing stamina when Mars enters your sign on Monday, where it will stay for the rest of the year. This is an ideal time to start important projects, travel, and even change your look. Start crossing off some bucket list items now.

CAPRICORN — Monday brings a slight boost in confidence when Mercury enters your sign. The planet of communication can help you express yourself better, especially in writing. You know what you want, Capricorn, you just need to think very carefully about how to get it. Let your ambition do the talking.

AQUARIUS — You’re even more driven to help those in need during the holiday season. Mars enters Sagittarius on Monday, unleashing your inner humanitarian. Over the next six weeks, take action in your community and work where you can do the most good, even if it’s just educating yourself on important issues.

PISCES — Start the week by getting social when Mercury enters Capricorn and your friendship zone on Monday. Whether you’re connecting with your friends over video chat, social media, or in real life, you’ll be talking with the people you care about. Enjoy!

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Being nice helps heal depression

ost people assume that someone who is depressed won’t ask any questions or make any trouble.

Depression is generally perceived as a harmless condition that a few unfortunate people have to deal with. However, being depressed isn’t a harmless condition. In fact, depression is much more pervasive in our culture than most people realize, and it keeps us from connecting in positive ways.

If you’re feeling depressed, you’re not engaged in the world, and you may be putting out a lot of negativity. One very helpful tool for getting past depression is to engage with others by simply being a nice person.

Though it might sound silly that being nice to other people can help your own feelings of depression, you can’t really enjoy life unless you’re being nice.

There are a few folks out there who get off by making others suffer, but most people feel bad when they

treat others in a shabby manner.

Focusing on being nice will make you feel a lot better about yourself.

If you have been engaging in negative behavior toward others, ask yourself if you are unconsciously overcompensating for your depression. Try taking a step back, and see if you can put your finger on why you aren’t being your nicest self.

Are you afraid of something? Are you in a situation that’s making you feel uncomfortable? Either could cause you to project a harsh personality as a means of protecting yourself, and most of the time, you probably don’t know you are doing it.

Being the nice guy or gal doesn’t mean that you have to do what everyone else wants. You don’t have to buy people things or accept other people’s bad behavior. That isn’t what it’s about.

Being nice simply means being your best self with a little kindness thrown in. Remember that old saying, “It’s not what you say, but how you say it”? Niceness is simply saying and doing things in a way that doesn’t offend, upset or anger anyone else.

Instead, you are emotionally available to talk and willing to help, if necessary.

By presenting yourself in a nice way, you are magically defusing any negativity that you fear might be coming at you, and your depression gets lifted in the process.

The power of niceness, when it comes to not allowing your depression to stop you, is tremendous. That little bit of warmth can be felt by others and is returned to you (often unconsciously), and it makes your depression disappear. This silent exchange is one of the bedrocks of overcoming any mood disorder.

If you’ve been feeling down, your mission is to remember all the nice things people have said about you and to take them in.

Let those compliments convince your brain that you are a very nice person, and others will want to engage with and relate to you. Although this is mostly an internal process, you need to practice with other people.

Tomorrow, regardless of what you have planned, put your nice self in gear and smile at everyone you encounter.

Trust that your kindness will be returned and that your depression no longer needs to hold you back.

Barton Goldsmith, Ph.D. is an award-winning therapist and humanitarian. He is also a columnist, the author of seven books, and a blogger for PsychologyToday.com with nearly 27 million readers. Reach him at barton@bartongoldsmith.com.

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SANTA MARIA — Kids can now climb, bounce and romp to the top of the new playground equipment at Rodenberger Park in Santa Maria.

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Assistance League and Hillside get together for Christmas carols

BY ANNELISE HANSHAW NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

The Assistance League of Santa Barbara and Hillside, a home for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, joined in song recently to celebrate the holiday season.

The two organizations have a 73-year relationship and sit side by side on Veronica Springs Road in Santa Barbara. Their spirited caroling is a tradition members hold dear.

Assistance Leaguers, of which there were more than 20, dressed in Santa hats and

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season,” Ms. Rudolph said.

Over the years, Assistance League volunteers have raised over $1.4 million for equipment and a physical therapy program for Hillside residents. Volunteers also enjoy celebrating birthdays, playing bingo and commemorating the holidays with their Hillside neighbors.

The Assistance League raises money to help others through its thrift shop, which is located near Hillside. It’s at 1259 Veronica Springs Road. For more information, go to www. assistanceleaguesb.org.

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The Assistance League of Santa Barbara and residents of Hillside gathers together for Christmas carols.

sweaters to commemorate the occasion.

“They walked over with Santa Claus who lit the holiday lights of the display outside, and the excitement was palatable,” Michael Padden-Rubin, Hillside director of development, said in a news release. “It was a tremendous showing.”

Assistance League program chair Ann Rudolph led the carolers as Gail Campanella roused the Hillside crowd with her accordion’s cadences.

“Our evening of caroling for the residents was a very special event, a warm and wonderful way to celebrate the holiday

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resident Joe Biden’s Build Back Worse bill has so many gifts in it, Santa Claus is entertaining the idea of giving up his gig.

There’s one big gift being handed out to the single agency who has shown year after year it is incapable of managing itself: the Internal Revenue Service.

The IRS is the bloated organization that takes our dough and squanders it in the most mismanaged way possible. I’ve never tried calling, but we’ve all heard the stories of the IRS never even picking up. And if you’re one of those “lucky” enough to get through, the IRS can’t even provide you with the answers to your questions.

This agency, which still can’t fix its computer system after six decades, got a promise from President Biden for $80 billion to hire 87,000 new agents! Let that roll over your tongue: 87,000 new government employees, 87,000

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more pensions, 87,000 times 14 that number will grow. Then days for vacations, 87,000 new you need assistants, additional health insurance. vehicles, more computers. It will You get the idea. never end.

And for what? It’s to create a Adding insult to injury, it won’t new and more powerful make the IRS operate police force. If there’s any better. It likely will anything this country make the IRS even worse fears more, it is the with such a monstrous unfettered, unchecked multi-headed monster power of the IRS. I that is already out of don’t like using Nazi control. references, but when it Should the Democrats comes to policing tactics, get their way, the overfed Henry the IRS rates right up beast will then be Schulte there with the Gestapo. coming soon to a savings So, in order to go after account near you. It The author as many Americans as it lives in Solvang will be allowed to view can to try and retrieve any transaction over money that the IRS $600, which is made by believes is owed, billions are virtually nearly every American. going to be spent to capture that At that point, we will have money. Only the government can officially become a police nation. come up with that kind of logic.

