PLASTIC BAGS: Santa Barbara considers mandatory reusable bag program, signs at local stores
But the city this Tuesday will consider making the voluntary “Where’s Your Bag?” program mandatory. The move would force businesses to place signs and train its staff to encourage shoppers to use reusable bags.
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Auspicious green
Some people are marking the Lunar New Year in the greenest way possible.
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Salem: The Sheen has come off Charlie
Has this repeat-rehab actor killed Two and a Half Men . . . or just his own brain cells?
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