SB Authors: Jana Z. on Coastal Protection
(Editor's note: Environmental advocate and attorney Jana Zimmer is out with a well-timed new book that breaks down the complex legal,...
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Newsmakers with JR
- Jan 26, 2018
New TV: Were Evac Warnings Miscalculated?
A new edition of Newsmakers TV is now online, highlighting the work of two reporters who are making news with their coverage of the...
By Melinda Burns
- Jan 25, 2018
Inside the Montecito Catastrophe Cleanup: "It's Indescribable What Happened Out There"
A whiff of charred wood comes off the black mud that is being dumped daily into the ocean at Goleta Beach County Park, part of the...
Newsmakers with JR
- Jan 24, 2018
Shocker: Council Votes for a Special Election
The City Council voted late Tuesday night to hold a special election in June to determine the successor to Mayor Cathy Murillo in the...
Newsmakers with JR
- Jan 23, 2018
Special Election Showdown: 5 Key Questions
Under Santa Barbara’s Charter, the city council has until Feb. 8 to fill the former seat of new Mayor Cathy Murillo. By the time Tuesday...
Newsmakers with JR
- Jan 21, 2018
SB Women's (Non) March Takes a Left Turn
About 2,000 people gathered in De La Guerra Plaza Saturday to celebrate the second annual Women’s March, an event whose tone and themes...
Newsmakers with JR
- Jan 19, 2018
Remarkable Video from Inside Disaster Zone
Long before Mike Eliason became the most conscientious and helpful Public Information Officer in the history of government flacks, he was...
Newsmakers with JR
- Jan 18, 2018
Just In: Janet Endorses Susan E. for Supe
Outgoing Supervisor Janet Wolf on Thursday endorsed Susan Epstein to succeed her in the 2nd District, casting her decision in part on the...
By Melinda Burns
- Jan 16, 2018
When It Rains Again: Science of a Disaster
The surging river of mud and boulders that engulfed swaths of Montecito from the mountains to the sea last week, killing 20, was a rare...
Newsmakers with JR
- Jan 13, 2018
New TV: Repercussions of the Deadly Slide
In a sad and somber start to our winter season, Kelsey Brugger, Laura Capps and Nick Welsh join Jerry on "Newsmakers" to lay bare stories...
Newsmakers with JR
- Jan 11, 2018
Poet Laureate: "Pay Good Fortune Forward"
On Tuesday, as Santa Barbara staggered from the death and devastation of yet another natural disaster, the city’s seventh poet laureate...
Newsmakers with JR
- Jan 10, 2018
Killer Storm Overshadows Politics at Council
The inaugural meeting of Santa Barbara's new City Council included a bit of celebration, some bittersweet farewells and a modest victory...
Newsmakers with JR
- Jan 9, 2018
Our View: The Case for a Special in District 3
There is no item on Tuesday’s City Council agenda that provides a procedural opening to derail the ram-it-through effort by outgoing...
By Jay Higgins
- Jan 7, 2018
Op-Ed: A Key Planner's View of Target Plan
Last week’s announcement that Target plans to site a small store at the Galleria is being widely celebrated as a great coup for Santa...
By Melinda Burns
- Jan 4, 2018
Special Report: Housing the Homeless in S.B.
It’s a New Year and a new life for Gigi Schneider, one of six people chosen in 2017 to move into El Carrillo, the only apartment complex...
Newsmakers with JR
- Jan 4, 2018
Pigs Fly: Target Finally Coming to S.B.
Not since Prada arrived in Paris has there been a civic retail event as momentous as Target’s just-announced plan to open a store in...
Newsmakers with JR
- Dec 30, 2017
Special Election Backers Press 2-Track Strategy
Santa Barbara’s first big political issue of 2018 already has emerged, hours before Chronos orders global IT to run the annual calendar...
Newsmakers with JR
- Dec 17, 2017
7 Questions with Fire Chief Pat McElroy
Santa Barbara Fire Chief Pat McElroy announced his retirement on Monday, Dec. 4, a few hours before the deadly and voracious Thomas Fire...
Newsmakers with JR
- Dec 4, 2017
3 Key Questions About Filling Cathy's Seat
Santa Barbara is poised for a political – and possibly a legal – scuffle over the ways and means of filling the District 3 city council...
By Laura Capps
- Dec 3, 2017
Campaign '18: Gov Wannabes Woo Educators
The six major candidates to succeed Gov. Jerry Brown made political pitches to several thousand elected school board members in San Diego...
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