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Watch: How State Enabled an 8-Story Tower Next to SB's Mission - and How the City is Pushing Back
Newsmakers TV takes a deep dive into that harebrained proposal to build a blockbuster apartment at 505 E. Olivos, and looks at the threat of eviction…
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Jerry Roberts
Gone Fishin'
Newsmakers is off on a short summer breather, but here are some summer reading and viewing tips for local news and pro-democracy content until we get…
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Jerry Roberts
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"A Cage of Laws"
With best wishes for a serene summer celebration, here's a poem from a Newsmakers' reader that seems to suit the times in which we're living
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Reich: Why Empathy -- Not Me-Me-MAGA -- Remains America's Defining Value
Musk, Bezos, Trump and other oligarchs display a stunning disdain for others. But as the nation celebrates another birthday, it is values like…
Watch: LA Times Star Mark Z. Barabak Deplores Trump - but Holds Hope for Future: "There is Nothing the Voters Can't Remedy"
The graybeard political writer, who's covered the comings and goings (and coming again) of 7 presidents, believes the U.S. political system is durable…
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Jerry Roberts
The Five-Spot: A "Big Beautiful Bill," ICE in the 805, and Research Grants Restored
Recent news and Trump's current impact on Santa Barbara County. Plus a comparison of our reality to themes in George Orwell's dystopian novel "1984."

June 2025

American Academy of Pediatrics: RFK Vax Moves "Not Credible" - Will Provide Its Own Advice to Patients
In an extraordinary rebuke to Trump's HHS Secretary, the nation's leading association of childhood doctors refuses to countenance his anti-vax quackery
June 29, 1925: The Day that Jolted Santa Barbara into History
On the 100th anniversary of the quake that changed the city forever, the clock is ticking for the next Big One.
How the Supreme Court's Reactionary Majority Capitulated to Trump -- Again
Two more egregious departures from the Constitution and the rule of law, as the high court's six-member Trump faction reverts again to absurd reasoning…
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From Pages of SB Indy to Podium of Pentagon Press Room: Chris Meagher's Odyssey Traces a Political Era
Fondly remembered on the local news beat, Meagher is now a leading Democratic communications strategist in Washington, feeling "exhausted" by Trump, but…
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Jerry Roberts
Watch: How ICE Beating of IHOP Gardener Went Global; SB Jail, Paseo Housing, Mission Tower Update
The moment she saw the sickening video images of ICE agents setting upon Marine dad Narciso Barranco, Lily Dallow knew it was a big story. Here's a…
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Why It Matters If 3.5 Percent of Americans Mobilize against the MAGA Agenda
When non-violent social and pro-democracy popular movements reach a certain critical mass they overwhelmingly tend to succeed in their struggles
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