Watch: Startling Shift Surfaces in SB Vote Update; Food Stamp Cuts Kick In; Scope of ICE Arrests Revealed; Paseo Redux
On-the-ground reports detail the local human misery inflicted by Trump Administration, as challenger surges ahead in race for SB judge and City Hall celebrates rare big win on downtown development.
A person receiving government food benefits in Santa Barbara County gets about $6.20 a day to feed themselves.
That’s too much for the Trump administration.
On a new episode of Newsmakers TV, SB Independent writer Christina McDermott details how more than 5,000 people enrolled in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program scrambled this week to comply with new requirements — pushed through by the White House and its congressional allies — to keep their meager rations, and how local nonprofits are stepping up to help.
The Indy‘s Ryan P. Cruz returns to break down the latest numbers, compiled by local immigration rights groups, that show the scale and scope of the administration’s mass deportation campaign on the Central Coast.
And Josh Molina of the News-Press updates the ever-so-slow vote count from Tuesday’s primary election — including a late surge by challenger Luis Esparza, who has just overtaken incumbent Thomas Adams in a Superior Court judgeship race.
The gang also dissects this week’s kumbaya session at City Hall, where council members took turns gushing over an agreement with Yardi Brothers to take over much of the long-stalled redevelopment of Paseo Nuevo mall — despite lots of outstanding questions about how the plan would affect ongoing efforts to build hundreds of units of new housing downtown.
Plus: the genial host offers some soft-spoken comparisons between six bucks of food a day and the mob boss president’s billions of dollars in corrupt gluttony.
All this and more, right here on Newsmakers TV.
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