<![CDATA[Santa Barbara Current : Letters]]>https://www.sbcurrent.com/s/letterhttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!gkEc!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fb12566a2-32fd-437b-83c9-577458a3abd2_132x132.pngSanta Barbara Current : Lettershttps://www.sbcurrent.com/s/letterSubstackSat, 11 Apr 2026 16:02:23 GMT<![CDATA[Letters to the Editor]]>https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-e13https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-e13Thu, 12 Feb 2026 14:30:55 GMT

(This week we feature four letters from SBCurrent supporters and/or contributors, two from our editorial board whose experience of the first Spotlight Santa Barbara event activated their responses, both positive and negative. We always encourage readers to add comments to a column that had some impact. If you’d like to contribute your thoughts as a Lett…

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]]><![CDATA[Letters to the Editor]]>https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-cbahttps://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-cbaWed, 28 Jan 2026 14:31:44 GMT

The Extraordinary Talent of Julian Nott

NASA’s Scientific Ballooning Handbook 50th Anniversary Edition has just been published. In its dedication, my late husband, Julian Nott, is identified as one of the leaders in the field. I’ve sent you this edited version of that dedication. I am so proud of him, and he would have been over the moon with this genero…

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]]><![CDATA[Letters to the Editor]]>https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-6c0https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-6c0Thu, 08 Jan 2026 14:30:18 GMT

(The following is just a trickle of some of the many comments, observations, claims, and suggestions received by Santa Barbara Current, a publication that is reader supported and receives no direct or indirect USAID or nonprofit funding. To enhance your reading experience, please follow the Comment thread that appears immediately after each column. If y…

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]]><![CDATA[Letters to the Editor]]>https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-486https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-486Thu, 10 Apr 2025 13:31:33 GMT

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

Edited by Jim Buckley

(The following is just a trickle of some of the many comments, observations, claims, and suggestions received by Santa Barbara Current, a publication that is reader supported and receives no direct or indirect USAID or nonprofit funding. To enhance your reading experience, please follow the Comment thread that a…

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]]><![CDATA[Letters to the Editor]]>https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-c8dhttps://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-c8dSat, 22 Mar 2025 13:31:26 GMT

(The following is just a trickle of some of the many comments, observations, claims, and suggestions received by Santa Barbara Current, a publication that is reader supported and receives no direct or indirect USAID or nonprofit funding. To enhance your reading experience, please follow the Comment thread that appears immediately after each column. If y…

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]]><![CDATA[Letters to the Editor]]>https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-ac3https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-ac3Mon, 10 Mar 2025 14:40:15 GMT

(The following is just a trickle of some of the many comments, observations, claims, and suggestions received by Santa Barbara Current, a publication that is reader supported and receives no direct or indirect USAID or nonprofit funding. To enhance your reading experience, please follow the Comment thread that appears immediately after each column. If y…

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]]><![CDATA[Letters to the Editor]]>https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-d0fhttps://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-d0fSat, 22 Feb 2025 14:30:59 GMT

(The following is just a trickle of some of the many comments, observations, claims, and suggestions received by Santa Barbara Current, a publication that receives no direct or indirect USAID or nonprofit funding. To enhance your reading experience, please follow the Comment thread that appears immediately after each column. If you’d like to contribute …

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]]><![CDATA[Letters to the Editor]]>https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-1b5https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-1b5Sat, 15 Feb 2025 14:30:15 GMT

(The following is just a trickle of some of the many comments, observations, claims, and suggestions received by Santa Barbara Current, a publication that is reader supported and receives no direct or indirect USAID or nonprofit funding. To enhance your reading experience, please follow the Comment thread that appears immediately after each column. If y…

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]]><![CDATA[Letters to the Editor]]>https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-a20https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-a20Sat, 08 Feb 2025 14:30:59 GMT

(The following is just a trickle of some of the many comments, observations, claims, and suggestions received by Santa Barbara Current, a publication which is reader supported and receives no direct or indirect USAID or nonprofit funding. To enhance your reading enjoyment, please follow the Comment thread that appears immediately after each column. If y…

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]]><![CDATA[Letters to the Editor]]>https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-418https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-418Wed, 23 Oct 2024 14:07:31 GMT

In addition to the presidential contest being waged between Donald J. Trump and the D.C. establishment (fronted by Vice President Kamala Harris), there is at least one more issue that has taken hold in the Santa Barbara area. While we know that Mr. Trump has little chance of prevailing among Santa Barbarians, defeat of the SBCC bond boondoggle called “M…

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]]><![CDATA[Letters to the Editor]]>https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-514https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-514Wed, 04 Sep 2024 15:10:31 GMT

(The Comment section after every featured article is always active with opinion, but often we received letters via e-mail that never appear as Comments. What follows are a selection of those recent missives.)

