An ongoing shortage of COVID-19 tests means that Santa Barbara County cannot move to reopen its economy yet, despite widespread...

In Uzbekistan, a rumor recently swirled that ginger, onion and garlic could be used effectively to treat coronavirus. In Croatia, a story...

In a video interview with Newsmakers, Santa Barbara City Councilmember Kristen Sneddon said that with a budget "disaster" looming, she...

On Wednesday, Newsmakers checked in with Gwyn Lurie, editor in chief of the Montecito Journal, who was keen to talk about the cover story...

Board of Supervisors Chair Gregg Hart, who's leading Santa Barbara County’s response to the COVID-19 crisis, is scheduled to be...

(Editor's note: Amid the coronavirus catastrophe, Newsmakers has struggled to marshal our thoughts to imagine and frame a pathway to...

Amid growing debate over California’s broad stay-at-home order, state Senator Hannah Beth Jackson said on Monday that lifting social...

With “Newsmakers TV” on indefinite hiatus, our Department of Global Video Platforms and Luddite Technology has launched a new series of...

(Editor's note: Melinda Burns, veteran environmental reporter and community hero, is keeping an eye on the high-stakes controversy over...

Santa Barbara's elected representatives in Sacramento and Washington have scheduled a teleconference town hall on Wednesday (April 8) to...

The disgraceful spectacle of today’s life-threatening primary election in Wisconsin is both a vivid symbol of the savagery of the...

Must-reads. As a public service, many of the nation's most respected and most credible online and print news organizations currently are...

The search for meaning in a public health crisis. "The Plague," the French writer Albert Camus’ famed 1947 novel about a fictional...

On Monday, when Donald Trump paid a sporadic visit to Planet Earth, public health officials at the White House for the first time...

It is an alarming paradox of the Plague Era: Amid an economic crisis triggered by a public health emergency, the demand for credible...

Anyone who has suffered and survived life-threatening sickness discerns the honest truth of the opening lines of Susan Sontag’s famous...

(Some regular readers, displeased with President Trump's handling of the COVID-19 crisis, have asked Newsmakers to explain the sudden...

State of play. At the dawn of World War I, Polish revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg popularized a Marxist slogan that increasingly seems apt...

Our Founders have a combined age of 147 years, but there’s not a bit of truth to the rumor that we covered the Spanish Flu epidemic of...

A 100-page U.S. government response plan for the COVID-19 outbreak assumes the pandemic will last “18 months or longer” and may include...