TEMPEST IN A FLESHPOT: Santa Barbara is overdue for a good sex scandal. Or, at the very least, a romantic entanglement of epic proportion. After all, Los Angeles has one as the marriage of its mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa, unravels amid revelations that he’s been carrying on with some hoochie mama TV reporter assigned to cover his office for Telemundo.
An operation based near Twitchell Reservoir yielded around 61,000 plants.
ONE YEAR LATER: On this day back in 1687, a mathematical bigwig named Sir Isaac Newton published what would become his runaway bestseller, Principia Mathematica. In it, Newton postulated many of the theorems that have since tormented countless generations of restless high school students. Specifically, Newton’s theory of momentum holds that bodies in motion stay in motion, and his theory of inertia holds that bodies at rest stay that way, too.
The UCSB Economic Forecast studied the base for the first time ever.
While San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom grabbed headlines this week by banning his city’s departments from buying bottled water for city functions, the City of Santa Barbara quietly did the same thing two months ago with little fanfare. As part of City Hall’s broader sustainability campaign, no more plastic bottled water will be purchased for city meetings or events.
PIPE DREAMS AND SLIPPERY SLOPES: Calling all crackpots! If you’ve got a half-baked, hair-brained scheme for creating rain and making the desert bloom, it’s high time to haul it out of the closet.
The U.S. Conference of Mayors selected the Arkansas town over Santa Barbara.
Since 2002, the number of people driving alone has dropped 7 percent.
The city will look into how they will find a replacement in September.
A trip to Portland, Oregon has Councilmember Brian Barnwell thinking speed tables would be a better traffic-calming device.
