
Nick Welsh
Executive Editor at Santa Barbara Independent
Articles
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4 days ago |
independent.com | Nick Welsh
Sable Offshore Corporation has gotten so seriously sideways with the state’s Regional Water Quality Control Board — the Central Coast regional branch — over the protracted game of cat-and-mouse the water boardmembers contend Sable has been playing over unpermitted repair work on the company’s oil pipeline that the water board voted unanimously to refer the matter to Attorney General Rob Bonta for judicial prosecution.
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1 week ago |
independent.com | Nick Welsh
SHOW UP: Sometimes, you just got to show up. In the flesh. Even if — especially if — you don’t want to. Who postulated, “Eighty percent of success is just showing up”? Sadly, it was Woody Allen. Some say Allen “stole” that line from Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Harvard Business School leadership guru. She boiled successful leadership down to six rules.
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1 week ago |
independent.com | Nick Welsh |Margaux Lovely |Ryan Cruz |Christina McDermott |Tyler Hayden
Everything, in our new hyper-charged political reality, is now “unprecedented.” The term — once used to denote an occurrence of anomalous singularity — has been left in the dust by the events taking place with each passing new day. Clearly, we need new words. But for the time being, “unprecedented” will have to do until the real thing comes along.
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1 week ago |
independent.com | Nick Welsh
With talk swirling that stagflation is now a genuine possibility and that a recession is likely — due to the economic upheaval triggered by the White House — Santa Barbara County Executive Mona Miyasato counseled the county supervisors this week, “If you can’t change the course of a storm, be the lighthouse.”Her remarks came as the supervisors waded into the first of three days of budget deliberations in preparation of the June 17 vote.
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1 week ago |
independent.com | Nick Welsh
Phyllis de Picciotto, Santa Barbara International Film Festival Co-Founder, Dies De Picciotto Asked City Council for Grant to Start Film Festival 40 Years Ago Add to Favorites Phyllis de Picciotto pictured in front of Santa Barbara’s Arlington Theatre in 2015 | Credit: Paul Wellman File Photo Phyllis de Picciotto, who played such a central role 40 years ago in giving birth to what’s become the Santa Barbara International Film Festival, died this Monday while under the care of Serenity House....
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