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Joe Show Continues

What steps, if any, the Carpinteria City Council might take to publicly rebuke Councilmember Joe Armendariz for his second major drunk-driving incident in five years was postponed for three weeks Monday.

Fire Chiefs Seeing Red

Santa Barbara County Fire Chief Michael Dyer and Montecito Fire’s Chief Kevin Wallace are leading the charge against a new emergency regulation that will require owners of about 20,000 structures located in the county’s rural back country to pay $150 each in new fire-prevention fees.

Chet Gala: 1933-2011

It was my good fortune to meet Chet Gala almost immediately upon moving to Santa Barbara in 1983 to take a job as reporter with the Santa Barbara News & Review.

Dog Like Me

Poodle celebrates Martin Luther King Jr. Day by wondering how Anglo kids get suspended and expelled so much less than their Latino classmates

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