Last week ended with me harassing a woman in a coffee shop. I thought I'd start this week off by turning back to a familiar subject, Texan Randall Van Wolfswinkel.Late last week, every registered v...
Yesterday's post about my coffee house run-in with a woman who refused to take her cell phone conversation outside drew a huge amount of traffic to my blog and a huge response from you readers with...
So, on Wednesday morning I'm sitting in one of the big comfy chairs at one of my regular stops on the café society circuit, The Good Cup on the Mesa. I've got my feet propped up on the ottoman and ...
A half-million dollars, and only two city council seats to show for it. Did the negative campaigning work?Heck, Randall Van Wolfswinkel couldn't even save Measure B's bacon. I would argue that Mich...
It's election day morning in the City of Santa Barbara. Do you know where your ballot is?Hopefully, your answer is, "in the mail." And hopefully you dropped it in the mail before last Friday, which...
On Monday morning, many people in the local media, mainstream and otherwise, received an e-mail announcing that a press conference would be held at noon on Tuesday to announce the filing of a lawsu...
The Santa Barbara News-Press, a newspaper that has been in labor turmoil ever since July 2006, saw its daily (Monday through Friday) circulation drop by 15.2%, according to figures released today ...
Turns out Randall Van Wolsfwinkel isn't the only Texan who is shy about showing his face in Santa Barbara.Actor Randy Quaid and his wife failed to show up again for their Santa Barbara court hearin...
Pass the 10-gallon hat. Preserve Our Santa Barbara, the political action committee, that has been all but single-handedly funded by Texan Randall Van Wolfswinkel, has so far spent an astonishing $5...
Back on September 9, I along with Nick Welsh of the Independent and Lara Cooper of Noozhawk, taped a roundtable discussion, moderated by Jerry Roberts of Calbuzz, focusing on the upcoming Santa Bar...
Gerry Fall, the main sports anchor for KEYT Channel 3 for the last 14 1/2 years, handed in his resignation on Monday afternoon and closed the door on an era in local sports journalism.Fall had been...
I had parked my car behind City Hall on Wednesday evening and was heading over to State Street in search of a happy hour beer and a taco when I caught sight of them on the other side of Anacapa Str...
The Santa Barbara County League of Conservation Voters, a small environmental PAC, had a little campaign ad made by local filmmaker Brent Sumner (who was also the videographer on Citizen McCaw). T...
When last seen in the hallways of the Santa Barbara Superior Court, Wendy McCaw's attorneys had lost their bid to have the arbitrator in her case against former editor Jerry Roberts removed.McCaw's...
Based on the overwhelming reaction to my post yesterday, I can say that there's no one in Santa Barbara who approves of negative campaigning and attack ads. Well, almost no one. I noted that there ...
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