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This was the scene Saturday at a parklet at Jeannine’s Restaurant & Bakery on Coast Village Road in Montecito. Owner Alison Hardey said her business needs the outdoor seating.

Parking on Coast Village Road City officials to discuss controversy at meeting; merchant not optimistic

By NEIL HARTSTEIN NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

City officials will hold a meeting Friday in Montecito to garner public input about the ongoing parklet/parking controversy there.

Brian Brunello, co-owner of The Liquor and Wine Grotto in Montecito, told the News-Press Tuesday that a representative of the city of Santa Barbara has been circulating a notice about the meeting, scheduled for 8:30-9:30 a.m. at Coast and Olive, “to solicit public input” from customers, retail business owners, landlords and restaurant owners.

“He came to us and was passing them out at other businesses,” Mr. Brunello said.

Mr. Brunello recently spearheaded a petition signed by 25 Montecito businesses and seven Montecito landlords urging the Santa Barbara City Council to remove the parklets along Coast Village Road and Coast Village Circle that popped up after the COVID-19 pandemic began in 2020. Mr. Brunello contends their installation and use by some restaurants have drastically reduced the number of parking spaces available to his customers and other retailers in town.

He’s not optimistic that Friday’s meeting will have a happy ending.

“I’m sure there will be a lot of discussion and pitting neighbor against neighbor. but it’s not a ‘neighbor-against-neighbor’ issue.

It’s a community issue” unlikely to be resolved at this point, he told the News-Press.

The reason, he said, is that some restaurants are making an “enormous” amount of extra money each month because of

the added seating capacity made possible by the parklets. “It’s hard not to blame them because of the amount of money at stake,” he said.

“They can say there’s no problem and they care about their neighbors, but their actions speak otherwise. It’s common to anyone who’s paying attention.”

Mr. Brunello placed the blame for the current standoff squarely on the shoulders of the Santa Barbara City Council,

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business was going to fail without the parklets is disingenuous, wrong and sad,” he said. “It’s just being greedy. Why have other restaurants survived without it? What more examples do you need? It shows you don’t need to profit at the expense of every other business out there.”

Alison Hardey, owner of Jeannine’s, confirmed her public comments to the News-Press, but

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“The microchip is an American original,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer. “We used to lead the world in this technology, and it’s time that we lead the way once again.”

Critics of the bill, however, say it aims to spend billions of dollars that the U.S. does not have and has no guarantee that corporations receiving subsidies will be spending the money in a way benefiting the American people.

“Our nation is $30 trillion in debt, and this bill spends $280 billion that we don’t have,” said U.S. Sen Rick Scott, R-Fla. “It sets a dangerous precedent for massive, taxpayer-funded corporate welfare to the world’s most profitable corporations without any accountability or guarantee of return on investment for the American people.”

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A no stopping sign is posted Friday at Coast Village Road. The Santa Barbara Public Works Department has posted signage to improve parking safety.

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particularly the lack of clear rules regarding parklet sizing, something he said should have been dealt with back in 2020.

“Shame on the city for not having clarity,” he said. “The restaurants are just going along with what they were told to do.”

Nevertheless, he said, some restaurateurs clearly got carried away with the amount of money to be made.

“For the owner of Jeannine’s (Restaurant & Bakery) to say her

(The Center Square) — President Joe Biden signed a $280 billion bill on Tuesday that aims to help the U.S. compete with China by investing billions into domestic semiconductor production.

The bipartisan bill will divert more than $52 billion to companies producing semiconductor chips and another $10 billion to create regional technology hubs across the country.

“Today, I’m signing into law the CHIPS and Science Act, a oncein-a-generation investment in America itself,” President Biden said at a press briefing. “A law that the American people can be proud of.”

The legislation also includes a 25% investment tax credit for manufacturing semiconductors and other related technology in order to incentivize further domestic production of the needed chips.

Tens of billions of dollars have also been made available to spend over the course of five years for scientific research and development to help future U.S. development in tech.

This legislation comes after the COVID-19 pandemic led to a severe shortage of semiconductors, which are necessary components for consumer electronics, healthcare equipment and automobiles.

The bill hopes to alleviate the shortage by making the U.S. less reliant on China by developing its own semiconductors.

(The Center Square) — The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said this week that it is ending the Migrant Protection Protocols, a Trump-era policy requiring those seeking asylum in the U.S. to remain in Mexico until their appointed court date.

The decision comes after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in June that the Biden administration could end the “Remain in Mexico” Policy.

“We welcome the U.S. District Court’s decision, which follows the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 30th decision, to lift the injunction that required DHS to reimplement the Migrant Protection Protocols in good faith,” the DHS said Monday.

“DHS is committed to ending the court-ordered implementation of MPP in a quick, and orderly, manner.”

With the policy effectively ended, the DHS will no longer enroll individuals into MPP, and anyone currently in Mexico will be unenrolled at their appointed court date.

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Two more monkeypox cases in SB County

By KATHERINE ZEHNDER NEWS-PRESS STAFF WRITER

Two additional cases of monkeypox have been confirmed in Santa Barbara County, according to the Public Health Department.

This brings the county’s total of confirmed cases to three.

The community members with monkeypox remain in isolation, the department said in a news release. Public Health has completed contact tracing with these persons to identify anyone who may have had close contact with them. Persons identified in contact tracing are being monitored for symptoms, and appropriate public health interventions are being

taken, according to the health department.

The department said the risk to the public remains low.

“As we continue to identify cases of monkeypox locally, it is important for our community to understand how this virus spreads and how it does not spread,” Dr. Henning Ansorg, the county health officer, said in a news release. “This virus most commonly spreads through prolonged, direct physical contact with someone who is currently infectious. It is highly unlikely to spread through short interactions that do not involve physical contact.”

Monkeypox can spread through: • Direct contact with the

infectious rash, scabs or body fluids.

Respiratory secretions during prolonged, face-to-face contact, or during intimate physical contact, such as kissing, cuddling or sex.

• Touching items (such as clothing or linens) that previously touched the infectious rash or body fluids.

• Pregnant people can spread the virus to their fetus through the placenta.

Symptoms of monkeypox usually begin one to two weeks after infection. They can include fever, headache, muscle aches and backache, swollen lymph nodes, chills, exhaustion, respiratory symptoms (e.g. sore throat, nasal congestion, or cough)or a rash that can look like

pimples or blisters that appears on the face, inside the mouth, and on other parts of the body such as hands, feet, chest, genitals or anus.

The rash goes through different stages before healing completely.

Anyone who may have been exposed to monkeypox and/or has symptoms consistent with monkeypox is asked to contact their healthcare provider as soon as possible or contact County Public Health at 805-681-5280 or PHDDiseaseControl@sbcphd.org.

Cases will be reported on the County Public Health Monkeypox webpage on Tuesdays and Thursdays. See www.countyofsb. org/3404/Monkeypox.

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CARPINTERIA — The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office is hosting a block party event from 6 to 9 tonight in the 800 block of Linden Avenue in Carpinteria.

The “National Night Out” event is part of a campaign to promote police-community partnerships, according to a news release.

Sheriff’s Office staff, including a K9 unit and custody deputies and detectives from Human

By MADISON HIRNEISEN (The Center Square) — After a budget year with a historic surplus, over $17 billion in unemployment insurance debt looms over the Golden State – a deficit that will result in an increased cost burden on California employers in the years to come.

California borrowed nearly $20 billion from the federal government when its Unemployment Insurance Trust Fund went insolvent in the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic as millions of claims flooded in. The state currently has an outstanding balance of $17.4

billion that it owes back to the federal government in UI debt.

Should the state’s UI Trust Fund remain insolvent, employers will see their federal payroll tax rate increase by 0.3% – equal to $21 per employee – for tax year 2022, according to the Legislative Analyst’s Office. Businesses will pay the higher rate in 2023 “when employers remit their 2022 payroll taxes” to the Employee Development Department, according to the LAO. The interest paid on these loans typically becomes the burden of the taxpayers, the LAO report said.

For every year the fund remains insolvent, the federal UI payroll tax add-on will increase for California employers, swelling

to $42 per employee in 2024, $63 per employee in 2025 and $84 per employee in 2026.

Rob Moutrie, policy advocate for the California Chamber of Commerce, told The Center Square that California’s UI fund could remain insolvent for six to eight years, but that timeline could expand if the country faces another recession.

“This first year’s tax increase is not the biggest concern – the biggest concern comes when the tax amount ratchets up in future years,” Mr. Moutrie said.

