If cases of COVID-19 are traced to a business that has openly operated in violation of local, state, and Centers for Disease Control guidelines for COVID-19 safety, can the patrons of those businesses who contract COVID-19 or the families of those who die from COVID-19 sue those businesses for pain, suffering, loss, or wrongful death? […]
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A coming flood in Oceano
In the debate about whether ATVs should be allowed to tear up environmentally sensitive habitat and run over endangered birds in the Oceano dunes, or whether a moneyed Central Valley tradition should trump the rights of disadvantaged locals to a safe beach and clean air, there’s one significant point that’s largely overlooked. Operation of the […]
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Regarding ‘Reflections on the “New World”‘
Very well said! Thank you for publishing it (Dec. 10)! The vast majority of us are immigrants, mostly back decades. My family arrived here about 1700 so I’m an Irish American like those those that arrived here from Africa. We call them African Americans, even though 99 percent have never been there or speak any […]
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Ridiculous ridicule
How would you like to be laughed at by a sitting Santa Barbara County supervisor? No, not in private, silly. In the middle of a public meeting. Sounds awesome, right? Wrong. Santa Barbara County Public Health Officer Dr. Henning Ansorg certainly didn’t like it when 4th District Supervisor Peter Adam laughed at him on Dec. […]
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Protest for the clowns
Somehow it escapes the attention of those people who have deprived us of our liberty and freedom that 99.98 percent of positive COVID cases recover. I’m checking now—since this bloody panic (yes, I meant panic) began several months ago, 12,000 cases have been confirmed and 138 deaths reported in Santa Barbara County, which has half […]
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The governor stole Christmas this year, was it in the name of science or politics?
When I was a young man, I bought several Dr. Seuss books to help teach my children how to read. These were wonderful little stories, cleverly illustrated with words young children could easily learn in a few minutes each evening. One of the characters was a cynical grump Seuss named “Grinch” who wanted to steal […]
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The Canary doesn’t get to make up its own facts
Where do I start with the Canary’s Nov. 26 rant, “Way out there”? While this tweety bird is entitled to its opinion, it’s not entitled to its own facts. First there is the fowl’s assertion that the 24th Congressional District “has been blue for its entire existence”; that is patently false (see the 24th District’s […]
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SoCal-ish
I guess now’s the time for the Central Coast to really come into its own. While Northern Californians like Gov. Gavin Newsom obviously think Santa Barbara and SLO counties are so SoCal, rebellion is brewing. All thanks to the most recent iteration of California’s last-minute COVID-19 guidelines. While the state was split into counties for […]
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America should now own and turn from its brutal past
Anthropology teaches us that our earliest ancestors were in constant migration on the hunt and search for food in order to survive. About 30,000 years ago, our early ancestors began migrating across the Bering Strait. Between 15,000 to 20,000 years ago, these first migrants continued their journey into what’s now the Americas. Fast forward […]
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Kick, kick!
Nothing like kicking a man when he’s down. Solvang Mayor Ryan Toussaint reveled in it on Nov. 30, verbally chastising recalled City Councilmember Chris Djernaes at a special meeting meant to accept the vote to kick the dude out of office. Nearly 90 percent of Solvang residents who voted in the November election, opted to […]
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Renew your efforts to stay masked
This week kicks of the fall and winter holiday season, amid a doubling of COVID-19 case numbers across Santa Barbara County. This alarming trend is also reflected nationally and globally. As health care workers on the front lines and as educators eager to see students back in the classroom, we are making a sincere plea […]
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Make President Trump the man of the past four years
President Donald Trump is this year’s—in fact for the past four years—Man of the Year. Not since the likes of Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, and Theodore Roosevelt has any president taken to heart the words in the oath of office. Dismantling the runaway bureaucracy created by past administrations as they abdicated their responsibilities to unelected special […]
