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If you’re reading this, congratulations! You made it through 2020. Happy new year! With — literally — 2020 hindsight, there are so many things we wish could have been different about last year. In spite of the challenges, though, there were innumerable blessings and accomplishments. On a personal level, my son, Will, married the love of his life, Colleen Bannon, and the Los Angeles Dodgers finally won the World Series. From a community standpoint, a large team of us pulled off the merger of the Santa Barbara, Goleta and Carpinteria Valley chambers of commerce, creating the new Santa Bar...

King tides. The highest and lowest tides of the year. They occur infrequently, but predictably, when at the same time the sun and moon are at their closest to the Earth and exert maximum tug on our planet. In the northern hemisphere this occurs usually once or twice each winter. In 2020, they passed through Nov. 15-16 and Dec. 13-15, with Dec. 14 registering an impressive 7-foot high tide. More important, king tides are more than just astronomical phenomena. They preview how sea level rise will affect our coastline. In areas like Santa Barbara County’s South Coast, being able to preview how...