Businesses adapt as cities end pandemic policies that allowed free use of public spaces
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For small businesses, pandemic offers lessons in preparing for the next disaster
Joie Krintzman, the owner of Twist Dance Apparel in Santa Barbara, opened her 550-square-foot dance apparel boutique in October 2021, amid the pandemic. The mother of two daughters, both of them dancers, had never owned her own business before, but she saw the need for a dance shop in Santa Barbara. Krintzman’s focus is her online Read More →
At Westmont breakfast, author Michael Lewis talks of Santa Barbara’s ‘superhero of communicable disease’
On March 6, 2020, Westmont College held its annual President’s Breakfast, which would be one of the last large indoor, public events in the region before the COVID-19 pandemic arrived. The guest was Nobel-winning psychologist and economist Daniel Kahneman. This year on March 4, at the event’s return to the Hilton Santa Barbara Beachfront Resort, Read More →
Opinion: When it comes to COVID response, wealth doesn’t always equal health
By Jan Nederveen Pieterse Differences in COVID-19 public health performance and health outcomes between regions and countries are staggering. A common-sense assumption is that wealth is health and the higher a society’s per capita income, the lower COVID deaths will be, and vice versa. But the data doesn’t bear this out. For example, compare COVID-19 Read More →
With mask mandates lifted and cases dropping, region ponders pandemic’s next phase
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Opinion: Everyone benefits when vaccinations are widespread
By Paul D. Witman, Jim Prior and Chris Njunge Just over two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, and well into the biggest surge, we find humanity both amazingly fortunate and still at significant risk. Vaccines, in many forms, from many sources, are generally safe and remarkably effective at reducing infection and transmission and minimizing illness. Read More →
Cities move toward permanent outdoor dining
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