The larger tax increases resulting from the state’s UI debt in the future is one of the reasons CalChamber and other business groups had urged the state to pay

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down a larger share of the debt this year, Mr. Moutrie added.

This year, the state had a budget surplus of $97.5 billion.

About $49.2 billion of that was discretionary. Gov. Gavin Newsom had initially proposed paying down $3 billion of the debt in his earlier budget proposal, but the final budget plans to pay down $1 billion of the debt over two years and spend $342 million to pay down the forecasted UI interest payment due in September.

That investment, however, still leaves billions in unpaid debt, which is expected to have “substantial costs to the state and the state’s employers over the coming years,” the budget states.

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Fed study: Ending pandemic unemployment aid connected to ‘substantial rise’ in employment (The Center Square) — States that ended pandemic unemployment aid saw “a substantial rise” in employment, according to a recent working paper from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis.

The study, which used data from 46 states and Washington, D.C., found that “in the three months following a state’s (emergency unemployment benefits) termination, employment

increased by about 37 people for every 100-person reduction in EUB recipients.”

“The act of halting by a state was – on average – associated with a substantial rise in employment and a substantial decline in the number of unemployment insurance recipients relative to the other months,” the paper’s authors concluded.

During the pandemic, federal and state governments created unemployment insurance programs that were designed to provide stimulus payments

to people who lost their jobs, working hours or other sources of income. The program provided weekly payments of $600 during most of 2020, although it was subsequently reduced to $300 per week in 2021.

As the payments were reduced, the program was also expanded to include contract, self-employed and gig workers who were not eligible to receive the $600 perweek benefits.

According to the Fed’s study, many recipients saw “more than one-for-one replacement

rate on lost earnings” whereas typical unemployment insurance payments were designed to replace between 40% and 50% of one’s typical earnings.

“The strong positive jobs effect that the data uncovered offers another basis for public policy discussions,” the study said.

The study comes as the latest job figures from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show that nonfarm payroll jobs increased by 528,000 in July while the national unemployment rate dropped to 3.5% from 3.6% in June.

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Report: Labor productivity dropped most since 1948 workers,” according to BLS. “The second quarter of 2022 is the second consecutive quarter in which output decreased while hours increased. The resulting productivity declines over these two quarters reduced the average annual productivity growth rate since the fourth quarter of 2019 – the last quarter not affected by the COVID-19 pandemic – to 0.6% in the nonfarm business sector.

Output and hours worked in the nonfarm business sector are now 2.9% and 1.5% above their fourthquarter 2019 levels, respectively.”

Despite wage growth, those increases have not kept pace with inflation.

“Real hourly compensation, which takes into account changes in consumer prices, decreased 4.4% in the second quarter of 2022, which followed a 4.4 decline in the first quarter of 2022,” BLS said.

The data comes amid a national debate over the definition of a recession and whether the U.S.

has entered one.

The White House has pointed to the labor market, particularly low unemployment, when arguing there is no recession. But this data shows that for the past two quarters, labor productivity has dropped.

Federal economic data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis in late July showed that U.S. gross domestic product decreased by 0.9% in the second quarter of this year. The BEA reported GDP shrank by 1.6% in the first quarter.

“The decrease in real GDP reflected decreases in private inventory investment, residential fixed investment, federal government spending, state and local government spending, and nonresidential fixed investment that were partly offset by increases in exports and personal consumption expenditures...” the BEA said.

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

TRAFFIC, CRIME & FIRE BLOTTER Suspect arrested after pursuit

SANTA BARBARA — Fiftyeight arrests (misdemeanor and felony) were made by the Santa Barbara Police Department during Old Spanish Days Fiesta.

“We are happy to report there were no serious criminal matters that occurred directly related to Fiesta,” Sgt. Ethan Ragsdale, the department’s public information officer, said Tuesday.

In addition to the arrests, the police made 119 citations, including traffic and municipal code violations, Sgt. Ragsdale said.

The department handled 181 calls for service.

ORCUTT/VANDENBERG VILLAGE — A suspect who led deputies on a vehicle pursuit, followed by a foot pursuit, has been arrested.

On Saturday, at approximately 6:52 p.m., Santa Barbara County sheriff’s deputies made a traffic stop of a vehicle in the area of State Route 135 and Foster Road in Orcutt. The driver allegedly failed to stop and drove toward the Lompoc area while allegedly committing numerous traffic violations, Raquel Zick, the Sheriff’s Office public information officer, said.

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and a Sheriff’s K9 Unit responded to assist. Deputies learned that the registered owner of the vehicle, 29-yearold Clinton Cellona, had an outstanding no-bail felony warrant for his arrest.

The suspect continued to State Route 1 and exited on Constellation Road and turned into a housing area, where he parked in the 100 block of Mizar Place in Vandenberg Village and fled on foot into adjacent yards, Ms. Zick said.

Units spent over an hour searching for the suspect on the ground while County Air Support searched overhead and gave announcements to the suspect to surrender. Deputies stopped their search at 8:32 p.m.

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sighting of the suspect. When deputies arrived, they tracked the suspect to the 100 block of Alcor, where he fled from them.

Deputies used a less lethal bean bag launcher to take the suspect into custody, which resulted in injury to the suspect. Deputies provided first aid while medics responded.

The suspect was transported by helicopter to an area hospital, where he was booked in absentia for two outstanding warrants as well as on suspicion of evading (felony), obstruction (misdemeanor), and loitering (misdemeanor). He is being held without bail and is expected to recover from his injuries.

Ms. Zick said no deputies or members of the community were injured.

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(The Center Square) — The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released new economic data Tuesday showing the sharpest quarterly decline in labor productivity since 1948.

BLS reported a 4.6% decrease in labor productivity in the second quarter of this year as the economy shrank and labor costs rose. This data follows a decrease in productivity in the first quarter of 2022 as well.

“From the same quarter a year ago, nonfarm business sector labor productivity decreased 2.5%, reflecting a 1.5% increase in output and a 4.1% increase in hours worked,” BLS said. “The 2.5% decline in labor productivity from the same quarter a year ago is the largest decline in this series, which begins in the first quarter of 1948.”

Labor costs have significantly increased in the past year.

“Unit labor costs in the nonfarm business sector increased 10.8 percent in the second quarter of 2022, reflecting a 5.7% increase in hourly compensation and a 4.6-percent decrease in productivity,” BLS said. “Unit labor costs increased 9.5% over the last four quarters.

This is the largest four-quarter increase in this measure since a 10.6% increase in the first quarter of 1982. BLS calculates unit labor costs as the ratio of hourly compensation to labor productivity. Increases in hourly compensation tend to increase unit labor costs and increases in productivity tend to reduce them.”

That spike in labor costs coincided with a decline in productivity.

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Rubio wants Congressional hearings into FBI raid of Trump home

By CASEY HARPER THE CENTER SQUARE SENIOR REPORTER

(The Center Square) — The U.S. Department of Justice raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-A-Lago property in Palm Beach, Fla., sparked a wave of controversy and pushback from lawmakers, some of whom suggested a Congressional investigation if Republicans retake the House or Senate in November.

“The FBI raid was unprecedented for America, but familiar to those in Florida who fled nations where political opposition was criminalized,” said Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. “If voters put us back in the majority, we better have the guts to subpoena the records (and) make those who authorized this testify under oath.”

Sources say FBI agents were searching for White House documents, some of which could be classified.

Some Republicans tied the move to President Joe Biden’s plan to beef up IRS auditing.

Senate Democrats passed a

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measure that includes $80 billion to hire an additional 87,000 IRS agents.

“The FBI raiding Donald Trump is unprecedented,” said Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas.

“It is corrupt (and) an abuse of power. What Nixon tried to do, Biden has now implemented: The Biden admin has fully weaponized DOJ (and the) FBI

to target their political enemies.

And with (87,000) new IRS agents, they’re coming for you too.”

Even Democratic former New York Gov Andrew Cuomo raised questions about the raid.

“DOJ must immediately explain the reason for its raid & it must be more than a search for inconsequential archives or

it will be viewed as a political tactic and undermine any future credible investigation & legitimacy of January 6 investigations,” he wrote on Twitter.

Sen. Cruz added a message for the Biden administration.

“To the AG & FBI Dir: Release the warrant now,” he wrote on Twitter. “The American people deserve to see it. … And, as even Cuomo acknowledges, ‘it must be more than a search for inconsequential archives,’ or it will be obvious that this is nothing more than a blatant political persecution.”