Once this is allowed, there Though I’m sure they’re will be nothing any of us can do thinking it’s a long-term about it ever again. The engine investment, but so am I. will have started with no off It won’t stop at 87,00. Over time, switch. If the IRS deems at its like everything in government, discretion that there exists the

slightest bit of impropriety, it will have the power to make your life miserable — even if you didn’t do anything wrong. You’re now on the IRS radar.

You will be forced to defend yourself and no one will have your back. If you are doing something nefarious, well then that’s on you.

There’s also another element in play: the real game plan.

The Democrats will be able to fully weaponize a government agency to go after those with a vengeance who don’t fit the liberal agenda. As you know, it already happened. The IRS was busted and of course tried to lie about it. It was eventually proven the agency was, in fact, targeting conservative nonprofits.

Creating a flat tax has been tossed around numerous times, and its simplicity is very appealing. However, in this new world, I can already hear the cries of racism.

Only that would be another

bogus claim. In round numbers, about 60% of the country doesn’t even pay federal taxes. The other 40% is covering for that 60%, along with all new arrivals flooding across our open border.

For me the ultimate goal would be, instead of making the IRS bigger, we just get rid of it. Of course, this is not something CPAs would be fond of, and understandably so.

Should the IRS get more money to waste, why go after the little people? All those enormous liberal organizations like Amazon, Google, Facebook and Apple are the ones cheating all of us. They keep vast sums of funds overseas to avoid paying their fair share. Why not make them step up to the plate first?

With the billions they have stashed, make them pay for the proposed new agents. It would be a kind gesture on their part showing how much they care about the country that allowed them to become billionaires.

Critical race theory on the march

ritical Race Theory has made the transition — escaped from the lab as it were — from disputed and discussed academic subject to a fully infectious disease.

CRT had previously permeated most institutes of higher learning in the United States, from Harvard and Yale to Berkeley and Stanford and many, if not most, colleges in the heartland too.

But now, its corrosive appeal affects not only academia, but also nearly all U.S. businesses from the smallest to the largest, along with banking institutions, police departments, city administrations, along with every elementary school, middle school and high school in the nation.

CRT is an outgrowth of the European Marxist School of Critical Theory, and its goal is the destruction of American

constitutional law, the country’s African Americans. Consequently, social life, its political structures those institutions need to be and its economic system. dismantled and destroyed.

CRT’s intellectual origins In other words, what most of go back to the 1960s and ’70s us have craved, supported and and maybe as far back as the hoped for above all else: equal early 20th entury, and justice for all and a colorit concludes that the blind country where every PURELY American judicial system person is judged “not by POLITICAL does not and cannot the color of his skin but deal with what it calls by the content of their “systemic” racism. character,” is exactly the CRT proposes that opposite of what CRT “race” is not a natural and organizations such as biological feature of Black Lives Matter want. human beings but rather CRT adherents seek to a cultural category dismantle the American invented to oppress and justice system, its prison James Buckley exploit people of color. system, its educational Critical race theorists system, and to throw hold that racism is inherent in any idea of a color-blind society the law and legal institutions of into the collective trash bin. Its the United States and is used to proponents eschew the idea of maintain social, economic, and equal justice; they want a system political inequalities between that would tip the balance of whites and nonwhites, especially justice in their favor, to punish

white people more severely than black people or any people of color, based upon historical injustices.

CRT proponents figure they can reach their goals by mandating racially equitable outcomes, institutionalizing identity politics, forcing whites to undergo regular diversity training, doing away with standardized tests, adding a “diversity/equity” scorecard to college applications, changing curriculum requirements, introducing anti-hate speech protocols, and forbidding “racist language.” Whites should be required to donate to anti-racism political groups (such as BLM), fund CRT programs and research, re-imagine policing, rename “offensive” buildings and, well, much more.

CRT is Black Lives Matter accelerated.

George Soros acolyte Chesa

Boudin, the San Francisco district attorney, refuses to bring charges against looters in the city.

Which shouldn’t be too surprising; his mother, former Weather Underground activist and convicted murderer Kathy Boudin spent 20 years in prison, as did his father, David Gilbert, convicted of the same Brink’s robbery gone terribly wrong.

But that’s only half the story.

When Chesa’s parents were imprisoned, Chesa was turned over to and raised by former fugitive Bill Ayers (yes, the same Bill Ayers who launched the political career of Barack Obama) and his fugitive wife, Bernardine Dohrn. Chesa Boudin worked as a translator for Venezuela president Hugo Chavez before returning to the U.S. as a public defender.

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andlords over the years have tried to offer their rentals to help veterans and the elderly via the City of Santa Barbara Housing Authority.

Yet the housing authority said it cannot accommodate the request to choose a tenant.

Think of the elderly landlords who feel more comfortable renting their cottage to other elderly tenants, who are more compatible to their situation in life.

In the past, a caller reported that they wanted to rent their house to several elderly females they saw sleeping to the rear of the County Administration Building in Santa Barbara.

When the caller contacted the housing authority, they were told it was not allowed for a landlord to pick and choose.

Another reader advised that when the housing authority was advertising a need for rentals for veterans, these landlords were turned down when they expressed that they would feel more comfortable renting to a female veteran since all would be living on the same property.

Because the housing authority chooses not to work with the landlords, now they have commercials to entice them with a $5,000 signing bonus, $5,000 for insurance and a $2,000 deposit, with two years of wrap-around services for the homeless.

Rules can be changed, just like during COVID-19 when tenants were not held responsible to pay their rent.

What harm is there in accommodating landlords willing to rent to the homeless or veterans?

Remember after the Loma Alta Fire on the Mesa, the homeless, who camped in the fire-prone areas, bumped others waiting on the bridge housing list and were located in hotels with expensive wraparound services. That’s a prime example that rules can change.

Another homeless death due to a narcotics overdose was reported on Dec 12. These deaths continue to happen even though we are paying top dollar to City Net to prevent such tragedies.

