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Watch: Here's the Full Newsmakers TV Interview with Santa Barbara Mayor Randy Rowse about Dropping His Re-election Bid
The mayor announced on Monday he would not seek a second term.
 • Jerry Roberts
Randy Explains His Shock Decision Not to Seek Another Term as SB Mayor
In previously saying he'd run again, Mayor Rowse stated he still "still has the passion" for leading the city. Monday, he suddenly announced he's…
 • Jerry Roberts
Applebaum: Viktor Orbán's Staggering Defeat in Hungary Proves that Illiberalism Is Not Inevitable
If the autocratic prime minister who served as a model for MAGA can lose, then his American and Russian admirers can too.
Watch: Supes Talk, Don't Act on ICE Arrest Report; Feds Bigfoot State on Diablo; How Rent Vote Shapes SB Mayor, Council Races
On a new episode of Newsmakers TV, the gang talks fallout from that big investigation of deportation busts, conflicts over state's last nuke plant, and…
 • Jerry Roberts
Rampell: In Trump’s Economy, You’re Either an Insider or a Chump
A detailed breakdown of the ways and means by which the gangster president is enriching friends, pardoning criminals, and impoverishing everyone else.
Joyce Vance: What the Law of War Says about Trump's Threat to Commit Genocide
His words blatantly express a willingness to turn the U.S. into a rogue state like Iran and Russia, rejecting the fundamental legal restraints that…
Press Clips: News-Press ICE Blockbuster; Indy Must-See Retrospective; MAGA Mouthpiece Watch
Media and news industry commentary and criticism for Santa Barbara and beyond.
 • Jerry Roberts
Hubbell: Trump Is Unfit for Office. He Should Be Removed ASAP.
We should normalize through repetition the proposition that he can and should be removed as president, even though it's unlikely, just as he has…
Reich: Here Are the Top Five Billionaires Whose Campaign Cash Bought Trump
"As wealth continues to concentrate at the top, America finds itself in a doom loop in which giant campaign donations from the super-rich buy political…
Watch (or Listen): Immigration and Oil - How Trump Regime Inflicts Pain on Santa Barbara County
In a new Newsmakers TV episode, Nick Welsh updates the offshore oil pipeline scandal and Josh Molina breaks down a new blockbuster investigation of the…
 • Jerry Roberts

March 2026

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