Former Trump administration officials spoke out as well.

“I share the deep concern of millions of Americans over the unprecedented search of the personal residence of President Trump,” former Vice President Mike Pence said. “No former president of the United States has ever been subject to a raid of their personal residence in American history.”

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

Republican leaders call Mar-a-Lago raid a ‘weaponization’ of DOJ against administration’s opponents

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(The Center Square) — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the state’s two U.S. senators are warning of the “weaponization” of the U.S. Department of Justice after the FBI on Monday raided former president Donald Trump’s Palm Beach Mar-a-Lago estate.

They did so after the former president announced on his Truth Social platform that his home was “under siege, raided, and occupied by a large group of FBI agents” over a document dispute. The raid was unannounced, “not necessary or appropriate” and “prosecutorial misconduct,” Mr. Trump said.

The White House, Department of Justice and FBI have yet to release a statement in response to numerous media inquiries.

Gov. DeSantis issued a statement from his campaign Twitter account, saying, “The raid of MAL is another escalation in the weaponization of federal agencies against the Regime’s political opponents, while people like Hunter Biden get treated with kid gloves. Now the Regime is getting another 87k IRS agents to wield against its adversaries? Banana Republic.”

Florida’ senior U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio, a Republican, published a video message online, warning that the FBI’s tactics were like those of a third-world dictatorship.

“We’ve had divisive politics and anger in our politics for as long as this country’s existed,” Sen. Rubio said. “... But the one thing we’ve never had is we’ve never been a country where people who take power, like becoming president, now use that power to persecute their past or political opponents.

We’ve never seen that until … the Justice Department under Joe Biden decided to raid … the home of the former president who might … be running against him ...

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noted that Mr. Brunello “is not unbiased. Let’s just put it that way.

“He doesn’t understand our industry,” Ms. Hardey said. “We depend on high volume. Without it, we can’t make it. He doesn’t need the volume, or understand how hard it is to run a restaurant.

It’s almost impossible right now.

The restaurant business is very expensive to run.”

Even though people are traveling again since pandemic restrictions were lifted, it’s “still pretty serious,” she said. “Nobody wants to be crammed inside,” especially older patrons.

Mr. Brunello noted, however, that staffers at some restaurants actually are instructed to park on city streets so a restaurant’s valet service can shuffle patrons’ cars in and out, adding to the lack of parking available for retail customers. He said he wouldn’t be able to park his own car in public parking, except that he arranged for the owner of a private lot to let him park there.

Ms. Hardey countered that

“This is what happens in places like Nicaragua where last year every single person who ran against Daniel Ortega for president, every single person that put their name on the ballot, was arrested and is still in jail.

That’s what you see in places like Nicaragua. We’ve never seen that before in America. You can try and diminish it, but that’s exactly what happened.”

The FBI agents weren’t looking for a fugitive, he said, or tracking down “some serial killer or drug kingpin,” but engaged in “a highprofile raid over a document dispute.”

Document disputes aren’t new, Sen. Rubio added.

“Multiple administrations have had disputes over the archival office over what is a presidential record and what isn’t,” he said.

Sending 30 FBI agents was done for “one purpose … to try to politically harm and intimidate their political opponents.”

Pointing into the camera, presumably to President Joe Biden, Sen. Rubio said, “You’re playing with fire. This is dangerous. Because someone else will be in power one day, and now you have created the precedent for them to do this back to you. And then we become the third world.

And then we lose our country. And our system of government and the meaning of being one nation under a real constitution. This needs to stop.”

U.S. Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., said the FBI’s raid was “incredibly concerning, especially given the Biden admin’s history of going after parents and other political opponents. This is third world country stuff. We need answers …”

In response to Gov. DeSantis’ statement, Florida Agriculture Secretary Nikki Fried, a Democrat running for governor, said, “Your tweet is another escalation of your pathetic loyalty to an

restaurant staffers have to park wherever they can find a space, on the street, behind the street, etc. She said the lack of parking along Coast Village Road — and resulting congestion — existed long before COVID-19.

“The city does a great job for State Street but zero on Coast Village Road,” she said.

Unable to solve their parking problems, the petitioners finally reached out to city officials to resolve the issue.

“The public and people like ourselves finally got wise and decided to go back to the source, which is the Santa Barbara City Council,” Mr. Brunello said.

While considered part of Montecito, Coast Village Road falls within the Santa Barbara city limits.

Mr. Brunello doesn’t hold out much hope for any substantial changes even when the council’s ad hoc committee charged with coming up with an interim plan for dealing with the parklets reports back to the full council next month.

“Based on what I’ve seen and know, I have no confidence in them whatsoever,” he said. “It hasn’t been taken seriously. I don’t expect things to get done. I really don’t.”

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insurrectionist over country and the rule of law.”

The Democratic Party of Florida said of Gov. DeSantis, “This wanna be autocrat weaponizes every state agency against his enemies, targets marginalized communities for political gain, incarcerates people for protesting, while handing out billions of our tax dollars to his donors and raises taxes on us.”

It added, “Law and order though, right, Ron? Aren’t you firing people for not following the law? How many laws does Trump have to break?”, referring to Gov. DeSantis removing a prosecutor who said he wouldn’t be enforcing state law.

Some social media users asked if DeSantis would work with local sheriffs to prevent FBI raids of Floridians in the future. The Florida Standard reported that the “DeSantis administration did not know about nor worked with FBI or DOJ on the Mar-a-Lago raid.”

The raid came two weeks after

Mr. Brunello said only one out of seven councilmembers, Mike Jordan, responded after Mr. Brunello emailed council members copies of the petition on July 29 at 9:07 a.m.

Mr. Brunello added that Councilmember Jordan’s answer was “vague.”

Mayor Randy Rowse and Councilmember Kristen Sneddon told the News-Press last week that they hadn’t seen the petition.

Neither they nor the other city council members responded to a Tuesday email or phone call from the News-Press asking whether they had seen the petition since.

Just to be sure they receive the petition, Mr. Brunello dropped off hard copies Monday morning in their mailboxes at City Hall.

Mr. Brunello said the council should “be acutely aware of it,” given Sunday’s News-Press story on the parklets uproar and the hard copies that are now safely in members’ mailboxes at City Hall.

“If they haven’t seen it at this point, it’s their fault,” Mr. Brunello said.

He said he contacted Councilmember Sneddon by email after sending her the petition and set up two site visits for which

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U.S. Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, ranking member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, sent a letter to Attorney General Garland and FBI Director Chris Wray, notifying them of FBI whistleblower allegations of a coordinated effort to cover up the alleged criminal activity of President Joe Biden’s son, Hunter Biden.

“If these allegations are true and accurate, the Justice Department and FBI are — and have been — institutionally corrupted to their very core to the point in which the United States Congress and the American people will have no confidence in the equal application of the law,” Sen. Grassley wrote, adding there were “systemic and existential problems within your agencies.”

Sen. Grassley sent a letter May 31 detailing alleged violations of federal laws by Assistant Special Agent in Charge Timothy Thibault “based on a pattern of active public partisanship in his then public social media content.” Sen. Grassley requested information “so that Congress can perform an objective and independent review of the alleged misconduct,” but received no response.

The raid also came after multiple attorneys general sued the Justice Department after it began investigating parents who speak out at school board meetings, and without evidence, labeled them “domestic terrorists.”

One of the parents being investigated was a Florida-based Moms for Liberty advocate. Its founders said the DOJ “was using counter-terrorism authority under the PATRIOT Act to investigate parents of schoolchildren who were exercising their first amendment right to petition their local government for a redress of grievances.” The group warned that if law-abiding parents were being targeted by the FBI, anyone could be.

she failed to show up. Nor did she cancel or postpone ahead of time, he said.

After her first no-show, he emailed her again, and her response was “Oh my gosh. I’m so sorry. How’s Friday sound?”

He said it sounded good, but the result was the same.

“It cost me at that point” because he put on extra staffing to man his store while he waited, Mr. Brunello told the News-Press. “On top of that, I got the feeling they’re not taking this seriously.”

Councilmember Sneddon did not respond to an email for comment on his allegation.

But in an earlier email response, she told the News-Press that something will be done to resolve the parklet issue.

“In general I would add that the parklets on Coast Village Road seemed to have fulfilled their purpose during the height of the pandemic to give expanded outdoor dining options, which can now be scaled back to increase parking capacity and sightlines to businesses in this unique area,” she said.

