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UCSB makes Top Ten party school list (again)

Written on 19 Apr, 2010 in Daily Briefs | No comments

Poor UC Santa Barbara. They don’t seem to get much respect. The campus boasts 1-2-3-4-5 Nobel Prize winners on its faculty, but the school just can’t seem to shake that party down image. Once again, UCSB has the dubious distinction... (Continue reading)

Earth Day Food & Wine Festival Weekend, part three

Written on 18 Apr, 2010 in Eye on the Coast | No comments

The Earth Day Food & Wine Festival was a weekend celebration of sustainably produced, award-winning food and wine grown on California’s scenic Central Coast. Enjoy photos from the feature event on Saturday, April 17 which included barrel tastings, cooking demonstrations,... (Continue reading)

Earth Day Food & Wine Festival Weekend part two

Written on 18 Apr, 2010 in Eye on the Coast | No comments

The Earth Day Food & Wine Festival was a weekend celebration of sustainably produced, award-winning food and wine grown on California’s scenic Central Coast. Enjoy photos from the feature event on Saturday, April 17 which included barrel tastings, cooking demonstrations,... (Continue reading)

Earth Day Food & Wine Festival Weekend part one

Written on 18 Apr, 2010 in Eye on the Coast | No comments

The Earth Day Food & Wine Festival was a weekend celebration of sustainably produced, award-winning food and wine grown on California’s scenic Central Coast. Enjoy photos from the feature event on Saturday, April 17 which included barrel tastings, cooking demonstrations,... (Continue reading)

Nursing homes accused of misspending funding

Written on 18 Apr, 2010 in Daily Briefs | 3 comments

Nursing homes in California have received about $880 million in additional government funding since the passage of a 2004 state law designed to help them hire additional caregivers and increase wages. [CaliforniaWatch] However, a California Watch investigation found that 232... (Continue reading)

Tracking Congressional pork

Written on 18 Apr, 2010 in Daily Briefs | 5 comments

Some call them earmarks. Others use the term “pork.” But it is an age old debate both inside and outside the Beltway. How much federal funding should elected representatives be bringing home for their pet projects at the expense of... (Continue reading)

Travel: Catalina calling

Written on 17 Apr, 2010 in Discovered | One comment

By DAVID CONGALTON it is almost May, so thoughts once again turn towards Santa Catalina Island. Charlotte and I have been making yearly pilgrimages to Catalina since 1995, mostly in May for our wedding anniversary. Heading for Catalina has become... (Continue reading)

Central Coast oil platform sets new record

Written on 17 Apr, 2010 in Daily Briefs | 6 comments

Exxon Mobil’s Santa Barbara facility set a new record for slant drilling from an oil platform off the coast of Santa Barbara, bringing to the forefront tensions between those in favor of local oil exploration and those opposed to off... (Continue reading)

Police bust Atascadero baby formula gang

Written on 17 Apr, 2010 in Daily Briefs | 5 comments

Atascadero Police suspect four foreign nationals they arrested are members of a gang which has been stealing baby formula from grocery stores throughout California. [KCOY] Police seized 195 cans of formula from a car driven by one of the suspects... (Continue reading)

State workers tend to be professors or prison guards

Written on 16 Apr, 2010 in Daily Briefs | 7 comments

It’s a familiar  refrain heard in any election year: What we really need to do in Sacramento is cut state jobs. Not so fast, according to the nonpartisan California Budget Project which reports that most state workers tend to be... (Continue reading)