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SB Unified & CSEA Make Significant Progress on Reclassification Process Language
Interesting that SBunified cut many CSEA jobs recently while also celebrating the classified employee appreciation week recently. I can't imagine that those cuts helped the negotiation process.
Op-Ed: After Losing Population in Recent Years, California is Starting to Grow Again. Is that a Good Thing?
California and the U.S. will be very different in the next 10-15 years when the boomers die and millennials/GenZ continue have less kids later in life. Working remotely will continue and likely become the new normal making it easier to live anywhere. I predict California will always have a high population due to our amazing weather, scenery, progressive policies, and laidback lifestyle but it will never be "affordable" and people will continue to seek out other areas for that.
Restaurant Roundup: Trattoria Vittoria Announces Closure, Oyster Bar to Open on the Wharf, and More!
The comments on edhat's instagram over the closure of trattoria are very intense. Looks like there has been some family drama or issues with the owners . https://www.instagram.com/p/C7Ak4yCRVes/
The state of State: What Would it Take to Rescue Santa Barbara’s State Street?
Tax underutilized streetfront properties, so landlords don't have incentive to leave them unoccupied as a writeoff.
California Republicans want to Take Financial Aid from Protesters if they were Violent
DOULIE - What Republicans were "exiled?"
The state of State: What Would it Take to Rescue Santa Barbara’s State Street?
Glad to see that the city council voted down the staff proposal to reduce free parking to 15 minutes. That would have been another nail in the coffin for downtown. Sounded like staff was only concern with keeping their jobs, looking for the citizens to pay the $7M revenue shortfall.
California Republicans want to Take Financial Aid from Protesters if they were Violent
Longtime - How many democrats did Trump jail or were exiled during his presidency? Did all positive results that Trump completed during his presidency only impact republicans, or all Americans, including democrats? Did you benefit by anything president Trump did while he was in office? It appears you are "crying" now. I guess Trump resting in your head does hurt.
California Republicans want to Take Financial Aid from Protesters if they were Violent
Thanks, absolutely this is all red meat for the right wing extremists who are constantly trying to stoke fear for their constant pursuit of power and their love of chaos in service of that. But the reaction to the right wing narrative that this is all driven buy anti-semites and shadowy foreign influenced forces creates a knee jerk response on the left to deny that yes, there is anti-semitism at work among the protesters. Not all of them, not even many of them IMO, but if you take a group of a thousand college protesters and you poll them on "Jews" you are going to find that they will mirror society and then they will bake that very deeply ingrained bigotry into their protests, sometimes not even consciously but sometimes absolutely with intent where they won't necessarily say it out loud, but they will construct their arguments with elements of anti-semitic tropes.
California Republicans want to Take Financial Aid from Protesters if they were Violent
GERRY - agreed 100%
California Republicans want to Take Financial Aid from Protesters if they were Violent
ALEX - sorry, I'm not trying to downplay what I know to be very real and disgraceful antisemitism in our country and throughout the world. I was just curious as I keep hearing (mostly from the right) that these student protesters are hateful and antisemitic, but haven't seen too many actual specific instances other than the outside agitators who are exploiting the situation for their own gruesome opinions. Any student espousing such hatred should be sanctioned in some way, depending on the circumstances. Absolutely.
California Republicans want to Take Financial Aid from Protesters if they were Violent
Some people are happy to follow a pied piper, even when he's monochrome orange and blatantly manipulative of people with weak mentalities.
California Republicans want to Take Financial Aid from Protesters if they were Violent
And you use the cover of Jewish protesters to deny and ignore the rampant Jew hate that is spilling out because you're scared you might be a victim of it.