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U.S. oil and gas industry: 10 actions to reduce high energy prices that won’t cost taxpayers $740 billion

By BETHANY BLANKLEY THE CENTER SQUARE CONTRIBUTOR

(The Center Square) — Rather than impose higher taxes and more restrictions on domestic production of oil and natural gas, as Senate Democrats voted to do by passing the Inflation Reduction Act, those in the industry proposed 10 actions policy makers can take right now to reduce costs.

The industry says its solutions won’t cost taxpayers $740 billion, as the Inflation Reduction Act does, or increase the national debt or inflation, as 230 economists have warned the act will do.

“Congress and the president must support energy investment, create new access and keep regulation from unnecessarily restricting energy growth,” the American Petroleum Institute argues.

The institute published a list of 10 solutions. It and other groups have also called on the Biden administration to unleash domestic production and strengthen U.S. energy independence.

The first solution involves lifting restrictions and reinstating canceled sales and valid leases on federal lands and waters. The API called for the U.S. Department of the Interior to issue a five-year program for the Outer Continental Shelf and hold mandated quarterly onshore lease sales with equitable terms.

The second suggests the administration designate critical

DEBT

Continued from Page A2 To offset the rise in payroll taxes, the state earmarked $500 million in the state budget to provide relief to small businesses.

However, budget documents do not make it clear what employers qualify as “small businesses.”

Details on eligibility and implementation are still “to be determined,” the Department of Finance told The Center Square.

The looming tax increase for state employers is prompting concern from industry leaders who say higher payroll taxes will lead to thinner operational margins that help businesses survive.

John Kabateck, California state director of the National Federation of Independent Businesses, told The Center Square that small businesses are facing the “highest wall of debt, uncertainty and

energy infrastructure projects to support the production, processing and delivery of energy.

The third urges Congress to fix the National Environmental Policy Act process by establishing agency uniformity in reviews, among other reforms.

The fourth is to accelerate exports and approve pending liquified natural gas applications.

Congress should amend the Natural Gas Act, the API argues, to streamline the Department of Energy’s approval process for all U.S. LNG projects.

The fifth is to expand access to capital and mandate the Securities and Exchange Commission to drop its “overly burdensome and ineffective climate disclosure proposal,” which the industry says is hampering investment in oil and natural gas production. Currently, access to capital is based on “artificial constraints based on government-preferred investment allocations” rather than on individual company merit, API argues.

The Western Energy Alliance and U.S. Oil and Gas Association called on the SEC last month to rescind its climate change disclosure rule after the Supreme Court ruled against the EPA in a landmark case. It ruled the EPA doesn’t have the authority to regulate greenhouse gases from power plants. Therefore, they argue, the SEC doesn’t have the authority to regulate greenhouse gases related to financial

disclosures.

The high court ruled “an agency cannot conjure up regulatory authority without a basis in law. It’s really that simple,” Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Alliance, said. “The SEC is not an environmental regulatory agency. It cannot be a driver of climate change policy to force a societal transition away from oil and natural gas. It cannot impose a rule that requires companies to reduce their GHG emissions.”

The sixth solution is to dismantle supply chain bottlenecks by rescinding steel tariffs, which will reduce the price of steel, a critical component of energy production, transportation and refining. The seventh is to lower carbon energy tax provisions.

The eighth ensures that future federal agency rulemakings will enable U.S. refineries to use the existing critical process technologies to produce the fuels needed for global energy markets. The ninth proposes ending the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from obstructing permitting for natural gas projects. The commission has overstepped its permitting authority, API argues, under the Natural Gas Act. Richard Welch, a board member of the Houston-based Oil & Gas Workers Association, told The Center Square, that reducing regulations is imperative “for growth and speed of process.

Over-regulating causes

unnecessary funds that could be used for production equipment to be delegated elsewhere.

U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W. Va., who cosponsored the bill, argues it imposes “tax fairness,” including imposing spending more money on “technologies needed for all fuel types — from hydrogen, nuclear, renewables, fossil fuels and energy storage – to be produced and used in the cleanest way possible.” The technologies will help reduce domestic methane and carbon emissions and “decarbonize around the world as we displace dirtier products,” he says.

The tenth solution prioritizes domestic energy production and expanding a domestic oil and natural gas workforce through federally funded training and education in the industry.

Instead, the bill includes Green New Deal tax credits of $257 billion and solar company loan guarantees of $250 billion.

Texas is already leading in domestic energy production and job creation. In June, the industry added the greatest number of jobs in recorded state history.

Demand for oil is “forecasted to continue growing in 2022 and into 2023,” Todd Staples, president of the Texas Oil & Gas Association, said, “so our nation must support certainty and consistent opportunities for domestic production, pipelines and processing of the products our nation and world depend upon.”

challenges than ever before in recent history.”

“For a small business, even a few $100 out of their pocket to help pay down a debt they didn’t create can be massive and damaging for them,” he said.

Mr. Kabateck also noted the state’s historic budget surplus of $97.5 billion, saying that despite the “financial comfort” the state finds itself in, lawmakers have “chosen to do very little to seriously address this major problem.”

When asked why the state chose to pay down $1 billion of the outstanding debt despite the size of the budget surplus, Department of Finance spokesman HD Palmer told The Center Square that the $1 billion payment was “balanced among multiple spending priorities within the multi-year spending plan agreed to (by) the Administration and Legislature.”

Mr. Palmer added that the payment will “benefit small businesses in the future by

accelerating the payoff of the unemployment debt by up to a year, which will restore the Federal Unemployment Tax Act tax credits.”

Earlier this year, lawmakers had pitched proposals to pay down a greater share of the UI debt.

One bill proposed using a $7.25 billion of the state budget surplus to pay down the debt, though that bill failed to advance out of the Assembly Appropriations Committee in May. California has the largest outstanding debt of any state, though several other states still owe money to the federal government. Those states include New York, Massachusetts, Illinois, Connecticut and Colorado.

California has a greater debt than all of these states combined.

Twenty states borrowed from the federal government to pay unemployment benefits during the pandemic, and many made investments to pay down the

debt in recent budget years. In November, Texas announced that it would appropriate $7.2 billion to pay down its debt and return its UI trust to solvency.

Looking forward, Mr. Moutrie said the state has made a “statement of intention” to contribute $250 million directly to the fund in the budget next year, but beyond 2024, “it’s not guaranteed that any aid will be provided to help cover the tax increases or to help pay down the fund.”

“The overall picture for this year’s budget is we see it as a drop in the bucket towards the size of the overall UI debt,” he said. “We see kind of a looming wave of those tax increases coming. This budget helps with some of them and pushes the moment down the road a little bit, but we see that wave coming regardless.”

Madison Hirneisen covers California for The Center Square.

Buttigieg says electric vehicles are ‘best’ solution to high gas prices, but are they affordable?

ByTOM GANTERT and BRETT ROWLAND THE CENTER SQUARE

(The Center Square) — Republicans are attacking U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg for comments he made about electric vehicles on an MSNBC talk show.

Mr. Buttigieg was discussing the high cost of gas in the U.S. on Aug. 4 when he said, “The best thing we can do for the medium and long term is make sure Americans have more options through greater fuel efficiency and greater access to vehicles that don’t require gasoline at all so that Americans don’t have to worry about what is happening in some middle eastern capital or foreign war zone.”

But the question for American consumers is can they afford to buy an electric vehicle.

The median household income in the U.S. was $64,994 from 2016-2020, according to the U.S. Census.

Studies show people who buy electric vehicles are more affluent than the median U.S. household.

“The average EV owner continues to be male, aged 4055 years old, with an annual household income of more than $100,000 (2019),” according to a Fuels Institute 2021 report. A BlastPoint report found that the annual income of a family “ready to buy an EV” was $150,000 in 2021.

Some of the lowest-priced electric vehicles are the 2022 Nissan Leaf with a starting price $27,400. It has a range of 149 miles before it needs to be recharged, according to Edmunds. The 2022 Mini Cooper SE sells for $29,900

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Helen Mae Engstrom passed away on August 3, 2022 in Santa Barbara, CA at age 90. Helen was born on August 14, 1931 in Minneapolis, MN to Swedish immigrants Carl William (Bill) and Augusta Emilia Johansson (Gustie) Hawkinson. She was a loving, dedicated wife to her husband John Paul Engstrom for 68 years.

