Unemployment Rate Takes Sizable Dip
The county’s unemployment rate dropped from 7.2 percent in March 2013 to 6.0 percent in April 2013.
Indy Staff
Recent Stories
Hindering or Helping 101?
find it almost impossible to believe that Nick Welsh would “pan” the efforts of a citizen group attempting to find ways to save $53 million of county money and 18 months of consumer frustration with highway construction.
Supes Head Back to Santa Maria
After construction at the Joseph Centeno Betteravia Government Administration Building in Santa Maria forced the County Board of Supervisors to hold all of their meetings in Santa Barbara, the supervisors will go back to splitting their meetings between the two cities.
Channel Island Foxes Back in Action
Recovery effort deemed a wild success.
Santa Barbara Drive-In Goes Digital
Goleta’s West Wind Drive-in Theatre is the first drive-in on the West Coast to go digital.
Williams Education Bill Approved By State Assembly
Despite opposition from the chancellor’s office and most faculty groups including the Santa Barbara City College Academic Senate, Assemblymember Das Williams’s measure to allow community colleges to offer nonsubsidized extension courses during winter and summer sessions, AB 955, gained approval from the State Assembly on 5/20.
Perfect Palms
There are a couple of hardy palms that do well in Southern California’s environment.
No, I Won’t Go to Your Kid’s Show
There are parents who feel compelled to attend other people’s children’s events, and those who think that’s whack.
Minuteman III Test Missile Launches From Vandenberg
An unarmed Minuteman III
intercontinental ballistic missile was launched during an operational test
at 6:27 a.m. here Wednesday from Launch Facility-4 on north Vandenberg.
California Department of Fish and Wildlife News Release
CDFW Reminds Residents to be Rattlesnake Safe
