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The New Santa Barbara

Lucia Camp, News Editor June 4, 2023

According to Zillow, the median home price in the city of Santa Barbara is 1,828,719 dollars, an increase of 12.3 percent in the past year. This change is unsustainable and speaks for the mass migration...

Is the idealized version of an American neighborhood sustaining the wealth gap?

Housing Hypocrisy

Luca D'Agruma and Hanna Masri April 22, 2022

Not in my backyard!” is the rallying cry of suburban homeowners, elderly progressives, and California Democrats alike. Known as NIMBYs, a pejorative acronym that’s used to describe those who oppose...

A peek into Elizabeth Colling at work at her cafe, Merci Montecito.

Pandemic Perseverance

Milla Hirsch and Jinling Wang February 7, 2022

From March 2020 to January 2021, close to 40,000 restaurants closed in California. The road to normalcy has been rocky, and an end is still far from sight.  The National Academy of Sciences states...

Royalty in Montecito

Royalty in Montecito

Daisy Finefrock, Co-Editor-in-Chief January 26, 2021

Montecito is known for many things, but English Royalty isn’t what first comes to mind. When Duke Harry and Duchess Meghan Markle announced their departure from the royal family in early...

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