Santa Barbara's elected representatives in Sacramento and Washington have scheduled a teleconference town hall on Wednesday (April 8) to discuss medical issu...

The disgraceful spectacle of today’s life-threatening primary election in Wisconsin is both a vivid symbol of the savagery of the nation’s polarized politics...

Must-reads. As a public service, many of the nation's most respected and most credible online and print news organizations currently are providing their jour...

The search for meaning in a public health crisis. "The Plague," the French writer Albert Camus’ famed 1947 novel about a fictional epidemic in Oran, a port c...

On Monday, when Donald Trump paid a sporadic visit to Planet Earth, public health officials at the White House for the first time directly and publicly state...

It is an alarming paradox of the Plague Era: Amid an economic crisis triggered by a public health emergency, the demand for credible local journalism seldom ...

Anyone who has suffered and survived life-threatening sickness discerns the honest truth of the opening lines of Susan Sontag’s famous work, “Illness as Meta...

(Some regular readers, displeased with President Trump's handling of the COVID-19 crisis, have asked Newsmakers to explain the sudden increase in approval of...

State of play. At the dawn of World War I, Polish revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg popularized a Marxist slogan that increasingly seems apt for the Coronavirus E...

Our Founders have a combined age of 147 years, but there’s not a bit of truth to the rumor that we covered the Spanish Flu epidemic of 1918. Still, Newsmaker...

A 100-page U.S. government response plan for the COVID-19 outbreak assumes the pandemic will last “18 months or longer” and may include “multiple waves of il...

Dr. Jason Prystowsky's presentation on Wednesday night’s webinar, hosted by SPARC, provided a solid and up-to-date look at the COVID-19 pandemic, largely in ...

At post time, there are still spots available for a COVID-19 webinar with Cottage Hospital Emergency Medicine physician Dr. Jason Prystowsky, this evening (W...

Last week, media columnist Margaret Sullivan recommended one action that would instantly compel Donald Trump to drop the clown act and begin taking COVID-19 ...

(Editor's note: In a Newsmakers op-ed today, Santa Barbara Unified School District President Laura Capps explains the rationale behind the closing of public ...

At 3 p.m. on Sunday, county public health officials briefed city administrators and managers via conference call about SB county's first confirmed coronaviru...

“Right now, myself personally, I wouldn’t go to a restaurant,” Dr. Anthony Fauci said on the CBS Sunday morning show “Face the Nation” – right around the tim...

This week, Dr. Lynn N. Fitzgibbons, a Cottage Hospital staff physician specializing in Infectious Disease, presented to her medical colleagues a one-hour lec...

Christy Smith cites one over-arching reason for confronting the ordeal of three election campaigns in eight months, as she battles for a fiercely contested c...

Laura Capps conceded the First District supervisor race late Monday, after county election officials reported that Das Williams nearly doubled his small Elec...