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On a special Press Clips edition of Newsmakers TV. B.J. Terhune, California Managing Editor for the local news non-profit Newswell, joins the genial host for a conversation updating the project to “reimagine” the Santa Barbara News-Press and relaunch it as an online site, with all the latest on staffing, timing, planning and more.

On this week’s episode, Nick Welsh untangles the latest legal and political developments in the long-running saga of the Sable Offshore oil pipeline re-start, Josh Molina discusses why that eight-story blockbuster development aimed at the Mission won’t go away, and Ryan P. Cruz reprises the heart-breaking public service for three Dos Pueblos High School students killed in a tragic crash. Plus: a n...

Santa Barbara novelist Jane Hulse returns to Newsmakers for a conversation about her just-out second book, “Outcasts of Essex,” a work that carries on the saga of Sarah Bennett, an independent-minded teenager navigating the personal and political cross-currents of Revolutionary War Era New Hampshire, introduced in her first book of historical fiction, “Prisoner of Wallabout Bay.” Hulse now is writ...

Sheriff Bill Brown skipped a hearing of the Board of Supervisors this week, where a large crowd charged he is cooperating with federal immigration authorities, as Nick Welsh returns to Newsmakers TV to sort through the layers of federal, state and local laws and policies behind the matter, as Callie Fausey reports good news from the Santa Barbara Unified School District where layoffs from art and...

Newsmakers’ All-Star Panel of Veteran Political Pundits returns to dissect Trump’s first 100 days, as strategist Bill Carrick and political journalists Carla Marinucci and Dan Morain discuss the impact on the economy, California and the Democratic Party of White House policies that have disrupted national security alliances around the world, safety net programs throughout the country and constitut...

Economics professor Peter Rupert, director of the UCSB Economic Forecast, joins the genial host for a conversation about how Donald Trump’s tariffs and other fiscal policies are transforming the global economy, disquieting business investment and threatening recession. Plus: what this all means for California, and a discussion of how local elected officials are making the housing shortage worse.

Political and legal fallout over the Sable oil pipeline circulated and spread this week, and Margaux Lovely and Nick Welsh return to Newsmakers TV with all the latest, as Josh Molina and Ryan P. Cruz reprise their City Hall reporting on housing, hotels and parking. Plus: county budget makers look to the Trump Administration with dread.

On this week’s episode of Newsmakers TV, SB Independent Editor in Chief Marianne Partridge, and Vicky Riskin, president and founder of Bluedot Living join the genial host to discuss their collaborative publication of the second edition of “The Santa Barbara Green Guide,” which highlights efforts to protect the environment and boost climate resilience, by people working in community. Plus...

The biggest mystery arising from this week’s big Coastal Commission meeting, which ended with an $18 million fine levied against Sable Offshore, concerns the role of the Santa Barbara County Planning Department in approving the permit for the company’s pipeline. Margaux Lovely joins the genial host to discuss her reporting on the matter, while Josh Molina and Ryan P. Cruz discuss the latest develo...

Brian Johnson, chief executive officer of the Board of Realtors, and City Council member Meagan Harmon join the genial host for an in-depth conversation about Santa Barbara’s proposed “right to return” ordinance, the latest landlord-tenant battle in the city, which would allow renters to return to their unit after a property owner makes major repairs or renovations, at no more than a 10 percent in...

Public opposition is building to the re-opening of the offshore oil pipeline that ruptured and caused the 2015 Refugio spill and Nick Welsh on this week’s edition reports on the big town hall, which included representatives of eight agencies of state government, while Josh Molina and Callie Fausey reprise a second, epic public meeting, as the Santa Barbara Unified School District board and adminis...

Amid a recent batch of high-profile and contentious county government decisions, Gwyn Lurie returns to Newsmakers TV to recount her conversation about them with rookie First District representative Roy Lee, while Callie Fausey explains the astonishing story of how decades-old allegations of sexual abuse now threaten Carpinteria Unified school district, and Josh Molina reprises his reporting on hug...

