Five Tuesdays before the Nov. 3 election, not many voters still are struggling to reach their decision in the presidential contest...

Joe Biden's most important task in the high-stakes first presidential debate tomorrow night, says veteran national political strategist...

The Board of Supervisors could have saved their staff lawyers time and trouble in the drafting of their disgraceful and disrespectful...

(Editor's note: Newsmakers this week published an op-ed by former Mayor Hal Conklin that critiqued the Planning Commission's surprise...

If it’s Friday, it’s Newsmakers TV. Delaney Smith, Josh Molina and Mr. Cranky Pants break down the political winners and losers from this...

(Editor's note: Currently a guest at Cottage Hospital, former Mayor and lifetime community hero Hal Conklin was bestirred by SB's...

Voters in the Santa Barbara Unified School District can hear from all seven candidates for three Board of Education seats at one event...

Donald Trump lacks the class and common decency that God gave dirt, and so could barely spare breath to honor the righteous life and work...

The Indy's Delaney Smith and Josh Molina join Jerry for a brisk stroll through the week’s top local stories, from the latest on the...

A bare majority of likely voters currently supports Proposition 15, a contentious November ballot initiative backed by public employee...

Lanny Ebenstein, former school board member, community activist and public intellectual, on Thursday night will moderate the first...

On Jan. 23, 2016, in Sioux City, Iowa, Donald Trump infamously boasted amid the Republican presidential primary that, “I could stand in...

The simmering community debate over sex education that surfaced at Tuesday night's marathon Santa Barbara school board meeting is the...

By Lanny Ebenstein Is Santa Barbara’s housing crisis over, or at least significantly reduced? This is a reasonable question to ask in the...

"It was ugly!" That's how state Senator Hannah Beth Jackson describes last week's tempestuous closing night of the 2019-20 legislative...

Eight Tuesdays before the Nov. 3 election - that's 55 days for those keeping score at home - nearly a dozen new polls show Democratic...

Just in time for Labor Day, the Santa Barbara Teachers Association last week bestowed coveted endorsements in the wide-open SB Board of...

The last time Newsmakers chatted with Gwyn Lurie, Editor-in-Chief of the Montecito Journal, the global pandemic was still breaking news,...

Donald Trump roared out of his unprecedented national convention, demagogically blaming Joe Biden for the deadly street violence that...

At 27, Elrawd MacLearn is the youngest candidate running for the Santa Barbara Unified School District board of education, but he is the...