Helen was born into and raised in a largely SwedishAmerican community in Minneapolis, the youngest child of a hard-working carpenter and his caterer wife. Her Swedish heritage and upbringing in the Covenant Church would shape her values and life for years to come. Helen graduated high school from Minnehaha Academy in 1949, and earned an associate’s degree from North Park College in Chicago, IL in 1951, before her parents moved to the San Francisco Bay Area and she graduated college at San Francisco State University in 1954 with a degree in elementary education. While in the Bay Area, Helen met John Engstrom of Chicago, who was then stationed at the Presidio in San Francisco during his Korean War service. Helen and John were married on June 12, 1954, the day after she graduated, and took up residence in the Chicago area (Oak Park and Wheaton) where John, an electrical engineer (Purdue University, BSEE ‘52), worked for Hotpoint / General Electric, and Helen taught 2nd grade students in a public school.

In 1960, Helen and John returned to the Bay Area, residing first briefly in Moraga and then for more than forty-five years in Orinda, where they raised their loving family of Ann, Todd, Peter, Mary and Drew. Helen was a substitute teacher and counselor, kept busy with supporting the children’s many activities (especially school-related -- Del Rey Elementary through Miramonte High School), did volunteer work in the community (Goodwill Industries and New Directions) and was deeply rooted in the ministry and support of Hillside Covenant Church in Walnut Creek (deaconess, Sunday school teacher, Women’s Auxiliary, MOPS mentor). The family enjoyed fun vacations, including much summer time spent at the rustic family cabin “HawksNest” amidst the redwood trees at Mission Springs in Scotts Valley, which her father built in 1962.

Helen’s hobbies included art projects, tennis (Orinda Country Club), bridge, and time with friends at Starbucks. As the children grew older, she travelled the world with John for business, as well as after his retirement in 1994. Helen loved to open her Orinda home and entertain, was a generous hostess, and celebrated Swedish family traditions that her children and grandchildren cherish and will carry on forever. Family and faith were the cornerstones of Helen’s life, and most of her best and longest-lasting friends came from Hillside Covenant.

In 2009 Helen and John left Orinda and moved to the Samarkand Covenant Living community in Santa Barbara, which brought them many new and close friends. They quickly came to enjoy the Santa Barbara area and all that it has to offer, including the Montecito Covenant Church and best of all having daughter Mary and son Todd nearby with their families. While Helen’s mobility in her final years was hampered by neuropathy, her mind remained ever-sharp and her heart ever-big. She never lacked a kind word for anyone, and she loved being with people. Helen passed quietly early in the morning of August 3 with John sweetly holding her hand and surrounded by family.

Helen was preceded in death by her parents Bill and Gustie, her sisters Mary Ann Hedin (Roger) and Eva Erickson (Sherman) and her brother Philip Hawkinson (Bea).

Her firstborn child Ann died in 2017. She is survived by her husband John and their children Todd Engstrom (Lisa) of Santa Barbara, Peter Engstrom (Lisa) of Orinda, Mary Morouse (Jim) of Santa Barbara, and Drew Engstrom (Jennifer) of Round Rock, TX, along with eleven much-beloved grandchildren -- Britta, Faith, Anna, Mary Kate, Linnea, Nate, Ava, Annika, Jack, Sofia and Molly. She leaves behind several dear nephews and nieces in the Hedin, Erickson and Hawkinson families (Jeffrey, Todd, Andrea, Perry, Brent, Joel, Ross, Linda and Susan), who along with their families meant much to her. She is also survived by sister-in-law Marge (Bob) Reese, and nephew Roger Reese and niece Betsy Quinn.

A celebration of life for Helen will be held on Saturday, August 27, at 11:00 a.m. at the Samarkand in Santa Barbara, with a reception to follow. Helen’s wish was for attendees to wear bright, happy colors.

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DORIS J. GILMAN

September 5, 1942 to August 10, 2019 Three years have passed already since you left us to be with God and we truly miss having you here as part of your family.

We treasure your memory and remember you as if you were still here.

Love, hugs and kisses, Gordon & family

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The Tesla Model Y was the best-selling electric car of 2021, according to Car and Driver.

That car sells for $75,990 in 2022, according to Kelley Blue Book.

State government is providing subsidies for people to buy electric vehicles. There were just eight states in the U.S. that didn’t offer such subsidies, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.

“Electrified vehicles” – which includes battery, plug-in hybrid and cars with electric motors that assist gas-powered engines – accounted for 12.6% of new vehicle sales in the second quarter of 2022, according to Cox Automotive.

“The average price for a new electric vehicle – over $64,000 according to Kelley Blue Book estimates – is well above the industry average and more aligned with luxury prices than mainstream prices,” according to Kelley Blue Book.

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A murder mystery with a lot of heart MICHELE K. SHORT PHOTOS/COLUMBIA PICTURES

Young Kya (Jojo Regina) grows up in a marsh in “Where the Crawdads Sing.”

REVIEW ‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ presents unforgettable story, compelling characters

By DAVE MASON NEWS-PRESS MANAGING EDITOR

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here the Crawdads Sing” hits all the right notes.

Based on the bestselling novel of the same name by Delia Owens, the movie will touch your heart, thanks to compelling characters and a great performance by Daisy EdgarJones as Kya Clark. (Be sure to bring some tissues with you to the theater.)

The movie also benefits from Lucy Alibar’s well-written screenplay adaptation and director Olivia Newman’s straightforward work, which

At top, Mabel (Michael Hyatt), a store owner, shows compassion toward Kya (Jojo Regina). Above, Tate Walker (Taylor John Smith) and Kya (Daisy Edgar-Jones) become immediate friends.

allows the actors to tell this story honestly.

Kya grows up in the marshes of the Deep South, where she becomes the only suspect in the murder of Chase Andrews (Harris Dickinson). Chase’s body is found below a tower in the marsh, and he was involved in a relationship with Kya, who is known in her community as “the Marsh girl.”

“Where the Crawdads Sing” tells the story of Kya’s difficult childhood. She grew up with an abusive father, whose violent acts and temper drove Kya’s mother and siblings away. The father left Kya as well, and she grew up taking care of herself in a house by the marsh.

Ms. Edgar-Jones conveys

Kya’s sensitivity, intelligence and ability to survive. And Jojo Regina does a good job playing Kya during her childhood.

The movie also features great acting by Taylor John Smith as Tate Walker, who befriends Kya and teaches her how to read.

And Michael Hyatt and Sterling Macer J. add to the movie’s richness with their portrayals of Mabel and Jumpin’, the general store owners who show compassion toward Kya as she faces an unkind world.

And veteran actor David Strathairn, who has one of Hollywood’s most memorable voices, is compelling as Tom Milton, Kya’s lawyer in this Please see CRAWDADS on B2

During her murder trial, Kya (Daisy Edgar-Jones) is represented by her lawyer, Tom (David Strathairn).

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Choral society appoints development director

Adrienne De Guevara is the new director of development for the Santa Barbara Choral Society.

“We are extremely pleased to have Adrienne join our staff,” Board President Todd Aldrich said in a news release. “She brings a very specialized set of skills that will enhance The Choral Society’s future growth and sustainability.

We look forward to having her explore new funding sources and donor opportunities on behalf of our organization, which will be celebrating its 75th anniversary during its 2022-2023 season.”

Ms. De Guevara, who began her new position with the choral society Aug. 1, most recently served as director of development

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Before that, she was assistant director of development for the Lobero Theatre Foundation and was a donor relations and stewardship analyst for UCSB. She is currently co-president of the Association of Fundraising Professionals Santa Barbara/ Ventura Chapter and a member of the Community Outreach Committee for the Santa Barbara Arts Collaborative. She is an accomplished artist and sculptor.

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Lemon (Bryan Tyree Henry) and Ladybug (Brad Pitt) meet in “Bullet Train.” Ladybug is hired to steal a briefcase that Lemon and his partner Tangerine are supposed to deliver to a villain.

‘Bullet Train’ stays right on track, all the way to No. 1 at the box office

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It’s easy to see why “Bullet Train” topped the box office in its first weekend, grossing $30 million.

First off, it had the star power of Brad Pitt. Secondly, the trailers did justice to a movie with a great mix of comedy and action.

Mr. Pitt plays Ladybug — that’s his code name — who’s hired on what should be a simple job of stealing a mysterious briefcase full of something valuable, maybe a ton of money, on a Japanese bullet train. It should be easy.

Problem is, Ladybug isn’t the only one who wants this briefcase, and the plot expands to include mysterious villains, assassins, murders and, strangely enough, references to Thomas the Tank Engine, the children’s books franchise.

