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, 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.
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.
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.
Poodle observes the 12th anniversary of 9/11 by stating the obvious.
Planners play ‘chicken’ over 101 widening.
Environmentalist, conservatives find common ground.
While the number of registered Santa Barbara City voters has increased slightly in the past 10 years the number of registered Republicans has dropped by about 2,800, the number of registered Democrats has increased by about 2,000, and the number of voters who declined to state party affiliation increased by about 2,500.
Santa Barbara County’s Health Department estimates there are 25,000 county residents who are eligible for health insurance once the federal Affordable Care Act — also known as Obamacare — kicks in January 1, 2014.
The supervisors approved spending $25,000 to get outside legal advice on the county’s options with regard to the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians’ intention to annex 1,400 acres of noncontiguous land to their reservation.
