You Pay, but the Jobs Don’t Exist
The feds raided the office of telemarketers Anthony J. Newton and Jeremy S. Cooley at 114 E. Haley Street, shut the place down, and by court order froze their assets.
Barney Brantingham
Recent Stories
Sibling Feud Hits Lundberg Survey Heirs
Jan Lundberg, of the famed gas-price-survey family, rode his bike to my house in the pouring rain to talk about a real-life Santa Barbara soap opera.
Pride Without Prejudice
La Conchita with its one-room school was “kind of a multi-ethnic utopia from the 1930s through the 1950s,” according to historian Bonnie Kelm.
Who—or What—Killed Borders?
How could Santa Barbara possibly have lost Borders, its citadel of State Street culture, its cathedral of books and DVDs, its mecca of music?
Banks Too Big To Save
MIT economics professor and author chats up UCSB audience.
In Arizona’s Red Rock Country
In Sedona, high in Arizona’s breathtaking red rock country, McDonald’s arches aren’t golden.
Carpinteria’s Segregated Past
Carpinteria, the pleasant little city on “The World’s Safest Beach,” has an embarrassing, shameful secret buried in its not too distant history.
SB Bank & Trust Reports Black Ink
Parent company Pacific Capital Bancorp today reported a $20.8 million profit for the last quarter of 2010, its first black ink quarter in several years.
Where’d the $14 Million Go?
The streets of Santa Barbara tell stories this week of the rises and the woes of our fellow humans, lionized on the Arlington stage or shivering in nearby dark doorways.
Last Lions of the Film Festival
Barney is taking in some serious documentaries during SBIFF 2011.
