The seven structures that compose what used to be St. Anthony’s Seminary were declared a historic landmark by the City Council this Tuesday, but not before the father of a man sodomized in his youth by Franciscan monks could refresh the council’s collective memory of some of the pain endured there.
The fall of General David Petraeus and the rise of Santa Barbara’s Veterans Court.
Movers and shakers go to bat for Bellosguardo Foundation.
Last-minute two cents worth on this year’s multi-million-dollar races.
City Hall infighting over library trees.
How Halloween went from a Celtic harvest festival to cross-dressing and the Devil.
A new streamlined super agency designed to cut through bureaucratic red tape and more efficiently direct resources to Santa Barbara’s chronically homeless almost got snagged in four months’ worth of additional red tape as the City Council debated small but politically volatile wording differences in the new entity’s mission statement.
Economist Mark Schniepp predicted that as many as 400 new construction jobs, $100 million in wages, and as much as $14 million in taxable sales could be generated countywide, albeit temporarily, if the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians is granted permission to build 143 new homes on 1,400 acres of farm and pasture land, known as Camp 4, that they recently purchased in the Santa Ynez Valley.
New federal requirements forced $500,000 in cuts, administrators say.
Poodle applies “beer test” to Congressional candidates.