The battle over re-opening the pipeline that ruptured and caused the Refugio oil spill remains unsettled, despite an epic hearing before the Board of Supervisors, Margaux Lovely reports on this week’s edition of Newsmakers TV, as Josh Molina brings the latest on City Hall’s efforts to rein in evictions and e-bikes, and Ryan P. Cruz updates ongoing efforts to protect and defend immigrants from Trum...

Former Mayor Sheila Lodge, who recently retired from the Santa Barbara Planning Commission after 36 years as a local government official, returns to discuss her future concerns and hopes for the city, using her long history in planning, development and land use issues as lens to examine current controversies, from the housing projects planned at La Cumbre Plaza to the e-bike takeover of State Stre...

Liberal firebrand and ex-state lawmaker Hannah Beth Jackson joins the gang to reprise last weekend's extraordinary Santa Barbara town hall convened in opposition to Donald Trump's dismantling of the federal government, as Ryan Cruz brings the latest on how the community is responding to new deportation policies, and Josh Molina discusses the furor over a proposal to boost Board of Supervisors sala...

L.A. Times political columnist Mark Z. Barabak returns to discuss the early weeks of the new Trump Administration, including the scandalous pardons of January 6 criminals, the prominent role of tech bro oligarchs and the odious attempt to link disaster relief for L.A. fire victims with water policy and false allegations of voter fraud.

Fear, panic and uncertainty are rampant in Santa Barbara’s Latino community amid Donald Trump’s demagoguery over mass deportations, Ryan P. Cruz explains on this week’s edition, as Nick Welsh reprises his reporting on the huge challenge hiding in plain sight that is the community’s rapidly aging population, and Josh Molina breaks down that big brawl at City Hall over dividing up the financial wind...

Veteran journalist and educator Mi-Ai Parrish beams in from Arizona State University to talk about the strategy and tactics behind the planned re-launch of the Santa Barbara News-Press as a daily, online news operation, backed by NEWSWELL, a non-profit based at the Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at ASU.

Amid the savage wildfires in Los Angeles, Gwyn Lurie and Josh Molina join the genial host to discuss some lessons learned from Santa Barbara’s mass casualty natural disaster experience seven years ago, and discuss the politics and policies likely to emerge from the new Board of Supervisors and the SB City Council. Plus: a look at the crucial Sable Offshore oil issue.

Pedro Nava, chair of California’s good government Little Hoover Commission, dissects and analyzes the state’s homeowner insurance crisis, which his agency studied in depth and detail, as the deadly L.A. wildfires are all but certain to make getting affordable insurance even more difficult.

Despite its huge wealth, Santa Barbara County has the second highest poverty level among California’s 58 counties, a new report shows, and Ryan P. Cruz, Melinda Burns and Josh Molina join the genial host in dissecting the implications and reasons behind this shocking finding: Plus: a big change in cannabis regulation, refugees from the L.A. fires fill SB hotels, a honeymoon for Roy Lee and SB coun...

Local community leader, Cynder Sinclair began hosting The 805 Focus! ten years ago. Sinclair invites nonprofit leaders to discuss their mission and the important work they do in our community. This week's guest: Carey Bradshaw, Executive Director of Therapy of Dogs Santa Barbara. https://therapydogssb.org/

Local community leader, Cynder Sinclair began hosting The 805 Focus! ten years ago. Sinclair invites nonprofit leaders to discuss their mission and the important work they do in our community. This week's guest: Veronica Cubillo, Director of Programs with Domestic Violence Solutions. https://dvsolutions.org/

Rep. Salud Carbajal checks in from the snow-bound steppes of Washington D.C. to preview the coming political year, describing how “depressing” it was to watch Vice President Kamala Harris preside over the electoral vote count for her rivals, discussing the funhouse mirror environment at the Capitol as the second Trump Administration approaches and detailing the impact for the Central Coast of legi...