Scissors for Lefty
The San Francisco indie rockers hit Velvet Jones for an intimate night of music.
Year: 2007
David Barsamian Speaks on Iran
The Sunday lecture is sponsored by the Santa Barbara Green Party.
Inside Goleta’s General Plan Housing Workshop
Goleta Grapevine reports on why it’s tough to meet state affordable housing mandates.
Royalty for a Day
The Senior File’s Amy Chong vies for the homecoming crown.
Budget Hunting
Again revisiting the ongoing budget chaos plaguing the school district, the Santa Barbara School Board finally approved its unaudited figures for the 2006-07 school year at its meeting Tuesday night. Several questions remain as to how the board went from making more than $2 million in supposedly necessary cuts this past spring to having an apparent multimillion-dollar surplus just a few months later, in June.
Tempers Flare on Goleta Water Board
The bad old days are back again, at least where the Goleta Water District board is concerned.
State Housing Honcho Visits, Offers Solutions
No less a personage than Lynn Jacobs, California’s director of Housing and Community Development (HCD), boarded a chartered bus this week to tour potential housing sites in Goleta. The October 5 inspection kicked off a daylong workshop to commence the revamping of the city’s housing policy, which has yet to win state approval. Jacobs was accompanied by two assistants and 40 or so city residents, staff, developers, activists, and press members.
Standoff Over Psych Admissions Continues
It has been one month since Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital closed its doors to Medi-Cal patients who seek voluntary admission to the psychiatric inpatient unit, known as 5 East.
Paul Farmer and Thomas Tighe Discuss the Practical Ways to Cure the World
Every cause has its champions: those who see possibility where others see insurmountable challenges, whose vision inspires thousands, and whose work changes the way we understand our world. In the social justice and global health movement, Dr. Paul Farmer is one of those heroes.
MoveOn Rallies for Healthcare
Organized by activist group MoveOn.org, citizens planned to rally on 10/11 in support of a congressional override of President Bush’s veto of an expansion to the State Children’s Health Insurance Program.
