Newsmakers with JRa day agoFacing Down Pandemic, SB Council Decides Crucial Move is... Keeping the Bars Open Later?In a special Angry Poodle episode of Newsmakers TV, Nick Welsh checks in for an irascible and irreverent romp through the latest evidenc...
Newsmakers with JR3 days agoMemo to SB Denizens: Don't Make a Fool of Yourself if You Bump into Harry & Meghan at Gelson's Prince Harry and wife Meghan Markle, apparently informed that locals are singularly unimpressed by celebrity, have bought a home in Santa...
Newsmakers with JR3 days ago12 Tuesdays Before Election: Biden Picks Kamala HarrisTo the surprise of no one, Democratic presumptive presidential nominee Joe Biden on Tuesday selected California Senator Kamala Harris as ...
Newsmakers with JR7 days agoNewsmakers Panel: First Take on SB School Board Race --Plus Pods, Pot & Pandemic Blunder As the deadline closes today for candidates to file papers for the November election, the Newsmakers TV panel goes around-the-horn with i...
Newsmakers with JRAug 5Election Countdown: Who Should Joe Biden Pick for Veep? Thirteen Tuesdays before Election Day (that's 91 days until Nov. 3, for those keeping score at home) the most intriguing political questi...
Newsmakers with JRAug 1Shocker: SB County Officials Admit -- Nearly Twice as Many Covid Deaths as Previously ReportedSanta Barbara County public health officials disclosed for the first time Friday that 28 people died of Covid during the 35 days between ...
Newsmakers with JRAug 1Panel: SB Mask Debate Regresses to Gestapo, Stop & Frisk and Sticks-in-Spokes. Oy. As every school child knows, Godwin’s Law of Hitler Analogies reckons that the longer an argument proceeds, the more likely it is that on...
Newsmakers with JRJul 30Press Clips: As Protest Coverage Fades, Full Story of Policing in SB is Still Being WrittenFollow that story. One of the more frustrating realities of local journalism, for reporters and readers alike, is that the relentless dem...
Newsmakers with JRJul 27Seeking 2nd Term, Capps Jump-Starts SB School Board Race School board President Laura Capps will run for a new four-year term as a Santa Barbara Unified School District trustee, she said in an i...
Newsmakers with JRJul 26100 Days to Go: Six Key Questions About Trump vs. Biden - The Calbuzz Election ForecastIn just 100 days, the voters of America will decide whether or not to award Donald Trump a second term as president, delivering a verdict...
Newsmakers with JRJul 24Panel: Will SB School District Fix Distance Learning? Plus: Unemployment, Homeless, Jail, TreeIn a week when Covid-19 remained the North Star of local news, the Newsmakers' journalist panel breaks down how the pandemic locally is a...
Newsmakers with JRJul 22Political Junkie Special: Oppo Research Pioneer Joe Rodota Talks about the Dark Art of Campaigns Bespectacled, cerebral and cordial, Joe Rodota seems an unlikely figure to be burdened with the nickname "Dr. Death." But that's what his...
Newsmakers with JRJul 20An SB Teacher Explains what a Digital Classroom Looks Like -and Why Distance Learning Can WorkBy Jen Griffith As teachers, many of us have been sharing publicly our great concerns about not being ready to return to our classrooms d...
Newsmakers with JRJul 19Op-Ed: Some Reflections on the Disputed Courthouse Plaques - from a Student of Santa Barbara HistoryBy Frank Ochoa I have read Newsmakers’ coverage regarding the controversy related to the plaques at the courthouse placed there by the Da...
Newsmakers with JRJul 17All Schools in Santa Barbara County Must Stay Shuttered Under Gavin's New Covid Order Gov. Gavin Newsom issued new pandemic emergency orders on Friday that mean students in schools throughout Santa Barbara County will start...
Newsmakers with JRJul 17Newsmakers TV: Schools Confront No-Win Covid Choices while Supes Face Pandemic, Plaques & Pot If it's Friday, it's Newsmakers TV. Awaiting new statewide policy signals from Gov. Gavin Newsom, school districts throughout the communi...
Newsmakers with JRJul 16SBUSD Trustee Urges Quick Investment for Distance Learning, as State Ed Chief Downplays Reopening Santa Barbara school member Kate Ford says it's time "to get serious" about improving and strengthening platforms and teacher training fo...
Newsmakers with JRJul 14With More State School Districts Opting to Stay Closed, SBUSD Meets Tonight on Reopening Last month, the Santa Barbara Unified School District took a first, tentative step to re-opening schools in August, with a hybrid system ...
Newsmakers with JRJul 14SB's DAR Leader Agrees Courthouse Markers Should Go -- Suggests Possible "Replacement Plaques"The leader of Santa Barbara's Daughters of the American Revolution chapter on Monday agreed that two controversial plaques on the Courtho...
Newsmakers with JRJul 13Das Attacks Grand Jury's Cannabis Report: " A Remarkable Lack of Knowledge" of Issues (Update)Supervisor Das Williams charged on Monday that the Santa Barbara Grand Jury displayed "a remarkable lack of knowledge" in its blistering...
