Dead Dogs Tell No Tales
Poodle sings “Yer Trash Ain’t Nothin’ but Cash” and other great hits.
Nick Welsh
Recent Stories
The Power of Nice
Lois Capps: From accidental representative to 800-pound political gorilla.
From Nightmare to the Dream
Fielding provost on front lines against segregation.
Mountain Funding to Sell Lot?
Mountain Funding—the bank that several years ago foreclosed on developer Bill Levy and his now-defunct plan to build a community of time-share condos around the Californian Hotel on the lower two blocks of State Street—is reportedly about to sell the project to an undisclosed developer, who owns and builds hotels in Los Angeles, for a tiny fraction of what it could have gotten but rejected three years ago.
City Retreats on Pot Shops
The maximum number of dispensaries allowed may increase from three to five.
Capps Not Packing Heat
But says her colleagues might in the wake of the Arizona shooting.
$10,000 Approved For Warming Shelter, Just Barely
New councilmember Randy Rowse casts the decisive vote.
Brown’s Budget Pain Hits Home
His proposal would cost the city’s Redevelopment Agency $12 million a year.
Lap Dogs, Running Dogs or Mad Dogs?
Duck-and-cover drills for the New Dark Ages.
Council Votes for Suicide Barrier Transparency
Spurred on by Councilmembers Dale Francisco and Frank Hotchkiss, the Santa Barbara City Council voted to instruct Mayor Helene Schneider to ask the Santa Barbara County Association of Governments to ask Caltrans to share a secret engineering study about suicide barrier alternatives for the Cold Spring Bridge with the head of the state’s Office of Historic Preservation.
