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.
Crews still at work on the blaze that began Wednesday morning.
The three hospitals making up Cottage Health System outperformed most hospitals in the region and nation when it came to readmitting patients discharged for heart attack, heart failure, and pneumonia, the conditions studied by Medicare examiners when gauging a hospital’s effectiveness.
Santa Barbara County ranks 25th in the United States when gauging the rate of increase in bicycle commuters from 2000 to 2010.
Traditional antitax crusaders with the Taxpayers Association and Republican Party have come out in favor of parcel tax Measures A and B, which combined will generate $2.9 million a year for four years for the Santa Barbara Unified School District.
City work crews armed with something called a “masticator tractor” have attacked a six-acre chunk of land alongside Las Positas Creek, chewing up the thick vegetative underbrush that could provide combustible fuel in a fire.
Succumbs to liver failure at age 46.
Can fall-out shelters protect us from testosterone poisoning? Poodle celebrates the Prez Debates and Cuban missile crisis.
