Newsmakers with JR
Amid Huge Pot Glut, Board of Supes Eyes New Tax Scheme as Cannabis Revenues Slump
By Melinda Burns Amid plummeting prices for cannabis “flower” in the Golden State, Santa Barbara County is likely to collect only $10.8...
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Newsmakers with JR
- May 29
County Schools Supe Rivals (Finally) Agree to Campaign Forum -; Salcido-Lozano Zoom Event on Tuesday
Santa Barbara County Superintendent of Schools Susan Salcido and Christy Lozano, the PE teacher challenging her in the June 7 primary,...
Newsmakers with JR
- May 28
New Show: What's Behind SBUSD Teachers' Revolt Against Hilda; Fractionals, Fire & Elxn Angst
Raucous wrangling and rowdy slanging perfused this week's episode of Newsmakers TV, amid clashing views of the loud and growing protest...
Newsmakers with JR
- May 27
Pigs Fly: Board of Supes Votes for Stricter Permits on North County Pot Projects
By Melinda Burns Two years after roundly rejecting the idea, the county Board of Supervisors this week voted 3-2 to tighten its...
Newsmakers with JR
- May 26
Op-Ed: SB County's 50% Student Proficiency in Reading is a Scandal - and What We Can Do About It
By Cheri Rae and Monie deWit Children with crooked teeth have nothing to smile about. Neither do children who can’t read. Both conditions...
Newsmakers with JR
- May 21
New Show: Salcido v. Lozano, SBUSD Double Trouble, $5K/Month Studios, Mickey D Out, Axe Throwers In
Less than three weeks before the June 7 election, Santa Barbara's political landscape is replete with ennui and boredom, largely due to...
Newsmakers with JR
- May 20
A History of Catastrophe in Montecito: New Study Shows Why More Disasters Like 1/9 are Inevitable
By Melinda Burns The bulldozers are back at Randall and East Valley roads this month, working on the final phase of Montecito’s newest...
Newsmakers with JR
- May 19
SBUSD Supe Hilda Maldonado's 'State of Our Schools': "This is how we will become unified"
(Editor's note: Hilda Maldonado's first day of work as Superintendent of the Santa Barbara Unified School District was July 1, 2020, in...
Newsmakers with JR
- May 13
Press Clips: Scott Wilson, WashPost Correspondent and SB Guy, Has the Best Job in Journalism
In the past 25 years, Scott Wilson crafted a terrific career at The Washington Post: Foreign correspondent posted to Latin America and...
Newsmakers with JR
- May 13
Crooked Pot Grower Bobby Dayspring and Pals Finally Are Gone from Tepusquet Canyon
By Melinda Burns A business associate of Helios “Bobby” Dayspring, the Central Coast pot grower who pleaded guilty last summer to felony...
Newsmakers with JR
- May 12
League of Women Voters Cancels Schools Supe Election Forum After Lozano Disputes Rules
The League of Women Voters cancelled a face-off featuring County Superintendent of Schools Susan Salcido and rival Christy Lozano on the...
Newsmakers with JR
- May 7
Panel: This Just In - Hot Springs Rhubarb News; Salcido vs. Lozano; SBUSD, Housing & YouTube Pilot
A bit of breaking news on this week's edition of Newsmakers TV, with word that Superior Court Judge Donna Geck granted an injunction on...
Newsmakers with JR
- May 2
Why County Schools Supe Challenger Lozano Wants Race, LGBTQ and Transgender Issues Out of Classrooms
Physical Education teacher Christy Lozano has mounted a conservative electoral challenge against Santa Barbara County's incumbent...
Newsmakers with JR
- Apr 29
Panel: Deep Dive into County's Psych Treatment Dilemma; Hot Springs Trail, SBPD, DLG Plaza Updates
KEYT’s Jade Martinez-Pogue returns to Newsmakers TV this week to discuss her boffo new series on the dangerous and expensive shortage of...
Newsmakers with JR
- Apr 25
Seeking New Term, County Schools Supe Decries "National Playbook" Fueling "Educational Divisiveness"
Santa Barbara County Superintendent of Schools Susan Salcido frames her campaign for re-election as a choice between “bringing folks...
Newsmakers with JR
- Apr 23
Panel: Alejandra on the Hot Seat Over SB Rent Control; MS-13, Kamala to V-berg, SEIU, Taser Lady
It's an unfathomable mystery why fans of rent control on Santa Barbara's City Council (looking at you Kristen, Meagan and Oscar) didn't...
Newsmakers with JR
- Apr 21
Op-Ed: Why City Planners' Proposed Redesign of De la Guerra Plaza Should be Rejected
By Lanny Ebenstein Santa Barbara is the beautiful community that it is because those who have come before us have taken the time to do...
Newsmakers with JR
- Apr 16
Press Clips: A Look Inside "The Riv" - High-End Design Magazine Is MoJo Media's Latest Spin-Off
When Les Firestein set out to develop a new architecture and design magazine, he was determined to rise above the existing class of such...
Newsmakers with JR
- Apr 9
SB's Simmering Rent Control Debate Starts to Boil; Bird Refuge Fix; M'cito Disaster Planning
New SB City Council district maps this week revealed a decline in voting-age Latinos on the Westside, adding fuel to the simmering debate...
Newsmakers with JR
- Apr 1
Panel: How Dem Bid to Boot a Conservative off the Ballot May Backfire; Keyless Hotel, SBUSD, SBPD
A failed legal bid to block conservative Christy Lozano from running for county Superintendent of Schools may actually end up helping the...