For the past six weeks, the Homeless in Santa Barbara blog has been looking at what happens to homeless people in Santa Barbara following a hospital stay. Few people are truly well after being discharged from the hospital, and many remain weak and fragile for weeks.
Do you want lessons on how to deal with people professionally, skillfully, with dignity and compassion? Go riding on the Metropolitan Transit District buses.
Students protested on UCSB’s campus Monday both in solidarity with the Occupy protesters at UC Davis and Berkeley and against tuition hikes.
Direct Relief International has pledged more than $250,000 in grants to five clinics in Illinois and Missouri communities still reeling from tornadoes and flooding this past spring.
Santa Barbara County was awarded two water project grants from the state Department of Water Resources totaling more than $3.6 million.
Veterans with an entrepreneurial bent can now get a lending hand with the American Hometown Heroes program which provides free business advice to returning warriors along with complimentary advertising space from independent yellow pages publishers.
Jesse Contreras Jr. pleaded no contest to assaulting a custody deputy with force likely to cause great bodily injury related to an attack in Santa Barbara County Jail on 9/30.
A recent study by UCSB political scientist Matthew Potoski and Yale economist Matthew Kotchen found that NCAA football coaches are anything but unbiased in their weekly rankings of the country’s top 25 teams.
On 12/2 student entrepreneurs at SBCC will get the chance to pitch their ideas to a panel of investors who will award one winning venture $1,000 in seed capital.
The Santa Barbara Ciy Fire Department fired the opening salvo of its annual Christmas toy drive, and all fire stations will serve as drop-off centers for people wishing to donate toys.