“Bullet Train” has a complicated set of characters, but the movie takes time to give you background on them. Most of all, “Bullet Train” is funny, if you don’t mind some blood and gore.

Mr. Pitt does his usual great job, this time playing a thief who doesn’t want to hurt anyone but ends up in the middle of all the action. It’s the kind of character Mr. Pitt has played previously, and he’s a master at it.

The rest of the talented cast includes Joey King, who is compelling as a young woman named Prince (not Princess), who’s pulling everyone’s strings and is a villain you will love to

Prince (Joey King) is a villain trying to pull everyone’s strings in “Bullet Train.”

hate.

Many of the funniest moments are between Tangerine (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and Lemon (the very talented Brian Tyree Henry), who are hired to deliver a briefcase, the one Ladybug tries to steal from them.

Director David Leitch succeeds in tying together the many characters, which includes someone dressed up like an anime character. Watch everyone and everything carefully. Everything matters in this movie.

The success of “Bullet Train” led “DC League of Super-Pets” to fall to second place at $11 million.

Placing third at the box office was Jordan Peele’s sci-fi/horror thriller “Nope,” with a $8.5 million gross in its third weekend.

“Thor: Love and Thunder” placed fourth with $7.71 million.

“Minions: The Rise of Gru” was the No. 5 movie with $7.11 million.

“Top Gun: Maverick” placed sixth with $7 million.

Placing seventh was the murder mystery based on a bestseller, “Where the Crawdads Sing.” It grossed $5.68 million.

“Easter Sunday,” a comedy about a dysfunctional FilipinoAmerican family trying to celebrate the holiday, opened in eighth place with $5.45 million.

“Elvis” placed ninth with $3.94 million.

The horror thriller “The Black Phone” placed 10th with $1.51 million. email: dmason@newspress.com

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murder mystery.

“Where the Crawdads Sing” does an effective job of showing the prejudice Kya faces in a community that suspects anyone who’s different.

And the murder mystery has unexpected twists and turns. It’s not easy to figure out who actually killed Chase Andrews.

In addition, “Where the Crawdads Sing” benefits from cinematography by Polly Morgan and the music

by Mychael Danna. Both enhance the story without distracting from the actors’ performances.

By the way, Ms. Owens, the author of “Where the Crawdads Sing,” appears in the movie based on her book.

In one scene, she’s sitting in the front row of the courtroom behind Tom, Kya’s lawyer. email: dmason@newspress. com

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LIBRA — Ancient social traditions could be a powerful part of today, Libra. An emotional event concerning your family, perhaps planning a wedding or other milestone, could have you feeling especially moved. In the rush of events, you’ll probably keep a tight rein on any expression of emotion.

SCORPIO — You usually place a lot of importance on self-control.

Today this skill will come in handy when you receive some wonderful news that might otherwise move you to tears. Don’t carry it too far.

Under these circumstances, it’s OK to let it out a bit. Your hard work and dedication to your career are paying off.

SAGITTARIUS — Expect some great news regarding money, possibly professional advancement. You may have to control the urge to break into tears of joy, Sagittarius. A female friend could be going through some heavy changes and might want your support. Your best course of action would be to listen rather than offer advice.

CAPRICORN — Happy events involving a close female relative might have you feeling emotional, Capricorn. A marriage or birth could be involved. Your projects, particularly those with other people, could proceed well despite difficulties you’ve had to overcome. The results could move you to tears.

AQUARIUS — Your telepathy and intuition are at an all-time high today, Aquarius. You should find it easier than usual to tune in to others’ thoughts and feelings.

It might be a good idea to control your reactions. Don’t tell others what you’re picking up unless you’re sure they want to know.

Your imagination and creative abilities are also operating at a very high level. Make the most of them.

PISCES — Today a deep concern for others’ feelings could have you lending a sympathetic ear to those in need of some understanding. It’s more important to listen than talk now, Pisces, even though your practicality might want to express itself. Your affairs should go smoothly, bringing you a lot of satisfaction. Don’t be surprised if you shed a few tears of joy at some point.

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“Ruff my king of diamonds and lead a heart,” West told his partner.

“As far as I know,” East growled, “defenders don’t get a bonus if they both win the same trick.”

East might have been alert. South would have no reason to duck the first trick with two or three low diamonds. East should have been eager to get in to lead a heart through South to West’s presumed strength in the unbid major.

HOROSCOPE ARIES — Today you might complete a difficult project that’s important to your career.

Acknowledgement of your dedication and hard work could find you more emotionally overwhelmed than makes you comfortable. You may have to make a special effort to control your feelings. You’ve moved mountains to get where you are, Aries.

TAURUS — A long-awaited event, perhaps a wedding or christening, could have you moved to tears, Taurus. As you’re naturally a person who doesn’t like to show your feelings, you might need to be by yourself until the urge to cry has passed. This should be a very happy day for you as well, and your contentment could seem almost too good to be true.

GEMINI — An intense, emotional dream could move you so powerfully that you awaken with the odd sense that the dream was real. Write it down, Gemini.

Maybe it is. Efforts to overcome obstacles and advance in business could finally pay off. You could walk around in a daze asking yourself if it really has happened.

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CANCER — Emotional discussions with your partner could move you to tears, Cancer.

You’ve overcome any difficulties and probably reached a new understanding. Any relationship or friendship started or advanced now shows promise of being strong and lasting. Your basic inclination will be to control your feelings, but don’t be afraid to show them.

LEO — Today you may feel the need to do a lot of work around your home, Leo. Perhaps you expect future visitors or simply want to spruce up the place for yourself. You may need to pace yourself and not try to do everything at once. You could run into difficulties that require help from others who may be unavailable. Control the urge to steamroll through your chores.

VIRGO — Some intense communications with a close friend or lover could reveal wonderful things about your relationship. Perhaps you have more in common than you thought. Maybe your fears and insecurities prove groundless. As

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California Gold Seafood LLC, 208 Mesa Lane, Santa Barbara, CA 93109; CA This business is conducted by Limited Liability Company.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on N/A /s/ Max Diamond, Managing Member This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Santa Barbara County on 07/14/2022.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT, FBN No: 20220001836 First Filing. The following person (s) are doing business as: LINDYWELL, 1221 CHAPALA ST, #7, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93105, County of Santa Barbara.

Full Name(s) of registrants: THE BALANCED LIFE: 5300 ORCHARD PARK LANE, SANTA BARBARA, CA 93111.

This business is conducted by: A CORPORATION, STATE OF INC.: CA. This statement was filed in the office of JOSEPH E. HOLLAND, County Clerk-Recorder of SANTA BARBARA COUNTY on 07/19/2022

by E30, Deputy. The registrant commenced to transact business on: Jul 19, 2022. Statement Expires on: Not Applicable.

NOTICE: This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (See Section 14400, ET SEQ., Business and Profession Code). (SEAL) JUL 27; AUG 3, 10, 17 / 2022--58529

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT, FBN No: 20220001840 First Filing. The following person (s) are doing business as: ONSITE DESIGN, 2131 STANWOOD DR., SANTA BARBARA, CA 93105, County of Santa Barbara. Full Name(s) of registrants: PETER HALE: 2131 STANWOOD DR., SANTA BARBARA, CA 93105. This business is conducted by: AN INDIVIDUAL. This statement was filed in the office of JOSEPH E. HOLLAND, County Clerk-Recorder of SANTA BARBARA COUNTY on 07/20/2022

by E24, Deputy. The registrant commenced to transact business on: Jan 01, 1999.

Statement Expires on: Not Applicable.

NOTICE: This fictitious name statement expires five years from the date it was filed in the office of the County Clerk. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before that time. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under federal, state, or common law (See Section 14400, ET SEQ., Business and Profession Code). (SEAL) JUL 27; AUG 3, 10, 17 / 2022--58525

AMENDED SUMMONS (FAMILY LAW) CITACIÓN (Derecho familiar) NOTICE TO RESPONDENT: Paulina Van’t Riet AVISO AL DEMANDADO: You have been sued.

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Petitioner’s name is: Robert P. Van’t Riet Nombre del demandante: CASE NUMBER (NÚMERO DE CASO): 22FL00404 You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter, phone call, or court appearance will not protect you.

If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs.

For legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. Get help finding a lawyer at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www. courts.ca.gov/selfhelp), at the California Legal Services website (www.lawhelpca.org), or by contacting your local county bar association.

