Newsmakers with JRMay 7Judge George Eskin Envisions Future of the Legal System: "We're Never Going to Return to Normal"Santa Barbara’s County Courthouse may someday reclaim its stature as an enticing and iconic attraction for bridal parties and tourists,...
Newsmakers with JRMay 6D.A. Dudley on In-Home Crimes: 'We Know It's Happening -- Our Only Chance Is if People Step Up'Santa Barbara County District Attorney Joyce Dudley checked in via iPad from an undisclosed location near the beach on Tuesday, to talk a...
Newsmakers with JRMay 5Developer Ed St. George Aims Fire at SB's City Administrator: '"More Than Ever We Need a Visionary"The website for the company owned and operated by Santa Barbara developer Ed St. George describes his firm this way: "St. George and Asso...
Newsmakers with JRMay 4Press Clips: Josh Launches Podcast, Nick Scoops about Nick, Mo-Jo Nets Cash for Businesses & WorkersFew had heard of the coronavirus last winter, when SB newshound Josh Molina began doing interviews for a new podcast focused on local pla...
Newsmakers with JRMay 2Direct Relief's Thomas Tighe Talks PPE, Supply Chains, Tests: "Simultaneous Emergency Everywhere" For Thomas Tighe, the first sign of the unprecedented scope of the coronavirus pandemic came in the third week of January, when the direc...
Newsmakers with JRMay 1Paul Casey Knows He's "Got a Lot of Targets on My Back" -- But Is "Giving 110 Percent to Community" Not since Hercules hit the Augean stables has one man faced such a catastrophic clean-up job as City Administrator Paul Casey, who's conf...
Newsmakers with JRApr 30Pot War Escalates: Anti-Cultivation Coalition Sues SB County and Controversial Wine Country Grower(Reported and written by Melinda Burns, this story is the latest in her ongoing coverage of the ongoing conflict over cannabis cultivatio...
Newsmakers with JRApr 29City's Reversal on Cacique Homeless a Big Win for Alejandra: "People Are Not Going to Take Any B.S."Freshman City Council member Alejandra Gutierrez, new to politics and only three months into the job, describes herself as "very shy" -- ...
Newsmakers with JRApr 28Police Chief Lori Luhnow: "We're Adapting Hour by Hour" -- How Pandemic is Changing SBPD Operations Around 5 a.m. most days, Police Chief Lori Luhnow hauls an old set of weights out of her garage onto her driveway, then pumps iron to get...
Newsmakers with JRApr 27Newsmakers Podcast: The Ideal Self-Quarantining Companion (Works for Self-Distancing Walks, Too!)Thanks to Lisa Osborn, the eminent audio maven and good friend of Newsmakers, our Department of Ship-to-Shore Technology and Geriatric R...
Newsmakers with JRApr 24Kate Ford on How Pandemic Will Impact Public Schools: "Education Will Never Be the Same" The abrupt shutdown of public school classrooms and sudden switch to remote learning will have educational consequences for students -- a...
Newsmakers with JRApr 23Salud: Coronavirus Spread at Lompoc Prison Could Become "A Disaster That's Unfathomable"Hours after his arrival back in Washington, Rep. Salud Carbajal checked in with Newsmakers with an update on the $484 billion pandemic re...
Newsmakers with JRApr 22Meagan Harmon on SB: 'This is a Moment for Us to Figure Out What We Want Our City to Be'Amid an outbreak of political hostilities at City Hall, SB Councilmember Meagan Harmon tells Newsmakers that the harsh challenges of the ...
Newsmakers with JRApr 22The 'THC 3' on Board of Supervisors Overturn Planners Again, Approving Yet Another Pot Farm (Today's coverage of Santa Barbara County's ongoing controversy over cannabis cultivation is reported and written by Melinda Burns). The ...
Newsmakers with JRApr 21Josh Molina: 'There's a Lot of Tension at City Hall Right Now' -- Inside SB's Political Turmoil Newsmakers just checked in with SB journalist Josh Molina, to talk about two scoopy stories he posted on Tuesday over at Noozhawk: One sp...
Newsmakers with JRApr 20Monique: People Are Struggling Over Unemployment Benefits -- 'Reach Out to Us for Help'Amid the economic crisis triggered by COVID-19, Assemblymember Monique Limon says that the most urgent concerns she is hearing from const...
Newsmakers with JRApr 20The Week Ahead: Heavyweight Newsmakers Interview Lineup Plus: New Econ Director Debuts, Test Update This week, we'll interview five prominent local newsmakers about the coronavirus, an influential lineup of policy, politics and media fig...
Newsmakers with JRApr 17Gregg Hart: Santa Barbara County Has Flattened the Curve -But Can't Move Forward without Ample TestsAn ongoing shortage of COVID-19 tests means that Santa Barbara County cannot move to reopen its economy yet, despite widespread complianc...
Newsmakers with JRApr 17A Comprehensive Guide to Trump's Lies on the Coronavirus -- Plus: Top COVID Fact-Checking Sources In Uzbekistan, a rumor recently swirled that ginger, onion and garlic could be used effectively to treat coronavirus. In Croatia, a story...
Newsmakers with JRApr 17Kristen Sneddon Favors Temporary Top City Hall Salary Cuts: "We've Got to Share the Pain" In a video interview with Newsmakers, Santa Barbara City Councilmember Kristen Sneddon said that with a budget "disaster" looming, she su...
