Three veteran political consultants -- two Democrats and one recovering Republican – are operating the independent expenditure committee on behalf of Das Wil...

Two national news headlines defined the state of play in the first weeks of the 2020 presidential campaign: “After Chaos of Iowa, Democratic Unity Threatened...

Das Williams and Laura Capps are on pace to raise and spend over $1 million combined in their race for the First District seat on the Board of Supervisors, c...

Gwyn Lurie leads off this week’s edition of Newsmakers TV, with an inside look of how the deal went down as she moderated Monday night’s big Montecito Journa...

On Monday evening, more than 300 otherwise normal denizens of Montecito flocked to the Music Academy to witness a spirited, pugnacious and illuminating 90-mi...

Das Williams and Laura Capps are scheduled to meet for two face-to-face debates over the next few days -- but the most consequential campaign event of the we...

In a one-on-one Newsmakers TV interview, Rep. Salud Carbajal described the U.S. Senate trial in the impeachment proceedings against Donald Trump as a "cover-...

The first face-to-face confrontation between Das Williams and Laura Capps played out on the Newsmakers TV set Tuesday night, a contentious but respectful one...

Newsmakers TV returns this week for its sixth year – 11th season! – of inside analysis and behind-the-scenes commentary from Santa Barbara’s top journalists ...

In 17 days, the first ballots will be cast in the pivotal election to decide if Donald Trump’s narcissistic nihilism wins a second term. On February 3 in Iow...

The candidates in the First District supervisor race both released the first 30-second video commercials of their campaigns on Monday: Laura Capps is airing ...

Honored and delighted, Newsmakers TV is set to host the first in a series of face-to-face campaign forums featuring First District Supervisor Das Williams an...

Welcome to 2020, a new year, new decade, new election season - and a new look for the Newsmakers blog. First things first: For those struggling through the ...

Oh sure, the House impeached the President of the United States this week, despite a six-page display of full-blown, unhinged Trump Crazy, not to mention mor...

For many Democratic voters, the choice in selecting a 2020 presidential candidate comes down to one basic question: Who has the best chance to beat Donald Tr...

Eighty days before the election, the race to replace Monique Limon in the Assembly shapes up as a wide-open, seven-way free-for-all. Monique’s much-awaited, ...

Gwyn Lurie, the new editor-in-chief of the Montecito Journal, joins the panel this week and talks about engineering the $2.3 million sale of the venerable we...

In Santa Barbara, L.A. attorney Eric Early is a familiar figure at school board meetings who represents a group of parents suing over what he calls a “creepi...

(Editor's note: Santa Barbara journalist Kevin McKiernan - documentarian, author and veteran foreign correspondent - has completed a new feature doc -- "From...

California Sen. Kamala Harris quit the presidential race Tuesday not because, as she put it, “My campaign for president simply doesn’t have the financial res...