A Spy Among Us: Did I ever tell you about the time I almost became part of our nation’s intelligence network? Perhaps by now I’d be head of the whole CIA, delivering the daily Intelligence Assessment Report to President Bush, who would of course ask my opinion about it, then ignore the report and whatever I thought. Or, on the other hand, I might have turned out to be a lowly file clerk, shuffled to a corner desk in some dark, crummy basement room.
Pat McKinley, second-in-command at the Santa Barbara County District Attorney’s office, announced that he will retire at the end of June 2008.
Representative Lois Capps blasted President Bush for “simultaneously insisting that we don’t have the money to provide healthcare for 10 million poor children.”
Nearly 70 percent, $121.3 million, of UCSB’s external research funding came from federal agencies.
When the 2007 installment of the Santa Barbara Men’s Conference commences at Victoria Hall on Friday, the second annual undertaking will focus on the role of initiation and mentoring within modern society. Hosted by two male-oriented social organizations-the ManKind Project of Santa Barbara and Boys to Men Central California Coast-the conference will feature two prominent speakers:
The Santa Barbara School Board’s staff presented a report this week detailing the number of students who have transferred into the district from neighboring communities this year.
Having recently spent a month in France, I have come to the conclusion that the French are sneaky. They eat three-course meals with gorgeous sauces, drink red wine constantly, have no apparent shame availing themselves of those sinful French pastries, p•te, and cheeses, and yet still remain-by American standards-thin.
The park ranger’s directions were solid. Take the trail to the building that looks like a church but isn’t a church. Climb the hillside in back; keep walking until you are even with the middle window on the second floor of the structure. There, hidden in the grass, I’d find one of Anacapa Island’s best-kept secrets, he told me.
Popular storyteller Michael Katz is coming to spread the Halloween cheer to kids with his Willy Nilly, Spooky, and Scary Tales at libraries from Solvang to Carpinteria this coming week. Kids and adults alike always find joy and inspiration in Katz’s stories, so see sbplibrary.org and storytellermichael.com for details.
October 28, 1965
Crews complete construction on the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.
