Fraudster Takes 10-Year Deal
David Prenatt risked spending 50 years in prison.
Nick Welsh
Recent Stories
Beneath the Valley of the Dogs
There’s Good News and Bad News on the state of our late (not) great (not) drought.
City Union Protests Over Pay, Health Care
About 20 workers active with the Service Employees International Union Local 620 marched in a loop in front of City Hall, chanting slogans over a megaphone that pierced the council deliberations taking place within.
New Groundwater Plans Afoot
Lawmakers say proposed bills would ensure supplies are not over-harvested.
State Law Would Close Recycling Loophole
Assemblymember Das Williams said his “favorite” bill this legislative session would eliminate a major loophole in California’s recycling law, preventing cities and counties from claiming in their diversion tabulations green waste and organic materials that they had chipped, composted, and landfilled.
Big Changes on Bench
De Bellefeuille stepping down; Ochoa announces retirement.
Developer to Save Funk Zone
Developer Neil Dipaola plans to put sailboats on a hotel roof and artists in storage containers, and almost everybody is ecstatic. How come?
The Barking of the Neighbor’s Dogs
Poodle gets whiplash contemplating the onset of the new football season.
‘Elliot Rodger’ Bills Pass Legislature
Williams and Jackson proposed new gun control laws in the wake of the Isla Vista killings.
Stone Pines Distressed by Drought
Four have died along Anapamu Street with 12 more at risk.
