Watch: High-Stakes Wrangling over Paseo Nuevo Goes Public; Rent Control Returns - Again; County Layoffs, Prop. 50, ICE Patrols
Newsmakers TV's All-Star Panel of Top Local Journalists roves through the full range of local stories animating Santa Barbara, from downtown development and tenant rights to an update on immigration
A big-bucks, behind-the-scenes danza a tre over the future development of Paseo Nuevo, some of the most valuable real estate on the planet, emerged into public view in Santa Barbara this week - to decidedly mixed reviews.
On a new edition of Newsmakers TV, Josh Molina, Nick Welsh, and Ryan P. Cruz join the genial host for a conversation that explores the complex political and policy cross-currents of the first-look development plan set forth on Monday by City Hall and its negotiating partners, leaseholder AB Commercial and The Georgetown Co. development group.
Our All-Star Panel of Top Local Journalists also breaks down a fraught new push for rent control foisted by SB Council members Kristen Sneddon and Wendy Santamaria; Nick’s high-profile endorsement of Proposition 50 in the Nov. 4 special election; and the Board of Supervisors’ no-win predicament over possible county health department layoffs, the latest collateral damage in Donald Trump’s jihad against immigrants.
Plus: ICE patrols near local campuses, Montecito Union School District’s big payout, and the boys get into it over Second Shift theories of child rearing as viewed through the lens of Meagan Harmon’s political state of mind and public service partaking.
All this and more, right here, right now on Newsmakers TV.
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Image: Three Dancers by Edgar Degas (Impressionist Art.com).