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Firestone Makes Bad Choice Within Board

When 3rd District Supervisor Brooks Firestone tried to derail the purchase of Claire's Park - now Capps Park - on the 6700 block of Del Playa Drive, the Isla Vista community stood up and convinced him...
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Golden State Blues: Explore California’s Northern Cities

Eureka and Crescent City belong in Humboldt and Del Norte Counties, respectively, the northernmost two coastal counties in California. I used to look at them on the road atlas during family vacations ...
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Mistakes

I once asked the Weathermum if she had ever made a mistake: She just stared at me for a while.
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Measure D Will Not Get Funding For I.V. Projects

There is an important local issue on the ballot in the Nov. 7 election, called Measure D. This measure would change the amount of sales tax you pay for local transportation from the existing one-half ...
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Proposed A.S. Bill Misses Underlying Grammar Woes

During last week's Associated Students Legislative Council meeting, a bill was introduced to the floor to decrease the amount of time spent revising grammatical errors in bills on the grounds that the...
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Suggestion of Leggings Is a Fashion Faux Pas for Us All

I would like to comment on the opinion piece by Caroline Wolf ("Finding Fall Fashion for Isla Vista Weather," Daily Nexus, Oct. 26, 2006.) Contrary to her obviously misinformed opinion, leggings are n...
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Save Large Tips for Workers Who Actually Deserve Cash

In reply to "Tipping for All Hard-Workers, Please", Daily Nexus, Oct. 30, 2006, Adam, I'll tell you why I don't tip those UPS workers!
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Prop 87 Curbs Oil Spending and Seeks New Alternatives

It has been said that there is a one-to-one correlation between the affluence of a society and the amount of energy it consumes.
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Prop 86 Harms Big Tobacco and Reduces Smoking Rates

Proposition 86 is a $2.60 tax per cigarette pack increase. It funds health care and anti-tobacco programs.
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A.S. Finance Board Decision Squanders Students’ Money

A.S. Finance Board's recent decision to squander every penny it had allocated for use during both Winter and Spring Quarters of this year really proves that the Students' Initiative is a useless waste...
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Weather

What is this shit? Oh, great. Apparently smartvoter.com isn’t as reliable as the Weatherhuman’s forecasts. Wednesday’s Forecast: The ‘human endorses itself, as always.
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Redefining What Counts as Sex

"Perhaps play a little game called 'just the tip.' Just for a second, just to see how it feels." I snorted with laughter, spewing Sprite and throwing popcorn all over my equally enthusiastic girlfrien...
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Student’s Initiative Should Be a Permanent Fixture

I am writing this letter to the editor to show my support for the Students' Initiative, which recently passed, fair and square.
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