How to Protect Your Identity
Five good defensive maneuvers from financial advice columnist Kevin Bourke.
Year: 2007
Third Annual Playwriting Competition Puts Science on the Stage
UCSB’s Professional Artists Lab and NanoSystems Institute co-sponsor STAGE, which offerskett a $10,000 prize.
Defense’s Case Winds Down
Frimpong’s fate could go to jury tomorrow.
QED Embezzlement Cases Proceed
USB settles for $23 million, other corporations tied to McGhan assume positions
Film Festival Gives Out More New Awards
A cavalcade of celebrity recipients!
Discrimination Ruling Anti-Climactic
A court ruled that the retirement enclaves discriminated against people with walkers.
New Cabrillo Sidewalk Moving Forward
After a lengthy debate pitting the historic grand plans drawn up years ago for Cabrillo Boulevard against the present-day operational needs of the artists and craftspeople who sell their wares every Sunday on Santa Barbara’s beachfront, members of the Santa Barbara City Council came down on the side of the historians, while seeking a few extra inches on behalf of the vendors.
Merry Solstice
Looking back, I never really had a shot at being pious. With a lapsed Catholic for a mother and a secular Jew for a step-father, I was a spiritual orphan, destined to stumble through the year-end holidays with no real sense of history.
The Naples Battle Rages On
On 12/10, a standing room only crowd gathered for three hours in the Santa Barbara County Administration Building to voice their concerns about plans to put large-scale luxury homes on the pristine Gaviota Coast.
Goleta Water Board Cuts Carryover, Seeks Review by Outside Attorney
The tempest-tossed Goleta Water District (GWD) will hire an outside attorney to advise its board of directors as to whether district counsel Chip WullÂ-brandt is beset by conflicts of interest. In addition to the GWD, Wullbrandt serves as counsel to two other water districts, Carpinteria’s and Montecito’s.