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Nick Welsh
Recent Stories
All Growl but No Bark
Poodle Ponders Fate of $500 Million Project
City Hall Ponders Pot Lawsuit
City Council gets update on case brought by Green Well.
City’s 2nd-in-Command to Retire
Marcelo Lopez leaving after 18 years with City of Santa Barbara.
‘Tough Love’ for Homeless Shelter
County supervisors vent as Casa Esperanza cuts services.
Settlement for Broken Arm Woman?
City Council considers how to handle case of cops breaking a woman’s arm during DUI stop.
Third-Strikers Reformed?
Santa Barbara prosecutors say it’s still “too early” to say what impact Proposition 36 — the statewide initiative passed last November granting early release to eligible repeat offenders sentenced to life under the state’s Three-Strikes law — has had despite a new study showing only 2 percent of those released have re-offended.
John Jostes Wins Lifetime Achievement Award
John Jostes, former Santa Barbara City planning commissioner, won the prestigious lifetime Sharon M. Pickett Award for his work mediating protracted and seemingly intractable land use conflicts.
Carp Smoking Areas Put on Back Burner
A proposal to install three designated smoking areas in downtown Carpinteria — as part of the city’s outdoor smoking ban — was not killed outright, but indefinitely put on ice by the City Council on 9/10.
Art Boss Scrapped
During Sanchez’s tenure, Art From Scrap started as an independent nonprofit, was subsumed into the Community Environmental Council, spun out as an independent again, and last year was rechristened and re-branded as Explore Ecology.
