KICK ‘EM WHILE THEY’RE DOWN: I just read how a UCSB researcher scored a grant from the Department of Defense for a couple million bucks to study something known as “robust uncertainty management.” While I love the sound of this, I admit I have no clue what it actually means.
Former students and loved ones bade goodbye to Marjorie Luke in her namesake theater at Santa Barbara Junior High School on 3/11 with a lavish performance that included songs and speeches in her honor.
The architecture of Santa Barbara has much more to offer than the seemingly ubiquitous Spanish Colonial Revival with its red tile roofs and white walls. Dotted throughout the city’s neighborhoods are superb examples of an architecture that flourished from the 1890s into the 1920s, especially in California.
Jerry Roberts had his “Sally Field moment” on Tuesday night, March 13, when more than 167 people showed up at the swanky Field Club Lounge at AT&T Park for The Jerry Roberts Roast, an event that raised more than $30,000 for Roberts’ legal defense against the $25 million lawsuit Wendy McCaw has brought against him.
On Wednesday morning, the News-Press‘ silence on the recent union developments was broken when the newspaper’s attorney Barry Cappello (pictured) spent about a half-hour discussing the matters over the telephone.
Tine Sloan, acting director of the Teacher Education Program at UCSB’s Gevirtz School discusses the hurdles would-be teacher must overcome just to teach in California.
Granada’s 5 million: Contrary to rumors in the blogosphere, Wendy McCaw has not notified the Granada Theatre Renovation Project that she’s reneging on her $5 million pledge, according to Granada executive director Peter Frisch.
J’Amy tells why the Montecito Board of Architectural Review is deciding to have meetings in downtown Santa Barbara, delivers another report on congestion near the Montecito Union School, announces a new head librarian for the Montecito library, discusses how the Music Academy’s building plans might finally be moving forward, and tells why some are angry that they cannot get into San Ysidro Ranch’s Plow and Angel.
Call it a double-whammy week for News-Press owner Wendy McCaw and her management team. A day after a judge advised the National Labor Relations Board that the News-Press newsroom’s unionization vote last September was legal and valid, the NLRB’s lawyers announced that the newspaper’s management would be prosecuted for the recent firings of seven reporters.
Sure, we have it relatively easy here in I.V. But that doesn’t mean there’s not a fairly large laundry list of little things that make daily life that much harder. So, in the spirit of The Daily Nexus‘s “Turds and Tulips,” the recently published roundup of the quarter’s most anger-inducing and applaud-worthy people, places, and things, I’m going to share my personal feelings on the quarter’s best and worst moments.
