When it comes to wasteful government spending, it’s hard to find a worse case in recent memory than the $200,000 the Santa Barbara City Council is spending to study a 2% cap on residential rents. Such a cap would be one of the most onerous in the nation. It is astonishing to think that after Read More →
By Benjamin J. Cohen As tensions between Russia and Ukraine continue to escalate, a bipartisan group of United States senators is coming closer to finalizing legislation that would impose strict sanctions on top Russian officials. Benjamin Cohen, a distinguished professor emeritus of political science at UC Santa Barbara and an expert in international political economy, Read More →
Bestselling author Michael Lewis will keynote the 17th annual Westmont College President’s Breakfast on March 4 at the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort. Lewis is best known for “Moneyball,” “The Big Short” and “The Blind Side,” but his pandemic book, “The Premonition” made prescient calls about COVID-19 and it made a hero out of Charity Read More →
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Goleta-based Deckers Brands saw revenue increase more than 10% in the third quarter of its 2021-22 fiscal year, beating analysts’ expectations in both revenue and net income with its Feb. 3 earnings release. Deckers’ revenue hit $1.18 billion for the quarter ended Dec. 31, its largest figure ever for a single quarter, CEO David Powers Read More →