Republican Tony Strickland Offers a Stark Alternative to Hannah-Beth Jackson
Tony Strickland made his political bones at the age of 10, when he performed a star turn as Ronald Reagan in his fourth-grade class’s 1980 presidential election.
Jerry Roberts
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Hannah-Beth’s Comeback Bid
Political road warrior Hannah-Beth Jackson glanced at the splendid morning sky and sea through the front window of Eladio’s, then sighed at the prospect of another campaign day in the age of $4-a-gallon gas.
Governor Schwarzenegger’s Lottery-Lending Scheme
While the pols and pundits mercilessly pounded the governor’s scheme to liquidate California’s bazillion-dollar budget deficit with state lottery lucre, the Governator may have hoped that voters, at least, would buy into his plan.
Why California’s Government Doesn’t Work
The Governor’s new budget plan was pronounced “dead on arrival” by lawmakers within his own party, denounced as “shameful” by rival Democrats, and cited by the capital’s leading columnist as evidence that the Terminator was a wimp.
A Spectator’s Guide to Sacramento’s Latest Budget Mess
Shortly after midnight on June 7, 1978, Howard Jarvis dropped his pants for the benefit of reporters gathered in his suite at the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles.
An Interview with Willie Brown
The always unfiltered Willie Brown chats politics with former News-Press and San Francisco Chronicle editor Jerry Roberts.
UCSB Alumni Honor Walter Capps
Religious studies class remembers vets, changes lives.
Keeping Representative Walter Capps’s Legacy Alive at UCSB
Santa Barbara’s beloved congressman lives on in the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life. This story takes you inside.
Army Specialist Jaime Rodriguez Jr., 1987-2007
When the Kalitta Charters airplane carrying the body of U.S. Army Specialist Jaime Rodriguez Jr. landed at Santa Barbara Airport just before 2 p.m. on Thursday, August 2, the jet also brought home what the South Coast had avoided for more than four years-a young soldier killed in Iraq. The 19-year-old Rodriguez died July 26 when an Improvised Explosive Device detonated near his vehicle in Saqlawiyah, a city just northwest of Fallujah in Anbar province. Sgt. William R. Howdeshell, 37, of Norfolk, Virginia, and Spc. Charles E. Bilbrey Jr., 21, of Oswego, New York, from his unit also died from the blast.
