Delaney Smith, Josh Molina and Nick Welsh join Jerry this week to reprise and analyze the results of the March 3 primary, looking at what went right and what...

Long-suffering residents of certain First District precincts appear condemned to endure four more years of smug smarminess (or is it smarmy smugness?) from S...

At post time, the Super Tuesday polls in Santa Barbara are still open for another six hours, so you have plenty of time for a leisurely lunch, a nap and cof...

I.V. Favorite Son Jonathan Abboud got a late boost in the final weekend before Election Day, when presidential front-runner Bernie Sanders jumped into the ma...

Newsmakers’ Global Office of The Sporting Life and Cheesy Marketing Gimmicks is pleased to announce our 2020 California Primary Election Pool - an entry free...

In an extraordinary display of Sacramento special interest spending, the California Association of Realtors political committee has dumped nearly $700,000 so...

It’s a new, All-Politics-All-the-Time edition of Newsmakers TV, featuring the four journalists who've produced the bulk of local campaign coverage – with SB’...

At a recent debate, Assembly candidate Charles Cole began to answer a question about climate change by lifting his hands and making the universal sign for “a...

In the increasingly choleric race for First District supervisor, the latest exchange erupted on Wednesday between the Laura Capps and Das Williams campaigns ...

(Editor's note: Although Santa Barbara County's controversial cannabis ordinance has been the focus of considerable political debate, there has been little a...

A brief war story: Back before the last Ice Age, our Director of Editorial Opinion and Cheap Shot Personal Attacks was privileged to serve for a time as Edit...

More than $20,000 in campaign contributions intended for Das Williams’ main campaign committee were misreported on the county's website as going to a controv...

For 75 minutes last week, six contenders in the wide-open 37th Assembly District race staged a substantive debate in Santa Barbara that highlighted key diffe...

A prominent organization of public access and community media centers has honored “Montecito/January 9, 2018” with an award for excellence in documentary vid...

The controversial independent campaign committee backing Das Williams kept stockpiling money this week, despite the First District supervisor’s mild rebuke o...

(Editor’s note: Today Newsmakers presents a special report by co-founder Hap Freund, detailing how the Board of Supervisors cooked up a backroom deal with Co...

Das Williams asked the independent campaign committee supporting his re-election to “stop the negative attacks” on rival Laura Capps last night, less than an...

An independent campaign committee, organized by political operatives associated with the cannabis industry and ordinance, has raised nearly $40,000 in the pa...

A trio of community-minded activists, concerned that the local race for state Assembly has been overshadowed by the Board of Supervisors contests, has organi...

In a fast-moving new episode of Newsmakers TV, the panel weighs in on the controversy over a video clip of the arrest at the main library of a YouTube troll ...