For the past few days, independent.com’s correspondents have been furiously blogging about the Democratic National Convention in Denver, and hundreds of Santa Barbarans have already tuned in to hear their first impressions, their interviews with regional delegates such as Rob Egenolf and Mike Getto, and their analysis of each day’s main events.
St. Paul, Minnesota, is a flurry of activity as the nation’s right-leaning politicos prepare for the 2008 Republican National Convention.
What began as the concern of neighbors over an elderly neighbor with advanced Parkinson’s disease has become a neighborhood-wide shoving match over the man’s future.
Hours after The Independent hits newsstands Thursday, August 28, the Democratic Party will officially have a nominee: Illinois Senator Barack Obama.
Three prominent environmental activists took aim at the voting record of State Senate contender Tony Strickland when he served in the State Assembly.
After 45 years of serving strong drinks at reasonable prices, Mel’s Place closed its doors for good this Sunday, chased out of business by a looming rent increase and an inability to find substitute quarters.
The Santa Barbara Arts Commission reaffirmed its decision to withhold a $15,000 grant that’s gone to the Summer Solstice parade for the past 25 years, despite clear instructions from the City Council’s Finance Committee to do otherwise.
When The Coral Sea released Volcano and Heart, the S.B.-based ensemble seemingly had the world at their feet.
It is 2012 and a general state of chaos is brewing. The prison system has become a vicious for-profit world run by private companies, and the public’s thirst for blood has led to the phenom of the pay-per-view “death race” among felons with weapons-equipped machines.
Hurricane Katrina, one of the five deadliest hurricanes in the history of the U.S., makes landfall near New Orleans, Louisiana.