 Repeat the Sounding Joy

Mainstream journalists have been even more insufferable than usual since Kamala Harris sent a thrill up their legs. Like a …

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]]><![CDATA[Letters to the Editor]]>https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-a70https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-a70Mon, 12 Aug 2024 13:46:25 GMT
At bat. Courtesy SteveGarvey.com

No DEI at Olympic Games

Part of the modern world goes on pause during the Olympics. The stunning performances by young athletes who have dedicated their lives to perfecting their skills belies the new cult of equity. Equity translates into mediocrity as evident when we see it applied in academia and government.

Unfortunatel…

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]]><![CDATA[Letters to the Editor]]>https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-146https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-146Fri, 02 Aug 2024 12:30:58 GMT

(The Comment section after every featured article is always active with opinion, but occasionally we run letters that SBCurrent receives via e-mail and never appear as Comments. What follows are two of those recent missives.)

Too Gross, Too Depraved, Too Sad

For me, the Opening Ceremonies stained, tarnished, and diminished the 2024 Olympics.

The whole prod…

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]]><![CDATA[Letters to the Editor]]>https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-39dhttps://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-39dSat, 06 Jul 2024 13:31:19 GMT

The Willful Ignorance of the Press

Since the founding of our country, never has there been a time when news of current events spread so quickly. No longer is print our main source of information; now social media by computer or smart phone bombard us with the latest news, almost before it happens.
    Our challenge is discerning truth from mis- or dis-inf…

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]]><![CDATA[Letters to the Editor]]>https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-51fhttps://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-51fTue, 18 Jun 2024 13:30:35 GMT

The Comment section after every featured article is always active with opinion, but occasionally we run letters that SBCurrent receives via e-mail and never appear as Comments. What follows are some of those missives.

Leftist Radical Administrators in Charge

It’s never a good idea to negotiate with Islamic radicals or their supporters. 

But that’s exactly …

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]]><![CDATA[Letters to the Editor]]>https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-f0ahttps://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-f0aSat, 08 Jun 2024 13:31:05 GMT

Political Prostitution of Government Officials

What the heck is happening with elected government?

Talk with most voters, and they expect – at a minimum – that the people they vote for are supposed to be neutral and make decisions based on facts. The same voters want the appointed (hired) government employees to also be neutral.

What is that supposed to me…

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]]><![CDATA[Call Me Old Fashioned]]>https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/call-me-old-fashionedhttps://www.sbcurrent.com/p/call-me-old-fashionedTue, 23 Apr 2024 13:30:36 GMT
Tattooed hipster Barbie. Image: Mattel

 I imagine that for many families who got together over Easter weekend there were some valuable teaching moments. Our family was no exception, when I lived with my husband, in Montecito.

Our daughter, son-in law, and three boys (twins aged seven and an eighteen-month-old) braved the traffic from Pacific Palisades, …

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]]><![CDATA[Letters to the Editor]]>https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-304https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-304Mon, 15 Apr 2024 13:30:50 GMT

(Our plan was the hope that letters would be handled via the “Comments” section after each featured SBCurrent article, but something tells us that the over 100 comments my last piece (Purely Political: It’s the Women, Stupid! ) received [including a half dozen responses from me] was too much to cover. Instead, the new plan is to pluck a few treasured mi…

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]]><![CDATA[Shunned at Shen Yun at the Granada ]]>https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/shunned-at-shen-yun-at-the-granadahttps://www.sbcurrent.com/p/shunned-at-shen-yun-at-the-granadaWed, 10 Apr 2024 13:30:47 GMT

On Sunday March 24, I attended the afternoon Shen Yun performance at the Granada Theatre in Santa Barbara.

The weekend before there had been bomb threats called in to the theatre in Costa Mesa where they were performing, so every attendee at the Granada was checked with a wand and pockets emptied, a TSA style search. The performing arts company is largel…

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]]><![CDATA[Letters to the Editor]]>https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-ae2https://www.sbcurrent.com/p/letters-to-the-editor-ae2Wed, 21 Feb 2024 14:01:47 GMT
Smiling Judge Engoron.

New York’s Queen of Hearts Witch Hunt

Brent Zepke’s piece on the Alice in Wonderland “trial” held in New York City that ended up delivering former President Donald Trump a whopping $355 million fine and banishment (for three years) from doing business in New York created an entertaining spate of letters, some of which we have printe…

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