Scouts File Appeal in Sex Abuse Case
Youth group seeks to block order to turn over “perversion files.”
Barney Brantingham
Recent Stories
Danger Lurks on Upper State
A friend noticed that while a man with a neck brace and cane was negotiating upper State Street, a guy was leaning on the horn, impatient to barrel through.
Take Your Seasons and Shove ’em
One day a few years ago, Non Sequitur cartoonist Wiley Miller decamped from Santa Barbara to Kennebunkport, Maine. Why? Because our days are just too perfect.
‘Dirty 30’ Tax Dodgers
I know a Santa Barbara guy I’m pretty sure has never filed a tax return in his life.
Eccentric Multimillionaires Living in Poverty
The Figg-Hoblyns’ has been one of the most novel and long-running conservatorship cases in Santa Barbara Superior Court history.
Michael Stephen Murdy
“Has it really been 10 years since Mike Murdy took that leap of faith off the Micheltorena Street bridge?” asks his widow, Patricia.
He’d Rather Be in Prison
I decided to drop in on Sheriff Bill Brown’s jail to visit his most talked-about new guest: 23-year man Jose Reyes Aceves.
Huguette’s Gems to be Auctioned
The collection, including a rare pink cushion-cut 9 carat diamond ring, is worth millions.
Santa Barbara vs. Palm Springs
The jury is still out on whether the Golden State is headed downhill, but the Springs doesn’t seem to have changed much except to become more so.
Our King of the $uperPACs
Montecitan Harold Simmons is top moneyman in the race to shovel money into the GOP marathon of reactionaries.
