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COLAB hires former county CEO Mike Brown.

More Green for Green Grant Program

The supervisors were thrilled to hear $5 million would be returned to the county’s General Fund on 12/14, and that they would still be able to implement emPowerSBC.

Centeno’s Last Board Meeting

After eight years as 5th District supervisor, and many more in public service as the police chief of Santa Maria, Joe Centeno sat through his last board meeting on 12/14.

Sansum Now Asking for Ethnicity

Sansum Health Clinic implemented a new policy this month that requires asking for patients’ ethnicities during check-in.

Poodle Radio Talks Hacking Computers and Racing for City Council

First on this week’s Poodle Radio, it’s a conversation about state-of-the-art computer hacking with Indy Senior Editor Matt Kettman, author of this week’s cover story on UCSB’s Computer Security Group.

Victorian Quilt Raffle

The Lompoc Museum raffles a handmade, Victorian era style quilt using colors and design inspired by the 1909 Burpee Seed catalog cover.

Saving What Remains of the Coast

The last 20 miles of undeveloped Southern California coastline is at Gaviota, and Naples its symbolic heart, a parcel that has so far confounded speculators’ schemes. Are its days again numbered?

Tara Cloud

“I’m a slow traveler,” says Indy reader Tara Cloud, a Santa Barbara resident since 1966 who sent us this picture from Iguazu Falls on the border between Argentina and Brazil.

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