Hannah-Beth Jackson and Tony Strickland Endorse Redistricting Measure
State Senate candidate Jackson bucks Democratic Party leadership to support Prop 11.
Author: Nick Welsh
Fence to Deter Pooping in Creek, City Hopes
Site became dumping ground for those reluctant to use portable toilets.
Critic Calls Urban Growth Survey Biased
Dave Davis quits Plan S.B. Outreach Committee as a result.
Mission Creek-Adjacent Beaches Fecal Matter-Free
Arroyo Burro and Leadbetter beaches indicate some feces contamination, however.
Greenies Call Foul on Strickland
Three prominent environmental activists took aim at the voting record of State Senate contender Tony Strickland when he served in the State Assembly.
Mel’s Blacks Out
After 45 years of serving strong drinks at reasonable prices, Mel’s Place closed its doors for good this Sunday, chased out of business by a looming rent increase and an inability to find substitute quarters.
Solstice Funds Withheld
The Santa Barbara Arts Commission reaffirmed its decision to withhold a $15,000 grant that’s gone to the Summer Solstice parade for the past 25 years, despite clear instructions from the City Council’s Finance Committee to do otherwise.
Let the Height Wars Begin
Signatures submitted to limit new buildings to 40 feet in downtown SB, 45 feet elsewhere in city.
Public Nuisance Complaint
A50-year-old woman now living in Northern California claims that she was forced repeatedly to strip naked in front of the prying eyes of a Franciscan brother when she was a six-year-old girl growing up in Santa Barbara in 1964.
Clawing, Chawing, Gnawing, and Pawing
I was disappointed to hear how quickly and completely Rielle Hunter-John Edward’s now infamous dangerous liaison-flew the Santa Barbara coop.