California Republicans want to Take Financial Aid from Protesters if they were Violent
My comment was based on a recent PBS news story where reporters interviewed protesters from around the country. When asked what they were protesting, most spoke of the "genocide" that Israel is committing with the help of the U.S. But far too many simply blamed "the Jews." (The rise of antisemitic sloganeering and attacks on campuses reflect this. One campus tent city had a Nazi flag next to the Palestinian - an outlier, I realize, but still unnerving.) I neglected to mention in my comment the many Jewish students and other Jewish Americans are supporting and participating in the protests, along with the protests within Israel. I do, too, if the goal is truly peace. My point was that the protests should be focused more on achieving a ceasefire and an ultimate two-state solution and removing Netanyahu (as Israeli protesters are trying to do), than drawing the American presidential race into it. It's not Biden's support of Israel; it's America's long-standing commitment to an ally. If we abandon that commitment, what will America's other commitments to our NATO allies and others be worth? I'm not saying we should support Israel blindly (and Biden is not), but they were attacked, and our policy is complicated, to say the least. Still, by calling Biden a "supporter of genocide" (which many of those interviewed did) the protesters only help Trump, who fully supports what Netanyahu is doing.
California Republicans want to Take Financial Aid from Protesters if they were Violent
These absolutes are not meaningful. I guarantee that, within the groups of student protesters there are people who believe and espouse Jew hatred. How many? No one knows. Is it the majority? I don't think so. But it's plenty. And it's enough to spread fear throughout the Jewish student community. So just acknowledge that this is real and stop trying to discount or downplay the fact that Jewish people are experiencing the highest levels of Anti-Semitism in many many years. Personally, as I have stated many times, I oppose the current Israeli administration. But I'm not going to join these protests because, quite simply, although most of the protesters are probably not Jew haters they are marching side by side with people who absolutely are.
Op-Ed: After Losing Population in Recent Years, California is Starting to Grow Again. Is that a Good Thing?
"The new data raise an old question: Is California better off with an increasing population or do the demands of more people just make things more complicated by increasing competition for jobs, housing and other necessities of life?" This seems to be the perpetual argument. One reads many comments on Edhat in which the writers lament the good old days, when SB was less crowded, life was simpler, etc. I read the same laments about other places. I grew up in Orange County during the 60's and watched all the ag land get plowed under to build houses and it seemed there was less pressure due to crowding back then. I read this over and over again, about all parts of California. When I was a kid, the Central Valley was "the breadbasket" of the country. A significant portion of that ag land has been lost to development also. People lament these changes, but they also lament the loss of a congressional seat due to California's population not keeping pace with other parts of the country. I think there has to be a new paradigm that is based upon stability (or managed retreat) rather than growth. We can't continue to grow forever. I remember hearing Andy Caldwell state that the population of the entire world could live in an area the size of Texas, as an argument for continued growth. Imagine what the quality those cramped lives would be like, with lack of fresh air, recreational spaces, abundant nature, etc.
California Republicans want to Take Financial Aid from Protesters if they were Violent
LOLZ. All you weirdos have is hate. Trump doesn't hurt me. In fact I benefit from his economic positions and policies designed to place the burden on the middle class and scrape every penny possible for the higher net worth folks. But I know exactly what he is. I've known it for a long time. I know people that have been in his orbit from back in the 1980s and 90s. I know someone that was literally offered money by him to try and blackmail an innocent person--surprise, surprise, an attractive woman who rejected him. I know that he is nothing but a black hole of total power hunger. People who blind themselves to what the man is are quite pathetic.
California Republicans want to Take Financial Aid from Protesters if they were Violent
Also, if Trump didn't MAGA his first term, how do you expect him to do it his second term? I mean, if you folks are still whimpering MAGAMAGAMAGA, then he clearly failed his first time around....
California Republicans want to Take Financial Aid from Protesters if they were Violent
DOULIE - can you define "MAGA?" Not what it stands for, but when it was? When was America "great?"
California Republicans want to Take Financial Aid from Protesters if they were Violent
Indeed. I'm a Jew opposed to (many of) Israel's actions and policies.
California Republicans want to Take Financial Aid from Protesters if they were Violent
"Are the protesters anti-Israel, or pro-Palestine?" They're against the ongoing slaughter. "but have decided that “Jews” are the enemy" Nonsense ... a large fraction of the protesters are Jewish. "They conveniently ignore the mass protests against Netanyahu within Israel itself." The protests against Netanyahu are not generally against the slaughter, but against how he has managed it and not brought the hostages back (they don't care about the hundreds of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails under bogus or no charges). Also against his corruption--his fraud trial has been ongoing since 2019. I agree with most of the rest.