With the present drug epidemic, our lawmakers — U.S. Rep. Salud Carbajal, D-Santa Barbara; state Sen. Monique Limón, D-Santa Barbara, and Assemblymember Steve Bennett, D-Ventura — do very little to alleviate the drug proliferation from the border.

As far as the homeless outreach companies, why can’t City Net hire the outreach staff to work in shifts that allow at least 16 hours of coverage per day to respond when needed.

For what we are paying, we should expect more service.

Addiction isn’t only 8-5 p.m.

Monday through Friday.

But that is when City Net works. Can you believe it?

Case in point, within a 5-mile area of West Beach for just a week in April and a week in December, police reported the following calls for service: 17 mental health crises, 20 drugrelated incidents, four transientrelated incidents. There were four overdoses and seven found bodies.

Remember these outreach employees were hired to alleviate the demand on the police, fire, medics and mental health crisis teams.

Who is still the responsible party responding to these incidents of drug overdose and transient street problems? The usual suspects, the police, fire, and medics.

Just imagine what these agencies could do with all these funds that get tossed to City Net with a stroke of a pen.

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LETTERS TO THE NEWS-PRESS Brent E. Zepke

The author lives in Santa Barbara.

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The flaws within Prop. 47

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Santa Barbara resident Lanny Ebenstein disagrees with the Santa Barbara City Council’s pursuit of rent control.

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Why heaven and nature sing!

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his Christmas This oxymoron, that season, how do accepting or agreeing with we contemplate God’s judgment in our lives, and reconcile the his condemnation of sin, tender mercies of is that which saves us, is God manifested in the birth completely lost on a society of Jesus Christ along with that refuses to be judged: the the horrific natural disasters “don’t judge me” generation that killed so many innocent on steroids of eternal people in the Midwest? consequence. Our society no In other words, how do longer lives as if we have a we believe that God is good judge. when bad things happen?

As a result, our society Let us consider the words no longer appeals to God’s of the Declaration of mercy. Instead we Independence, which have a vague notion speaks of the God of of divine tolerance, if nature and nature’s we believe at all.

God. Whereas, climate Nevertheless, change activists Jesus can’t be our would have us believe savior unless there is that the tornadoes a judgment that he is Andy Caldwell (and nearly every saving us from. other world event) is California, in caused by their god, climate particular, needs to be change, our founding fathers saved from God’s judgment believed otherwise. They because we practically lead believed that nature as a the nation in defying God. whole is a reflection of God’s Consider the most famous invisible attributes. We as a Christmas song in America, society no longer believe that “Joy to the World,” which as we have lost hold of what celebrates the God of nature it means to be one nation and nature’s God, as He can under God. bring both blessing (field) Celebrating Christmas and trouble (floods and means pondering that thorns), as nature is anything Jesus Christ, the son of but benign.

God, was born as God’s In the days of old, before gift to save mankind from science and technology sin. Subsequently, we will ruled the world and celebrate the death and ostensibly answered the resurrection of Jesus during prayers of mankind, men of the Easter holiday. Taken faith prayed and humbled together, the message is themselves before God Christ successfully paid the Almighty, who held their price for sin and conquered lives, their times and death, which was God’s fortunes in His hand, for they judgment for sin. believed that God judged The tantamount question both men and nations. is, “How then shall we live?”

Today, we call all of the What does it mean to above a form of superstition, believe a savior was born? a product of our culture and What was He saving us from society having declared that and what is He saving us God is dead for all practical unto? intents and purposes, The simple answer? as we have rejected the Jesus came to save us from foundations of faith and ourselves, including what reverence that made is known as the Western America sing: “Joy to the Civilization Rational Mind world, the Lord has come, Set, which eschews faith!

Let earth receive her king.

In an age and culture of Let every heart prepare deep-seated narcissism, Him room … Let heaven nihilism and hedonism, and nature sing … He comes this particular meaning to make His blessings flow of Christmas is not a big as far as the curse is found seller these days due to the … He rules the world and implication of judgment makes the nations prove, The for sin and the need to be glory of His righteousness.” saved from the same. This is because our society no longer believes in self-evident Andy Caldwell is the COLAB truths and divinely-inspired executive director and host of standards of good and evil “The Andy Caldwell Show,” have replaced the same with airing 3 to 5 p.m. weekdays situational ethics and secular on KZSB AM 1290, the Newshumanism.

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he proposal to set an annual rent control cap of 2% above the rate of inflation for apartment rentals in the city of Santa Barbara is a bad one that would result in less housing.

Particularly at a time when construction of new rental housing is being considered in the city, the proposed rent control ordinance could reduce the city’s long-term housing stock by hundreds, or even thousands, of units.

As Councilmember Eric Friedman emphasized in his comments, this proposal could lead local property owners to sell their properties to outof-area investors or to convert them into vacation rentals or time-shares. The experience with rent control is negative in almost every municipality that has implemented it.

Let’s hope that new Mayor Randy Rowse will sway the 4-3 city council vote in favor of the pending ordinance in the opposite direction when he takes office.

Rent control would be the wrong direction for Santa Barbara.

Lanny Ebenstein Santa Barbara

Let’s protect our freedoms

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have been asked several times, why do I write or care what happens to this, our country, seeing that I am 95 years young, and they seem to think because of my “old” age, whatever happens won’t affect me.

Wrong, I care and love this country. My parents fled Russia and Italy to avoid communism in the early 1900s. They instilled in us, their children, to love this country, this country that gives you so many freedoms other countries muffle their citizens from receiving.

We have freedom of speech, but this does not include the destruction of property that does not belong to you. Grow up; you are adults. Act like one.

Living in these United States gives you the right, yes

the right to have and, in some states, the right to wear a gun. This rule is for your protection, not to shoot an innocent person.

Some of our forefathers gave up their lives to make it possible to write the Constitution in the hopes that we as a country could all live in harmony, not take what is not yours and help one another. We are not born with a silver spoon. We have to work for what we want.

There are some certain people with so much hate and more money than they can spend. They have so much hate for this country, they have organized two groups, “Organizing For Action” and “Open Society Foundation” and have spread their hate to the uninformed to do their dirty work. How do you think the rioters arrive so fast to disrupt, destroy? They are paid to be “Johnny on the spot.”

