Watch: Wait, What - $115K Salary Needed for a One-Bedroom? How Will Trump Cuts Hit SB Schools, Health Care? RIP for OSD?
This week's Newsmakers TV panel tackles the latest local impacts of the cruel, corrupt and chaotic policies of the reality TV show president, looks back at Fiesta and checks in on the housing beat
With Fiesta in the rear-view mirror and back-to-school days looming through the windshield, Newsmakers’ all-star panel of top Santa Barbara journalists breaks down a few just-concluded SB news stories, and examines a couple on the horizon.
Callie Fausey, Christina McDermott, Josh Molina and Nick Welsh join the genial host for a spin through the local news landscape:
The dollars and cents of fiscal impacts on the South Coast of the right-wing extremist MAGA agenda, including $17 million slashed from the budget of Planned Parenthood of California Central Coast; $300,000 in cuts to local station KCLU-FM, and more to other regional public broadcasting; and nearly $1 million in uncertain funding from the U.S. Department of Education for the Santa Barbara Unified School District.
An assessment of last week’s Fiesta events, including the effect on turnout of the threat of Trump’s vicious immigration raids; the savage stabbing murder of a father of three by alleged local gang members; and a growing sentiment that simmering racial and cultural conflicts could spell the end for “Old Spanish Days” branding and board domination of Santa Barbara’ big annual summer celebration.
An update from the housing beat, including a new study showing that a renter must earn $55-an-hour to afford a one-bedroom in SB; a sudden shrinkage in the amount of new housing forecast for redevelopment of Paseo Nuevo mall; a new outbreak of political hostilities over vacation rentals in the city; and the latest on the fate of elderly tenants in the Edgerly Apartments.
Plus: a fond farewell to Dr. Peter MacDougall, longtime president of City College and esteemed lifetime member in SB’s pantheon of local heroes.
All this and more, right here, right now, on Newsmakers TV.
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