Former homeless advocate and well-known Santa Barbara street person James Lee Magruder, 44, died Monday at Cottage Hospital just a day before the City Council committed research funds aimed at ending chronic homelessness in Santa Barbara.
Born in Alabama, the son of an advance scout for Christian televangelist Billy Graham, Brown took over the Lompoc Department 10 years ago, fighting an uphill battle against gang violence and domestic abuse with a department beset by rapid turnover, losing 20 officers to the Santa Maria Police Department.
The automobile was given the backseat in Ventura County’s future as supervisors voted unanimously to forge a transportation future relying on buses, trains, and bicycles.
State education czar Jack O’Connell (pictured) was in Santa Barbara last Monday to talk about the California high school exit exam, No Child Left Behind, and the ever-precarious funding of the state’s public schools.
The backburner county-split debate heated up in the downtown public library’s Faulkner Gallery last Thursday in a well-attended public forum that flipped north-south party lines by pitting former Santa Maria planning commissioner and split resister Nancy Johnson against Santa Barbara city resident and former Boulder (CO) city manager split sympathizer Ted Tedesco.
The Santa Barbara Association of Realtors objected to a proposal to require sewage-line inspections whenever property is sold in the city.
In an effort to balance its budget, the City of Santa Barbara may pass off up to $150,000 of beach maintenance and cleaning feescurrently shouldered by the Parks and Recreation Departmentto the Waterfront District.
No one enjoys having crying babies ruin their cinematic experience, so it’s no surprise that many families with little ones skip the movie-going experience altogether.
On the eve of a congressional vote on student loan program cuts, some UCSB students gathered in a peaceful action echoed on campuses across the country.
A mobility plan including traffic-calming devices common in other cities was defeated in ballots returned from the combined Oak Park and Samarkand neighborhoods to the city’s Public Works Department.
