Room-for-Rent Blues
In answer to the letter written by a “Disgruntled Rent Payer,” I realize that there are difficulties on both sides.
Year: 2011
Disgruntled Rent-Payer
The high density debate is moot. Santa Barbara already has high density, and it is very poorly managed.
Jean and Marz
Jean Yamamura, a Santa Barbara Independent copy editor of about a decade and counting, and Marz Miller, an Independent intern, have known each other for 17 years, give or take nine months, the sort of acquaintance that gives them the ability to end each other’s sentences, if only to kill each other’s jokes.
volume 26, number 307, December 1-8, 2011
’Tis the Season: A Guide to Winter Holidays
’Tis the Season
It’s the most wonderful time of the year again! To help you make the most of another warm-weather winter season in Santa Barbara, The Indy‘s Calendar Editor Devon Claire Flannery has compiled a comprehensive guide to the plethora of holiday events on the Central Coast.
Plans Derailed to Open Pot Dispensary on Maldonado Property
Plans to open a medical marijuana dispensary on property owned by the family of former lieutenant governor and congressional candidate Abel Maldonado may have become derailed as news of the potentially embarrassing deal came to light just before Thanksgiving, thanks to a political blogger.
Indy Publisher Files Notice of Appeal
Santa Barbara Independent publisher and majority owner Randy Campbell has filed a notice of his intention to appeal Judge Denise de Bellefeuille’s decision in favor of the paper’s editor in chief Marianne Partridge in her lawsuit against Campbell.
Chief Sanchez Honored by Faith-Based Nonprofit
Police Chief Cam Sanchez was honored by the Turner Foundation, a faith-based nonprofit, for agreeing to locate a quasi-police substation in a Westside apartment building it had renovated.
Details Still Slim in Storage Yard Fire Investigation
The investigation continues into the fire that started in a South Quarantina Street storage yard on 11/17 that left one person dead and another seriously injured.
DA Won’t File Excessive Force, Resisting Arrest Charges in Denunzio DUI Case
The office cites differing accounts of 13 witnesses present during the October 21 incident.
