As Santa Barbara Mayor-elect Kristen Sneddon and her supporters celebrate her narrow victory, there are already storm clouds on the horizon, in the form of referenda seeking to repeal two key parts of her campaign platform.
On this week’s edition of Newsmakers TV, Josh Molina and Julianna Lozada join the genial host to paw through the final returns of the Democratic Party’s big sweep of local elections around the county and look ahead at the conflicts and complexities that lie ahead as campaign season turns to governance.
Christina McDermott also joins the gang to talk about the findings of her blockbuster report in the Independent on the outrageous eight-story housing project proposed for the Mission — a 4,000-word, two-years-in-the-making investigative report that turns out to be only one of at least eight out-of-scale developments a cast of shadowy characters has pitched around California, using the controversial “Builder’s Remedy” state law and a tangled web of legal skulduggery.
Plus: the first big issue facing new members of the Santa Barbara Unified School District board; an update on the huge new housing development planned on the Macy’s site at La Cumbre Plaza; and the mysterious unanswered questions surrounding the several dozen runners who took sick in last weekend’s half-marathon.
All this and more, right here, right now, on Newsmakers TV.
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