Santa Barbara’s tourist economy shows definite signs of improvement as the amount City Hall collected in hotel bed taxes increased by 11.5 percent—$1.2 million—over last June, and just edged collections for June 2008, the year the recession really hit.
Chief Assistant County Counsel Stephen Underwood, who has worked for the county for more than 28 years, will retire in October. He will become a full-time faculty member and the new faculty chair at the Santa Barbara College of Law, where he has taught since 1998.
A direct result of the fallout from budget cuts and previously free class offerings being converted to fee-based, Santa Barbara City College announced a scholarship program this fall semester for select Continuing Education offerings.
Art Seen scopes the downtown zone, zeroing in on new paintings by Santa Barbara artists Leslie Lewis Sigler, Nancy Freeman, and Jeff Miller.
Mayor Helene Schneider sought to bring the issue of a plastic bag ban back to the City Council for reconsideration after the California Supreme Court ruled last Thursday that such bans need not be first subjected to thorough environmental review.
When the first amendment collides with drunk driving and sealed documents
Our columnist ponders the mystery surrounding the dead girl at the center of Sue Grafton’s Q Is for Quarry.
Capps hits back as GOP intensifies its early attacks on her reelection.
A chat between Roger Durling and Lynda Weinman about work, life, and love.
Give kids a clothing budget and let them make their own decisions about how to spend it.
