Who needs libraries? The state has abolished all library support, unless a miracle occurs in Sacramento, and Santa Barbara County has given the library a $223,304 fiscal finger. Yet every day, more than a million Californians visit a library, more than visit Disneyland in a month.
I’ve yet to be convinced by the developers and “affordable housing” advocates that high density is all that smart. However, I do know that some good, public-spirited people are in favor, so I’m listening.
All the fuss over the noisy Kardashian nuptials reminds me of a far smaller Montecito wedding a few years ago.
Who says nothing ever happens down in Santa Barbara’s Funk Zone, where boom often turns to bust?
I’ve seen more people at a Dons-Royals football game than sprinkle the seats at Dodger Stadium these days.
Ex-supervisor Frank Frost tells about when he was playing piano in a bar in the 700 block of State and noticed that on many nights a police car would drive by and flash its lights.
Montecito Billioniare Harold Simmons parlayed campaign donations to Rick Perry, the aw-shucks Texas governor and presidential hopeful, into a license to dump up to 2.3 million cubic feet of radioactive waste in West Texas.
A tale of two papers, and the two court decisions handed down this week.
Owner Wendy McCaw already begins appeals process.
If Campbell assumed that Partridge couldn’t come up with the $1.3 million he wanted for his shares, he was wrong.
