Times are tough in the Santa Barbara School District. With declining enrollment having progressed from a troubling trend to a harsh reality, the task of balancing budgets in both the elementary and high school districts has grown exponentially more difficult.
More than six months after David Klotz died outside the Spearmint Rhino Gentlemen’s Club, the Santa Barbara District Attorney’s office concluded their investigation Wednesday-opting not to file any charges in the death. After reviewing video tape of the incident, several eye witness accounts and the findings of two separate though occasionally conflicting forensic pathology experts, the district attorney ruled that there was “insufficient basis in fact or law” to press charges against the two bouncers who forcibly removed the 26 year-old Klotz from the club and physically detained him for some 21 minutes until police arrived.
After several months of gridlocked negotiations, the Santa Barbara School District and its teachers reached a tentative contract agreement late Thursday night.
The Arlington Theatre felt like the backyard barbeque to end all barbeques Saturday evening. Youthful and grinning, a capacity crowd of ocean-friendly individuals turned out for the day- and night-long Heal the Ocean benefit concert, swimming in a sea of like-minded people and digging on nearly six hours of ass-shaking good music.
After 650 miles in the sadle, California native Levi Leiphimer was crowned champion of the 2007 AMGEN Tour of California this Sunday in Long Beach.
Shortly after 11 a.m. this morning, legs pounding furiously in the brisk winter air, American rider Antonio Cruz came flying down Mission Drive in Solvang, his lycra-clad body silhouetted against a snow-capped horizon. Cowbells ringing and boom bats banging, he leans hard to his left, the wind whooshing loudly against his back tire. And that’s just the start of this update to the Tour of California, which races through Santa Barbara County this weekend.
Yesterday’s stage was a real deal photo finish and with sunny skies back in the swing of things along the South Coast today’s time trial in Solvang looks primed to set the pavement on fire.
By the time you read this story the madness will have already begun, with dozens of the world’s best bike racers blazing south through the state of California in a spellbinding, death-defying blur of brightly colored Lycra.
By the time you read this story the madness will have already begun, with dozens of the world’s best bike racers blazing south through the state of California in a spellbinding, death-defying blur of brightly colored Lycra.
The fallout from a controversial op-ed in the Ventura County Star shows little signs of abating, with its author, environmental champion Robert F. Kennedy Jr., drawing heavy criticism last week for his perceived support for a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) facility proposed for the Santa Barbara Channel.
