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Op-Ed: After Losing Population in Recent Years, California is Starting to Grow Again. Is that a Good Thing?
LOL! Yeah, it may be getting a population boost, but no where to live, no viable high wages (lots of P/T entry level jobs and even those are leaving) BUT, they CAN access all the Social welfare, EBT, housing, lifetime medical (FREE only if you are here ILLEGALLY until the age of 68-) and a ton of other taxpayer supported Subsidies ... Problem is, there are fewer and fewer significant taxPAYERs that are staying in CA----You can't juice a turnip!
California Republicans want to Take Financial Aid from Protesters if they were Violent
It's pointless to talk sense with the senseless
The state of State: What Would it Take to Rescue Santa Barbara’s State Street?
WHY isn't there a vacancy tax?
Op-Ed: After Losing Population in Recent Years, California is Starting to Grow Again. Is that a Good Thing?
I don't see the author blaming caldwell, I see it as pointing out another idiotic thing he's said to his small pack of local idiots. But the sky is not falling on the population topic Basic, we should be more concerned about climate change and preserving resources.
Op-Ed: SB County Advances on Literacy Reform but California Teachers Union Tanks Statewide Bill
Unions aren’t always good.
Op-Ed: After Losing Population in Recent Years, California is Starting to Grow Again. Is that a Good Thing?
Blaming Caldwell? Uuhh, no. Growth is the Newsom philosophy, not the Caldwell. You haven’t seen what’s about to go down around here?
Preapproved ADU Program for City of Santa Barbara
This is a great idea to streamline to the add building process.
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.