Institute heralds $50M gift
Personal FinanceIn another sign of the changing ways that medical research gets funded, the partner institute in the University of California, Santa Barbara’s Center for Nanomedicine received a $50 million gift from a philanthropist Jan. 26. South Dakota billionaire Denny Sanford gave $50 million to the La Jolla-based Burnham Institute, the partner organization in the UCSB-Burnham Read More →
Time for some new players
OpinionIn baseball and in business, there are starting pitchers and there are relievers. We’ve all seen the superstar performer who is great in a crisis and then sticks around for a year or so. But his or her heart really isn’t in it for the grinding away that it takes to succeed for the long Read More →
Zoned out on the mountain
UncategorizedThe owners of a lonesome rural café have turned to Ventura County Superior Court for help after discovering the county rezoned their property to open space — 21 years before they were told about it. Tom and Janet Wolf, owners of the Pine Mountain Inn near the summit of Highway 33, allege in their Read More →
Census office opens
UncategorizedThe U.S. Census Bureau opened its local census office in Santa Maria as the massive, once-a-decade population headcount gets underway. The Santa Maria office will be the hub of census operations for the surrounding communities, including San Luis Obispo, Santa Margarita, Lompoc, Santa Barbara, San Simeon, Paso Robles, San Miguel and Maricopa. The bureau Read More →
Court sides with paper
UncategorizedOn Jan. 26, a court of appeals sided with Ampersand Publishing and Wendy McCaw, owners and publisher of the Santa Barbara News-Press, saying that the newspaper’s First Amendment rights would be violated if it were forced to reinstate union employees. The appeal was brought after a U.S. District Court Judge had ruled that granting an Read More →
D.A. Stanley to retire
UncategorizedSanta Barbara County District Attorney Christie Stanley announced on Jan. 25 that due to health reasons, she will formally retire within two weeks. She was elected to the D.A. position in June 2006, garnering almost 70 percent of the vote. Stanley, who began her career as a prosecutor in 1980, graduated from Ventura College of Read More →