Tiene 30 días de calendario después de haber recibido la entrega legal de esta Citación y Petición para presentar una Respuesta (formulario FL-120) ante la corte y efectuar la entrega legal de una copia al demandante. Una carta o llamada telefónica o una audiencia de la corte no basta para protegerlo.

Si no presenta su Respuesta a tiempo, la corte puede dar órdenes que afecten su matrimonio o pareja de hecho, sus bienes y la custodia de sus hijos. La corte también le puede ordenar que pague manutención, y honorarios y costos legales.

Para asesoramiento legal, póngase en contacto de inmediato con un abogado. Puede obtener información para encontrar un abogado en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en el sitio web de los Servicios Legales de California (www.lawhelpca.org) o poniéndose en contacto con el colegio de abogados de su condado.

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AVISO—LAS ÓRDENES DE RESTRICCIÓN SE ENCUENTRAN EN LA PÁGINA 2: Las órdenes de restricción están en vigencia en cuanto a ambos cónyuges o miembros de la pareja de hecho hasta que se despida la petición, se emita un fallo o la corte dé otras órdenes. Cualquier agencia del orden público que haya recibido o visto una copia de estas órdenes puede hacerlas acatar en cualquier lugar de California.

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1. The name and address of the court are (El nombre y dirección de la corte son): Santa Barbara Superior Court, Anacapa Division 1100 Anacapa Street Santa Barbara, CA 93101 2. The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: (El nombre, dirección y número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante si no tiene abogado, son): Guneet Kaur (SB#304433) 1114 State Street, Suite 222 Santa Barbara, CA 93101 805-500-6731 Date (Fecha): 6/21/2022 Clerk, by (Secretario, por) /s/ Jasmine Franco, Deputy (Asistente) AUG 10, 17, 24, 31 / 2022 -- 58570

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GOLETA CEMETERY DISTRICT NOTICE INVITING SEALED PROPOSALS Entry Road Improvements Project NOTICE OF APPLICATION AND PENDING ACTION BY THE DIRECTOR OF THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT TO: (1) WAIVE THE PUBLIC HEARING ON A MODIFICATION APPLICATION AND (2) APPROVE, CONDITIONALLY APPROVE, OR DENY THE MODIFICATION APPLICATION

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Notice is hereby given that an application for the project described below has been submitted to the Santa Barbara County Planning and Development Department. This project requires the approval and issuance of a Modification application by the Planning and Development Department.

The development requested by this application is under the jurisdiction of the Zoning Administrator and therefore a public hearing on the application is normally required prior to any action to approve, conditionally approve, or deny the application. However, in compliance with the Santa Barbara Land Use and Development Code Section 35.82.130.D.7, the Director intends to waive the public hearing requirement unless a written request for such hearing is submitted by an interested party to the Planning and Development Department within the 15 working days following the Date of Notice listed below. All requests for a hearing must be submitted no later than 5:00 p.m. on the Request for Hearing Expiration Date listed below, to Kevin De Los Santos at Planning and Development, 123 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara 93101-2058, by email at santosk@countyofsb.org, or by fax at (805) 568-2030. If a public hearing is requested, notice of such a hearing will be provided.

WARNING: Failure by a person to request a public hearing may result in the loss of the person’s ability to appeal any action taken by Santa Barbara County on this Modification Application to the County Planning Commission or Board of Supervisors.

If a request for public hearing is not received by 5:00 p.m. on the Request for Hearing Expiration Date listed below, then the Planning and Development Department will act to approve, approve with conditions, or deny the request for a Modification application. At this time it is not known when this action may occur; however, this may be the only notice you receive for this project. To receive additional information regarding this project, including the date the Modification application is approved, and/or to view the application and plans, or to provide comments on the project, please contact Kevin De Los Santos at Planning and Development, 123 E. Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara 93101-2058, or by email at santosk@countyofsb.org, or by phone at (805) 884-8051.

PROPOSAL: LOS ALAMOS FARM PARKING MODIFICATION PROJECT ADDRESS: 285 LESLIE ST, LOS ALAMOS, CA 93440 4th SUPERVISORIAL DISTRICT DATE OF NOTICE: 8/5/2022 REQUEST FOR HEARING EXPIRATION DATE: 8/26/2022 PERMIT NUMBER: 22MOD-00000-00007 APPLICATION FILED: 3/24/2022 ASSESSOR’S PARCEL NO.: 101-143-007 ZONING: C-3 PROJECT AREA: 0.22 PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Applicant: Mark Waier Proposed Project: The project is a request for a Modification to waive the on-site parking requirement for a short-term rental project being processed. The applicant is requesting to permit a short-term rental under an associated Land Use Permit (21LUP-00000-00072). The short-term rental consists of two new structures with a total of four bedrooms. The project site is located in the C-3 Zone and a total of four parking spaces would be required for the project. Parking will instead be accommodated within the Right-of-Way (ROW) by street frontage improvements and the provision of six new angled parking spaces and four parallel parking spaces. The parcel will be served by the Los Alamos Community Water District, a new septic system, and the Santa Barbara County Fire Department. The property is a 0.22-acre parcel zoned General Commercial (C-3) and shown as Assessor’s Parcel Number 101143-007 located at 285 Leslie Street in the Los Alamos area, Fourth Supervisorial District.

APPEALS: The decision of the Director of the Planning and Development Department to approve, conditionally approve, or deny this Modification application 22MOD-00000-00007 may be appealed to the County Planning Commission by the applicant or an aggrieved person. The written appeal must be filed within the h10 calendar days following the date that the Director takes action on this Modification application. To qualify as an “aggrieved person” the appellant must have, in person or through a representative, informed the Planning and Development Department by appropriate means prior to the decision on the Coastal Development Permit of the nature of their concerns, or, for good cause, was unable to do so.

Written appeals must be filed with the Planning and Development Department at either 123 East Anapamu Street, Santa Barbara, 93101, or 624 West Foster Road, Suite C, Santa Maria, 93455, by 5:00 p.m. within the timeframe identified above. In the event that the last day for filing an appeal falls on a non-business day of the County, the appeal may be timely filed on the next business day.

For additional information regarding the appeal process, contact Kevin De Los Santos. The application required to file an appeal may be viewed at or downloaded from:

Notice is hereby given that sealed proposals will be received by the Goleta Cemetery District at the District Office, 44 South San Antonio Road, Santa Barbara, CA 93110, until 2:00 p.m., local time, on Wednesday, August 31, 2022, for the Entry Road Improvements Project. Bids will be publicly opened after said time.

The Plans, Specifications and Proposal Forms for this project are filed in the District office and are by reference made a part of this Notice. Said documents are available at Tri-Co Reprographics www.tricoblue.com, 720 East Haley Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93103 and at various Plan Rooms.

For information concerning bidding documents, call Pete Silvia at (805) 308-9185.

This project includes providing all labor, materials, and equipment for the construction of entry road improvements. The project includes demolition and disposal of AC pavement, curb, curb & gutter, sidewalk, concrete slab, and one large diameter Melaleuca tree. Installation of new curbs, gutters, sidewalk, AC pavement, etc. for update to the cemetery main entrance; realignment of onsite main entry road; upgrades to ADA path of travel; drainage facilities including underground retention chamber; storm drainage improvements along the west property line; façade improvements to the district office including adding a patio & porch covers; removal of utility pole and related undergrounding; associated landscape improvements; and ancillary work as specified and as shown on the Drawings.

Each proposal must be submitted on the proposal form furnished with said documents. Each bid must be accompanied by a bid guarantee in the amount of not less than 10% of the amount bid, payable to the Goleta Cemetery District, and guaranteeing that the bidder will enter into a Contract in accordance with the terms of the bidding documents if award is made. The bid guarantee shall be in one of the following forms: a bid bond written by a satisfactory corporate surety, a cashier’s check drawn by a National Bank, a check certified by a National Bank or cash. The power-ofattorney for the bonding company’s agent should be on file with the Santa Barbara County Clerk.

Said check or bond amount shall be paid to said District, as liquidated damages, in the event the bidder depositing same does not, within fifteen (15) days after written notice from District that the Contract has been awarded to the Bidder: 1) enter into a Contract with the District, and 2) furnish all required insurance documents, a bond of faithful performance and a payment bond as described in the Specifications.

No bidder may withdraw his bid for a period of forty-five (45) days after the date of opening the bids, within which time an award may be made. The District reserves the right to reject any or all bids, or to waive any irregularities or informalities in any bid or in the bidding. Bids are required for the entire work, and the work will be let under a single contract.

