First 5 Santa Barbara County and Partners Celebrate National Home Visiting Week
(GOLETA, Calif.) – First 5 Santa Barbara County, in partnership with Santa Barbara County Health, CALM, and our community partners, is
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California’s Regressive Rooftop Solar Policy Hit With Second Appeal to State Supreme Court
SAN FRANCISCO— The Center for Biological Diversity, The Protect Our Communities Foundation and the Environmental Working Group have appealed to the California
Naming Names: Attorney General Bonta Secures Public Access to Evidence in Amazon Price Fixing Case
OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced the public release of evidence clearly showing Amazon’s illegal price fixing scheme that is
UCSB Arts & Lectures ‘Air Time’: Kyle Abraham of A.I.M by Kyle Abraham
A conversation with Charles Donelan.
Goleta Valley Library Receives Milestone Gift Toward Capital Campaign
The Goleta Valley Library (GVL) capital campaign is going strong! Thanks to a generous donation from Yardi Systems, the City
Watch: Attacking Trump’s “Illegal War,” Carbajal Calls Out GOP Colleagues for “Abdication” of Congressional Power
In wide-ranging interview, the five-term S.B. Democrat distances himself from Swalwell, forecasts a mid-term wave election, and waffles on debating Republican challenger in the fall.
Radius Forecast: “The Market Isn’t Slowing — It’s Sorting”
At its 16th Annual Real Estate & Economic Forecast on March 12 in Santa Barbara, Radius Commercial Real Estate delivered a clear message to a packed room of industry professionals: the Central Coast market is not experiencing a broad slowdown, but rather a decisive shift toward selective performance, where quality assets, flexible deal-making, and policy conditions are increasingly determining outcomes.
On the Rent Freeze, Fiscal Reality, and Equal Standards
If landlords are expected to absorb cost increases without automatic recovery, the city should likewise commit to freezing or tightly capping growth in its own major cost centers. If the answer is that such a model would be unrealistic, destabilizing, and likely to degrade public services, then the council should acknowledge that the same economic logic applies to housing operations.
Homeless Industrial Complex
The system depends on temporary solutions because they are easier to fund, easier to count, and easier to expand than permanent affordable housing.
Protecting Community, Democracy, and Local Control from ICE
As local elected leaders, we have a responsibility to respond to the aggressive federal immigration enforcement that is affecting our community.
