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Dem Supes Push Sweetheart Union Scheme
Democrats on the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday are expected to rubber stamp a plan replacing the county’s low-bid system for publicly...
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Newsmakers with JR
Apr 4, 2019
Newsmakers TV: The Mansplaining Edition
From pot to punditry, housing to homelessness and Milpas Street to Farmers’ Market, Nick Welsh, Josh Molina and Mr. Cranky Pants offer a...
Newsmakers with JR
Apr 1, 2019
Monique: Big Decision Deadline is Inoperative
Assembly member Monique Limon, two weeks past her promised date for announcing if she will run for the state Senate or re-election in...
Newsmakers with JR
Mar 29, 2019
How Prince Gavin Overruled State Voters
A foe of capital punishment, Gavin Newsom said while running for governor that, if elected, he would not substitute his personal views...
Newsmakers with JR
Mar 25, 2019
Dem Party Endorsement Deadlines Loom
Kudos to Democratic Party honcho Gail Teton-Landis, for undertaking to advise potential candidates for four Santa Barbara City Council...
Newsmakers with JR
Mar 22, 2019
Why Trump Starts as 2020 Front-Runner
Terrifying but true: The nation’s leading bookmakers have installed Donald Trump as the favorite to win next year’s presidential...
Newsmakers with JR
Mar 21, 2019
New TV: Who Will Pay for Thomas Fire?
Packed with local news, the latest episode of Newsmakers TV leads off with a look at a new forensic report that traces the start of the...
Newsmakers with JR
Mar 8, 2019
How Mike Eliason's Storm Photos Went Global
Mike Eliason shot images of Tuesday night’s violent and spectacular storm for 90 minutes, standing in the open at the end of Stearns...
Newsmakers with JR
Mar 8, 2019
'He Has No Genitalia and He's Holding a Star'
Dustin Hoffman, accepting the Oscar for Best Actor at the 1980 Academy Awards, cast a glance at the statuette and famously declared, “He...
Newsmakers with JR
Feb 28, 2019
Gandrud Wins Key Spot as State GOP Retools
Veteran Santa Barbara conservative activist Greg Gandrud won election as treasurer of the California Republican Party over the weekend at...
Newsmakers with JR
Feb 24, 2019
Forget Oscars, TVSB Awards Show Rocked
TV Santa Barbara celebrated in grand style Saturday night, hosting a sold-out awards gala at the Alcazar Theatre that honored nearly a...
Newsmakers with JR
Feb 21, 2019
New TV: WTF is Going On at City College?
Delaney Smith, editor-in-chief of The Channels news site, joins the panel this week to shed light on the maelstrom of controversy over...
Newsmakers with JR
Feb 20, 2019
SB Authors: Vicki Riskin's Hollywood Memoir
The multitalented Victoria Riskin is out with “Fay Wray and Robert Riskin: A Hollywood Memoir,” a behind-the-scenes tale of...
Newsmakers with JR
Feb 14, 2019
Millennial Meagan Joins Council: 6 Takeaways
Six members of the City Council picked a seventh in a relatively painless process on Tuesday night, selecting Meagan Froemming Harmon, an...
Newsmakers with JR
Feb 7, 2019
TV: Politics, Pot, Schools and Scandal!
The panel chews over, hashes out and kicks around Santa Barbara’s most timely political and policy issues in a pugnacious, rambunctious...
By Melinda Burns
Jan 30, 2019
Fifty Years After Santa Barbara's Big Spill, Tough Questions About Huge Rig Shutdowns
Fifty years after the Jan. 28, 1969 oil spill in the Santa Barbara Channel, the region is on the verge of another epochal event -the...
Newsmakers with JR
Jan 25, 2019
TV is Back: Oil, Climate, Shutdown, Scandal!
Newsmakers TV returns online and to TVSB’s airwaves this week with an all-star panel and a lineup of local stories with national...
Newsmakers with JR
Jan 17, 2019
Monique on '20: I'll Decide Within 60 Days
With Santa Barbara’s political world awaiting her decision, Assembly member Monique Limon says she will decide “within 60 days” whether...
Newsmakers with JR
Jan 17, 2019
Rookie Guv Faces First Tough Tests
In the early 1990s, Governor Pete Wilson had barely taken office before he confronted a rush of disasters, both natural and...
Newsmakers with JR
Jan 17, 2019
The 1.5 Sec Gap: New Link for Disaster Doc
The Perils of Online Publishing, Chapter 532: The good news is that the Melinda Burns-Hap Freund documentary marking the one-year...
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