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Oct 28, 2024 | 
independent.com | Callie Fausey |Leslie Dinaberg |Caitlin Scialla |Nick Welsh
When Yazmín Vega Escalera opened her laptop on April 9, 2024, it was still dark outside. Officially, her workday wouldn’t start for another three hours, but this was no day to sleep in. Yazmín was worried. The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) deadline was fast approaching, and her students and their families were feeling lost and overwhelmed.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
independent.com | Caitlin Scialla |Hadeel Eljarrari |Nick Welsh
“I want to live in this space” was my first reaction when I walked into Godmothers, the bookstore and gathering space that took Summerland — and the Internet — by storm in September.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
independent.com | Sonia Fernandez |Andrew Masuda |Caitlin Scialla |Tyler Hayden
Dr. Jennifer Doudna Talks Editing Genes and Shredding Cancer UCSB Arts & Lectures, Cancer Foundation of S.B. Host Nobel Prize–Winning Biochemist for Talk on CRISPR Dr. Jennifer Doudna, a UC Berkeley Biochemist, will be in Santa Barbara on Tuesday to shed light on the gene-editing technology that is shedding cancer cells.
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Oct 11, 2024 | 
independent.com | George Yatchisin |Caitlin Scialla |Watsuki Harrington |Isabelle Walker
Taylor Jaimes of Sauler Institute, specializing in medical tattoo services. | Photo: CourtesyLocated in MiraMed and Day Spa on State Street, Sauler Institute of Tattooing is not your regular tattoo parlor. Instead of designs or sleeves, Sauler Institute offers a more unique and uncommon service: medical tattooing. Medical tattooing is a corrective and restorative aesthetic procedure used to restore the look of certain body parts.
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Oct 10, 2024 | 
independent.com | Tessa Reeg |Caitlin Scialla |Nick Welsh |Jackson Friedman
This edition of All Booked was originally emailed to subscribers on October 8, 2024. To receive our literary newsletter in your inbox, sign up at independent.com/newsletters.
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Oct 8, 2024 | 
independent.com | Caitlin Scialla |Ryan Cruz |Nick Welsh
As Extreme Heat Rises, Newsom Blocks Bill to Protect California Farmworkers Legislation Would Have Made It Easier for California Farmworkers to File Workers’ Comp Claims for Heat Illness By Alejandra Reyes-Velarde, CalMatters Tue Oct 08, 2024 | 11:27am Add to Favorites Farmworkers work on a field outside of Mendota in Fresno County on July 12, 2023. | Credit: Larry Valenzuela, CalMatters/CatchLight Local The Santa Barbara Independent republishes stories from CalMatters.org on state and local...
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
independent.com | Caitlin Scialla |Ryan Cruz |Leslie Dinaberg |Tyler Hayden
The Santa Barbara Independent republishes stories from CalMatters.org on state and local issues impacting readers in Santa Barbara County.
California health workers this month will finally get a long-promised minimum wage increase.
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Oct 4, 2024 | 
independent.com | Callie Fausey |Nick Welsh |Caitlin Scialla |Leslie Dinaberg
The Santa Barbara Independent republishes stories from CalMatters.org on state and local issues impacting readers in Santa Barbara County.
The California Senate leader, who struck up a surprising public spat with Gov. Gavin Newsom over his special session on gasoline price spikes, finally agreed tonight to call his members back to Sacramento after the Assembly advanced the governor’s proposal.
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Sep 21, 2024 | 
independent.com | Jean Yamamura |Ryan Cruz |Callie Fausey |Caitlin Scialla
The Santa Barbara Independent republishes stories from CalMatters.org on state and local issues impacting readers in Santa Barbara County.
Californians will get cash and food assistance on more secure cards early next year — about six months later than promised, prolonging a massive recent theft wave that has been taking more than $15 million every month from the state’s poorest families.
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Sep 20, 2024 | 
independent.com | Nick Welsh |Margaux Lovely |Callie Fausey |Caitlin Scialla
One Santa Barbara Charter School parent (“AM”), who wished to remain anonymous, has come forward about her and her child’s experience with disgraced former teacher Steven Schapansky, who is currently on the run from law enforcement after being charged with multiple counts of child molestation and electronic peeping earlier this month. Her son attended the charter school from kindergarten to 6th grade and had Schapansky for his last two years. He idolized his teacher. “We all did,” AM said.
