The attorney prosecuting Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Diana Hall (pictured) before the California Commission on Judicial Performance is calling for Hall’s removal from the bench for laundering campaign contributions from her former lesbian lover.
Teamster organizers flanked by current and former Santa Barbara News-Press newsroom workers announced they were commencing a communitywide drive to hurt News-Press owner Wendy McCaw in the pocketbook until she agrees to restore journalistic ethics and free speech to the newsroom.
Judge Denise de Bellefeuille (pictured above right) brought the gavel down on Carpinteria City Councilmember Greg Gandrud, who challenged the ballot language describing and supporting Measure D 2006the $1.6 billion congestion relief and road repair sales-tax increaseas false and misleading. After hearing six hours of hair-splitting arguments…
Fri., Sept. 8
Use Your Voice: Democratic Service Club meets to organize precincts. 5:30-7:30pm. Democratic Headquarters, 402 E. Gutierrez St. Call 898-8871.
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Students have held fundraisers to pay for an attorney, marched through Isla Vista, and signed pledge cards promising not to rent from Conquest Student Housing, Inc., if the corporation’s eviction of 55 families from the Cedarwood Apartments-in order to create high-end student housing-goes through as planned.
The Pentagon had its fingers crossed this week in hopes that a scheduled test of a ground-based missile interception system didn’t go awry, as has often occurred in the past. During the planned test, an interceptor rocket was to be launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base near Lompoc against a target missile launched from Alaska’s Kodiak Island.
The 311 at the Santa Barbara Bowl ticket giveaway went down yesterday, September 6, at Fiesta Laundromat. See a video of the raffle and learn who were the lucky winners.
Arguably the biggest polo event in North America concluded in a brutal championship match at the Santa Barbara Polo and Racquet Club in Carpinteria last weekend. National media and more than 1,000 spectators were on hand for the final game of the Pacific Coast Open as team Duende squeaked by Windsor Capitol 13-11. …
In response to the discovery of Oriental fruit flies in the Hope Ranch area last month, the pesticide Dibrom (a trade name for naled) was applied for the third time to trees and telephone poles in the region. The eradication program went ahead despite a request by Mayor Marty Blum that it be halted to allow time for discussion of gentler alternatives…
-Superintendent Brian Sarvis, on the diminishing enrollment at local elementary, junior high, and high schools.
