Attorney Luis Esparza’s margin of victory over Judge Thomas Adams grows in latest county; Santa Maria School Boardmember Ricardo Valencia and Santa Maria City Councilmember Maribel Aguilera will face off for the 5th District seat in November.
After fifty years, Luis Esparza will replace Thomas Adams
The Sheriff’s Office is projected to spend $19 million in overtime this this year, leading grand jury to ask in new report, “What’s Up with the Excessive Overtime?”
The proposed musical performance, rehearsal, and instruction center at 901 State Street will feature a rooftop event space.
Egg masses reared into tadpoles are being released back into the Southern California wild.
Not since the 1970s has a challenger upset an incumbent judge in Santa Barbara County.
Attorney Luis Esparza is now 230 votes ahead of Judge Thomas R. Adams, but nearly 35,000 ballots remain to be counted.
Steyer, Measure A, Capps, Hart, Greene, and Slattery win big in the county.
The trip comes as Democratic leaders call for an investigation into Sable executive James Flores’s possible backdoor communications with Donald Trump.
The Goldwater Institute sues County Board of Supervisors and vintners association on behalf of Lompoc’s Flying Goat Cellars.