They hope to tear this country down so they, with your unknown help, can rebuild our country to be like the broken down countries of Venezuela, Cuba, Germany and other socialist countries.

If you are willing to be their puppet, just change your virus mask for a muzzle.

You will be giving up your rights, no freedom of speech, the right to gather, worship unless it is under their rule.

Oh, did I forget to mention the names of these organizers? Behind “Organizing for Action” is none other than past president Barack Hussein Obama Jr., and “Open Society Foundation” is run and paid for

by George Soros.

This is not where we want to go. We will have to fight if we want to get our country back. Turning back is not easy. Are you up to this task?

This article is not written by a Democrat or a Republican but by a person, a citizen of these United States, a person who has witnessed those who love this country and those who have so much hate. They would rather destroy this country than have Donald J. Trump get a second chance to be president.

Elections are coming up in 2022,and 2024, and it’s your chance to make a change. Vote.

“America is a country which produces citizens who will cross the ocean to fight for democracy but won’t cross the street to vote.” Are you this person?

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Negotiation is key regarding Russia and Ukraine

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o jaw-jaw is better a European responsibility. The than to war-war,” United States should be involved said Winston and supportive, but dominating Churchill in 1954, negotiations encourages supporting the Europeans to avoid hard strategic principle of nations negotiating. leadership and spend time on These wise words from a great their preferred, relatively easy British prime minister tasks of building Euroshould be kept in mind bureaucracy and talking Arthur I. regarding Ukraine, among themselves.

Cyr where Russia has been Important progress in aggressively supporting stabilizing Ukraine has rebel forces. been the result of initiatives by Russia is now building leaders of Europe. In February up military forces around 2015, a Ukraine ceasefire resulted Ukraine, repeating a similar from all-night negotiation involving effort undertaken last spring.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Direct discussion of the topic by with President François Hollande Presidents Joe Biden of the U.S. of France. and Vladimir Putin of Russia is The Cold War was rooted in desirable. different conceptions of society However, Russia’s borders with and relations among nations. nations of Europe is primarily Soviet leaders “are not like … us,”

wrote American diplomat George Kennan in his book “Realities of American Foreign Policy,” also published in 1954.

Mr. Kennan, an expert on Germany and Russia, was among the most perceptive of American analysts of international relations, an always ardent student and writer. The containment policy he defined guided U.S. policies toward the Soviet Union and other communist powers throughout the Cold War. He focused on prudent realist diplomacy, which assumes conflict among national interests is inevitable. He emphasized Soviet and U.S. leaders vary markedly in experiences and outlook.

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remember the day outside a mall when an approaching woman with a proposition caused me to raise my flag of caution.

Not that she appeared threatening, but rather, it was a response developed in Philadelphia where the types of “propositions” offered usually promised experiences much different than I thought was promised by signing a proposition for an inclusion on a voting ballot.

While I listened to this clipboard carrier, my thoughts were that this could be a real demonstration of democracy-inaction.

As a second-generation American whose grandfather was so proud to be here that he named my father “George Washington Zepke,” and a mother whose father was “Grover Cleveland Stackhouse,” I was a strong believer in the opening words of the Constitution: “We the people.”

Back to the proposition.

The short blip at the top of the signature page sounded reasonable but too vague to assign much meaning as my experience in practicing law was that the intentions are usually contained in the details.

However, when the woman reasonably said, “Sign it, and decide once it is on the ballot,” I did.

Is that how it worked out for Proposition 47?

Propositions in California begin when a group with sufficient funds and support obtain a petition signed by at least 8% for a Constitutional amendment and 5% for a statute. The percentage is taken from the number who voted in the last gubernatorial election.

These signatures are often obtained by a person with a sign-up sheet with a very short summary at the top of the first page. The signature gatherers explain in a few words their understanding of the proposed proposition.

The petition is submitted to the California secretary of state, who in 2014 was Alex Padilla (D), who reviews it.

If the petition includes more than 110% of the minimum signatures required, it qualifies; less than 95% it fails. If the number is between 110% and 95% the signatures are checked to determine that all the signers were citizens, a process that can take up to three months.

Qualified petitions go to the California attorney general, who in 2014 was Kamala Harris (D), to perform the rewrite that appears on the ballot, including the measure’s title. Proposition 47’s title was “Criminal Sentences. Misdemeanor Penalties.”

Then the parties’ campaign with “talking points,” during which the party supporting Proposition 47 called it the “Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act,” which would “recategorize some offenses as misdemeanors rather than felonies.” Notice the inclusion of the warm sounding words of “Safe, neighborhoods, schools,” in addition to substituting “offenses” for “crimes.”

The information pamphlet that came with the ballots used the label “Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act” and stated that a “Yes” vote meant “State savings used to support school truancy and dropout prevention, victim services, mental health and drug treatment, and other designated programs designed to keep offenders out of prisons or jails.” The fiscal result was to be “Savings to state and county criminal justice systems in the high hundreds of millions of dollars annually.”

A “No” vote was simply stated to lead to no reduction in penalties.

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Where in the world Is hoax-enabler Tina Tchen?

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ussie Smollett, the drugaddicted, anti-white, antiTrump celebrity who cried wolf, was convicted last week on five out of six felony counts of disorderly conduct after falsely reporting to Chicago police that he was a victim of a hate crime attack in the sub-zero morning hours of Jan. 29, 2019.

Let us revel in the criminal comeuppance of a Hollywood liar. It’s rarer than spotting a pair of MAGA redneck viewers of the liberal, anti-cop black TV drama, “Empire,” at 2 a.m. in downtown Chicago. LOL. Speaking of whom, here’s a breaking news update in perpetuity: Mr. Smollett’s two phantom conservative white assailants — who somehow recognized the C-list actor and somehow knew he was gay and somehow just happened to be carrying around a “noose” along with a hot sauce bottle filled with bleach — are still on the loose.

The fictional fugitives have gone the way of the “real” killer of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman, the racist gang rapists who assaulted Tawana Brawley and the white supremacist who hung that door pull — sorry, “noose” — in NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace’s garage. It’s getting rather crowded in the liberal theater of

manufactured racism. I know. I’ve had done as requested and that been documenting the twisted Superintendent Johnson was phenomenon for 30 years, since my “going to make the ask.” The days at the hate crime hoax-hotbed unidentified relative rejoiced: of Oberlin College.

