WHERE’S WENDY? I know it’s perverse to feel sorry for a guy who gets paid $650 an hour to beat the crap out of people. But after watching attorney A. Barry Cappello try to defend News-Press owner Wendy P. McCaw-now on trial for firing eight reporters because of their pro-union sympathies-I must confess to feeling pangs of sympathy for the guy.
The Historic Landmarks Committee approved the project 5-to-2 despite some citizens’ apprehension.
City councilmembers vote not to challenge Measure P ruling, but may start to regulate the city’s marijuana dispensaries.
Congressmember Lois Capps and six other members of the California congressional delegation met on August 1 to question the conduct of a private company that’s been giving fits to the Rehabilitation Institute of Santa Barbara and other California providers of acute medical care, or short-term treatment for a severe or debilitating illness. Auditing firm PRG-Schultz International (PRG) was hired to examine the Medicare- and Medicaid-funded acute-care cases over the past five years and determine whether the patients should have been authorized for treatment.
HOT ENUFF FOR YA? If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. Or, at the very least, put down that butcher knife.
Assemblymember Pedro Nava blames Republicans for the blocked California budget.
The Yellow-Legged Frog has disappeared from 95 percent of its natural habitat.
An attempt to re-classify the County as “urban” could increase the number of Medicare patients receiving treatment.
The panel will consist on experts in fields like financing, public relations and environmental consulting.
Councilmember Brian Barnwell named the Redevelopment Agency as key in this effort.
