GANG SWEEPS:
In response to escalating gang violence, Santa Barbara city police conducted searches on the homes of 29 suspected gang members early Tuesday morning.
Year: 2006
COUCH-BURNERS WILL PAY:
Last year in June, the Isla Vista Foot Patrol gave out one ticket for couch-burning. This year, as the time for wild, school’s-out street celebrations approached, the patrol donned plainclothes uniforms and handed out 18 couch-burning citations.
Greenhouse Gas Bill Inches Forward
A state bill co-sponsored by Santa Barbara Assemblymember Pedro Nava that would cap the amount of greenhouse gases that California businesses can produce – effective in 2012 – easily passed the Senate Environmental Quality Committee Monday afternoon, despite a major adversarial campaign launched by a coalition of state business interests led by the Chamber of Commerce. The bill – co-sponsored by Assembly Speaker Fabian N°±ez – would require businesses to start monitoring their greenhouse gas emissions in 2010 and then begin reducing them two years later.
BIZ GURU BLASTS CORPORATE PAY:
International financier and sometimes Santa Barbara resident Charles Munger Warren Buffett’s right-hand man at Berkshire Hathaway, Inc. warned corporate leaders against the temptation of extravagant pay packages for business executives. Speaking at a program for corporate directors at Stanford University, Munger said CEO compensation packages spark widespread public animosity, adding business leaders had a responsibility to “dampen some of this envy and resentment by behaving way more noble than other people and more generous.”
I.V. SOCCER KIBOSH:
The Isla Vista Recreation and Parks District board of directors decided on June 15 not to implement a million-dollar grant for a soccer field, prompting one frustrated boardmember to resign immediately in protest.
County Fair
James Connolly’s Musical Meanderings
When James Connolly takes to the stage with his Gove County String Quartet, the ensuing sounds only hint at the musical meanderings its founder undertakes. Along with the quartet, Connolly directs the more expansive Gove County Philharmonic, composes soundtracks for the Lit Moon Theatre Company, plays double bass with some of Santa Barbara’s finest jazz and contemporary musicians, and keeps most of the city’s pianos in tune.
Soccer Fans Rejoice
If World Cup madness has left you wishing that America would get with the program and offer more in the way of live, quality soccer, two local organizations have partnered to reach that goal.
PUBLIC ACCESS ACCOLADES:
Santa Barbara Channels the nonprofit organization behind local access television channels 17 and 21 took home several top honors at the Homegrown Video Festival, one of the biggest local access competitions in the country.
ALT FILMS ON FRIDAYS:
The UCSB Women’s Center Library is hosting noontime Friday screenings of thought-provoking documentaries, starting June 30 with Unconstitutional: The War on Our Civil Liberties and continuing with Confessions of an Economic Hit Man on July 7, Beyond Treason on July 14, Bush Family Fortunes on August 18, and Loose Change: Second Edition, on August 25.