“OMG this would be a huge But there’s an important loose victory.” end, hanging limply like the rope As I reported at the time, the ties around Mr. Smollett’s between Ms. Tchen and the neck, that deserves more Smollett family run deep: scrutiny: Where in the • Ms. Tchen and Mr. world is the Obamas’ Smollett’s sister, Jurnee Chicago fixer and Jussie Smollett-Bell, joined fangirl Tina Tchen? together in March 2018 Let me remind you at South by Southwest in of who this crony-state Austin to proclaim that actor is.

“There Is No Time’s Up Michelle Malkin Without Women Of Color.”

Two months after Mr. Smollett and his • In May 2018, Ms. Tchen bodybuilding bro and Ms. Smollett-Bell took buddies play-acted their fantasy the stage together again — handattack, Chicago Sun-Times in-hand, glued at the hip — at the reporters discovered that deepUnited State of Women Summit in pocketed Obama campaign Los Angeles (where Ms. Tchen’s finance mega-bundler Tina former boss and gal pal, Michelle Tchen had inserted herself in the Obama, also appeared). investigation.

• Ms. Smollett-Bell and another Ms. Tchen texted Cook County sister, Jazz Smollett-Warwell, State’s Attorney Kim Foxx just worked for the Obama campaigns three days after the incident “on in 2008 and 2012 and volunteered behalf of Jussie Smollett and family as tireless surrogates. who I know” to express “concerns.”

• My search of White House She suggested that Ms. Foxx lean visitor logs shows Jurnee Smolletton Chicago Police Superintendent Bell paying at least one personal Eddie Johnson to yield to the FBI, visit to “POTUS/FLOTUS” at and she shared an unidentified their residence in March 2013 Smollett family member’s while Tchen was serving as a top cellphone number with Foxx. strategist to both Obamas.

Ms. Foxx texted back that she Since I wrote “Culture of

Corruption” in 2009, I’ve tracked Ms. Tchen’s political maneuverings in the Democrat Deep State: • Ms. Tchen personally shoveled more than $200,000 into the 2008 Obama presidential campaign coffers while a high-powered lawyer at white-shoe Skadden Arps.

• Ms. Tchen served as special assistant to President Obama and then took over as chief of staff in the East Wing for Mrs. Obama.

• Ms. Tchen headed up the Obama White House Office of Public Engagement, spearheaded by longtime Chicago pal and fellow corporate lawyer/bundler Valerie Jarrett.

• Ms.Tchen coordinated Hollywood celebrities to promote Obama’s domestic policy agenda through the taxpayer-subsidized National Endowment for the Arts.

• Ms. Tchen was listed in 2009 White House visitor logs that I reviewed as having met there with radical left-wing billionaire George Soros, and as Breitbart’s Joel Pollak noted, Mr. Soros donated a total of $408,000 to super PACs supporting Ms. Foxx’s successful primary and general campaigns for Cook County state’s attorney.

There’s another set of related loose ends, too. How much did the Obamas know, and did they instigate Ms. Tchen’s meddling in

Mr. Smollett’s folly? Remember: Michelle Obama hosted Jussie Smollett at a musical event at the White House in 2016 and danced with him on stage at a College Signing Day Event in 2018.

I consider them all unindicted co-conspirators in the Smollett Swindle. And they should pay.

Ms. Tchen has disappeared from public view since her fiasco with the #MeToo movement. She was forced to resign from the board in August after being exposed for running cover for former New York Governor and accused sexual harasser Creepy Andrew Cuomo.

I reached out to her for comment this week on the Smollett verdict and for her expert legal opinion as a high-powered lawyer on whether there be legal consequences for aiding and abetting a convicted hate crime hoaxer. No response.

I have a feeling I’ll be waiting longer than O.J. Simpson’s victims for an answer.

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An older gray whale makes its presence known near the Channel Islands as seen from an Island Packers boat. Efforts are under way to establish the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary, which would be north of the islands.

Marine sanctuary needs our support

Editor’s note: Violet Sage Walker, the chairwoman of the Northern Chumash Tribe, is the nominator for the proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary.

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y father, Fred Collins, chairman of the Northern Chumash Tribe, recently passed into spirit. A passionate, kind, and loving human, with a voice like rolling thunder. He was a powerful local advocate for environmental justice and the protection of sacred Northern Chumash lands.

He was also the applicant for the proposed 140-mile Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary.

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lie just north of the Channel “Grandmother Ocean has been Islands, an area that is filled with providing life to the Chumash submerged Chumash villages Peoples for over 10,000 years. Now and cultural heritage sites, both is the time for all communities to under the water and work together and assist along the shoreline. her in rebuilding her Violet Sage Recent movement by Vibrant Thrivability for all Walker the National Oceanic future generations.” and Atmospheric A few weeks ago, the Administration in the The author is community came together designation process has chairwoman of in a celebration of life brought our people one for my dad. Family and the Northern step closer to making Chumash Tribe friends traveled from all this sanctuary a reality, over California to send and now we need the him on the last leg of his Biden administration to get it over journey in a traditional way. Final the finish line. farewells were said around a My dad had a lifelong vision sacred fire. An ocean burial was for establishing the Chumash his last request.

Heritage NMS. He said before Bringing his Chumash his passing that it would be people together in a sunrise the greatest accomplishment ceremony on Chumash lands, of his life, pointing out that hearing our songs, prayers, and

memories, would have made my dad so happy. The support and commitment from our community over the transfer of leadership of the Northern Chumash Council from my dad’s hands into mine was humbling. I was told by two generations of Elders to protect this land and water; a National Marine Sanctuary would be the right fit for the community.

Successful designation of the Chumash Heritage NMS would protect ocean life and sacred Chumash sites; strengthen the local community; and serve as a model of environmental justice.

My dad spent more than 40 years of tireless advocacy for ocean protection, with the Chumash Heritage NMS being the thing he wanted to see happen most.

At the heart of the matter is that

the Chumash have lived on our land for millennia, but we have not always had rights, sovereignty or access to that land and cultural waters.

We are by definition the local experts and guardians of this area. I have been diving since I was 12 and have borne witness to ocean acidification in the Chumash heritage waters.

