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Listen Up: Educational, Historic & Essential, KCSB-FM Counts on Fund Drive to Sustain Its Mission
Since 1961, KCSB-FM (broadcasting on 91.9 FM in Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties) has offered the opportunity to develop broadcast...

Newsmakers with JR
Feb 16, 2023


New SBPD Chief's Assessment: Crime Rate Down, No Gang Problem, City a "Safe Place to Live...Visit"
Kelly Gordon's grandfather was a police officer in Tonawanda, N.Y., and her godfather was a state patrolman. At 5, she was gifted a...

Newsmakers with JR
Feb 14, 2023


Noozhawk Publisher Explains Fervent Broadsides Aimed at Police Brass, City Hall Over Tourist Murder
Noozhawk Publisher Bill Macfadyen on Friday discussed the journalistic and civic rationale fueling his recent series of impassioned...

Newsmakers with JR
Feb 11, 2023


Das Replies to Sheila: We Need "Affordable," High-Density Housing in Car-Free Neighborhoods. Fast.
(Editor's note: Earlier this week, Newsmakers published an open letter from former Mayor SheiIa Lodge to Supervisor Das Williams,...

Newsmakers with JR
Feb 10, 2023


Commissioners Bash SB County on Pot but Let Carp Weed Emporium Proceed; Meagan Says 'No'
California Coastal Commissioners on Wednesday slammed San Barbara County's ruinous cannabis ordinance and its implementation -- but...

Newsmakers with JR
Feb 9, 2023


Weed Wars: Meagan Takes Center Stage in Latest Cannabis Colonization Battle in Carp
The eyes of Santa Barbara’s Political Junkie Community will be on Meagan Harmon today, amid yet another forlorn appeal of the county’s...

Newsmakers with JR
Feb 8, 2023


"The Right to Read": At SBIFF, a Powerful New Doc on What We Can Do about the Scandal of IIliteracy
By Cheri Rae and Monie de Wit At our Resource Center, where we provide free literacy information, support, and resources for parents,...

Newsmakers with JR
Feb 7, 2023


Op-Ed: In Open Letter, Sheila Lodge Schools Das on Planning, Rents and Building Costs for Housing
(Editor's note: Inflaming the conflict over construction of new housing, Supervisor Das Williams on Dec. 15 biliously attacked Santa...

Newsmakers with JR
Feb 5, 2023


More Anti-Semitic Filth Hits SB; Latest on Housing Conflicts; 5150 Pilot for Cops; ADUs, SBPD, UCSB
Swastika graffiti at Dos Pueblos High. Holocaust denial leaflets strewn around IV. Slogans denying Israel's right to exist defacing a...

Newsmakers with JR
Feb 4, 2023


Op-Ed: The Demise of Retail in SB Is about the Loss of Community as Well as Commerce
By Celeste Barber On January 20, I was struck by a remark from Nick Welsh, during Newsmakers TV's journalist panel discussion, about the...

Newsmakers with JR
Feb 2, 2023


SBUSD Reprise: How District Supe Hilda Maldonado Has Started to Turn Administration Around
Last spring, the end of the 2021-2022 school year found Santa Barbara Unified School District Superintendent Hilda Maldonado embattled on...

Newsmakers with JR
Jan 28, 2023


Panel: Atmospheric River Aftermath, La Cumbre Plot Thickens, Women's March; Callie Joins the Gang
In this week's episode, the Newsmakers TV gang sorts through and scrutinizes the policy and political fallout from this month's monster...

Newsmakers with JR
Jan 21, 2023


In Words and Images, New Memoir by Holocaust "Replacement Child" Probes Healing, Identity & Meaning
In the opening lines of her new memoir, Jana Zimmer makes clear that her intentions for the volume are daunting, fearless and...

Newsmakers with JR
Jan 17, 2023


South Coast Relieved, North County Battered after Storm; WTF Deborah? SBUSD Shocker; Passive Paseo
Governor Newsom came to Santa Barbara on Friday for a brief display of empathy and concern over the impact of this week's superstorm, a...

Newsmakers with JR
Jan 14, 2023


Untangling La Cumbre Housing Muddle; Decoding DA-County Beef on Oil Spill; Rent Spike, SBUSD, Covid
Newsmakers' all-star panel of top local journalists celebrates the dawn of 2023 by diving deep into the weeds surrounding the conflicts...

Newsmakers with JR
Jan 7, 2023


Reading: A Rite of Passage -- and a Human Right
(Editor's note: Board members for the Santa Barbara Unified School District will meet Thursday night at 5:30 to begin interviewing more...

Newsmakers with JR
Jan 5, 2023


New Year's Special: Randy, Meagan Join the Gang for Insider Look at SB's Hottest Local News Stories
Mayor Randy Rowse and city council colleague Meagan Harmon joined our all-star panel of top local journalists on Friday, for a robust...

Newsmakers with JR
Dec 31, 2022


Best (Cough, Cough) Wishes for the Season, from the Knuckleheads at Newsmakers
The Newsmakers Krankenhaus this week was packed to the rafters: one confirmed Covid case, one mysterious spiking fever, one...

Newsmakers with JR
Dec 10, 2022


New "Scrubbers" Provide Some Relief from Pot Stench in Carp - So Why No County Mandate for Growers?
By Melinda Burns Paul Ekstrom, a retired firefighter in Carpinteria, says he and his wife, Linda, have been living a happier life for the...

Newsmakers with JR
Dec 8, 2022


New Video: Latest on 101 Mess, Pot Revenue Sinks Again, Local Pols Relocate, Whither Journalism...
Newsmakers turns the tables on Santa Barbara’s most influential podcaster this week, for a one-on-one conversation with Josh Molina, host...

Newsmakers with JR
Dec 3, 2022
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