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What's Greener: Cute Little Buildings, or Big Tall Ones?

Santa Barbara Independent | March 18, 2008

The city of Santa Barbara is embracing the philosophy of "smart growth" and mixed-use high-rises as an alternative to sprawl, but not without some fights.

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Federal Homeless Official Tours Santa Barbara Housingnew

Philip Mangano, executive director of the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness, is on a multi-city tour of the US touting permanent housing as the solution to homelessness that will relegate it to the dustbin of history.

Santa Barbara Independent | Martha Sadler | 07-14-2008 | Housing & Development

Tags: homelessness, Homeless, Santa Barbara, housing & development, permanent housing, U.S. Interagnecy Council on Homelessness

Her Mother's Daughternew

Chelsea Clinton, 27-year-old daughter of would-be president Senator Hillary Clinton and former president Bill Clinton, wowed even Obama campaign volunteers with her detailed understanding of the issues.

Santa Barbara Independent | Martha Sadler | 02-04-2008 | Politics

Carl's Jr. Takes First Step Away from Factory Farmingnew

Prodded by PETA, the fast-food chain has promised to immediately begin purchasing 15 percent of its pork from suppliers who do not use "gestation crates," increasing that to 25 percent by July 2008.

Santa Barbara Independent | Martha Sadler | 10-09-2007 | Animal Issues

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Heartbreak and Hope in Lesbosnew

A Santa Barbara couple is on front lines of refugee crisis on the Greek island of Lesbos.

Santa Barbara Independent | Tyler Hayden | 03-10-2016 | Immigration

How Did 2,500 Barrels of Oil Escape Into the Pacific Ocean Without Notice?new

One of the big surprises to emerge out of the Refugio Oil Spill is that the pipeline owned by Plains All American Pipeline is the only one in all of Santa Barbara County not to have an automatic shut-off valve. Not coincidentally, it happens to be the only pipeline over which the county Energy Division has no safety and inspection oversight authority.

Full Coverage:
Huge Oversight Gap on Refugio Pipeline
What Will the Refugio Oil Spill Kill?
The Mysterious Case of the Automatic Shutoff Valve

Santa Barbara Independent | Nick Welsh, Tyler Hayden and Brandon Fastman | 06-11-2015 | Environment