Abalone has been a part of Chumash culture for millennia, and ocean acidification interferes with the abalones’ ability to form hard shells as they grow.

The changes happening in the ocean due to a rapidly warming planet are eating away at our land, water and culture. The Chumash must be allowed to protect that.

Please see WALKER on C4

The death of ‘criminal justice reform’

re there any other issues confronting our fractious republic that matter if Americans themselves are too scared to walk outside, lest they be mugged by a “bail reform”-freed perp or shot by a gangbanger in a drive-by shooting?

As we get ready to close the chapter on this bloody year of 2021, that is the question all policymakers and all publicminded citizens ought to be asking themselves.

Fortunately, if there is a silver lining to be found amid the unprecedented urban looting, the horrific anecdotes of children shot while playing outside and the historic overall homicide rates afflicting so many of America’s biggest cities, it is that many seem to be arriving at a long-overdue and much-welcomed consensus: The era of “criminal justice reform” is finally over.

Good riddance.

The national murder rate in 2020 rose over 30% on a year-by-year basis, as the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis soon unleashed a hellish summer of riotous mayhem.

But murder rates in 2021 have only further spiked, even compared

to that harrowing baseline of one status quo is OK for a third-world year prior. banana republic but it is decidedly The Manhattan Institute’s not OK for the would-be greatest Rafael Mangual broke it down in a country in the world. recent Wall Street Journal op-ed: Thankfully, some recent trend “Philadelphia just shattered its lines finally seem to point in the all-time annual homicide right direction — that is, record with a full month away from de-carceral remaining in 2021, as anarch and toward have Louisville, Ky.; civilizational sanity.

Indianapolis; Columbus, In July, Eric Adams Ohio; Austin, Texas; won New York City’s Tucson, Ariz.; St. Paul, Democratic mayoral Minn.; Portland, Ore.; primary, paving the way Albuquerque, N.M.; and for his eventual and nowJosh Hammer Fayetteville, N.C. Other impending mayoralty. cities, like Cincinnati; While Mr. Adams is hardly Trenton, N.J.; Memphis, Tenn.; an ideal choice, his campaigning Milwaukee; Kansas City, Mo.; as a no-nonsense retired police Jacksonville, Fla.; Denver; officer does suggest at least a mild Cleveland; Jackson, Miss.; Wichita, rebuke to the anti-cop lawlessness Kan.; Greensboro, N.C.; Lansing, that characterized Mayor Bill de Mich.; and Colorado Springs, Colo., Blasio’s destructive tenure. saw their highest homicide tallies Other optimistic data points since 1990 last year.” abound.

To drive that point home, earlier Last month in Minneapolis, this year, the National Commission where Mr. Floyd was killed, voters on COVID-19 and Criminal Justice overwhelmingly rejected a noxious concluded that the post-Floyd 2020 “defund” initiative that would have crime surge represented a “large replaced the municipal police and troubling increase” with “no department with an amorphous modern precedent” in U.S. history. mix of social workers. It is not And the data now clearly show difficult to understand why: that 2021 has been even worse Through September 2021, gunshots than 2020 was. Perhaps this bloody fired in Minneapolis had risen in

volume 380% over the same period in 2019.

Also last month, in Seattle, a notorious haven of radicalleft progressive lunacy (Does anyone even remember the socalled Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone of 2020?), a Republican who campaigned on a law-and-order message prevailed in the city’s district attorney election. For context as to how far-left Seattle normally is, the Emerald City’s nine city council members include eight Democrats and one member from the “Socialist Alternative” party, which self-describes as an overtly Marxist outfit.

Most recently, the Democratic mayor of the most iconic far-left city in America, San Francisco, pulled no punches in her condemnation of anarchy. In the aftermath of numerous wellpublicized instances of looting and vandalizing in downtown San Francisco and its surrounding needle-bestrewn and fecesbespeckled environs, Mayor London Breed unloaded: “The reign of criminals in our city — it is time for it to come to an end. And it comes to an end when we take the steps to be more aggressive with law enforcement, more aggressive

with the changes in our policy, and less tolerant of all the bulls--- that has destroyed our city.” Hear, hear.

In recent decades, progressives and libertarians, from far-left activist George Soros to the rightof-center Texas Public Policy Foundation, have often made common cause on a cancerous “criminal justice reform” agenda.

That agenda usually prioritizes minimizing or eliminating bail, reducing criminal sentences, abolishing qualified immunity, electing anti-prosecution district attorneys, downsizing police departments and other decivilizational measures.

God willing, it seems like the jig may finally be up. Republicans have by-and-large moved back toward their traditional law-andorder posture, and even many Democrats seem fed up with our roiling national bedlam. “Criminal justice reform,” it seems, may have finally met its death sentence.

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John Stossel

Deadly delays

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OVID-19 deaths are up. Politicians tell us to wear masks and get vaccinated.

Amid the fear, I’m surprised that we haven’t heard more about two drugs that could make COVID-19 much less of a threat.

In blind tests, Pfizer’s Paxlovid was found to reduce the risk of hospitalization and death by 89%! It was so effective that Pfizer was advised to stop the tests.

“They halted the clinical trials!” exclaims Michael Cannon, director of health policy at the Cato Institute, in my new video.

“They decided it would be unethical (not to give the drug to people in the control group.)

But if it’s unethical to deny them the drug, it’s unethical to deny the American public that drug!”

Excellent point. Yet that’s what the Food and Drug Administration is doing. They force us to wait until they’re sure all drugs “meet the agency’s rigorous standards.”

How long might they delay?

“If the FDA is following its current practice,” says Mr. Cannon, “it’ll be a matter of months.”

Months is an improvement over the 10 years it usually takes the FDA. During the pandemic, the FDA loosened regulations to get some medicines to people faster. “(But) we’re still losing thousands of lives unnecessarily,” complains Mr. Cannon.

At the beginning of the AIDS crisis, the FDA delayed approval of many AIDS drugs.

Some Americans formed “buyers clubs” to purchase AIDS drugs from Mexico. That’s what the 2013 movie “Dallas Buyers Club” was about.

But buying unapproved drugs from other countries is illegal.

Now the United Kingdom has approved molnupiravir, Merck’s coronavirus antiviral pill. In tests, it cut hospitalization by 30%.