The Contractor shall possess a valid State of California Class A, General Architect/Engineering Contractor’s License or California Class B, General Building Contractor’s License at the time of bidding and at the time of signing the Agreement for the work. The Contractor shall provide certification of license and expiration date on the proposal form.

Contractors and subcontractors who bid or work on public works projects must be registered with the California Department of Industrial Relations. [Labor Code Sections 1725.5, 1771.1] Note: This registration with the Department is separate and apart from the Contractors State Licensing process.

The Contractor will be required to furnish a Performance Bond and a Payment Bond, each in the amount of 100% of the Contract price.

Pursuant to the provisions of the Labor Code of the State of California, the Department of Industrial Regulations of the State has ascertained and determined the general prevailing rate of wages for each craft, classification or type of workers needed in the execution of Contracts under the jurisdiction of the Goleta Cemetery District. The schedule of said rates is on file at the District’s office, and is hereby incorporated and made a part thereof the same as though fully set forth herein. The schedule of said rates is available on the internet at http://www.dir.ca.gov/dlsr/PWD/ Southern.html. The Contractor shall post a copy of said document at the job site. The Contractor and any subcontractor under him shall pay not less than the therein specified prevailing rate of per diem wages to all workers employed in the execution of the Contract. The Contractor shall be fully responsible of compliance with Section 1777.5 of the Labor Code concerning the employment of registered apprentices. The project is subject to prevailing wage compliance monitoring and enforcement by the California Department of Industrial Relations.

At the request and expense of the Contractor, securities equivalent to any amount withheld by the District to insure the Contractor’s performance under the Contract shall be deposited with the District, or with a State or Federally-chartered bank as an escrow agent, pursuant to the District’s then existing rules or policies providing for the implementation of the Public Contract Code, Section 22300, legal obligation of District to provide for such arrangements with respect to withheld Contract funds.

By:

___________________________________________ Rick Bower, SDA District Manager Goleta Cemetery District

Date: ___________________________________________ AUG 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 / 2022 -- 58566

https://ca-santabarbaracounty.civicplus.pro/1085/Planning-and-Building-Permit-Application ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Information about this project review process may also be viewed at: https://ca-santabarbaracounty.civicplus.pro/1499/Planning-Permit-Process-Flow-Chart

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Some close Washington primary races remain to be decided

By BRETT DAVIS THE CENTER SQUARE SENIOR REPORTER

(The Center Square) — While most races in the Aug. 2 Washington state primary election have been decided, there are a few close contests where the results remain unclear.

In the race for Washington’s 3rd Congressional District, Republican challenger Joe Kent has, in methodical fashion, overtaken fellow Republican incumbent U.S. Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler.

Monday evening ballot tallies from the Secretary of State’s Office showed Mr. Kent, endorsed by former President Donald Trump, with 47,623 votes (22.79%) to the congresswoman’s 46,663 votes (22.33%) — a margin of 960 votes.

The former Green Beret had trailed Rep. Beutler by some 5,000 votes on election night with tens of thousands of ballots remaining to be counted.

The two candidates are contending for the second and final spot on the Nov. 8 ballot. Democrat Marie Gluesenkamp Perez has already secured the top position with 64,718 votes, or 30.97% of the

ballots counted so far.

The Evergreen State’s top-two primary allows voters to choose among all candidates running for office. That means the two candidates who receive the most votes during the primary election will move on to the general election, regardless of party affiliation.

(California uses a similar approach.)

Adding to the electoral drama is the fact that Rep. Beutler is one of two House Republicans from Washington who bucked their party and voted for Mr. Trump’s impeachment over the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. The other is U.S. Rep. Dan Newhouse, who represents Washington’s 4th Congressional District.

Rep. Newhouse defeated Trumpendorsed challenger Loren Culp last week and will advance to the general election. Mr. Culp, who came in third place in the primary, ran for governor of Washington as a Republican in 2020, losing to Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee.

Primary election results will be certified Aug. 19.

Brett Davis covers the Washington state government for The Center Square.

North Carolina Green Party candidates hit the campaign trail after federal court ruling ByVICTOR SKINNER THE CENTER SQUARE CONTRIBUTOR

(The Center Square) — Green Party candidates are forging ahead with campaigns for the U.S. Senate and the North Carolina Senate following a recent federal court ruling that puts them back on the ballot.

“We won against the Democratic Party establishment’s scheme to sabotage our campaign for working people,” Matthew Hoh, Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate, posted to Twitter. “Now let’s win this race and make history!”

U.S. District Court Judge James C. Devers on Friday ordered the State Board of Elections to include Mr. Hoh and state Senate candidate Michael Tredeau on the November ballot, assuming they submit the proper paperwork by today.

The decision follows a 4-0 vote by the State Board of Elections on Aug. 1 to recognize the party as an official party in the state. The vote reversed the board’s June 30 decision, in which Democrats on the state board outvoted Republicans 3-2 to exclude the party from the midterm ballot over “questions” about signatures verified by county boards of elections, despite the party submitting 2,000 more signatures than required.

The June 30 vote stemmed from a campaign by the Elias Law Group, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and others to pressure those who signed the Green Party petitions to remove their support, alleging Mr. Hoh would siphon votes from the Democratic candidate, former state Supreme Court Chief Justice Cheri Beasley.

Ms. Beasley is in a tight race with Republican U.S. Rep. Ted Budd for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by U.S. Sen. Richard Burr. Libertarian candidate Shannon Bray is also in the race. The only poll including all candidates, conducted on behalf of the John Locke Foundation in midJune, showed Rep. Budd with 45% of likely voters, Ms. Beasley with 40%, Mr. Bray with 3% and Mr. Hoh with 1%.

The Green Party sued in federal

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Continued from Page A1 Mayorkas said. “MPP not only undercuts the administration’s ability to implement critically needed and foundational changes to the immigration system, it fails to provide the fair process and humanitarian protections that individuals deserve under the law.”

Republicans, such as U.S. Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., disagreed with Mr. Mayorkas, saying that ending the policy will lead to increased illegal immigration to the United States.

“This will only incentivize more illegal immigration and make the #BidenBorderCrisis worse,” Rpe. Stefanik said on Twitter.

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, added that the policy helped strengthen the border, and rescinding it will exacerbate the

court following the June 30 State Board of Elections vote, while the Elias Law Group and Democrats sued in state court when the board reversed course. In his decision on Friday, Judge Devers asserted federal jurisdiction in the case, though it remains unclear whether the state board will appeal the ruling.

“This important legal victory comes on the heels of unprecedented voter intimidation, harassment and fraud perpetrated by well financed partisan operatives to keep us off the ballot,” said Anthony Ndege, co-chair of the North Carolina Green Party.

“There is a reason why unaffiliated voters have become the largest voting block in our state. People are dissatisfied with the non-solutions of the politics of fear and division.

They are hungry for new ideas and solutions.”

Mr. Hoh told The Pulse he plans to spend the last 100 days of the campaign connecting with those voters.

“We plan on continuing to reach out to those most impacted and indeed, left behind, due to the policies of the Democratic and Republican parties,” Mr. Hoh said.

“We look forward to showing up and reaching out to those fed up with the two-party system.”

In the meantime, the state board will continue its criminal investigation into “obvious signs of fraud” by contractors who collected signatures on behalf of the Green Party, State Board of Elections Chairman Damon Circosta said.

“Through this process, we have learned that this agency must review any future attempts at recognition very carefully to ensure petition campaigns abide by the law. We also plan to recommend legislative changes aimed at ensuring those who commit fraud in the signature collection process can be easily identified and brought to justice,” Mr. Circosta said in a statement following the board’s Aug. 1 decision. “Make no mistake: The criminal investigations into those individuals who perpetrated fraud on this process will continue, and we will refer those cases to prosecutors if warranted by evidence.”

ongoing crises.

“President Biden is enabling the narco slave trade,” Sen. Cruz said.

“Remain in Mexico helped secure our border.”

The DHS said it will provide additional information in the coming days and that individuals currently enrolled in MPP should follow instructions for their appointed court date.

As more migrants arrive at the United States border, states are deciding to take matters into their own hands, with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott busing migrants from Texas to Washington, D.C., and New York City.

“The federal government’s refusal to address the border crisis is what’s truly ‘horrific,’” Gov. Abbott said .“Texas will send buses to Washington, D.C., (and) New York City until Biden does his constitutional duty (and) secures our border.”