The County Civil Service Commission this week denied Sheriff Bill Brown’s request for a rehearing of an earlier meeting in which the board found Brown had unlawfully disciplined former employee Shawn Terris when she attempted to organize a union.
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Each November, we publish one of our favorite, if most challenging, issues-Local Heroes.
At a time when towns and cities are facing budget shortfalls and cuts to basic services, legislation was passed by the House of Representatives on 11/20 to invest in firefighter assistance programs throughout the country.
SBCC has changed Adult Education into Continuing Education and the budget cuts have helped them toward their overall goal of systematically eliminating cultural classes geared toward seniors.
The principal is axed as the charter debate ends, but saving solutions are considered.
Jim Roehrig & Lulu
I am writing in response to Robin Karson’s letter about our Santa Barbara Botanic Garden.
Josef Woodard, in an otherwise perceptive and thoughtful review of the film Precious, unfortunately takes an ill-informed swipe at Charles Bukowski; or, more directly, at Barfly, the 1987 film written by Bukowski and based on his life, which film is mentioned in Precious.