But we can’t try it in America.

“More input is needed,” says the FDA. More input is always helpful, but our FDA is just slow.

“The United Kingdom approved molnupiravir back Please see STOSSEL on C4

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No one knows where it will end BUCKLEY

Continued from Page C1 capture, trial and punishment of the San Francisco looters, as it is behind the non-punishment of those that have terrorized other U.S. cities, such as New York, Chicago, Portland, Seattle and Los Angeles for the past two years.

There are hundreds more examples of these kinds of people who now either hold high-paying government jobs or are tenured professors at America’s most renowned academic establishments.

Which, if this were a perfect world, would be where they’d stay. But, somehow, their twisted message is embraced by many Democrat politicians, corporate CEOs and social media billionaires who blindly take up their cause and spread the disease.

No one knows where it will end, but if the trend of full-scale acceptance of BLM and Critical Race Theory isn’t halted, my guess is it will not end well.

James Buckley is a longtime Montecito resident. He welcomes questions or comments at jimb@ substack.com.

Ukraine has never really been unified CYR

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‘The only way to be heard is to actually speak up’ DONOVAN

Continued from Page C1 Oh, by the way, on Dec. 7, the Santa Barbara City Council awarded CitiNet its annual contract amount of $330,000.

All the additional monies, and it is in the millions, that they receive from city council throughout the year, are basically change-orders to their original contract.

Their bids for their services provided were not sufficient to cover their costs. So they come back for more, over and over and over.

It is $1.2 million here, $1.8 million there. Add it up; who is keeping track? It is unbelievable.

Speaking of change-orders, has anyone seen any notable changes in the homeless population and its set of circumstances: the encampments, the belongings, the trash?

“Not getting what you want either means you don’t want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.”

— Rudyard Kipling We don’t observe a sufficient success rate for the current drug or alcohol treatment given to these homeless.

Nor does it appear that enough homeless are getting adequate services in a timely manner.

During some mental health meetings, we literally see only two or three homeless people getting drug rehab support at any given time. We aren’t talking about them getting signed up for Medicare and Medi-Cal. We are questioning the numbers who are getting drug rehabilitation and become contributing members of society.

Mexico’s drug trade is being funded by China — and we allow it to come in under the guise

of humanitarian aid with open borders. When are we going to stand up and take care of our people in our town?

With the exit of Cathy Murillo as the mayor of Santa Barbara, we look forward to a new era of support for the traditions we hold dear to this beautiful city of Santa Barbara.

As mentioned in this column many times over the past few years, if good people do not stand up to support the rich traditions and unique profile of this city, it can be lost forever.

“The only way to be heard is to actually speak up.”

We have already lost some serious ground, literally, with the overbuilding that has happened and that has been approved. Let’s fight to keep our city the special, beloved place for which it is known throughout the world.

As you celebrate the holidays, please choose to shop locally for

your last-minute Christmas gifts as much as possible and support Santa Barbara. Sometimes your friends and family don’t need or want anything, so consider donating money in their name to help others.

An option is donating to restoring.us, which supports residents in a local safe house for trafficked children. This year the goal is to take them horseback riding on Christmas Day. “Christmas is not just the time for festivity and merrymaking. It is more than that. It is a time for the contemplation of eternal things. The Christmas Spirit is a spirit of giving and forgiving.”

— J.C. Penney Bonnie Donovan writes the “Did You Know?” column in conjunction with a bipartisan group of local citizens. It appears Sundays in the Voices section.

FDA regulators don’t want to kill people STOSSEL

Continued from Page C3 at the beginning of November,” Mr. Cannon points out. “The FDA didn’t even meet to decide whether to approve it until the end of November. In the meantime, thousands of Americans died.”

While people die, President Joe Biden praises the FDA for its “hard work.”

“We shouldn’t be praising them for doing a job that no one should be doing, which is violating your rights,” says Mr. Cannon. “If we just gave patients the freedom to purchase drugs other countries had approved, we would go a long way toward restoring your right to make your own health decisions.”

FDA regulators don’t want

to kill people, but they do have an incentive to work slowly. If they approve a drug that hurts someone, they’ll get horrible publicity. They may get fired.

But when people die from delayed approval, no bureaucrat gets in trouble. We don’t know which people might have been saved.

“That’s why the FDA always tries to make sure that it never lets an unsafe drug on the market,” says Mr. Cannon. “Even if the cost is years of delay and many, many lives lost.”

His solution: Have no FDA. I push back. “Some people would try drugs that would kill them.”

“Yes, some people would have adverse drug events,” he replies.

“But the number of lives that

we would save would absolutely swamp the number of lives that we lose to unsafe drugs.”

The FDA was created 100 years ago because some people were harmed by quack medicines. But of course, some still are.

“The entire premise of an agency like the FDA is that you’re not smart enough to make these decisions for yourself,” says Mr. Cannon.

But maybe we’re not smart enough, I tell him. “I’m not smart enough to judge whether a pill really works or I’m being sold snake oil.”

“It’s not true that you’re not smart enough to make this decision yourself, John,” he says.

“You can consult experts, your physician, medical journals, Consumer Reports. You can

informed Moscow’s worldview.

The fundamentally unproductive Communist system — if restrained — would eventually collapse.

Mr. Kennan headed the policy planning staff of the State Department during the Truman administration, when containment became the foundation of the U.S. approach to the Soviet Union. He became a target of conservatives, even as President Dwight Eisenhower confirmed containment as policy.

President John F. Kennedy deserves credit for bringing Mr. Kennan back into public service as ambassador to Yugoslavia.

Positioned at the crossroads of East-West Cold War conflict, representing our national interests in a major breakaway East European state, Mr. Kennan acquitted himself commendably.

In 1979, Princeton University Press published one of Mr. Kennan’s most challenging books, “The Decline of Bismarck’s European Order.” After unifying Germany, Otto von Bismarck provided effective diplomatic leadership to continental Europe through managing complex alliances. His departure from office, and the mediocre leadership that followed, set the stage for World War I. Henry Kissinger insightfully noted that Ukraine has never really been unified or truly

independent. For hundreds of years, that territory was part of Russia.

Today the European Union provides a unifying economic structure, while Germany has reemerged as principal leading nation on the continent.

