The new year is the perfect time to stay healthy against COVID-19
As we settle into the new year, COVID-19 continues to evolve and change. Public health experts continue to track the emergence of additional strains of COVID-19, underscoring the importance of choosing to protect yourself and others from COVID-19 and the flu. Two years after the rollout of the vaccine, California has administered over 87 million Read More →
Dubroff: Amgen layoffs highlight “the new reality for modern businesses
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Jaywalking is now legal, but Californians still need to be cautious
Californians woke up the morning of Jan. 1 with the right to legally jaywalk – an activity many already engaged in regularly. The “Freedom to Walk Act,” (AB 2147) signed by Gov. Gavin Newsom in September, reverses one of the strictest jaywalking laws in the country. For decades, pedestrians crossing against the light or outside Read More →
Reflection and gratitude from Sansum medical director
January 20th marked three years since the first laboratory-confirmed case of COVID-19 was detected in the United States, followed a few short months later with the World Health Organization and CDC’s declaration of a global pandemic. At the time, none of us could have imagined how much our lives would be upended, or for how Read More →
Dubroff: The Central Coast has largely avoided scary tech layoffs
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Our view: General plan falls short when it comes to housing
When it comes to housing, Santa Barbara County seems determined to underpromise and underdeliver. That’s our takeaway from the latest update to the housing element in the county’s general plan – one that purports to meet state mandates for housing in unincorporated county areas through 2031. That there is a plan at all owes a debt Read More →
Vaccines remain the safest path against COVID-19, especially for POC
Let me be clear, I am not a COVID-19 expert. I am a researcher, a hospital administrator and a Person of Color (POC). I don’t consider myself a typical essential worker. I am vaccinated and I’ve caught COVID-19 and experienced the internal mental pervasive fear associated with not knowing what physiological outcomes I would encounter Read More →
