Dire Straits and High Hopes
School Board looks to save $8 million with unpaid furloughs.
Month: March 2011
volume 25, number 269, March 10-17, 2011
The Indy’s Springtime Guide to S.B. Sipping
Georgina McNerney
Indy intern Georgina McNerney is a self-proclaimed clean freak. “I’ve only not made by bed once the whole time I’ve been in college,” she said.
Public Employee Rope-A-Dope
Democrats and union leaders say they ain’t fat cats.
I Sing the Canine Electric
Remembering David Attias and plumbing the difference between insanity and crazy.
Second Lyons Trial Focusing on Lawsuit
Testimony in the second murder trial of Corey Lyons—accused of shooting his brother Daniel and his brother’s partner, Barbara Scharton—has largely focused on a lawsuit between the two brothers regarding the construction of Daniel’s home.
Councilmember House in Car Accident
Santa Barbara City Councilmember Grant House was broadsided by an oncoming driver of a Mercedes Benz after House ran a red light at the intersection of Santa Barbara and Canon Perdido streets Monday afternoon.
Courthouse Suicide Victim Identified
Family said he was depressed about work, money, and personal matters.
Hosannas at Muddy Waters Café
Local acts team up with S.B.’s favorite Portlanders for a Monday night rich with new tunes.
Going to the Extremes at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History
This lecture series brings Dr. Kenneth Broad (environmental anthropologist), Dr. Kevin Lafferty (ecologist) and Dr. Lynn Rothschild (evolutionary biologist/astrobiologist) who will share their compelling and inspiring tales about the frontiers of science – from the Blue Holes of the Bahamas to parasitic ecosystems to the edge of the universe.
