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The Stench of Mediocrity Denies Claims of Meritocracy

By Scott Wenz

Dec 04, 2025
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A quick review of traffic planning in South County Santa Barbara is a history of failure.

The anti-car groups, coalescing around the Santa Barbara Channel oil rig failure, picked up their drums and stated that industrial technology – across the board – was killing the State of California and the World in general. The chant was (as far as I could tell) “K…

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