Council Shifts Leftward
First Latina elected; conservative gets most votes.
Nick Welsh
Recent Stories
Murillo Gets Support from Farmworker Icon
Council race defies political prognosticators; even Nostradamus afraid to predict outcome.
Votes Dribbling In for City Council Race
With ballots due Tuesday, more than 12,000 Santa Barbara residents have already voted, but that’s only 30 percent of registered voters.
Red Flags Flapping
Affordable housing operator flames out; supes grapple to limit damage.
Dead Dogs Dancing
Can you balance your checkbook, chew gum, and cast your ballot all at the same time? The Poodle can’t.
Incumbents Take Lead in Campaign Donations
Had trailed slate of challengers in previous reporting weeks.
Vendor Picked in Gas-for-Trash Scheme
Anaerobic digester gets nod as conversion technology for Tajiguas Landfill project.
Mayor Wants Regular Reports from Chief
The City Council and the public would benefit, Schneider says.
Michael Magne Passes Away
Michael Magne, the former owner of A Skaters Paradise who’d run several times for the Santa Barbara City Council, died last week from complications connected to a massive brain injury he’d sustained the previous year in a skiing accident.
The (Mosh) Pit and the Pendulum
For the first time in 35 years, the race for Santa Barbara’s City Hall — normally a bastion of environmental, Unitarian-tinged, quasi-progressive high-mindedness — has been taken over by a solid conservative majority. In the reputed “birthplace of the environmental movement,” how could that be?
