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Cannabis Capitalism Deserves Freedom to Profit

The Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Dept. recently raided the local medical marijuana dispensary Helping Hands Wellness Center to confiscate a hundred pounds of pot, over a thousand cannabis plants and twen...
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Experienced Democrats Offer Tested Leadership

Jerry Brown should be California’s next governor, not only because of the future he promises to provide for California, but also for the past accomplishments which he has already demonstrated as Cal...
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Ambitious Entrepreneurs Challenge Special Interests

California sits between a rock and a hard place, but according to some at the Daily Nexus, it’s going to take the same leaders and the same polices to get us out of the current mess.
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Cannabis Capitalism Deserves Freedom to Profit

Let’s talk about profit. The Santa Barbara Sheriff’s Dept. recently raided the local medical marijuana dispensary Helping Hands Wellness Center to confiscate a hundred pounds of pot, over a thousa...
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Daily Nexus Official Endorsements 2010

The Daily Nexus editorial board has closely scrutinized measures and propositions to provide our readership with voting choices that can begin to heal our ailing economy and lead to social an...
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Marathon Running Takes First Place in To-Do List

Have you created a list by now? Those things you want to accomplish by the time you are 30, 50 or 100 years old? I like to keep some things written down that remind me of the goals I’ve developed ov...
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Daily Nexus Editorial Staff Yields Cautious Endorsements

The Daily Nexus editorial board has closely scrutinized potential candidates, measures and propositions to provide our readership with voting choices that can begin to heal our ailing economy and lead...
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Prudent Freshman Avoids On-Campus Eye Contact

As a new freshman I have learned many things in my first month of college.
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CHO Offers Helpful Tips to Avoid Halloween Hell

The Community Housing Office (CHO) is no stranger to the fact that Isla Vista and Halloween are virtually synonymous.
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Former Editor Returns to Liberate UCSB’s Libido

Modern sexuality as we know and enjoy it is the result of — nay, an evolving process rooted in — a long history of repression.
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Measure S Drains Private Capital

California keeps falling more and more into debt, from the UC to pensions, and now prisons. Our state has consistently refused to live within its means.
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Measure S Secures Civil Rights

Measure S is a local ballot measure that allocates state funding as well as a half-percent sales tax to build a new jail facility in Santa Maria.
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Prop 19 Puts the Pipe (and the Power) in Your Hands

ATTENTION: If you have changed houses since your last time voting, you must re-register today, or else it might be your fault if weed doesn’t become legal in two weeks.
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Nexus’ Conservative Bias Botches Election Article

Wednesday’s front-page article, “SB Clubs Render Election Info,” was unquestionably biased and quite simply a poor piece of journalism.
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Mr. O’Reilly Has Finally Gone Too Far

Bill O’Reilly. The man’s name alone stirs up a medley of emotional responses among many people: hatred, admiration, frustration, fear, gratitude and more.
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