Montecito’s Politics Are on Fire
Who says nothing ever happens in Montecito?
Barney Brantingham
Recent Stories
Cops Score $$
Sunday’s Brunch with the Cops fundraiser at the Four Seasons Biltmore raked in $253,000.
El Encanto Rises
The Miramar remains a wreck, Fess Parker’s waterfront hotel is still a black hole, and La Entrada’s future is a question mark.
Billionaire Bucks
Vegas mogul Sheldon Adelson is one of 31 billionaires backing Romney.
NLRB Rules Against News-Press Again
Finds Santa Barbara’s daily paper was bargaining in bad faith.
Bend the Elbow, Go to Jail
I was sitting in an Anchorage Airport bar a couple of weeks ago when two guys sat down and ordered Irish car bombs.
Booked for the Bizarre
Are “the undecideds” the kind of people we really want deciding the fate of the quasi-free world?
North to Alaska
Dig into the kids’ college funds, rip off your mother’s stocks, sacrifice anything – but splurge on a balcony stateroom.
The First Lady’s Roots
While Michelle Obama has “publicly embraced her mixed heritage,” the subject is a sensitive point on the white side.
Sell ‘Seward’s Folly’?
By the time this is published, I will be in Alaska, but not, as persistent Internet rumors have it, on a secret mission from President Obama to investigate selling it back to the Russians.
