The attorney prosecuting Santa Barbara Superior Court Judge Diana Hall 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.
Judge Denise de Bellefeuille 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.
Embattled developer Bill Levy (pictured) won a high-stakes showdown before the California Supreme Court with longtime foe and onetime friend Richard Berti, who charged Levy had grossly abused the judicial process by using it as a cudgel to silence critics. The critic in question was Berti himself, who waged a nine-year legal campaign to find out how Levy spent his investors’ money on what’s since become the Ritz-Carlton time-share condo proposal slated for lower State Street.
Once you’ve lived in S.B. for any length of time, there are certain things you come to avoid. But in the interest of dodging tourists, are we missing out on some of the best our town has to offer? It’s entirely possible, I discovered recently, when I decided to play tourist for a day.
Santa Barbara County won the dubious distinction of being the nation’s eighth least affordable county for potential homebuyers. San Luis Obispo came in 10th, and the Los Angeles/Long Beach area took top “honors.”
In 1997, San Miguel Island was the last bastion of commercial California red abalone fishing. Decimated by overfishing, disease, voracious otters, and even an African parasite called a sabellid worm, all species of the once-abundant disk-shaped mollusks had practically disappeared from the California coast by the mid-1990s.
Who will cover the Santa Barbara High Dons, San Marcos Royals, and Dos Pueblos Chargers now that the News-Press’s sports reporter Mike Traphagen is gone? Plus, the N-P drops their Unfair Labor Practice complain against the Teamsters. Read on….
There are lots of good reasons to grow your own fruits and vegetables. Over the life of a tree, you will have saved the cost of buying a similar amount of produce many times over.
If you’re looking to get outta Dodge, but don’t have the dough to drop on a real trip, why not try being a tourist in your own town for a day? Instead of cursing the visitors taking their leisurely time cruising down Cabrillo Boulevard on a bicycle built for two, why not commandeer the people-mover of your choice, and become one of them?
The number of people who visit Stearns Wharf each year.
