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Posted on September 3 at 8:58 p.m.
There's a new article up with that info:
http://www.independent.com/news/2008/sep...
"Samuels was running with a group of about 35 people northbound in the southbound bike lane on Las Positas. About 100 yards south of the Veronica Springs intersection, a van driven southbound by Doan struck Samuels, who was taken to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital, where she died later from her injuries."
Posted on September 3 at 8:25 p.m.
Hey folks, there's some real fun to be had here at the RNC blog, with Jerry Roberts and David Lack posting on the goings on in Minnesota.
Sarah Palin just finished, so have at it!
http://www.independent.com/rnc2008/
[we have kind of odd way our Blogs intersect with the main website, so the posts don't automatically appear in our news roll on the Front Page : that's why I'm publishing the URL here]
On Santa Barbara County’s Historic Oil Drilling Reversal to Be Short-Lived
Posted on August 16 at 9:38 a.m.
The events were unrelated.
--WebAdmin
Posted on August 3 at 9:51 a.m.
Thanks MrsDoverSharp, link is fixed and a number of other formatting issues.
Posted on July 9 at 5:49 p.m.
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Ticket for Godwin's Law violation:
4:45pm, crissylucky7
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Posted on July 9 at 11:04 a.m.
If you have a cell phone, you can keep up with our Fire updates by text messages (so if the power goes out you've got a connection): Check out this page here for direct information and sign-up:
http://www.twitter.com/sbinde
If you can get Text Messages, you can get this service, free.
For a good introduction and more links, here's the article we wrote on this new service:
http://www.independent.com/news/2008/jul...
--WebAdmin
Posted on July 5 at 5:27 p.m.
In response to SBComputerGuy, we have provided a link to our Google-based map which Ray Ford updated today, July 5 at noon. Ray will attempt to update twice a day.
And for RForsyth, if you have a cell phone, follow our link to www.twitter.com/sbinde and you will have our frequent updates sent to your cell phone, as long as your cell phone accepts text messages and is operational -- power or not.
--WebAdmin
Posted on August 10 at 5:25 p.m.
This comment was moved to this proper spot by Webadmin:
Posted by DinahMason (anonymous) on June 16, 2007 at 10:55 a.m.
(This comment was removed by the site staff.)
Posted by GregMohr (anonymous) on August 10, 2007 at 3:43 p.m. (Remove)
Last weekend I sent these comments to Caltrans, and was asked by a friend and colleague to post them here for others to see:
04 August 2007
I'm sorry not to have been able to attend the informational meeting in Santa Barbara on 25 July 2007. I've reviewed the PowerPoint presentation (May 2007) posted on the project website, and have gathered much information about the proposal from other sources, including news reports from the 25 July meeting.
Despite all of my efforts to gather information, I'm still unsure of the exact purpose of the 25 July meeting. I had assumed it was a scoping meeting to gather input as to the potentially significant adverse impacts associated with a specific proposed suicide prevention barrier; however, all of my sources, including the PowerPoint presentation posted on the Caltrans website, lead me to believe otherwise. It seems more likely that the 25 July meeting was intended to "sell" the concept of a physical suicide prevention barrier, presumably a curved-over-the-deck fence of some sort.
At this time, I must assume that the proposed or preferred project is a physical barrier, most likely one rising above the bridge's sides and curving to some extent over the deck. In this case, Caltrans has no option under CEQA and the CEQA Guidelines other than to prepare an EIR and, if federal highway funds are involved, a combined EIR-EIS, which would examine the potentially significant adverse impacts of the preferred project design and various feasible alternatives. The most obvious potentially significant adverse effects are related to visual aesthetics and historic resources. As required by CEQA and possibly NEPA, the examined alternatives must address those that could avoid or reduce potentially significant adverse impacts while meeting the basic project objectives. Such an examination of alternatives would not be possible under a negative declaration (ND) or combined ND-EA/FONSI.
In any case, the obvious potentially significant adverse impacts would preclude the latter level(s) of environmental review, regardless of the alleged benefits of the project.
Please contact me directly if you have any questions or need more information.
Sincerely,
Gregory Mohr
Former Planner and Environmental Specialist, Santa Barbara County (January 1979-May 2007)
Santa Barbara, CA
Posted on August 9 at 11:07 p.m.
Bargs said:
"When the Indy Local Heroes ballots appear, mine will have his name on it."
Funny you should mention that; here's the link to the ballot:
http://www.independent.com/local_heroes/...
--WebAdmin
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Posted on September 3 at 11:18 p.m.
AShaw wasn't up to speed that we had declared a truce here, to save powder for bigger and more directed conflicts. The comments I removed weren't particularly distasteful, just more of the same, and also unfairly allowed him to get in some parting shots.
On Santa Barbara County’s Historic Oil Drilling Reversal to Be Short-Lived