Angela Merkel, since becoming chancellor of Germany in 2005, has brought greater financial discipline within the EU, especially regarding nations of southern Europe.

She also proved adept at limiting powerful domestic political pressures working against her leadership, which includes underwriting the solvency of nations many Germans view as profligate.

German nationalism today is subdued but still potentially potent.

Chancellor Merkel now is retiring, scheduled this month after Germany has a new government. Her legacy should inspire Germany’s new leaders, and guide diplomacy.

The core principle is selfdetermination for Ukraine’s people. That can discipline European diplomacy, with our support.

Arthur I. Cyr is a Clausen Distinguished Professor at Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisc., and author of “After the Cold War” (NYU Press and Palgrave/ Macmillan). He is the director of the college’s Clausen Center.

You can contact him at acyr@ carthage.edu

consult government regulatory agencies in other countries. Every day the FDA delays costs lives.”

He’s right.

Once a regulatory agency is created, we tend to assume that only the government can do the job. But that’s not true.

“The FDA needs to get out of the way,” concludes Mr. Cannon.

“Let patients make decisions for themselves.”

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.”

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Assigning values is open to interpretations

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Continued from Page C2 Proposition 47?

It converted certain nonviolent property crimes, where the value does not exceed $950, from felonies to misdemeanors (emphasis added).

My experiences beginning in law school showed me that nothing is as easy as it sounds.

In appellate arguments, one student is required on appeal to argue in favor of a trial court holding, and another student must argue against it. When I read the court holding, I laughed and said, “I can win this with my suit on backward.” But when I learned I had the “other” side, I also learned that there always is” another” side.

Applying this to the proposition leads to questions such as: “nonviolent?” Sounds good, but the details are that every theft is “assumed” to be “nonviolent” even when guns are involved.

What about “property” crimes? Is it a property crime when a watch is ripped off your wrist?

Who determines the “value?”

If it is the retailer, is it the price tag in the store? The lost profit?

The cost? Financing charges?

Advertising charges? Rental charges for the floor space to

display it? Damage to displays?

Lost opportunities? Replacement costs during inflation? The time for employees to repair damages and restock the shelves?

Increases in the cost of insurance coverage, if the policy is not canceled?

Even this list does not include the cost of the potential loss of customers or employees if the thieves become violent, as well as the emotional toll on everyone.

If the “value” is determined by the criminals, is it the amount paid by the “fences”? What do the fences charge in resale?

Cumulative for all the items taken by a team of thieves striking together? This thief striking multiple times?

You get the point: Assigning values is open to interpretations.

Yet that is what law enforcement must immediately do when a suspect is arrested for theft.

There was an exception in Proposition 47 that appeared to offer voters some protections from habitual criminals by providing that those criminals lost their protection after their third conviction for the crimes covered by the Proposition. However, this offered false hope since prosecutors, like in L.A., declined to prosecute 12,000 cases where the police handed them probable cause.

The details proved to be that achieving three or more of imaginary convictions remains trapped in the meta-world.

Proposition 47 also included a very unusual provision that provided if someone was in jail for a felony that was made a misdemeanor by Proposition 47, they could apply to the courts for that reduction. Some 200 immediately did. An Interesting provision since “ex post facto” laws prohibit the making of laws today that affect actions yesterday.

Voters passed Proposition 47 in November 2014.

Did Proposition 47 offer the voters an “experience much different” than might be offered on the streets of Philadelphia?

Was its ballot title “Criminal Sentences: Misdemeanor Penalties” accurate?

Was labeling it the “Safe Neighborhoods and Schools Act” misleading? Ever hear of any details on how it made neighborhoods and schools safer?

Was voting “Yes” for “State savings used to support school truancy and dropout prevention, victim services, mental health and drug treatment, and other designated programs designed to keep offenders out of prisons or jails” misleading? Notice any improvements or new programs?

Was the claimed Fiscal Result

of “Savings to state and county criminal justice systems in the high hundreds of millions of dollars annually” misleading?

Notice any reductions in taxes based on the promised savings?

Maybe my caution flag was appropriate as the experiences were not so different from those promised in Philadelphia where, like hit-and-run drivers, the proponents are never held accountable. Doubt it? Can you name any accomplishments, including Proposition 47, mentioned by either the current president or vice president or questioned about by the mainstream media? Favorite ice cream does not count.

Until voters demand accomplishments, they can expect the results to reflect the wisdom of Albert Einstein: “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”

Brent E. Zepke is an attorney, arbitrator and author who lives in Santa Barbara. He formerly taught at six universities and numerous professional conferences. He is the author of six books: “One HeartTwo Lives,” “Legal Guide to Human Resources,” “Business Statistics,” “Labor Law,” “Products and the Consumer,” and “Law for NonLawyers.”

A memorial ceremony is held in honor of Fred Collins, who was the chairman of the Northern Chumash Tribe.

The Chumash have been the guardians of the Central Coast of California since time immemorial WALKER

Continued from Page C3 The designation of the Chumash Heritage NMS with accompanying Tribal comanagement would exemplify the principles laid out in the Biden administration’s America the Beautiful Initiative, which recommends supporting locally led and locally designed conservation efforts; honoring tribal sovereignty; and providing support for tribal nation priorities.

NOAA recently published a Notice of Intent to advance the public process to designate the Chumash Heritage NMS. It was sadly 40 days too late for my father to see, but it is a crucial first step to getting this across the finish line. It is time to get this done.

Over the next month, NOAA will be hosting three listening sessions for the public on the designation of the Chumash

Heritage NMS. As a community, we will be asking that NOAA designate the Chumash Heritage NMS and keep the name we have chosen, and in the spirit of the America the Beautiful Initiative’s tribal co-management commitment, we will also be asking for them to establish an office within the sanctuary led by the Chumash people.

The Chumash have been the guardians of the Central Coast of California since time immemorial. We look forward to working with NOAA and other partners to collaboratively steward this critical coastline for the benefit of the current and the Seventh Generation.

You can support Fred Collins’ vision of establishing the Chumash Heritage NMS by offering your voice at www.federalregister.gov/ documents/2021/11/10/2021-24609/ notice-of-intent-to-conductscoping-and-to-prepare-adraft-environmental-impactstatement-for-the.