City Looking Over Inclusionary Housing Ordinance

A Housing Policy Steering Committee reently voted to recommend changes to the current affordable housing ordinances. The city council will look over this and other recommendations in the upcoming weeks.

Caught on Camera

Interrupted by an intoxicated heckler during an outdoor on-camera interview about homeless issues, Santa Barbara Police Lt. Paul McCaffrey wrestled the heckler to the ground and handcuffed him, allegedly fracturing the man’s elbow in the process. The KSBY news crew who had been interviewing McCaffrey caught most of the incident, which occurred on May 22, on camera, broadcasting it on the station’s Web site under the heading “Raw Video: Santa Barbara Transient Arrest.” (Photo courtesy KSBY Action News)

Capps Votes No

Just days before flying back to the district to observe Memorial Day, Santa Barbara Congressmember Lois Capps (D) voted against a $120-billion war spending bill, $95 billion of which will actually be used to sustain U.S. military campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan through September 30. Despite Capps’s opposition, the bill passed the House-as well as the Senate-by overwhelming margins late last Thursday and Friday.

Immigration Raid Challenged

Although federal Homeland Security agents came into the apartment searching for her Iranian roommate, a UCSB student was taken into custody on Wednesday, May 23 for alleged violations of immigration law-a murky situation further muddled this week by claims of improper procedure.

A Watchdog, Not a Lapdog

ANNIE GET YOUR GUN: When the phone rings in our house after 10 p.m., it means one of two things: Either somebody just died or Annie Bardach is on the horn. Annie tends to call from places like Miami, where she’s dredging up some of the nastiest political corruption practiced anywhere in the Western Hemisphere. As a reporter, Bardach is famous for her tick-like tenacity, which has landed her not one, but two interviews with Fidel Castro and one-on-ones with a host of other high-profile also-rans.

Harrison Swalley

In 1997, big things were set in motion for a very little guy when his parents couldn’t find him a babysitter and had to bring him along to music class, which his mother, Winnie, taught at Hope School. Then just three years old, Harrison Swalley sat in each week and listened to the band, in which his older brother played the euphonium. Eventually Swalley developed a hankering to play.

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